Table of Contents
CREATE EVENT
ALTER EVENT
DROP EVENT
This chapter describes the MySQL Event Scheduler, for which support was added in MySQL 5.1.6., and is divided into the following sections:
Section 21.1, “Event Scheduler Overview” provides an introduction to and conceptual overview of MySQL Events.
Section 21.2, “Event Scheduler Syntax” discusses the SQL commands introduced in MySQL 5.1.6 for creating, altering, and dropping MySQL Events.
Section 21.3, “Event Metadata” shows how to obtain information about events and how this information is stored by the MySQL Server.
Section 21.4, “The Event Scheduler and MySQL Privileges” discusses the privileges required to work with events and the ramifications that events have with regard to privileges when executing.
Section 21.5, “Event Scheduler Limitations and Restrictions” describes the restrictions and limitations of MySQL's Event Scheduler implementation.
Additional Resources:
You may find the MySQL Event Scheduler User Forum of use when working with events. Here you can discuss the MySQL Event Scheduler with other MySQL users and the MySQL developers.
