I have had a question in my head for a few weeks now about backups , guess this is a good time to get clarification. When I do backups using phpMyAdmin I follow the directions found in the documentation here. The next time I go to do a backup of the DB most everything is checked the same as when I did my last backup with the exception of "add drop table" instead the box "add if not exists" is checked.
In the past I check the box " add drop table " anyway because thats what the directions say.
So my question is do I need to check the "add drop table" everytime or will it be ok leaving it checked at "add if not exists" ??