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MySQL 8.4 Reference Manual
  • Preface and Legal Notices
  • General Information
    • About This Manual
    • Overview of the MySQL Database Management System
      • What is MySQL?
      • The Main Features of MySQL
      • History of MySQL
    • MySQL Releases: Innovation and LTS
    • What Is New in MySQL 8.4 since MySQL 8.0
    • Server and Status Variables and Options Added, Deprecated, or Removed in MySQL 8.4 since 8.0
    • How to Report Bugs or Problems
    • MySQL Standards Compliance
      • MySQL Extensions to Standard SQL
      • MySQL Differences from Standard SQL
        • SELECT INTO TABLE Differences
        • UPDATE Differences
        • FOREIGN KEY Constraint Differences
        • '--' as the Start of a Comment
      • How MySQL Deals with Constraints
        • PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE Index Constraints
        • FOREIGN KEY Constraints
        • ENUM and SET Constraints
  • Installing MySQL
  • Upgrading MySQL
  • Downgrading MySQL
  • Tutorial
  • MySQL Programs
  • MySQL Server Administration
  • Security
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Optimization
  • Language Structure
  • Character Sets, Collations, Unicode
  • Data Types
  • Functions and Operators
  • SQL Statements
  • MySQL Data Dictionary
  • The InnoDB Storage Engine