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NAME

       mysqlcheck - a table maintenance program

SYNOPSIS

       mysqlcheck [options] [db_name [tbl_name ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       The mysqlcheck client performs table maintenance: It checks, repairs, optimizes, or
       analyzes tables.

       Each table is locked and therefore unavailable to other sessions while it is being
       processed, although for check operations, the table is locked with a READ lock only (see
       Section 15.3.6, “LOCK TABLES and UNLOCK TABLES Statements”, for more information about
       READ and WRITE locks). Table maintenance operations can be time-consuming, particularly
       for large tables. If you use the --databases or --all-databases option to process all
       tables in one or more databases, an invocation of mysqlcheck might take a long time. (This
       is also true for the MySQL upgrade procedure if it determines that table checking is
       needed because it processes tables the same way.)

       mysqlcheck must be used when the mysqld server is running, which means that you do not
       have to stop the server to perform table maintenance.

       mysqlcheck uses the SQL statements CHECK TABLE, REPAIR TABLE, ANALYZE TABLE, and OPTIMIZE
       TABLE in a convenient way for the user. It determines which statements to use for the
       operation you want to perform, and then sends the statements to the server to be executed.
       For details about which storage engines each statement works with, see the descriptions
       for those statements in Section 15.7.3, “Table Maintenance Statements”.

       All storage engines do not necessarily support all four maintenance operations. In such
       cases, an error message is displayed. For example, if test.t is an MEMORY table, an
       attempt to check it produces this result:

           $> mysqlcheck test t
           test.t
           note     : The storage engine for the table doesn't support check

       If mysqlcheck is unable to repair a table, see Section 3.14, “Rebuilding or Repairing
       Tables or Indexes” for manual table repair strategies. This is the case, for example, for
       InnoDB tables, which can be checked with CHECK TABLE, but not repaired with REPAIR TABLE.

           Caution
           It is best to make a backup of a table before performing a table repair operation;
           under some circumstances the operation might cause data loss. Possible causes include
           but are not limited to file system errors.

       There are three general ways to invoke mysqlcheck:

           mysqlcheck [options] db_name [tbl_name ...]
           mysqlcheck [options] --databases db_name ...
           mysqlcheck [options] --all-databases

       If you do not name any tables following db_name or if you use the --databases or
       --all-databases option, entire databases are checked.

       mysqlcheck has a special feature compared to other client programs. The default behavior
       of checking tables (--check) can be changed by renaming the binary. If you want to have a
       tool that repairs tables by default, you should just make a copy of mysqlcheck named
       mysqlrepair, or make a symbolic link to mysqlcheck named mysqlrepair. If you invoke
       mysqlrepair, it repairs tables.

       The names shown in the following table can be used to change mysqlcheck default behavior.

       ┌──────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
       │CommandMeaning                          │
       ├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
       │mysqlrepair   │ The default option is --repair   │
       ├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
       │mysqlanalyze  │ The default option is --analyze  │
       ├──────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
       │mysqloptimize │ The default option is --optimize │
       └──────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

       mysqlcheck supports the following options, which can be specified on the command line or
       in the [mysqlcheck] and [client] groups of an option file. For information about option
       files used by MySQL programs, see Section 6.2.2.2, “Using Option Files”.

       •   --help, -?

           ┌────────────────────┬────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --help │
           └────────────────────┴────────┘
           Display a help message and exit.

       •   --all-databases, -A

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --all-databases │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
           Check all tables in all databases. This is the same as using the --databases option
           and naming all the databases on the command line, except that the INFORMATION_SCHEMA
           and performance_schema databases are not checked. They can be checked by explicitly
           naming them with the --databases option.

       •   --all-in-1, -1

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --all-in-1 │
           └────────────────────┴────────────┘
           Instead of issuing a statement for each table, execute a single statement for each
           database that names all the tables from that database to be processed.

       •   --analyze, -a

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --analyze │
           └────────────────────┴───────────┘
           Analyze the tables.

       •   --auto-repair

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --auto-repair │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────┘
           If a checked table is corrupted, automatically fix it. Any necessary repairs are done
           after all tables have been checked.

       •   --bind-address=ip_address

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --bind-address=ip_address │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
           On a computer having multiple network interfaces, use this option to select which
           interface to use for connecting to the MySQL server.

       •   --character-sets-dir=dir_name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --character-sets-dir=dir_name │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Directory name                │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
           The directory where character sets are installed. See Section 12.15, “Character Set
           Configuration”.

       •   --check, -c

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --check │
           └────────────────────┴─────────┘
           Check the tables for errors. This is the default operation.

       •   --check-only-changed, -C

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --check-only-changed │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           Check only tables that have changed since the last check or that have not been closed
           properly.

       •   --check-upgrade, -g

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --check-upgrade │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
           Invoke CHECK TABLE with the FOR UPGRADE option to check tables for incompatibilities
           with the current version of the server.

       •   --compress

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --compress[={OFF|ON}] │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ Yes                   │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean               │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ OFF                   │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           Compress all information sent between the client and the server if possible. See
           Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.

           This option is deprecated. Expect it to be removed in a future version of MySQL. See
           the section called “Configuring Legacy Connection Compression”.

       •   --compression-algorithms=value

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --compression-algorithms=value │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Set                            │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ uncompressed                   │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                                │
           │                    │            zlib                │
           │                    │                                │
           │                    │            zstd                │
           │                    │                                │
           │                    │            uncompressed        │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
           The permitted compression algorithms for connections to the server. The available
           algorithms are the same as for the protocol_compression_algorithms system variable.
           The default value is uncompressed.

           For more information, see Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.

       •   --databases, -B

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --databases │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────┘
           Process all tables in the named databases. Normally, mysqlcheck treats the first name
           argument on the command line as a database name and any following names as table
           names. With this option, it treats all name arguments as database names.

       •   --debug[=debug_options], -# [debug_options]

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --debug[=debug_options] │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                  │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ d:t:o                   │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
           Write a debugging log. A typical debug_options string is d:t:o,file_name. The default
           is d:t:o.

           This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG. MySQL release
           binaries provided by Oracle are not built using this option.

       •   --debug-check

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --debug-check │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean       │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE         │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────┘
           Print some debugging information when the program exits.

           This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG. MySQL release
           binaries provided by Oracle are not built using this option.

       •   --debug-info

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --debug-info │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean      │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE        │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────┘
           Print debugging information and memory and CPU usage statistics when the program
           exits.

           This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG. MySQL release
           binaries provided by Oracle are not built using this option.

       •   --default-character-set=charset_name

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --default-character- │
           │                    │ set=charset_name     │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String               │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           Use charset_name as the default character set. See Section 12.15, “Character Set
           Configuration”.

       •   --defaults-extra-file=file_name

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --defaults-extra-file=file_name │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ File name                       │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
           Read this option file after the global option file but (on Unix) before the user
           option file. If the file does not exist or is otherwise inaccessible, an error occurs.
           If file_name is not an absolute path name, it is interpreted relative to the current
           directory.

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
           Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --defaults-file=file_name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --defaults-file=file_name │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ File name                 │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
           Use only the given option file. If the file does not exist or is otherwise
           inaccessible, an error occurs. If file_name is not an absolute path name, it is
           interpreted relative to the current directory.

           Exception: Even with --defaults-file, client programs read .mylogin.cnf.

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
           Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --defaults-group-suffix=str

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --defaults-group-suffix=str │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                      │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
           Read not only the usual option groups, but also groups with the usual names and a
           suffix of str. For example, mysqlcheck normally reads the [client] and [mysqlcheck]
           groups. If this option is given as --defaults-group-suffix=_other, mysqlcheck also
           reads the [client_other] and [mysqlcheck_other] groups.

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
           Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --extended, -e

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --extended │
           └────────────────────┴────────────┘
           If you are using this option to check tables, it ensures that they are 100% consistent
           but takes a long time.

           If you are using this option to repair tables, it runs an extended repair that may not
           only take a long time to execute, but may produce a lot of garbage rows also!

       •   --default-auth=plugin

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --default-auth=plugin │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           A hint about which client-side authentication plugin to use. See Section 8.2.17,
           “Pluggable Authentication”.

       •   --enable-cleartext-plugin

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --enable-cleartext-plugin │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                   │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ FALSE                     │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
           Enable the mysql_clear_password cleartext authentication plugin. (See Section 8.4.1.4,
           “Client-Side Cleartext Pluggable Authentication”.)

       •   --fast, -F

           ┌────────────────────┬────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --fast │
           └────────────────────┴────────┘
           Check only tables that have not been closed properly.

       •   --force, -f

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --force │
           └────────────────────┴─────────┘
           Continue even if an SQL error occurs.

       •   --get-server-public-key

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --get-server-public-key │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Boolean                 │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
           Request from the server the public key required for RSA key pair-based password
           exchange. This option applies to clients that authenticate with the
           caching_sha2_password authentication plugin. For that plugin, the server does not send
           the public key unless requested. This option is ignored for accounts that do not
           authenticate with that plugin. It is also ignored if RSA-based password exchange is
           not used, as is the case when the client connects to the server using a secure
           connection.

           If --server-public-key-path=file_name is given and specifies a valid public key file,
           it takes precedence over --get-server-public-key.

           For information about the caching_sha2_password plugin, see Section 8.4.1.2, “Caching
           SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication”.

       •   --host=host_name, -h host_name

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --host=host_name │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String           │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ localhost        │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Connect to the MySQL server on the given host.

       •   --login-path=name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --login-path=name │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String            │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
           Read options from the named login path in the .mylogin.cnf login path file. A “login
           path” is an option group containing options that specify which MySQL server to connect
           to and which account to authenticate as. To create or modify a login path file, use
           the mysql_config_editor utility. See mysql_config_editor(1).

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
           Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --no-login-paths

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --no-login-paths │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Skips reading options from the login path file.

           See --login-path for related information.

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
           Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --medium-check, -m

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --medium-check │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────┘
           Do a check that is faster than an --extended operation. This finds only 99.99% of all
           errors, which should be good enough in most cases.

       •   --no-defaults

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --no-defaults │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────┘
           Do not read any option files. If program startup fails due to reading unknown options
           from an option file, --no-defaults can be used to prevent them from being read.

           The exception is that the .mylogin.cnf file is read in all cases, if it exists. This
           permits passwords to be specified in a safer way than on the command line even when
           --no-defaults is used. To create .mylogin.cnf, use the mysql_config_editor utility.
           See mysql_config_editor(1).

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
           Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --optimize, -o

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --optimize │
           └────────────────────┴────────────┘
           Optimize the tables.

       •   --password[=password], -p[password]

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --password[=password] │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           The password of the MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The password
           value is optional. If not given, mysqlcheck prompts for one. If given, there must be
           no space between --password= or -p and the password following it. If no password
           option is specified, the default is to send no password.

           Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. To avoid
           giving the password on the command line, use an option file. See Section 8.1.2.1,
           “End-User Guidelines for Password Security”.

           To explicitly specify that there is no password and that mysqlcheck should not prompt
           for one, use the --skip-password option.

       •   --password1[=pass_val] The password for multifactor authentication factor 1 of the
           MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The password value is optional. If
           not given, mysqlcheck prompts for one. If given, there must be no space between
           --password1= and the password following it. If no password option is specified, the
           default is to send no password.

           Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. To avoid
           giving the password on the command line, use an option file. See Section 8.1.2.1,
           “End-User Guidelines for Password Security”.

           To explicitly specify that there is no password and that mysqlcheck should not prompt
           for one, use the --skip-password1 option.

           --password1 and --password are synonymous, as are --skip-password1 and
           --skip-password.

       •   --password2[=pass_val] The password for multifactor authentication factor 2 of the
           MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The semantics of this option are
           similar to the semantics for --password1; see the description of that option for
           details.

       •   --password3[=pass_val] The password for multifactor authentication factor 3 of the
           MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The semantics of this option are
           similar to the semantics for --password1; see the description of that option for
           details.

       •   --pipe, -W

           ┌────────────────────┬────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --pipe │
           ├────────────────────┼────────┤
           │Type                │ String │
           └────────────────────┴────────┘
           On Windows, connect to the server using a named pipe. This option applies only if the
           server was started with the named_pipe system variable enabled to support named-pipe
           connections. In addition, the user making the connection must be a member of the
           Windows group specified by the named_pipe_full_access_group system variable.

       •   --plugin-dir=dir_name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --plugin-dir=dir_name │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Directory name        │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
           The directory in which to look for plugins. Specify this option if the --default-auth
           option is used to specify an authentication plugin but mysqlcheck does not find it.
           See Section 8.2.17, “Pluggable Authentication”.

       •   --port=port_num, -P port_num

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --port=port_num │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Numeric         │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ 3306            │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
           For TCP/IP connections, the port number to use.

       •   --print-defaults

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --print-defaults │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
           Print the program name and all options that it gets from option files.

           For additional information about this and other option-file options, see
           Section 6.2.2.3, “Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Handling”.

       •   --protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --protocol=type   │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String            │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ [see text]        │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                   │
           │                    │            TCP    │
           │                    │                   │
           │                    │            SOCKET │
           │                    │                   │
           │                    │            PIPE   │
           │                    │                   │
           │                    │            MEMORY │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
           The transport protocol to use for connecting to the server. It is useful when the
           other connection parameters normally result in use of a protocol other than the one
           you want. For details on the permissible values, see Section 6.2.7, “Connection
           Transport Protocols”.

       •   --quick, -q

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --quick │
           └────────────────────┴─────────┘
           If you are using this option to check tables, it prevents the check from scanning the
           rows to check for incorrect links. This is the fastest check method.

           If you are using this option to repair tables, it tries to repair only the index tree.
           This is the fastest repair method.

       •   --repair, -r

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --repair │
           └────────────────────┴──────────┘
           Perform a repair that can fix almost anything except unique keys that are not unique.

       •   --server-public-key-path=file_name

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --server-public-key- │
           │                    │ path=file_name       │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ File name            │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
           The path name to a file in PEM format containing a client-side copy of the public key
           required by the server for RSA key pair-based password exchange. This option applies
           to clients that authenticate with the sha256_password (deprecated) or
           caching_sha2_password authentication plugin. This option is ignored for accounts that
           do not authenticate with one of those plugins. It is also ignored if RSA-based
           password exchange is not used, as is the case when the client connects to the server
           using a secure connection.

           If --server-public-key-path=file_name is given and specifies a valid public key file,
           it takes precedence over --get-server-public-key.

           For sha256_password (deprecated), this option applies only if MySQL was built using
           OpenSSL.

           For information about the sha256_password and caching_sha2_password plugins, see
           Section 8.4.1.3, “SHA-256 Pluggable Authentication”, and Section 8.4.1.2, “Caching
           SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication”.

       •   --shared-memory-base-name=name

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --shared-memory-base-name=name │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Platform Specific   │ Windows                        │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
           On Windows, the shared-memory name to use for connections made using shared memory to
           a local server. The default value is MYSQL. The shared-memory name is case-sensitive.

           This option applies only if the server was started with the shared_memory system
           variable enabled to support shared-memory connections.

       •   --silent, -s

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --silent │
           └────────────────────┴──────────┘
           Silent mode. Print only error messages.

       •   --skip-database=db_name

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --skip-database=db_name │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
           Do not include the named database (case-sensitive) in the operations performed by
           mysqlcheck.

       •   --socket=path, -S path

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --socket={file_name|pipe_name} │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                         │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
           For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on Windows, the name of
           the named pipe to use.

           On Windows, this option applies only if the server was started with the named_pipe
           system variable enabled to support named-pipe connections. In addition, the user
           making the connection must be a member of the Windows group specified by the
           named_pipe_full_access_group system variable.

       •   --ssl* Options that begin with --ssl specify whether to connect to the server using
           encryption and indicate where to find SSL keys and certificates. See the section
           called “Command Options for Encrypted Connections”.

       •   --ssl-fips-mode={OFF|ON|STRICT}

           ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --ssl-fips-mode={OFF|ON|STRICT} │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Deprecated          │ Yes                             │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Enumeration                     │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │ OFF                             │
           ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
           │Valid Values        │                                 │
           │                    │            OFF                  │
           │                    │                                 │
           │                    │            ON                   │
           │                    │                                 │
           │                    │            STRICT               │
           └────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
           Controls whether to enable FIPS mode on the client side. The --ssl-fips-mode option
           differs from other --ssl-xxx options in that it is not used to establish encrypted
           connections, but rather to affect which cryptographic operations to permit. See
           Section 8.8, “FIPS Support”.

           These --ssl-fips-mode values are permitted:

           •   OFF: Disable FIPS mode.

           •   ON: Enable FIPS mode.

           •   STRICT: Enable “strict” FIPS mode.

               Note
               If the OpenSSL FIPS Object Module is not available, the only permitted value for
               --ssl-fips-mode is OFF. In this case, setting --ssl-fips-mode to ON or STRICT
               causes the client to produce a warning at startup and to operate in non-FIPS mode.
           This option is deprecated. Expect it to be removed in a future version of MySQL.

       •   --tables

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --tables │
           └────────────────────┴──────────┘
           Override the --databases or -B option. All name arguments following the option are
           regarded as table names.

       •   --tls-ciphersuites=ciphersuite_list

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --tls-                        │
           │                    │ ciphersuites=ciphersuite_list │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                        │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
           The permissible ciphersuites for encrypted connections that use TLSv1.3. The value is
           a list of one or more colon-separated ciphersuite names. The ciphersuites that can be
           named for this option depend on the SSL library used to compile MySQL. For details,
           see Section 8.3.2, “Encrypted Connection TLS Protocols and Ciphers”.

       •   --tls-sni-servername=server_name

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --tls-sni-servername=server_name │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                           │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘
           When specified, the name is passed to the libmysqlclient C API library using the
           MYSQL_OPT_TLS_SNI_SERVERNAME option of mysql_options(). The server name is not
           case-sensitive. To show which server name the client specified for the current
           session, if any, check the Tls_sni_server_name status variable.

           Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension to the TLS protocol (OpenSSL must be
           compiled using TLS extensions for this option to function). The MySQL implementation
           of SNI represents the client-side only.

       •   --tls-version=protocol_list

           ┌────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --tls-version=protocol_list              │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String                                   │
           ├────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
           │Default Value       │                                          │
           │                    │            TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3 │
           │                    │            (OpenSSL 1.1.1 or             │
           │                    │            higher)                       │
           │                    │                                          │
           │                    │            TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2         │
           │                    │            (otherwise)                   │
           └────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┘
           The permissible TLS protocols for encrypted connections. The value is a list of one or
           more comma-separated protocol names. The protocols that can be named for this option
           depend on the SSL library used to compile MySQL. For details, see Section 8.3.2,
           “Encrypted Connection TLS Protocols and Ciphers”.

       •   --use-frm

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --use-frm │
           └────────────────────┴───────────┘
           For repair operations on MyISAM tables, get the table structure from the data
           dictionary so that the table can be repaired even if the .MYI header is corrupted.

       •   --user=user_name, -u user_name

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --user=user_name, │
           ├────────────────────┼───────────────────┤
           │Type                │ String            │
           └────────────────────┴───────────────────┘
           The user name of the MySQL account to use for connecting to the server.

       •   --verbose, -v

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --verbose │
           └────────────────────┴───────────┘
           Verbose mode. Print information about the various stages of program operation.

       •   --version, -V

           ┌────────────────────┬───────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --version │
           └────────────────────┴───────────┘
           Display version information and exit.

       •   --write-binlog

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --write-binlog │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────┘
           This option is enabled by default, so that ANALYZE TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, and REPAIR
           TABLE statements generated by mysqlcheck are written to the binary log. Use
           --skip-write-binlog to cause NO_WRITE_TO_BINLOG to be added to the statements so that
           they are not logged. Use the --skip-write-binlog when these statements should not be
           sent to replicas or run when using the binary logs for recovery from backup.

       •   --zstd-compression-level=level

           ┌────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
           │Command-Line Format │ --zstd-compression-level=# │
           ├────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
           │Type                │ Integer                    │
           └────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
           The compression level to use for connections to the server that use the zstd
           compression algorithm. The permitted levels are from 1 to 22, with larger values
           indicating increasing levels of compression. The default zstd compression level is 3.
           The compression level setting has no effect on connections that do not use zstd
           compression.

           For more information, see Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.

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SEE ALSO

       For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be
       installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

AUTHOR

       Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).