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Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 21 Days, Second Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 21 Days, Second Edition

by Tony Butcher
December 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
640 pages
16h 41m
English
Sams
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Managing a Database with mysqladmin

The mysqladmin utility can be used to perform a wide range of administrative operations on a MySQL database. It is usually run from a command-line prompt.

When invoked, you should pass mysqladmin a number of options and commands to tell it how to run, and what to do.

How to Use mysqladmin

The following is the basic syntax for mysqladmin:

mysqladmin [options] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...

Remember that you may need to prefix mysqladmin with the path to your mysql/bin/ directory where it resides. This will be true for the other utilities as well.

Here are a couple of sample invocations:

$ mysqladmin -u root -p create newdb

$ /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p variables
						

The first of the preceding ...

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