MySQL 5.6 Release Notes
Table of Contents [+/-]
- 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA CHARACTER_SETS Table
- 21.3 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLLATIONS Table
- 21.4 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY Table
- 21.5 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLUMNS Table
- 21.6 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA COLUMN_PRIVILEGES Table
- 21.7 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA ENGINES Table
- 21.8 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA EVENTS Table
- 21.9 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA GLOBAL_STATUS and SESSION_STATUS Tables
- 21.10 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA GLOBAL_VARIABLES and SESSION_VARIABLES Tables
- 21.11 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA KEY_COLUMN_USAGE Table
- 21.12 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA OPTIMIZER_TRACE Table
- 21.13 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PARAMETERS Table
- 21.14 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PARTITIONS Table
- 21.15 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PLUGINS Table
- 21.16 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PROCESSLIST Table
- 21.17 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PROFILING Table
- 21.18 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS Table
- 21.19 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA ROUTINES Table
- 21.20 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA SCHEMATA Table
- 21.21 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES Table
- 21.22 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA STATISTICS Table
- 21.23 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES Table
- 21.24 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLESPACES Table
- 21.25 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLE_CONSTRAINTS Table
- 21.26 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLE_PRIVILEGES Table
- 21.27 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TRIGGERS Table
- 21.28 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA USER_PRIVILEGES Table
- 21.29 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA VIEWS Table
- 21.30 INFORMATION_SCHEMA InnoDB Tables [+/-]
- 21.31 INFORMATION_SCHEMA NDB Cluster Tables [+/-]
- 21.32 INFORMATION_SCHEMA Thread Pool Tables [+/-]
- 21.33 INFORMATION_SCHEMA Connection-Control Tables [+/-]
- 21.34 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.