# 2. KSQL Command Line

After docker-compose up

#### Refer <https://github.com/saubury/stream-smarts> to start KSQL Server/CLI

#### Go inside the project where docker-compose.yml is located.

docker-compose exec ksqldb-cli ksql "[http://ksqldb-server:8088](http://ksql-server:8088)"

<https://docs.ksqldb.io/en/latest/operate-and-deploy/installation/installing/>

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KSQL only shows us the latest data //////So we can need to start producer in one terminal & KSQL client on another terminal , then we can test the lastes feed to data.

But what if we can want to see the data that already persisted in topic . We need to use beginning in PRINT statement shown below :

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KSQL terminated after receiving two records shown below :

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