Chapter 1. Introduction to MySQL Administrator

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

You can perform most of those tasks using a command line interface such as that provided by mysqladmin or mysql, but MySQL Administrator is advantageous in the following respects:

Note that MySQL Administrator will not work with MySQL servers prior to version 4.0.

MySQL Administrator is to a large extent the result of feedback MySQL AB has gotten 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.