Connect to Aiven for MySQL® from the command line

Connect to your Aiven for MySQL® service via the command line with the following tools:

• mysqlsh shell
• mysql client

Using mysqlsh

Variables

These are the placeholders to replace in the code sample:

Variable	Description
SERVICE_URI	URL for the MySQL connection, from Aiven Console > the Overview page of your service

Prerequisites

For this example you need the mysqlsh client installed. You can install this by following the MySQL shell installation documentation.

Code

From a terminal window to connect to the MySQL database, run:

mysqlsh --sql SERVICE_URI

Test your setup with a query:

MySQL ssl defaultdb SQL> select 1 + 2 as three;

+-------+
| three |
+-------+
|     3 |
+-------+
1 row in set (0.0539 sec)

Using mysql

Variables

These are the placeholders to replace in the code sample:

Variable	Description
USER_HOST	Hostname for MySQL connection
USER_PORT	Port for MySQL connection
USER_PASSWORD	Password of your Aiven for MySQL connection
DB_NAME	Database Name of your Aiven for MySQL connection

Prerequisites

For this example you need the mysql client installed. You can install it by following the MySQL client installation documentation.

Code

This step requires to manually specify individual parameters. You can find those parameters in Aiven Console > the Overview page of your service.

Once you have these parameters, execute the following from a terminal window to connect to the MySQL database:

mysql --user avnadmin --password=USER_PASSWORD --host USER_HOST --port USER_PORT DB_NAME

warning

If you are providing the password via the command line, you must pass it as shown; putting a space between the parameter name and value will cause the password to be parsed incorrectly.