MARIADB-FIND-ROWS(1)

✨ NAME ✨

mariadb-find-rows — bestie, this one extracts SQL statements from files 💅 and yes, plot twist: mariadb-find-rows is now a symlink to mariadb-find-rows. That's literally what the page says. It's giving very "the map is the territory" energy. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mariadb-find-rows [options] [file_name ...]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so here's the tea, bestie: mariadb-find-rows reads files that are full of SQL statements and pulls out the ones that match a regular expression you give it — or the ones that contain USE db_name or SET statements. That's the whole job. It's a lil gremlin with a filter. 🙈

This utility was written to be used with update log files (the kind that were a thing prior to MySQL 5.0), and because of that, it expects statements to be terminated with semicolon (;) characters. That's non-negotiable, it's the vibe check. It might also come in handy with other files containing SQL statements — as long as those statements are terminated with semicolons. Periodt. ✨

Invoke mariadb-find-rows like this:

shell> mariadb-find-rows [options] [file_name ...]

Every file_name argument should be the name of a file containing SQL statements. If you give it no file names at all, mariadb-find-rows reads the standard input. No files? No problem, it'll just sip from stdin. 🥤

Examples, because we love a demonstration 👑

mariadb-find-rows --regexp=problem_table --rows=20 < update.log
mariadb-find-rows --regexp=problem_table  update-log.1 update-log.2

mariadb-find-rows supports the following options:

• --help, --Information — display a help message and exit. Cute, quick, informative. 🎀
• --regexp=pattern — display queries that match the pattern. This is the main character option fr fr. 🔥
• --rows=N — quit after displaying N queries. Knows when to stop. Boundaries! 💅
• --skip-use-db — do not include USE db_name statements in the output. Opting out, respectfully. 🙈
• --start_row=N — start output from this row. Skip to the good part. ⭐

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2025 MariaDB Foundation

This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Real talk: that warranty disclaimer is not a joke, bestie. It's there for a reason. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Documentation, available online at https://mariadb.com/docs/

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

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And that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 This was MariaDB 11.8, dated 5 March 2025 — from the MariaDB Database System manual. Go forth and grep your SQL logs, you absolute icon. 💖✨🎀