# mycli > A CLI for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting. > More information: . - Connect to a local database on port 3306, using the current user's username: `mycli {{database_name}}` - Connect to a database (user will be prompted for a password): `mycli {{[-u|--user]}} {{username}} {{database_name}}` - Connect to a database on another host: `mycli {{[-h|--host]}} {{database_host}} {{[-P|--port]}} {{port}} {{[-u|--user]}} {{username}} {{database_name}}`