diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 90401f4489..3733ff9294 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ phpMyAdmin - ChangeLog
 - issue        Fixed editing of virtual columns on PerconaDB
 - issue #13854 Fixed column options are ignored for GENERATED/VIRTUAL/STORED columns
 - issue #15262 Fixed incorrect display of charset column (raw html)
+- issue        Added explicit parentheses in nested ternary operators
 
 4.8.5 (2019-01-25)
 - issue        Developer debug data was saved to the PHP error log
diff --git a/libraries/classes/DatabaseInterface.php b/libraries/classes/DatabaseInterface.php
index 6a6ddfeb5d..6e3d998b81 100644
--- a/libraries/classes/DatabaseInterface.php
+++ b/libraries/classes/DatabaseInterface.php
@@ -610,9 +610,9 @@ class DatabaseInterface
                         function ($a, $b) {
                             $aLength = $a['Data_length'] + $a['Index_length'];
                             $bLength = $b['Data_length'] + $b['Index_length'];
-                            return ($aLength == $bLength)
+                            return $aLength == $bLength
                                 ? 0
-                                : ($aLength < $bLength) ? -1 : 1;
+                                : ($aLength < $bLength ? -1 : 1);
                         }
                     );