Creating and Browsing Tables - Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management - page 85

A quicker way of seeing the full texts is to click on the big T which is located just on
top of the Edit and Delete icons. Another click on this T toggles the display from full
to partial.
Browsing distinct values
There is a quick way to display all distinct values and the number of occurrences for
each value of a column. This feature is available on the Structure page of a table. For
example, we want to know how many different authors we have in our topic table
and how many topics each one wrote. On the line describing the column we want to
browse (here author_id ), we open the More menu and click on the Browse distinct
values link.
We have a limited test set, but can nonetheless see the results.