Mar 30, 2026 · This is the MySQL Reference Manual. It documents MySQL 8.0 through 8.0.46, as well as NDB Cluster releases based on version 8.0 of NDB through 8.0.44, respectively. It may include …

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For information about MySQL Enterprise, the commercial MySQL release with advanced features and management tools, see Chapter 32, MySQL Enterprise Edition. For answers to a number of …

On Unix, the mysql client logs statements executed interactively to a history file. See Section 6.5.1.3, “mysql Client Logging”.

This chapter describes the syntax for the SQL statements supported by MySQL.

This section describes the functions that can be used to manipulate temporal values. See Section 13.2, “Date and Time Data Types”, for a description of the range of values each date and time type has …

Literal values such as strings and numbers Identifiers such as database, table, and column names Keywords and reserved words User-defined and system variables Expressions Query attributes …

This chapter provides a tutorial introduction to MySQL by showing how to use the mysql client program to create and use a simple database. mysql (sometimes referred to as the “terminal monitor” or just …

Prior to MySQL 8.4, the --routines and --events options for mysqldump were not required to include stored routines and events when using the --all-databases option: The dump included the mysql …

FOREIGN KEY MySQL supports foreign keys, which let you cross-reference related data across tables, and foreign key constraints, which help keep this spread-out data consistent. For definition and …