i navigated to localhost/127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin
then to sql to run the following commands shown in this video:
The version is
server 127.0.0.1 via tcp/ip
server type: mariadb
server: 10.4.11-mariadb -
protocol version:10
user: root@localhost
server charset:
webserver:
Apache/2.4.41 (win64) openssl/1.1.1c PHP/7.2.28
database client
php version: 7.2.28
phymyadmin
version information:5.0.1 latest stable version: 4.9.4