MySQL Restrictions and Limitations

Abstract

This is the MySQL Restrictions and Limitations extract from the MySQL 5.5 Reference Manual.

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Document generated on: 2017-09-20 (revision: 54040)

Table of Contents [+/-]

Preface and Legal Notices

1 Restrictions and Limits

2 Restrictions on Stored Programs

3 Restrictions on Server-Side Cursors

4 Restrictions on Subqueries

5 Restrictions on Views

6 Restrictions on XA Transactions

7 Restrictions on Character Sets

8 Limits in MySQL [+/-]