Pre-General Availability: 2023-01-18
The MYSQL SHELL CONSOLES view enables you to activate a dedicated work area for opening, saving, and managing MySQL Shell sessions. The MySQL Shell Consoles editor is represented by a single tab. When you close the tab, you also close the console sessions contained within the tab. You can perform the following actions from this view:
MySQL Shell sessions are shown in the MySQL Shell Console Browser. The browser enumerates all of your open sessions. To access a session quickly, use the GUI Console toolbar.
For more information, see MySQL Shell Consoles.
Click + (Add a New
MySQL Shell Console) in the MYSQL SHELL CONSOLES toolbar to
open the MySQL Shell Consoles editor and run the
\about
command.
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Click the MySQL Shell Console Browser icon in the MYSQL SHELL CONSOLES toolbar to open the MySQL Shell Consoles tab showing the browser.
Click + New Shell Session, which opens a new Shell session tile.
When you open a new MySQL Shell session, you are not connected to a MySQL server. For more information, see Connecting MySQL Shell Session.
To close the MySQL Shell session, do one following:
Right-click a session listed under the MYSQL SHELL CONSOLES view and select
.Navigate to a session in the MySQL Shell Console Browser, click the
X
shown on the top right corner of the MySQL Shell session. TheX
is only visible when you hover over the MySQL Shell session.