From http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/2011/07/mysqls-missing-shutdown-statement/ Databases are more easily managed if all operations and logging are available to DBAs and scripts at the SQL client command line. So an additional improvement would be to add a SQL command like Oracle’s SHUTDOWN. See the blog post for a comparison table Reference from Oracle: http://www.dba-oracle.com/concepts/shutdown_commands.htm http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-shutdown.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/server-shutdown.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/kill.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/stop-slave.html USD$100 committed from James Briggs at the MariaDB BoF at OSCON 2011
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