MySQL

MySQL is supported in all of our web hosting environments
For your convenience, the MySQL server is hosted locally - and can be reached in your applications by using localhost as the server address
Databases / users can be created very easily in your control panel
- As complicated as that sounds, this is really no more complex than clicking "new database" and creating a login to use it
Databases are controlled with using phpMyAdmin, accessible via the user's control panel.
- Users can get a backup of their database by using EXPORT in phpMyAdmin (default settings are fine)
  - In actuality, an SQL dump is just a text file with the code that would be used to create and fill the database again
- Users can restore a backup by running the QUERY or by using IMPORT in phpMyAdmin (versions of phpMyAdmin actually call it IMPORT, some don't)
Sometimes databases become corrupt. There are tools in phpMyAdmin that allow you to try repairing a database.
- phpMyAdmin should generally tell if you if a table has issues when you're browsing it.
The standard naming convention for databases and database users is cpanelusername_databasename or cpanelusername_databaseuser

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