First Steps - Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.11 for Effective MySQL Management - page 71

Refresh is used to execute the same query again. The results might change, since a
MySQL server is a multi-user server, and other users might be modifying the same
tables. This link is shown if $cfg['SQLQuery']['Refresh'] is set to TRUE .
All these four parameters have a default value of TRUE in config.inc.php .
Navigation Bar
This bar is displayed at the top of results and also at the bottom. Column headers
can be repeated at certain intervals among results depending on the value entered in
repeat headers after... .
In the previous example, the bar was simple:
The bar enables us to navigate from page to page, displaying an arbitrary number
of records (or rows), starting at some point in the results. Since we entered browse
mode by clicking Browse , the underlying query that generated the results includes
the whole table. However, this is not always the case.
Notice that we are positioned at record number 0 and are seeing records in
horizontal mode.
The default display mode is 'horizontal', as defined in $cfg['DefaultDisplay'] .
We can also set this to 'vertical' if we usually prefer this mode. Even if our preferred
mode is set in this configuration parameter, we can always use the Show dialog to
change it on-the-fly: