Steffen Müller's TYPO3 blog

November 5, 2007

unreadable output of MySQL console client

Are you a fan of using MySQL console client? Have you ever experienced the unreadable chaos of table data, when doing queries on tables with lots of columns? The usability of this tool often ends with the first linebreak.

The solution to get some more readable output is so easy: Terminate your query with \G instead of ; or \g

Tags: MySQL

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