Changing Data - Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.1 for Effective MySQL Management - page 88

When we click Go , another row is created with the modified information, leaving the
original row unchanged:
Multi-row editing
The multi-row edit feature enables us to use checkboxes on the rows we want to
edit, and use the Edit link (or the pencil-shaped icon) in the With selected menu.
The Check All / Uncheck All links can also be used to quickly check or uncheck
all the boxes. We can also click anywhere on the row's data to activate the
corresponding checkbox.
This brings up an Edit panel containing all the chosen rows. The editing process may
continue while the data from these rows is seen, compared, and changed.
When we mark some rows with the checkboxes, we can also perform two
other actions on them—delete (see the Deleting Many Rows section in this
chapter) and export (see Chapter 7).
Editing the next row
Sequential editing is possible on tables that have a primary key on an integer field.
Our author table meets the criteria. Let's see what happens when we start editing
the row having the id value 1 :