How to echo print statements while executing a sql script - mysql

Question

We have a simple sql script which needs to be executed against a MySQL database and we would like print log statements on the progress of the script (e.g. Inserted 10 records into foo or Deleted 5 records from bar). How do we do this?
I would like to know the syntax to be used for insert/update/delete statements.
How do I know about the number of rows affected by my statement(s).
I would also like to control printing them using a ECHO off or on command at the top of the script.
The script should be portable across Windows / Linux OS.

Answer 1

This will give you are simple print within a sql script:
select 'This is a comment' AS '';
Alternatively, this will add some dynamic data to your status update if used directly after an update, delete, or insert command:
select concat ("Updated ", row_count(), " rows") as '';

Answer 2

I don't know if this helps:
suppose you want to run a sql script (test.sql) from the command line:
mysql < test.sql
and the contents of test.sql is something like:
SELECT * FROM information_schema.SCHEMATA;
\! echo "I like to party...";
The console will show something like:
CATALOG_NAME SCHEMA_NAME DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME
def information_schema utf8
def mysql utf8
def performance_schema utf8
def sys utf8
I like to party...
So you can execute terminal commands inside an sql statement by just using \!, provided the script is run via a command line.
\! #terminal_commands

Answer 3

Just to make your script more readable, maybe use this proc:
DELIMITER ;;
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS printf;
CREATE PROCEDURE printf(thetext TEXT)
BEGIN
select thetext as ``;
END;
;;
DELIMITER ;
Now you can just do:
call printf('Counting products that have missing short description');

Answer 4

What about using mysql -v to put mysql client in verbose mode ?

Answer 5

For mysql you can add \p to the commands to have them print out while they run in the script:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `mysql`.`user`
\p;
Run it in the MySQL client:
mysql> source example.sql
--------------
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `mysql`.`user`
--------------
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 24 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Answer 6

You can use print -p -- in the script to do this example :
#!/bin/ksh
mysql -u username -ppassword -D dbname -ss -n -q |&
print -p -- "select count(*) from some_table;"
read -p get_row_count1
print -p -- "select count(*) from some_other_table;"
read -p get_row_count2
print -p exit ;
#
echo $get_row_count1
echo $get_row_count2
#
exit