Exporting selectively

At various places in phpMyAdmin's interface, we can export the results that we see, or select the rows that we want to export. We will examine the various ways of exporting a selected portion of a table.

Exporting partial query results

When results are displayed from phpMyAdmin (here, the results of a query asking for the books from author_id 2), an Export link appears at the bottom of the page.

Exporting partial query results

Clicking on this link brings up a special export panel containing the query on the top, along with the other table export options. An export produced via this panel would contain only the data from this result set.

Note

The results of single-table ...

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