Import and export

    In addition to the standard Import and Export tab, you can also import an SQL file directly by dragging and dropping it from your local file manager to the phpMyAdmin interface in your web browser.

    If you are having troubles importing big files, please consult 1.16 I cannot upload big dump files (memory, HTTP or timeout problems)..

    You can import using following methods:

    Form based upload

    Form based SQL Query

    Using upload directory

    phpMyAdmin can import from several various commonly used formats.

    Comma separated values format which is often used by spreadsheets or various other programs for export/import.

    Note

    When importing data into a table from a CSV file where the table has an ‘auto_increment’ field, make the ‘auto_increment’ value for each record in the CSV field to be ‘0’ (zero). This allows the ‘auto_increment’ field to populate correctly.

    It is now possible to import a CSV file at the server or database level. Instead of having to create a table to import the CSV file into, a best-fit structure will be determined for you and the data imported into it, instead. All other features, requirements, and limitations are as before.

    CSV using LOAD DATA

    Similar to CSV, only using the internal MySQL parser and not the phpMyAdmin one.

    ESRI Shape File

    The ESRI shapefile or simply a shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. It is developed and regulated by Esri as a (mostly) open specification for data interoperability among Esri and other software products.

    MediaWiki

    MediaWiki files, which can be exported by phpMyAdmin (version 4.0 or later), can now also be imported. This is the format used by Wikipedia to display tables.

    Open Document Spreadsheet (ODS)

    OpenDocument workbooks containing one or more spreadsheets can now be directly imported.

    When importing an ODS speadsheet, the spreadsheet must be named in a specific way in order to make the import as simple as possible.

    Table name

    During import, phpMyAdmin uses the sheet name as the table name; you should rename the sheet in your spreadsheet program in order to match your existing table name (or the table you wish to create, though this is less of a concern since you could quickly rename the new table from the Operations tab).

    Column names

    You should also make the first row of your spreadsheet a header with the names of the columns (this can be accomplished by inserting a new row at the top of your spreadsheet). When on the Import screen, select the checkbox for “The first line of the file contains the table column names;” this way your newly imported data will go to the proper columns.

    Note

    Formulas and calculations will NOT be evaluated, rather, their value from the most recent save will be loaded. Please ensure that all values in the spreadsheet are as needed before importing it.

    SQL

    XML

    XML files exported by phpMyAdmin (version 3.3.0 or later) can now be imported. Structures (databases, tables, views, triggers, etc.) and/or data will be created depending on the contents of the file.

    The supported xml schemas are not yet documented in this wiki.

    Export

    phpMyAdmin can export into text files (even compressed) on your local disk (or a special the webserver $cfg['SaveDir'] folder) in various commonly used formats:

    file format. Planned versions: Java, Hibernate, PHP PDO, JSON, etc. So the preliminary name is codegen.

    CSV

    Comma separated values format which is often used by spreadsheets or various other programs for export/import.

    CSV for Microsoft Excel

    This is just preconfigured version of CSV export which can be imported into most English versions of Microsoft Excel. Some localised versions (like “Danish”) are expecting “;” instead of “,” as field separator.

    Microsoft Word 2000

    If you’re using Microsoft Word 2000 or newer (or compatible such as OpenOffice.org), you can use this export.

    JSON

    JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write and it is easy for machines to parse and generate.

    Changed in version 4.7.0: The generated JSON structure has been changed in phpMyAdmin 4.7.0 to produce valid JSON data.

    The generated JSON is list of objects with following attributes:

    type

    Type of given object, can be one of:

    version

    Used in header type and indicates phpMyAdmin version.

    comment

    Optional textual comment.

    name

    database

    Database name for table .

    data

    Table content for table type.

    Sample output:

    LaTeX

    If you want to embed table data or structure in LaTeX, this is right choice for you.

    LaTeX is a typesetting system that is very suitable for producing scientific and mathematical documents of high typographical quality. It is also suitable for producing all sorts of other documents, from simple letters to complete books. LaTeX uses TeX as its formatting engine. Learn more about TeX and LaTeX on the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network also see the .

    The output needs to be embedded into a LaTeX document before it can be rendered, for example in following document:

    1. \documentclass{article}
    2. \title{phpMyAdmin SQL output}
    3. \author{}
    4. \usepackage{longtable,lscape}
    6. \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
    7. \usepackage[left=2cm,top=2cm,right=2cm,nohead,nofoot]{geometry}
    8. \pdfpagewidth 210mm
    9. \pdfpageheight 297mm
    10. \begin{document}
    11. \maketitle
    13. % insert phpMyAdmin LaTeX Dump here
    14. \end{document}

    MediaWiki

    Both tables and databases can be exported in the MediaWiki format, which is used by Wikipedia to display tables. It can export structure, data or both, including table names or headers.

    Open standard for spreadsheet data, which is being widely adopted. Many recent spreadsheet programs, such as LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office or Google Docs can handle this format.

    OpenDocument Text

    New standard for text data which is being widely addopted. Most recent word processors (such as LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, AbiWord or KWord) can handle this.

    PDF

    For presentation purposes, non editable PDF might be best choice for you.

    PHP Array

    You can generate a php file which will declare a multidimensional array with the contents of the selected table or database.

    SQL

    Export in SQL can be used to restore your database, thus it is useful for backing up.

    The option ‘Maximal length of created query’ seems to be undocumented. But experiments has shown that it splits large extended INSERTS so each one is no bigger than the given number of bytes (or characters?). Thus when importing the file, for large tables you avoid the error “Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes”.

    See also

    Data Options

    Complete inserts adds the column names to the SQL dump. This parameter improves the readability and reliability of the dump. Adding the column names increases the size of the dump, but when combined with Extended inserts it’s negligible.

    Extended inserts combines multiple rows of data into a single INSERT query. This will significantly decrease filesize for large SQL dumps, increases the INSERT speed when imported, and is generally recommended.

    See also

    Texy!

    markup format. You can see example on Texy! demo.

    XML

    Easily parsable export for use with custom scripts.

    YAML is a data serialization format which is both human readable and computationally powerful ( [https://yaml.org](https://yaml.org)\ ).