Chapter 15. Documenting the System

Producing and maintaining good documentation about data structure is crucial for a project's success, especially when it's a team project. Indeed, being able to show the current data dictionary and proposed column changes to the other team members provides a valuable means of communication. Moreover, a graphical display of the inter-table relations quickly demonstrates the inner workings of the database. Fortunately, phpMyAdmin has documentation features that take care of these things.

Producing structure reports

From the Structure page of either the Database or the Table view, the Print view link is available for producing reports about our database's structure. Moreover, a Data Dictionary link in Database view ...

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