Articles tagged with mysql-client

1. Enabling Vertical (\G) Output in the MySQL Client

   Posted on December 20, 2007 in Software

   One problem with the MySQL command line client is that queries with lots of columns tend to wrap crazily based on your terminal size. To overcome this, you can get a vertical output by terminating your queries with \G instead of ;. I find this format extremely helpful in cases where …

2. Courier authdaemond Breaks On Hidden Whitespace

   Posted on April 15, 2007 in System Administration

   A concise legacy mail-server troubleshooting note showing how trailing whitespace in a Courier credential can cause a misleading MySQL authentication failure.