Home/ Questions/Q 7796297
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-01T23:19:55+00:00

Given a file which consists of multiple line MySQL queries, eg SELECT foo, bar,

  • 0

Given a file which consists of multiple line MySQL queries, eg

SELECT foo, bar, etc
FROM blah
WHERE something or other
LIMIT etc

Is there any way I can visually select a query in Vim, pipe it through MySQL, and see the query and result in a new buffer?

Clarification: I don’t want tabular output, but something that can be further processed in vim or imported into a spreadsheet (like the tab-separated output that you get from mysql –batch)
(Ubuntu Linux).

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    The Dbext plugin supports this behavior.

    Visually select the SQL statement, and run :DBExecRangeSQL to execute it.

    The result will be returned into a new split at the bottom of your current viewport.

    There are lots and lots of options for controlling the output window. See :help dbext for the glorious details.

    dbext example output

    Update 1.May.2012

    Version 15.0 of the plugin has been released with this functionality built in.

    The default -t flag can be overridden

    Default setting:

    let g:dbext_default_MYSQL_extra = '-t'

    Overridden for batch setting

    let g:dbext_default_MYSQL_extra = '--batch --raw'

    Dbext hard-codes the -t option to MySQL, but if that line is removed from dbext.vim, on line 2278 in DB_MYSQL_execSql (of my current version), you can pass the –batch and –raw options:

    :DBSetOption MYSQL_cmd_options='--batch --raw'

    To restore tabular output:

    :DBSetOption MYSQL_cmd_options='-t'

    I tested this successfully on my installation.

    • 0