How to make execute/query in mysql2 return array instead of mysql.QueryResult

I've written this test query:

      const [results] = await connection.execute(
        `
          SELECT * FROM providers WHERE id IN (${ids.join(',')})
        `,
      );

However it returns mysql.QueryResult. And given that this array may contain thousands of records, I don't want to do this ridiculous JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(results)).

Destructure the result of the operation using:

import { RowDataPacket } from 'mysql2/promise';

interface Provider extends RowDataPacket {
    id: number;
    // Other Provider properties
}

const [providers] = await connection.execute<Provider[]>(`SELECT * FROM providers WHERE id IN (${ids.join(',')})`);

After this, providers is array and contains the result of the query execution. You can iterate over the values of an array:

for (const provider of providers) {
    console.log(provider.id);
    // your code here
}