is there a way for me to generate an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) from SQLyog? or if not, from PHPmyAdmin of XAMPP? thanks!
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SQLyog has this feature- Schema designer, which is a visual interface where tables and table structures can be defined, displayed and manipulated. But Schema Designer is not a full featured ERD diagramming tool. I don't think it is possible to generate from PHPMyAdmin either. You could look into this.
You can do it in SQLyog. Press Ctrl+Alt+D. This will open the Schema Designer. It's not a very good designer but it works well for simple ERDs.

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SQLYog has a Schema Designer option Ctrl+Alt +D which opens a Schema Designer window.
Right click inside Schema Designer canvas to get small window, select checkbox add tables ( Select all checkboxes if you want all of them on Canvas)
Click Add to get ER diagram of the tables.

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It's Ctrl + Alt + D
Note: It's only for full version.

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Yes you can generate ERD with PHPMyAdmin. PHPMyadmin added this functionality from version 3.4
detail step to generate ERD : http://goo.gl/0z3vFE
You can refer to PHPMyAdmin documentation for more info: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#pmadb

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