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MYSQLCHECK(1)		      MySQL Database System		   MYSQLCHECK(1)

NAME
     mysqlcheck - a table maintenance program

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

DESCRIPTION
     The mysqlcheck client performs table maintenance: It checks, repairs, opti-
     mizes, 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 State-
     ments", 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 TA-
     BLE, 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  opera-
     tions. 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  er-
	 rors.

     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 --data-
     bases or --all-databases option, entire databases are checked.

     mysqlcheck has a special feature compared to other client programs. The de-
     fault 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 de-
     fault behavior.
     +---------------+-----------------------------+
     | Command	     | Meaning			   |
     +---------------+-----------------------------+
     | mysqlrepair   | The default option is --re- |
     |		     | pair			   |
     +---------------+-----------------------------+
     | mysqlanalyze  | The default option is --an- |
     |		     | alyze			   |
     +---------------+-----------------------------+
     | mysqloptimize | The default option is --op- |
     |		     | timize			   |
     +---------------+-----------------------------+

     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  Sec-
     tion 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  state-
	 ment  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  in-
	 compatibilities with the current version of the server.

     *	 --compress
	 +---------------------+-----------------------+
	 | Command-Line Format | --compress[={OFF|ON}] |
	 +---------------------+-----------------------+
	 | Deprecated	       | 8.0.18 	       |
	 +---------------------+-----------------------+
	 | Type 	       | Boolean	       |
	 +---------------------+-----------------------+
	 | Default Value       | OFF		       |
	 +---------------------+-----------------------+

	 Compress all information sent between the client and the server if pos-
	 sible. See Section 6.2.8, "Connection Compression Control".

	 As  of MySQL 8.0.18, 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-algo-   |
	 |		       | rithms=value	       |
	 +---------------------+-----------------------+
	 | Introduced	       | 8.0.18 	       |
	 +---------------------+-----------------------+
	 | 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_algo-
	 rithms system variable. The default value is uncompressed.

	 For  more  information, see Section 6.2.8, "Connection Compression Con-
	 trol".

	 This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.

     *	 --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 op-
	 tion.

     *	 --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 op-
	 tion.

     *	 --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  op-
	 tion.

     *	 --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  inac-
	 cessible,  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 Han-
	 dling".

     *	 --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 other-
	 wise  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  .mylo-
	 gin.cnf.

	 For  additional  information  about this and other option-file options,
	 see Section 6.2.2.3, "Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Han-
	 dling".

     *	 --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  --de-
	 faults-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 Han-
	 dling".

     *	 --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  re-
	 pair  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  Sec-
	 tion 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  Sec-
	 tion 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 Han-
	 dling".

     *	 --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 pre-
	 vent 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 .mylo-
	 gin.cnf, use the  mysql_config_editor	utility.  See  mysql_config_edi-
	 tor(1).

	 For  additional  information  about this and other option-file options,
	 see Section 6.2.2.3, "Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File Han-
	 dling".

     *	 --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 inse-
	 cure. 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 fac-
	 tor 1 of the MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The pass-
	 word 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 inse-
	 cure. 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 fac-
	 tor  2  of the MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The se-
	 mantics 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 fac-
	 tor  3  of the MySQL account used for connecting to the server. The se-
	 mantics 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 ap-
	 plies only if the server was started with the named_pipe  system  vari-
	 able  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 Authentica-
	 tion".

     *	 --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 Han-
	 dling".

     *	 --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  use-
	 ful  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 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 se-
	 cure 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, 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_mem-
	 ory 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 Win-
	 dows, 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  cer-
	 tificates.  See  the section called "Command Options for Encrypted Con-
	 nections".

     *	 --ssl-fips-mode={OFF|ON|STRICT}
	 +---------------------+----------------------+
	 | Command-Line Format | --ssl-fips-	      |
	 |		       | mode={OFF|ON|STRICT} |
	 +---------------------+----------------------+
	 | Deprecated	       | 8.0.34 	      |
	 +---------------------+----------------------+
	 | 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 Sup-
	 port".

	 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  per-
	     mitted  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.
	 As  of MySQL 8.0.34, 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=cipher- |
	 |		       | suite_list		    |
	 +---------------------+----------------------------+
	 | Introduced	       | 8.0.16 		    |
	 +---------------------+----------------------------+
	 | 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, "En-
	 crypted Connection TLS Protocols and Ciphers".

	 This option was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

     *	 --tls-version=protocol_list
	 +---------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
	 | Command-Line Format	     | --tls-version=protocol_list					|
	 +---------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
	 | Type 		     | String								|
	 +---------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
	 | Default Value (^a=Y 8.0.16) |									|
	 |			     |		TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3 (OpenSSL 1.1.1 or higher) |
	 |			     |									|
	 |			     |		TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 (otherwise)			|
	 +---------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
	 | Default Value (^aox 8.0.15) | TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2						|
	 +---------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+

	 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 Proto-
	 cols 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 op-
	 eration.

     *	 --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 TA-
	 BLE, 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  repli-
	 cas or run when using the binary logs for recovery from backup.

     *	 --zstd-compression-level=level
	 +---------------------+----------------------------+
	 | Command-Line Format | --zstd-compression-level=# |
	 +---------------------+----------------------------+
	 | Introduced	       | 8.0.18 		    |
	 +---------------------+----------------------------+
	 | 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  ef-
	 fect on connections that do not use zstd compression.

	 For  more  information, see Section 6.2.8, "Connection Compression Con-
	 trol".

	 This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.

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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/.

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