NDB_SELECT_ALL(1)

NAME
ndb_select_all - print rows from an NDB table

SYNOPSIS

ndb_select_all -c connection_string tbl_name -d db_name [> file_name]

DESCRIPTION

ndb_select_all prints all rows from an NDB table to stdout. Usage

    ndb_select_all -c connection_string tbl_name -d db_name [> file_name]

Options that can be used with ndb_select_all are shown in the following table. Additional descriptions follow the table.

    • --character-sets-dir
    Command-Line Format | --character-sets-dir=path

    Directory containing character sets.

    • --connect-retries
    Command-Line Format | --connect-retries=#
    Type | Integer
    Default Value | 12
    Minimum Value | 0
    Maximum Value | 12

    Number of times to retry connection before giving up.

    • --connect-retry-delay
    Command-Line Format | --connect-retry-delay=#
    Type | Integer
    Default Value | 5
    Minimum Value | 0
    Maximum Value | 5

    Number of seconds to wait between attempts to contact management server.

    • --connect-string
    Command-Line Format | --connect-string=connection_string
    Type | String
    Default Value | [none]

    Same as --ndb-connectstring.

    • --core-file
    Command-Line Format | --core-file

    Write core file on error; used in debugging.

    • --database=dbname, -d dbname Name of the database in which the table is found. The default value is TEST_DB.

    • --descending, -z Sorts the output in descending order. This option can be used only in conjunction with the -o (--order) option.

    • --defaults-extra-file
    Command-Line Format | --defaults-extra-file=path
    Type | String
    Default Value | [none]

    Read given file after global files are read.

    • --defaults-file
    Command-Line Format | --defaults-file=path
    Type | String
    Default Value | [none]

    Read default options from given file only.

    • --defaults-group-suffix
    Command-Line Format | --defaults-group-suffix=string
    Type | String
    Default Value | [none]

    Also read groups with concat(group, suffix).

    • --delimiter=character, -D character Causes the character to be used as a column delimiter. Only table data columns are separated by this delimiter.

    The default delimiter is the tab character.

    • --disk Adds a disk reference column to the output. The column is nonempty only for Disk Data tables having nonindexed columns.

    • --gci Adds a GCI column to the output showing the global checkpoint at which each row was last updated. See Section 25.2, “NDB Cluster Overview”, and Section 25.6.3.2, “NDB Cluster Log Events”, for more information about checkpoints.

    • --gci64 Adds a ROW$GCI64 column to the output showing the global checkpoint at which each row was last updated, as well as the number of the epoch in which this update occurred.

    • --help
    Command-Line Format | --help

    Display help text and exit.

    • --lock=lock_type, -l lock_type Employs a lock when reading the table. Possible values for lock_type are:

        • 0: Read lock

        • 1: Read lock with hold

        • 2: Exclusive read lock

    There is no default value for this option.

    • --login-path
    Command-Line Format | --login-path=path
    Type | String
    Default Value | [none]

    Read given path from login file.

    • --no-login-paths
    Command-Line Format | --no-login-paths

    Skips reading options from the login path file.

    • --header=FALSE Excludes column headers from the output.

    • --nodata Causes any table data to be omitted.

    • --ndb-connectstring
    Command-Line Format | --ndb-connectstring=connection_string
    Type | String
    Default Value | [none]

    Set connection string for connecting to ndb_mgmd. Syntax: [nodeid=id;][host=]hostname[:port]. Overrides entries in NDB_CONNECTSTRING and my.cnf.

    • --ndb-mgm-tls
    Command-Line Format | --ndb-mgm-tls=level
    Type | Enumeration
    Default Value | relaxed
    Valid Values | relaxed strict

    Sets the level of TLS support required to connect to the management server; one of relaxed or strict. relaxed (the default) means that a TLS connection is attempted, but success is not required; strict means that TLS is required to connect.

    • --ndb-mgmd-host
    Command-Line Format | --ndb-mgmd-host=connection_string
    Type | String
    Default Value | [none]

    Same as --ndb-connectstring.

    • --ndb-nodeid
    Command-Line Format | --ndb-nodeid=#
    Type | Integer
    Default Value | [none]

    Set node ID for this node, overriding any ID set by --ndb-connectstring.

    • --ndb-optimized-node-selection
    Command-Line Format | --ndb-optimized-node-selection

    Enable optimizations for selection of nodes for transactions. Enabled by default; use --skip-ndb-optimized-node-selection to disable.

    • --ndb-tls-search-path
    Command-Line Format | --ndb-tls-search-path=list
    Type | Path name
    Default Value (Unix) | $HOME/ndb-tls
    Default Value (Windows) | $HOMEDIR/ndb-tls

    Specify a list of directories to search for a CA file. On Unix platforms, the directory names are separated by colons (:); on Windows systems, the semicolon character (;) is used as the separator. A directory reference may be relative or absolute; it may contain one or more environment variables, each denoted by a prefixed dollar sign ($), and expanded prior to use.

    Searching begins with the leftmost named directory and proceeds from left to right until a file is found. An empty string denotes an empty search path, which causes all searches to fail. A string consisting of a single dot (.) indicates that the search path limited to the current working directory.

    If no search path is supplied, the compiled-in default value is used. This value depends on the platform used: On Windows, this is \ndb-tls; on other platforms (including Linux), it is $HOME/ndb-tls. This can be overridden by compiling NDB Cluster using -DWITH_NDB_TLS_SEARCH_PATH.

    • --no-defaults
    Command-Line Format | --no-defaults

    Do not read default options from any option file other than login file.

    • --order=index_name, -o index_name Orders the output according to the index named index_name.

        Note
        This is the name of an index, not of a column; the index must have been explicitly named when created.

    • parallelism=#, -p # Specifies the degree of parallelism.

    • --print-defaults
    Command-Line Format | --print-defaults

    Print program argument list and exit.

    • --rowid Adds a ROWID column providing information about the fragments in which rows are stored.

    • --tupscan, -t Scan the table in the order of the tuples.

    • --usage
    Command-Line Format | --usage

    Display help text and exit; same as --help.

    • --useHexFormat -x Causes all numeric values to be displayed in hexadecimal format. This does not affect the output of numerals contained in strings or datetime values.

    • --version
    Command-Line Format | --version

    Display version information and exit.
Sample Output

Output from a MySQL SELECT statement:

    mysql> SELECT * FROM ctest1.fish;
    +----+-----------+
    | id | name      |
    +----+-----------+
    |  3 | shark     |
    |  6 | puffer    |
    |  2 | tuna      |
    |  4 | manta ray |
    |  5 | grouper   |
    |  1 | guppy     |
    +----+-----------+
    6 rows in set (0.04 sec)

Output from the equivalent invocation of ndb_select_all:

    $> ./ndb_select_all -c localhost fish -d ctest1
    id      name
    3       [shark]
    6       [puffer]
    2       [tuna]
    4       [manta ray]
    5       [grouper]
    1       [guppy]
    6 rows returned

All string values are enclosed by square brackets ([...]) in the output of ndb_select_all. For another example, consider the table created and populated as shown here:

    CREATE TABLE dogs (
        id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
        name VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL,
        breed VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
        PRIMARY KEY pk (id),
        KEY ix (name)
    )
    TABLESPACE ts STORAGE DISK
    ENGINE=NDBCLUSTER;
    INSERT INTO dogs VALUES
        ('', 'Lassie', 'collie'),
        ('', 'Scooby-Doo', 'Great Dane'),
        ('', 'Rin-Tin-Tin', 'Alsatian'),
        ('', 'Rosscoe', 'Mutt');

This demonstrates the use of several additional ndb_select_all options:

    $> ./ndb_select_all -d ctest1 dogs -o ix -z --gci --disk
    GCI     id name          breed        DISK_REF
    834461  2  [Scooby-Doo]  [Great Dane] [ m_file_no: 0 m_page: 98 m_page_idx: 0 ]
    834878  4  [Rosscoe]     [Mutt]       [ m_file_no: 0 m_page: 98 m_page_idx: 16 ]
    834463  3  [Rin-Tin-Tin] [Alsatian]   [ m_file_no: 0 m_page: 34 m_page_idx: 0 ]
    835657  1  [Lassie]      [Collie]     [ m_file_no: 0 m_page: 66 m_page_idx: 0 ]
    4 rows returned

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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
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