https://dev.mysql.com/converting-tables-to-innodb.html
If the table already has a primary key on some longer column, such as a VARCHAR, consider adding a new unsigned AUTO_INCREMENT column and switching the primary key to that, even if that column is not referenced in queries. If you have MyISAM tables ...
https://dev.mysql.com/create-table-select.html
For example, the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute is not preserved, and VARCHAR columns can become CHAR columns. You can create one table from another by adding a SELECT statement at the end of the CREATE TABLE statement: CREATE TABLE new_tbl [AS] SELECT * ...
https://dev.mysql.com/data-masking-usage.html
Thus, even though ssn is defined as VARCHAR(11), if the ssn column has a multibyte character set, it appears to be longer than 11 bytes when passed to a UDF, and an error occurs. Before using MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification, ...
https://dev.mysql.com/dynamic-format.html
Dynamic storage format is used if a MyISAM table contains any variable-length columns (VARCHAR, VARBINARY, BLOB, or TEXT), or if the table was created with the ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC table option. Dynamic format is a little more complex than static ...
https://dev.mysql.com/federated-create-connection.html
For example: CREATE TABLE federated_table ( id INT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, name VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', other INT(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', PRIMARY KEY (id), INDEX name (name), INDEX other_key (other) ) ENGINE=FEDERATED DEFAULT ... To ...
https://dev.mysql.com/federated-create-server.html
If you are creating a number of FEDERATED tables on the same server, or if you want to simplify the process of creating FEDERATED tables, you can use the CREATE SERVER statement to define the server connection parameters, just as you would with the ...
https://dev.mysql.com/federated-create.html
To create a FEDERATED table you should follow these steps: Create the table on the remote server. Alternatively, make a note of the table definition of an existing table, perhaps using the SHOW CREATE TABLE statement. Create the table on the local ...
https://dev.mysql.com/fulltext-boolean.html
MySQL can perform boolean full-text searches using the IN BOOLEAN MODE modifier. With this modifier, certain characters have special meaning at the beginning or end of words in the search string. In the following query, the + and - operators ...
https://dev.mysql.com/fulltext-natural-language.html
By default or with the IN NATURAL LANGUAGE MODE modifier, the MATCH() function performs a natural language search for a string against a text collection. A collection is a set of one or more columns included in a FULLTEXT index. For each row in the ...
https://dev.mysql.com/fulltext-search.html
Full-text indexes can be used only with InnoDB or MyISAM tables, and can be created only for CHAR, VARCHAR, or TEXT columns. MATCH (col1,col2,...) AGAINST (expr [search_modifier]) search_modifier: { IN NATURAL LANGUAGE MODE | IN NATURAL LANGUAGE ...
