MySQL 5.6 Release Notes
Table of Contents
- 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 INFORMATION_SCHEMA Table Reference
- 21.3 INFORMATION_SCHEMA General Tables
- 21.3.1 INFORMATION_SCHEMA General Table Reference
- 21.3.2 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA CHARACTER_SETS Table
- 21.3.3 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLLATIONS Table
- 21.3.4 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY Table
- 21.3.5 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLUMNS Table
- 21.3.6 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLUMN_PRIVILEGES Table
- 21.3.7 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA ENGINES Table
- 21.3.8 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA EVENTS Table
- 21.3.9 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA GLOBAL_STATUS and SESSION_STATUS Tables
- 21.3.10 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA GLOBAL_VARIABLES and SESSION_VARIABLES Tables
- 21.3.11 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA KEY_COLUMN_USAGE Table
- 21.3.12 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA OPTIMIZER_TRACE Table
- 21.3.13 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PARAMETERS Table
- 21.3.14 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PARTITIONS Table
- 21.3.15 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PLUGINS Table
- 21.3.16 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PROCESSLIST Table
- 21.3.17 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PROFILING Table
- 21.3.18 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS Table
- 21.3.19 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA ROUTINES Table
- 21.3.20 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA SCHEMATA Table
- 21.3.21 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES Table
- 21.3.22 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA STATISTICS Table
- 21.3.23 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES Table
- 21.3.24 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLESPACES Table
- 21.3.25 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLE_CONSTRAINTS Table
- 21.3.26 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLE_PRIVILEGES Table
- 21.3.27 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TRIGGERS Table
- 21.3.28 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA USER_PRIVILEGES Table
- 21.3.29 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA VIEWS Table
- 21.4 INFORMATION_SCHEMA InnoDB Tables
- 21.4.1 INFORMATION_SCHEMA InnoDB Table Reference
- 21.4.2 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE Table
- 21.4.3 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU Table
- 21.4.4 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS Table
- 21.4.5 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_CMP and INNODB_CMP_RESET Tables
- 21.4.6 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_CMPMEM and INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET Tables
- 21.4.7 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX and INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX_RESET Tables
- 21.4.8 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_FT_BEING_DELETED Table
- 21.4.9 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_FT_CONFIG Table
- 21.4.10 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_FT_DEFAULT_STOPWORD Table
- 21.4.11 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_FT_DELETED Table
- 21.4.12 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_FT_INDEX_CACHE Table
- 21.4.13 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_FT_INDEX_TABLE Table
- 21.4.14 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_LOCKS Table
- 21.4.15 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_LOCK_WAITS Table
- 21.4.16 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_METRICS Table
- 21.4.17 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_SYS_COLUMNS Table
- 21.4.18 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_SYS_DATAFILES Table
- 21.4.19 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_SYS_FIELDS Table
- 21.4.20 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN Table
- 21.4.21 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN_COLS Table
- 21.4.22 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_SYS_INDEXES Table
- 21.4.23 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_SYS_TABLES Table
- 21.4.24 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_SYS_TABLESPACES Table
- 21.4.25 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_SYS_TABLESTATS View
- 21.4.26 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA INNODB_TRX Table
- 21.5 INFORMATION_SCHEMA NDB Cluster Tables
- 21.6 INFORMATION_SCHEMA Thread Pool Tables
- 21.7 INFORMATION_SCHEMA Connection-Control Tables
- 21.8 INFORMATION_SCHEMA MySQL Enterprise Firewall Tables
- 21.9 Extensions to SHOW Statements
INFORMATION_SCHEMA provides access to database
metadata, information about
the MySQL server such as the name of a database or table, the data
type of a column, or access privileges. Other terms that are
sometimes used for this information are
data dictionary and
system catalog.