There are two ways to access and manage your newly created database. The first one is locally through the Web based manager - phpMyAdmin, which is accessed from the cPanel Databases section.

A new page/tab of your browser will open and the phpMyAdmin will load as shown below:

Check out how to manage MySQL database through phpMyAdmin video tutorial:

With phpMyAdmin you can create a MySQL backup and restore it. To learn more about phpMyAdmin options, please check our detailed phpMyAdmin tutorial.

The second database management solution is to add a MySQL access host and allow a remote MySQL connection.

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