How to show records vertically in mysql command li

Question

First explaining what is on my mind {I'm not good at English}

On Alan Storm's blog, I found a tricky thing about mysql. I am not sure if he's using the command line or not. The comment section has closed over there, so I'm putting this query here instead.

mysql> select * from eav_entity_type\G

When I run this statement in my command line (Window dos based cmd) I just return normal select statement results.

Please let me know how could I get result as shown in that blog or if it is just part of a code beautifier.

Answer 1

I think you are using \g instead of \G. Unless you use \G you get default output pattern. Default is \g.

mysql> show databases\g
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| test               |
+--------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> show databases\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Database: information_schema
*************************** 2. row ***************************
Database: mysql
*************************** 3. row ***************************
Database: test
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer 2

Maybe you are using an older version of MySQL? \G is a shortcut for the MySQL ego command and should work on your system as well.

See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-commands.html

And it works fine with vertical display on on my system.