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Pre-General Availability: 2024-03-18

2.4.2 Navigate Code Blocks

The following section describes how to navigate in notebook-interface-styled editors and perform tasks such as:

Add new code blocks

To a new code block, you can delete the line of code and enter a new code block, or use Ctrl+Enter to create a new command on which to enter your code block.

Notebook editors add a new command prompt beneath the output, if any, of your previous code block.

Figure 2.4 MySQL Shell GUI Console new command prompt using Ctrl+Enter

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Deleting a code block removes the output of that code block.

Re-execute an existing code block

To re-execute an existing code block, click at the end of the existing code block and use Ctrl+Enter to execute the code block again.

Note

Re-executing a code block removes the output of any later code block. For example, if you issue a shell.connect method without a schema defined, then issue a \use world command to use the world schema. Later, if you highlight the initial shell.connect method and re-execute it, then the world schema, you defined later, is removed.

Remove a code block or the output

To remove a code block, highlight the code block either using the cursor or right-click, and use Backspace to delete the code block.

To remove the output of an issued code block, use Ctrl+Enter to create a new command prompt beneath the output, you want to delete. Use Ctrl+Backspace to delete the output.

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The action of the issued code block is not undone. For example, if you enter a \use world command to set the world schema as default. Then, you delete the output of the use command; specifically: Default schema set to `world`. The action is not undone and the schema defined remains as the world schema.

View the results of multiple SQL queries

To execute multiple queries together in SQL mode, each statement must be terminated with the current delimiter, which is a semicolon character (;) by default. It is possible to change the current delimiter value as follows:

sql> DELIMITER new-delimiter

Notebook editors generate a separate tab in the output area with the result of each statement (if any). For example, the following figure shows two code blocks. The first block executes a single, stand-alone query (USE sakila), which does not require a semicolon. The second block executes multiple queries together and produces multiple results (Result #1, Result #2, and Result #3). Click each tab to view the output.

Figure 2.5 MySQL Shell for VS Code - SQL Output Area tabs

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