suomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/09/2005 03:07:11 AM: > Hi every > > probably silliest question ever posted: > > we are running mysql on serveral hosts and sometime it is important to > know, which host is the mysql server you are connected to. > > this is not a session nor a global variable, there is no show statement... > > what is it else? how to ask a mysql client the name of the server you > are connected to? > > suomi > Have you thought about changing your prompt? put a setting in the my.cfg/my.ini of your client tools something like this:
[mysql] prompt=\h.\d> Details here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql.html and here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql-commands.html That setting gives me a command prompt that is the name of the server, a dot, the name of the database with which I am currently working, all followed by a >. It looks like this: testserver1.testdb1> Would that help you keep it straight? Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine
