Getting Started
Start MariaDB Shell, connect to a server, and learn the sessions and global objects you work with.
After you install MariaDB Shell, the pages in this section show you how to start it, connect to MariaDB Server, and find your way around the objects that the shell provides. For a full description of connection options, see Connecting to a Server.
How to start the shell, connect at startup, choose SQL or Python mode, get help, and exit.
How the global session works, how to open additional sessions, and the methods of a session object.
The objects available in Python mode, such as shell, session, util, and sandbox.
The MySQL Shell features that MariaDB Shell leaves out, and what it adds or renames.