Importing and exporting Drupal databases updated with PHPMyAdmin

There are certain circumstances when you may wish to work on a site that is a copy of one running on a production server, backup the database, and perform other tasks specific to making changes to your databases. This section of the tutorial focuses on using PHPMyAdmin to do so. If PHPMyAdmin is not available on your hosting provider's server for you to use, you may be able to install it yourself if it is unavailable; check with your hosting service to find out what your options are if you are unsure.

Because any possible task is going to entail some permutation of exporting, copying and/or importing databases from one a remote server to your personal computer, this section of our tutorial focuses on two basic operations within PHPMyAdmin that have tabs labeled accordingly; "import" and "export".