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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide
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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

by Chintan Mehta, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah, Ravi Shah
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Specifying options for programs

In the earlier section, we have seen how program options change the operation mode based on argument values specified for the option in the client program. Here we will look at several ways to specify options for MySQL programs. These include:

  • Providing the options on the command line followed by the program name. This is the common way of providing options but it will be applied specifically to the execution of the program at that time only.
  • Providing the options in the options file that is being read by the program before it starts execution. This is the common way for providing the options that you want the program to use each time it executes.
  • Providing the options in the environment variables. By using ...
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