MYSQL set a default database

Question

When I connect my MYSQL , I have to choose database to use everytime using :

use mysql_crashcourse;

I noticed the DATABASE() returns null when I check it right after I connect to MYSQL

mysql> SELECT DATABASE();
+------------+
| DATABASE() |
+------------+
| NULL       |
+------------+

My question is : how can I set a default MYSQL database ,so that I don't need to provide database info each time I connect or login to MYSQL ?

Answer 1

If you log-in directly from cli. Create a client session on my.cnf and restart mysql service.

Note every root user logged from localhost will have the default database.

Example:

root@ergesttstsrv:~# cat /etc/mysql/my.cnf

[client]
host=localhost
user=root
password=
database=gesti

!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/
!includedir /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/

root@ergesttstsrv:~# service mysql restart

root@ergesttstsrv:~# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

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Your MySQL connection id is 9
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mysql> select database();
+------------+
| database() |
+------------+
| gesti      |
+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Answer 2

If you do not select anything else in the query, the return value is null. If you want to get anything else, you can do for example:

 mysql> SELECT 1 IS NULL, 1 IS NOT "something";