Important Facts About MySQL Server

# mysqladmin -u root password YOURNEWPASSWORD  

# mysqladmin -u root -p ping  

mysqld is alive  

# mysqladmin -u root -p version  

# mysqladmin -u root -ptmppassword status  

# mysqladmin -u root -p extended-status  

# mysqladmin -u root -p variables  

# mysqladmin -u root -p processlist  

How to create a Database in MySQL server?

To create a new database in the MySQL server, use the below command.

# mysqladmin -u root -p create databasename 

Enter password

# mysql -u root -p  

Enter password

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 18027. Server version: 5.5.28 MySQL Community Server (GPL) by Remi Copyright (c) 2000, 2012, Oracle and its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> show databases;  

Database

information_schema

databasename

mysql

test

8 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql>

How to drop a database in a MySQL server?

To drop a database in a MySQL server, use the following command. You will be asked to confirm by pressing ‘y‘.

# mysqladmin -u root -p drop databasename

Enter password:

Dropping the database is potentially a terrible thing to do.

Any data stored in the database will be destroyed.

Do you want to drop the 'databasename' database [y/N] y

Database "databasename" dropped.

How to reload/refresh MySQL Privileges?

The reload command tells the server to reload the grant tables. The refresh command flushes all tables and reopens the log files.

# mysqladmin -u root -p reload;

# mysqladmin -u root -p refresh

How to shut down the MySQL server Safely?

To shut down the MySQL server safely, type the following command.

mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown

Enter password

You can also use the following commands to start/stop the MySQL server.

# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop  
# /etc/init.d/mysqld start  

Some useful MySQL Flush commands

The following are some useful commands with their description.

1. flush-hosts. Flush all host information from the host cache.
2. flush-tables. Flush all tables.
3. flush-threads. Flush all threads cache.
4. flush-logs. Flush all information logs.
5. flush-privileges. Reload the grant tables (same as reload).
6. flush-status. Clear status variables.

# mysqladmin -u root -p flush-hosts  
# mysqladmin -u root -p flush-tables  
# mysqladmin -u root -p flush-threads  
# mysqladmin -u root -p flush-logs  
# mysqladmin -u root -p flush-privileges  
# mysqladmin -u root -p flush-status  

How to kill the Sleeping MySQL Client Process?

Use the following command to identify a sleeping MySQL client process.

# mysqladmin -u root -p processlist  

Enter password

Id	User	Host	db	Command	Time	States	Info
5	root	localhost		sleep	14		show processlist
8	root	localhost		Query	0

Now following the command with kill and process ID as shown below.

# mysqladmin -u root -p kill 5  

Enter password

Id	User	Host	db	Command	Time	States	Info
12	root	localhost		Query	0		show processlist

If you like to kill multiple processes, pass the process IDs separated by commas, as shown below.

# mysqladmin -u root -p kill 5,10  

How to run multiple mysqladmin commands together?

If you would like to execute multiple ‘mysqladmin‘ commands together, the command would be like this.

# mysqladmin -u root -p processlist status version  

Enter password

Id	User	Host	db	Command	Time	States	Info
8	root	localhost		Query	0		show processlist

Uptime: 3801 Threads: 1 Questions: 15 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 15 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 8 Queries per second avg: 0.003

mysqladmin Ver 8.42 Distrib 5.5.28, for Linux on i686

Copyright (c) 2000, 2012, Oracle and its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Server version	5.5.28
Protocol version	10
Connection	Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket	/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime:	1 hour 3 min 21 sec

Threads: 1 Questions: 15 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 15 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 8 Queries per second avg: 0.003

How to connect to a remote MySQL server?

To connect to a remote MySQL server, use the -h (host) with the IP Address of the remote machine.

# mysqladmin -h 172.16.25.126 -u root -p  

How to execute commands on a remote MySQL server?

Let’s say you would like to see the status of a remote MySQL server, then; the command would be:

# mysqladmin -h 172.16.25.126 -u root -p status  

How to start/stop MySQL replication on a slave server?

Use the following commands to start/stop MySQL replication on the same server to store MySQL server Debug Information in logs.

It tells the server to write debug information about locks in use, used memory, and query usage to the MySQL log file, including information about the event scheduler.

# mysqladmin -u root -p debug  

Enter password

How to view mysqladmin options and usage?

To determine more options and usage of the myslqadmin command, use the help command below. It will display a list of available options.

# mysqladmin --help  

We have tried our best to include almost all of the ‘mysqladmin‘ commands with their examples in this article; if we’ve missed anything, please let us know via comments, and don’t forget to share with your friends.

Using the mysqldump Command

The mysqldump command creates a text version of the database. Specifically, it creates a list of SQL statements that can be used to restore/recreate the original database.

Syntax

$ mysqldump -u [uname] -p[pass] [dbname] > [backupfile.sql]

[uname] Your database username

[pass] The password for your database

[dbname] The name of your database

[backupfile.sql] The filename for your database backup

You can dump a table, a database, or all databases.

To dump all MySQL databases on the system, use the --all-databases shortcut:

$ mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases > [backupfile.sql]  

Restoring a MySQL Database

Use this method to rebuild a database from scratch:

$ mysql -u [username] -p [password] [database_to_restore] < [backupfile]  

Use this method to import into an existing database (in other words, to restore an existing database).

$ mysqlimport [options] database textfile1  

To restore your previously created custback.sql dump back to your 'Customers' MySQL database, you'd use:

$ mysqlimport -u sadmin -p pass21 Customers custback.sql 

Summary

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