Chapter 6. Introduction to MySQL Administrator

MySQL Administrator is a program for performing administrative operations, such as configuring, monitoring and starting and stopping a MySQL server, managing users and connections, performing backups, and a number of other administrative tasks.

Most tasks can be performed using a command-line client such as mysqladmin, or mysql, but MySQL Administrator has the following advantages:

MySQL Administrator is designed to work with MySQL versions 4.0 and higher.

MySQL Administrator is, to a large extent, the result of feedback received from many users over a period of several years. However, if you find it's lacking some feature important to you, or if you discover a bug, please use our MySQL Bug System to request features or report problems.