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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Introduction to MySQL The Value of MySQL The MySQL Package Licensing Mailing Lists Books and Other Publications
• 2 Installing MySQL Choosing a Distribution Unix Source Distributions Unix Binary Distributions Linux RPM Distributions Macintosh OS X Distributions Novell NetWare Distributions Windows Distributions Postinstallation
• 3 MySQL Basics The mysql Client Creating a Database and Tables Show Me Inserting Data Selecting Data Ordering, Limiting, and Grouping Analyzing and Manipulating Data Changing Data Deleting Data Searching Data Importing Data in Bulk Command-Line Interface Conclusion
• 4 SQL Statements Statements Grouped by Type Statements and Clauses in Alphabetical Order ALTER DATABASE ALTER TABLE ALTER VIEW ANALYZE TABLE BACKUP TABLE CACHE INDEX CHANGE MASTER TO CHECK TABLE CHECKSUM TABLE COMMIT CREATE DATABASE CREATE INDEX CREATE TABLE CREATE VIEW DELETE DESCRIBE DO DROP DATABASE DROP INDEX DROP TABLE DROP USER DROP VIEW EXPLAIN FLUSH GRANT HANDLER INSERT JOIN KILL LOAD DATA FROM MASTER LOAD DATA INFILE LOAD INDEX INTO CACHE LOAD TABLE...FROM MASTER LOCK TABLES OPTIMIZE TABLE PURGE MASTER LOGS RENAME TABLE REPAIR TABLE REPLACE RESET RESET MASTER RESET SLAVE RESTORE TABLE REVOKE ROLLBACK ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT SAVEPOINT SELECT SET SET PASSWORD SET SQLLOGBIN SET TRANSACTION SHOW BINLOG EVENTS SHOW CHARACTER SET SHOW COLLATION SHOW COLUMNS SHOW CREATE DATABASE SHOW CREATE TABLE SHOW CREATE VIEW SHOW DATABASES SHOW ENGINES SHOW ERRORS SHOW GRANTS SHOW INDEX SHOW INNODB STATUS SHOW LOGS SHOW MASTER LOGS SHOW MASTER STATUS SHOW PRIVILEGES SHOW PROCESSLIST SHOW SLAVE HOSTS SHOW SLAVE STATUS SHOW STATUS SHOW TABLE STATUS SHOW TABLES SHOW VARIABLES SHOW WARNINGS START SLAVE START TRANSACTION STOP SLAVE TRUNCATE TABLE UNION UNLOCK TABLES USE
• 5 String Functions String Functions Grouped by Type String Functions in Alphabetical Order AESDECRYPT( ) AESENCRYPT( ) ASCII( ) BIN( ) BINARY BITLENGTH( ) CHAR( ) CHARLENGTH( ) CHARACTERLENGTH( ) COMPRESS( ) CONCAT( ) CONCATWS( ) CONV( ) DECODE( ) DESDECRYPT( ) DESENCRYPT( ) ELT( ) ENCODE( ) ENCRYPT( ) EXPORTSET( ) FIELD( ) FINDINSET( ) HEX( ) INETATON( ) INETNTOA( ) INSERT( ) INSTR( ) LCASE( ) LEFT( ) LENGTH( ) LOADFILE( ) LOCATE( ) LOWER( ) LPAD( ) LTRIM( ) MAKESET( ) MATCH ( ) AGAINST( ) MD5( ) MID( ) OCT( ) OCTETLENGTH( ) OLDPASSWORD( ) ORD( ) PASSWORD( ) POSITION( ) QUOTE( ) REPEAT( ) REPLACE( ) REVERSE( ) RIGHT( ) RPAD( ) RTRIM( ) SHA( ) SHA1( ) SOUNDEX( ) SPACE( ) STRCMP( ) SUBSTRING( ) SUBSTRINGINDEX( ) TRIM( ) UCASE( ) UNCOMPRESS( ) UNCOMPRESSEDLENGTH( ) UNHEX( ) UPPER( )
• 6 Date and Time Functions Date and Time Functions Grouped by Type Determining the Date and Time Extracting and Formatting the Date and Time Calculating and Modifying the Date and Time Date and Time Functions in Alphabetical Order ADDDATE( ) ADDTIME( ) CONVERTTZ( ) CURDATE( ) CURRENTDATE( ) CURRENTTIME( ) CURRENTTIMESTAMP( ) CURTIME( ) DATE( ) DATEADD( ) DATEFORMAT( ) DATESUB( ) DATEDIFF( ) DAY( ) DAYNAME( ) DAYOFMONTH( ) DAYOFWEEK( ) DAYOFYEAR( ) EXTRACT( ) FROMDAYS( ) FROMUNIXTIME( ) GETFORMAT( ) HOUR( ) LASTDAY( ) LOCALTIME( ) LOCALTIMESTAMP( ) MAKEDATE( ) MAKETIME( ) MICROSECOND( ) MINUTE( ) MONTH( ) MONTHNAME( ) NOW( ) PERIODADD( ) PERIODDIFF( ) QUARTER( ) SECTOTIME( ) SECOND( ) STRTODATE( ) SUBDATE( ) SUBTIME( ) SYSDATE( ) TIME( ) TIMEDIFF( ) TIMESTAMP( ) TIMESTAMPDIFF( ) TIMESTAMPADD( ) TIMEFORMAT( ) TIMETOSEC( ) TODAYS( ) UNIXTIMESTAMP( ) UTCDATE( ) UTCTIME( ) UTCTIMESTAMP( ) WEEK( ) WEEKDAY( ) WEEKOFYEAR( ) YEAR( ) YEARWEEK( )
• 7 Mathematical and Aggregate Functions Functions in Alphabetical Order ABS( ) ACOS( ) ASIN( ) ATAN( ) ATAN2( ) AVG( ) BITAND( ) BITOR( ) BITXOR( ) CEIL( ) CEILING( ) COS( ) COT( ) COUNT( ) CRC32( ) DEGREES( ) EXP( ) FLOOR( ) FORMAT( ) GREATEST( ) GROUPCONCAT( ) LEAST( ) LN( ) LOG( ) LOG2( ) LOG10( ) MAX( ) MIN( ) MOD( ) PI( ) POW( ) POWER( ) RADIANS( ) RAND( ) ROUND( ) SIGN( ) SIN( ) SQRT( ) STD( ) STDDEV( ) SUM( ) TAN( ) TRUNCATE( ) VARIANCE( )
• 8 Flow Control Functions Functions in Alphabetical Order CASE( ) IF( ) IFNULL( ) NULLIF( )
• 9 Miscellaneous Functions Functions in Alphabetical Order ANALYSE( ) BENCHMARK( ) BITCOUNT( ) CAST( ) CHARSET( ) COALESCE( ) COERCIBILITY( ) COLLATION( ) CONNECTIONID( ) CONVERT( ) CURRENTUSER( ) DATABASE( ) FOUNDROWS( ) GETLOCK( ) INTERVAL( ) ISFREELOCK( ) ISUSEDLOCK( ) ISNULL( ) LASTINSERTID( ) MASTERPOSWAIT( ) RELEASELOCK( ) SESSIONUSER( ) SYSTEMUSER( ) USER( ) UUID ( ) VERSION( )
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• A. Datatypes
• B. Operators
• C. Environment Variables
• Index