How to update the current delimiter in MySQL?

At first, let us determine the current delimiter in MySQL using the following syntax

\s

The above syntax will let you know about the current delimiter. Let us implement the above syntax.

The query is as follows

mysql> \s

The following is the output

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin\mysql.exe Ver 8.0.12 for Win64 on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL)
Connection id: 19
Current database: sample
Current user: root@localhost
SSL: Cipher in use is DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
Using delimiter: ;
Server version: 8.0.12 MySQL Community Server - GPL
Protocol version: 10
Connection: localhost via TCP/IP
Insert id: 11
Server characterset: utf8
Db characterset: utf8
Client characterset: utf8
Conn. characterset: utf8
TCP port: 3306
Uptime: 9 hours 50 min 52 sec
Threads: 3 Questions: 135 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 272 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 247 Queries per second avg: 0.003

If you change the delimiter then it will show the updated current delimiter.

Let us change the current delimiter with //. The syntax is as follows

DELIMITER //

The query is as follows to change the delimiter

mysql> DELIMITER //

Let us now check the current i.e. the updated delimiter.

The query is as follows

mysql> \s

The following is the output

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin\mysql.exe Ver 8.0.12 for Win64 on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL)
Connection id: 19
Current database: sample
Current user: root@localhost
SSL: Cipher in use is DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
Using delimiter: //
Server version: 8.0.12 MySQL Community Server - GPL
Protocol version: 10
Connection: localhost via TCP/IP
Insert id: 11
Server characterset: utf8
Db characterset: utf8
Client characterset: utf8
Conn. characterset: utf8
TCP port: 3306
Uptime: 9 hours 54 min 10 sec
Threads: 3 Questions: 138 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 272 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 247 Queries per second avg: 0.003