Where the hell is it?
The MySQL shell is a potentially useful tool that has
been intentionally made difficult to use properly.
It was introduced, with much fanfare, with the MySQL Document Store, as THE tool to
bridge the SQL and no-SQL worlds. The release was less than
satisfactory, though: MySQL 5.7.12 introduced a new feature (the
X-protocol plugin) bundled with the server. The maturity of the
plugin was unclear, as it popped out of the unknown into a GA
release, without any public testing. It was allegedly GA quality,
although the quantity of bug reports that were filed soon after
the release proved otherwise. The maturity of the shell was known
as "development preview", and so we had a supposedly GA feature
that could only be used with an alpha …
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