This chapter covered various features available to system administrators, such as user-account management, privileges management, database privileges checks, and server status verification. Appropriate knowledge of the MySQL privileges system is crucial in order to maintain a MySQL server adequately, and this chapter proposes exercises centered on the notion of a user and his or her privileges.

Appendix, Troubleshooting and Support, is next, describing where to obtain support in order to make phpMyAdmin run efficiently.