3.7. Understanding the MySQL client prompts

The prompt that shows when you are using the MySQL client tells you a lot about what's going on.

The normal prompt looks like this:

mysql>

This means it is waiting for you to enter an SQL query.

If you are in the middle of entering an SQL query, it will be waiting for a semi-colon to terminate the query, and will look like this:

    ->

If you have opened a set of quotes but not closed them, you will see one of these prompts:

    '>
    ">