see GNU sql, it comes with GNU parallel https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ "GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases' command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.

The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database's interactive shell.

When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:

O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL - A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.

Ah, it's that GPL + nag/guilt-trip model again...

Following that rationale, why doesn't any sane person cite Matlab, R, Tex or MS Word on their publications?

Actually someone did, in 1998 no less: https://metacpan.org/pod/DBI::Shell

I'm sure people have (I wrote a simple MySQL/Oracle wrapper many jobs ago to help smooth out the bumps when integrating Perl products with client databases). It's a shame no one has released a Perl tool like this yet!

Here's an oldish program that does the same thing in Java using JDBC.

https://github.com/neurolabs/henplus