One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

When running non-interactive MySQL commands one may submit MySQL credentials on the command line (we'll share with you a better option after the break), e.g.: mysql --password=secret --user=username ...

Don't be afraid of using your chosen database's command-line client. I might as well say this up front: I don't like using GUI (aka non-command-line or graphical) tools with my databases. This is ...