Get list of MySQL databases, and server version?

Question

My connection string for MySQL is:

\"Server=localhost;User ID=root;Password=123;pooling=yes;charset=utf8;DataBase=.;\"

My questions are :

Answer 1

show Databases; 

Will return you all the registered databases.

And

show variables;

will return a bunch of name value pairs, one of which is the version number.