PMA Database … not OK in phpMyAdmin upgrade

Question

I have just been wrangling with phpMyAdmin and MySQL server on my Win8 PC IIS localhost (there was no connection between these, which I think was due to MySQL service not st

Answer 1

I have found that there is another cause for this issue. If when you create the pmauser for phpmyadmin to use, if you forget to assign that user rights to the schema that permit modifying the phpmyadmin database, you'll get the same messages. The good news is that if you've logged in with root or similar privileges, you can just allow the pmauser to have select, insert, delete on the phpmyadmin schema and the problem should be fixed.