This is the MySQL reference manual. This version documents the version of MySQL.
MySQL is a basically free, very fast SQL database server. See section Licensing or When do I have/want to pay for MySQL?.
The latest information about MySQL is found at the MySQL Home page
To see what it can do. See section The main features of MySQL.
For installation instructions See section Compiling and installing MySQL. For tips on how to port MySQL to new machines/operating systems See section Comments on porting to other systems..
If you have any suggestions concerning additions or corrections to this
manual, please send them to the MySQL mailing list
documentation suggestion: [Insert Topic Here].
See section Subscribing to/un-subscribing from the MySQL mailing list..
See section Upgrading to 3.21 from a 3.20 version, for information about upgrading from a 3.20 release.
For examples of SQL and benchmarking information see the `bench' directory.
For future plans See section List of things we want to add to MySQL in the future (The TODO)..
A history of new features/bug fixes See section MySQL change history.
For the currently known bugs/misfeatures (known errors) See section Known errors and design deficiencies in MySQL.
For A list of all the contributors to this product See section Who has helped to make MySQL..
IMPORTANT:
Send bug (error) reports, questions and comments to the mailing list at
Please use the mysqlbug script when posting bug reports or
questions about MySQL. mysqlbug will gather some
information about your system and start your editor with a form in which
you can describe your problem. Bug reports might be silently ignored by
the MySQL maintainers if there is not a good reason included in
the report as to why mysqlbug has not been used. A report that says
'MySQL does not work for me. Why?' is not consider a valid bug report.
The mysqlbug script can be found in the `scripts' directory in the distribution, that is `there-you-installed-mysql/scripts'.
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