mysqladmin is a client for performing administrative operations. You can use it to check the MySQL/MariaDB configuration and current status, to create and drop databases, and more. You can use mysqladmin to reload/refresh MySQL Privileges, set/change MySQL/MariaDB Root password, check MySQL/MariaDB Server status, show MySQL/MariaDB version, show all MySQL/MariaDB server Variables and Values, check all the running Process of MySQL/MariaDB server, connect remote mysql server, create/drop a Database, reload the grant tables, perform a flush-privileges operation, check mysqladmin options and usage, and shutdown MySQL/MariaDB safely. All this can be done by executing a mysqladmin commands. Invoke mysqladmin like this: