Question

On Unix, ‘mysql’ client writes a record of executed statements to a history file.

(a) True

(b) False

I had been asked this question in a national level competition.

Query is from Numeric Data Types topic in chapter Data Type Reference, Operators and Functions of MySQL

Answer 1

Correct choice is (a) True

To elaborate: On Unix the mysql client writes a record of the executed statements to a history file. By default, this file is named as ‘.mysql_history’. It is created in the home directory.