PEX with SQL Database

So I am very new to SQL databases. I have never had one or gotten a chance to mess around with one. I now have an SQL database and I have just imported PEX's permissions file. I have noticed that it is much harder to read and edit the file.... :/ Is there any way of making phpMyAdmin show the 3 tables similar to a flat file? Don't comment saying "If you don't understand how to read and edit it, don't use it." because that's not going to help me and I'll never learn anything.

 

Did you know that you can go back and forth between flat file and a database?

I'm working on a permissions tutorial but I do have a section complete covering the conversion back and forth between YAML and SQL.

 

I don't know if the server owner (I'm only the co-owner) will like that. But I can just do the PEX stuff because I was the one who managed to get it working in the first place. (I haven't messed around with PEX that often because I didn't feel like bothering to setup modify world before on my test servers so I just used Group Manager.) Thanks though!

 

1. Switch to flat file
2. Edit flat file
3. Switch to MySQL
4. Use import command