How to get a meaningful column to display in foreign key relationships - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14104206/how-do-i-display-content-for-foreign-keys-in-phpmyadmin https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/relations.html#relation-view CREATE USER 'pma'@'localhost' identified with mysql_native_password by 'Some Cool Password'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON phpmyadmin.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21033059/pma-database-not-ok-in-phpmyadmin-upgrade: Fix Configuration of pmadb not OK in phpMyAdmin Feb 6, 2015 · 1 min read You may get this message in pmpMyAdmin: To fix this you have to import/create the phpmyadmin database with it's tables. An SQL script called create_tables.sql should be in the scripts, examples or sql folder of your phpMyAdmin installation. mysql -u root -p < create_tables.sql Then create a user called pma and give it permissions to the phpmyadmin database: CREATE USER 'pma'@'localhost' identified with mysql_native_password by 'Some Cool Password'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `phpmyadmin`.* TO 'pma'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Now edit config.inc.php and configure/uncomment those lines: /* * phpMyAdmin configuration storage settings. */ /* User used to manipulate with storage */ $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlhost'] = 'localhost'; // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlport'] = ''; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'Some Cool Password'; /* Storage database and tables */ $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma__bookmark'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma__relation'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma__table_info'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma__table_coords'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = 'pma__pdf_pages'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma__column_info'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = 'pma__history'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_uiprefs'] = 'pma__table_uiprefs'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] = 'pma__tracking'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] = 'pma__designer_coords'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] = 'pma__userconfig'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['recent'] = 'pma__recent'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['favorite'] = 'pma__favorite'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['users'] = 'pma__users'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['usergroups'] = 'pma__usergroups'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['navigationhiding'] = 'pma__navigationhiding'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['savedsearches'] = 'pma__savedsearches'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['central_columns'] = 'pma__central_columns'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_settings'] = 'pma__designer_settings'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['export_templates'] = 'pma__export_templates'; Finally logout and login again to phpMyadmin. Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21033059/pma-database-not-ok-in-phpmyadmin-upgrade https://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Configuration_storage