This is an article discussion thread for discussing the Earners Forum article, "How to Back Up and Restore Your MySQL Database using phpMyAdmin"

Why rely on php myadmin? Notepad works well enough.

You can connect to a mysql db with notepad ?
I'm all ears, tell us how...

Originally Posted by tripy

You can connect to a mysql db with notepad ?
I'm all ears, tell us how...

If I re-call correctly, you can...

First, export you db, then open it up in notepad, save -> as put a backup name in there such as 5-22-09_backup001

That's how I think it goes

Scratch this post, I meant you can backup via notepad, not ctd via notepad