How can I stop a running MySQL query?

Question

I connect to mysql from my Linux shell. Every now and then I run a SELECT query that is too big. It prints and prints and I already know this is no

Answer 1

You need to run following command to kill the process.

> show processlist;  
> kill query processId;

Query parameter specifies that we need to kill query command process.

The syntax for kill process as follows

KILL [CONNECTION | QUERY] processlist_id

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