Does this mean that to use this version that I would have to pay for another database and how would this impact the database that is powering my site? The last couple of versions of PhpMyAdmin carries this: Error The additional Features for working with linked Tables have been deactivated. To find out why click 'here' Clicking on the Link... PMA Database ... not OK[ Documentation ] General relation features Disabled Info revealed: $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] string Starting with version 2.3.0 phpMyAdmin offers a lot of features to work with master / foreign - tables. To use those as well as the bookmark feature you will need to create a new db. To use this functionality as superuser create a new database: create a new database for phpmyadmin: CREATE DATABASE phpmyadmin; Note that "controluser" must have SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE privileges on this database. Here is a query to set up those privileges (using "phpmyadmin" as the database name, and "pma" as the controluser): GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON phpmyadmin.* to 'pma'@'localhost'; do not give any other user rights on this database. enter the databasename in $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] Russell Griechen -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php