[UPHPU] alternate views for MySQL monitor (viewing many columns)

[John David Anderson]

On Sep 18, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:

> I seem to remember someone showing me a way to display query  
> results in
> MySQL monitor (terminal) in a special way that allowed you to see a  
> lot of
> rows and columns easier. Anyone know anything about that? For  
> example, if
> you are only selecting two or three columns from the table then it  
> will
> usually fit across your terminal window without wrapping, but if  
> you are
> selecting *, then it gets ugly. It seems like there was a flag or  
> something
> that you could use that would display the results in grouped blocks of
> horizontal rows or something.

Are you talking about the 'pager' command?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-commands.html

-- John