#1142 - SELECT command denied to user ''@'localhost' for table 'pma_table_uiprefs'

Question

Hopefully someone can help me, for I have queried the web with no success or concrete answer to this error. I’m using Windows and Xampp. Here is the error I am getting aft

Answer 1

The pma_table_uiprefs table contains user preferences. In phpMyAdmin's config.inc.php, access to this table (and other tables in the configuration storage) is done via the control user. In your case, the controluser parameter is empty, therefore the query fails.

For a short-term fix, put the "//" characters in config.inc.php at the start of this line:

    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';

then log out and log back in.

For a long-term fix, correctly set up the configuration storage, see http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/setup.html#phpmyadmin-configuration-storage