MySQL Documentation: Topic Guides
Browse MySQL Documentation by Topic
This table provides excerpts from or direct links to the MySQL Reference Manual, focusing on the information needs of specific target groups. Most excerpts are taken from the 5.1 Manual, unless otherwise noted. For product versions other than MySQL 5.1, and more formats, including downloadable HTML and PDF, see Topic Guides.
Topic Guides
The following tables provide excerpts from or direct links to the MySQL Reference Manual, focusing on the information needs of specific target groups. Excerpts are available from the MySQL 5.0, MySQL 5.1 and MySQL 5.4 manuals. For sections that are already available as a complete section of the existing manual are available online, or by downloading the appropriate full manual.
Getting Started
| Tutorial | HTML Online | HTML Page/chapter | |||
| English | Tutorial | 5.0 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Tutorial | 5.1 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Tutorial | 5.4 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Tutorial | 5.5 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Installation | 5.0 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Installation | 5.1 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Installation | 5.4 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Installation | 5.5 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Upgrading | 5.0 | View | ||
| English | Upgrading | 5.1 | View | ||
| English | Upgrading | 5.4 | View | ||
| English | Upgrading | 5.5 | View | ||
| English | Server Administration | 5.0 | View | ||
| English | Server Administration | 5.1 | View | ||
| English | Server Administration | 5.4 | View | ||
| English | Server Administration | 5.5 | View | ||
| English | Storage Engines | 5.0 | View | ||
| English | Storage Engines | 5.1 | View | ||
| English | Storage Engines | 5.4 | View | ||
| English | Storage Engines | 5.5 | View | ||
| English | FAQs | 5.0 | View | ||
| English | FAQs | 5.1 | View | ||
| English | FAQs | 5.4 | View | ||
| English | FAQs | 5.5 | View |
Platforms
| MySQL Version | HTML Online | HTML Page/chapter | |||
| English | Linux/Unix | 5.0 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Linux/Unix | 5.1 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Linux/Unix | 5.4 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Linux/Unix | 5.5 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Mac OS X | 5.0 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Mac OS X | 5.1 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Mac OS X | 5.4 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Mac OS X | 5.5 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Windows | 5.0 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Windows | 5.1 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Windows | 5.4 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Windows | 5.5 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Solaris | 5.0 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Solaris | 5.1 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Solaris | 5.4 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Solaris | 5.5 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Building from Source | 5.0 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Building from Source | 5.1 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Building from Source | 5.4 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
| English | Building from Source | 5.5 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
Administrators
Developers
| MySQL Version | HTML Online | HTML Page/chapter | CHM | |||
| English | MySQL Option/Variable Reference | 5.1 | View | |||
| English | MySQL Change History | 5.1 | View | |||
| English | MySQL Version Reference | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | ||
| English | SQL Syntax | 5.0 | View | |||
| English | SQL Syntax | 5.1 | View | |||
| English | SQL Syntax | 5.4 | View | |||
| English | SQL Syntax | 5.5 | View | |||
| English | Optimization | 5.0 | View | |||
| English | Optimization | 5.1 | View | |||
| English | Optimization | 5.4 | View | |||
| English | Optimization | 5.5 | View | |||
| English | Connectors and APIs | 5.1 | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | CHM |
| English | MySQL Cluster API Developer | none | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | |
| English | Functions and Operators | 5.0 | View | |||
| English | Functions and Operators | 5.1 | View | |||
| English | Functions and Operators | 5.4 | View | |||
| English | Functions and Operators | 5.5 | View | |||
| English | Performance Schema | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 |
Functionality
Connectors
| MySQL Version | HTML Online | HTML Page/chapter | CHM | |||
| English | Connector/J | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | CHM | |
| English | Connector/ODBC | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | CHM | |
| English | .NET/Mono | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | CHM | |
| English | C++ | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | CHM | |
| English | OpenOffice.org | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | CHM | |
| English | PHP | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | ||
| English | C API | 5.0 | View | |||
| English | C API | 5.1 | View | |||
| English | C API | 5.4 | View | |||
| English | C API | 5.5 | View | |||
| English | Connector/MXJ | View | TGZ | Zip | US Ltr | A4 | CHM |
HA/Scalability
Additional documentation for other products is available using the sub-navigation options (Workbench, Topic Guides, etc) in the navigation bar. For other documentation, including example databases and help tables, see Other Docs.
Trouble opening CHM documents?
We are currently having intermittent issues with our CHM builds. If you have downloaded a CHM from the MySQL website, please do not report a bad CHM as a bug. CHMs are rebuilt every 6 hours. Please download a later build and use that. For more information on the problems, see Problems with the CHM Refman builds.
If an error occurs when you try to open a CHM documents and the document content does not display, right-click on the document icon and select Properties. Then click the Unblock button in the Properties window and click Apply.
Trouble with PDF files?
Acrobat Reader 6.0 has a couple of issues and may display errors when opening or scrolling through one of our PDF files. We recommend using Adobe Reader 7.0, kpdf (Linux), or Preview (Mac OS X).
Installing the Eclipse documentation plugin
You can install the Eclipse documentation plugin by extracting the Eclipse package and dropping the directory into your Eclipse plugins directory.
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