https://dev.mysql.com/c-api-prepared-statement-type-codes.html
The buffer_type member of MYSQL_BIND structures indicates the data type of the C language variable bound to a statement parameter or result set column. For input, buffer_type indicates the type of the variable containing the value to be sent to the ...
https://dev.mysql.com/encryption-functions.html
If you want to store these results, use a column with a VARBINARY or BLOB binary string data type. This will avoid potential problems with trailing space removal or character set conversion that would change data values, such as may occur if you use ...
https://dev.mysql.com/cast-functions.html
Table 12.14 Cast Functions and Operators Name Description BINARY Cast a string to a binary string CAST() Cast a value as a certain type CONVERT() Cast a value as a certain type Cast functions and operators enable conversion of values from one data ...
https://dev.mysql.com/charset-errors.html
This section describes how the MySQL server uses character sets for constructing error messages. For information about the language of error messages (rather than the character set), see Section 10.11, “Setting the Error Message Language”. For ...
https://dev.mysql.com/statistics-table.html
The information_schema_stats_expiry system variable defines the period of time before cached table statistics expire. If there are no cached statistics or statistics have expired, statistics are retrieved from storage engines when querying table ...
https://dev.mysql.com/optimize-table.html
OPTIMIZE TABLE reorganizes the physical storage of table data and associated index data, to reduce storage space and improve I/O efficiency when accessing the table. The exact changes made to each table depend on the storage engine used by that ...
https://dev.mysql.com/features.html
This section describes some of the important characteristics of the MySQL Database Software. In most respects, the roadmap applies to all versions of MySQL. Tested with Purify (a commercial memory leakage detector) as well as with Valgrind, a GPL ...
https://dev.mysql.com/string-types.html
The string types are CHAR, VARCHAR, BINARY, VARBINARY, BLOB, TEXT, ENUM, and SET. This section describes how these types work and how to use them in your queries. For string type storage requirements, see Section 11.8, “Data Type Storage ...
https://dev.mysql.com/column-indexes.html
The most common type of index involves a single column, storing copies of the values from that column in a data structure, allowing fast lookups for the rows with the corresponding column values. The B-tree data structure lets the index quickly ...
https://dev.mysql.com/other-vendor-data-types.html
To facilitate the use of code written for SQL implementations from other vendors, MySQL maps data types as shown in the following table. These mappings make it easier to import table definitions from other database systems into MySQL. If you create ...
