TiDB – SHOW DATABASES Command

After creating a local TiDB platform, I would like to get started with some typical commands, such as listing the databases. Therefore, this post presents an example of how to display the databases to the connected user who has access:


(base) brunotechdatabasket@Brunos-MBP v1.12.0 % mysql --comments --host 127.0.0.1 --port 4000 -u root -p 
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 461
Server version: 5.7.25-TiDB-v7.0.0 TiDB Server (Apache License 2.0) Community Edition, MySQL 5.7 compatible

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

mysql>
mysql> SHOW DATABASES;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| INFORMATION_SCHEMA |
| METRICS_SCHEMA     |
| PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA |
| mysql              |
| test               |
+--------------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Note*: “The information_schema database always appears first in the list of databases.”

Source: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/dev/sql-statement-show-databases

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