You probably know that "mysql -h host_or_ip" can connect you to a remote host.But did you know that you can change the host you are connected to from within "mysql"?The undocumented (as far as I can tell, in the MySQL manual and in the "help" on the mysql command line) "CONNECT" statement can help.

One very helpful use of the technique Sheeri described in Remote connections without leaving the mysql shell is making sure that replication is working properly.According to the MySQL Reference Manual's section on SHOW SLAVE STATUS Syntax, it shows information corresponding to the slave thread in the slave server. When replication is broken, however, or not working properly due to network issues between master and slave, this information may not be accurate. This has improved over recent releases, but it's still not perfect.The question, then, is: how to be 100% sure (or as close as you can get to 100%) that replication is running fine? The answer, as offered by Sheeri: use "CONNECT".Example\tLog into the slave using the mysql client and issue "SHOW SLAVE STATUS: