Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition

CHAPTER 27The Many MySQL Clients

MySQL comes with quite a few utilities, or clients, each of which provides interfaces for carrying out various tasks pertinent to server administration. This chapter offers a general overview of the most commonly used clients, and provides an in-depth introduction to the most prominent two of the bunch, namely mysql and mysqladmin. Because the MySQL manual already does a fantastic job at providing a general overview of each client, this chapter instead focuses on those features that you're most likely to regularly use in your daily administration activities.

Of course, not all users are interested in managing databases from the command line; therefore, both the MySQL developers and third parties have been hard ...