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Having recently installed a fresh copy of MySQL 8.0.21 on Windows, I took careful note of parsing changes in the MySQL Shell. It was tedious that we lost multiple statement processing, which is supported in the MySQL Client and MySQL Workbench because it uses MySQL Client.

It was frustrating when I subsequently discovered that the MySQL Shell took away the ability to write log files by removing the TEE and NOTEE commands. I suspected that since MySQL Workbench was still using the MySQL Client that it should be in the code tree. In fact, the mysql.exe client is in this directory:

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin

So, I immediately created a batch file to put the MySQL Client into my %PATH% environment variable when needed. I used this time tested DOS command:

copy con mysqlclient.bat
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin;.
^Z

Now you can call the MySQL client with the following syntax if you have a student user and studentdb database:

mysql -ustudent -p -Dstudentdb

This way, I can just call it in a PowerShell utility before running migration script files that should generate log files for review. It also leaves the MySQL Client out of general use.