How do I find out my MySQL URL, host, port and username?

Question

I need to find my MySQL username. When I open the MySQL command line client, it only asks me for my password. I don\'t remember my username. And for connectivity with JDBC, I ne

Answer 1

Easiest way is probably using command status; In the output you'll find database, user, host and port:

mysql> status;
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mysql  Ver 8.0.13 for Win64 on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL)

Connection id:          43
Current database:       mysql
Current user:           user@localhost
SSL:                    Cipher in use is DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
Using delimiter:        ;
Server version:         8.0.13 MySQL Community Server - GPL
Protocol version:       10
Connection:             localhost via TCP/IP
Server characterset:    utf8mb4
Db     characterset:    utf8mb4
Client characterset:    cp852
Conn.  characterset:    cp852
TCP port:               3306
Uptime:                 3 hours 32 min 40 sec

Threads: 3  Questions: 197  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 214  Flush tables: 2  Open tables: 190  Queries per second avg: 0.015
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