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8.10.2. General Thread States ................................................................................... 734
8.10.3. Delayed-Insert Thread States ......................................................................... 739
8.10.4. Query Cache Thread States ........................................................................... 740
8.10.5. Replication Master Thread States ................................................................... 740
8.10.6. Replication Slave I/O Thread States ............................................................... 741
8.10.7. Replication Slave SQL Thread States ............................................................. 742
8.10.8. Replication Slave Connection Thread States ................................................... 742
8.10.9. MySQL Cluster Thread States ........................................................................ 743
9. Language Structure ............................................................................................................... 745
9.1. Literal Values ............................................................................................................. 745
9.1.1. String Literals .................................................................................................. 745
9.1.2. Number Literals ............................................................................................... 747
9.1.3. Date and Time Literals ..................................................................................... 748
9.1.4. Hexadecimal Literals ........................................................................................ 750
9.1.5. Boolean Literals ............................................................................................... 750
9.1.6. Bit-Field Literals ............................................................................................... 750
9.1.7.
NULL
9.2. Schema Object Names ............................................................................................... 751
9.2.1. Identifier Qualifiers ........................................................................................... 753
9.2.2. Identifier Case Sensitivity ................................................................................. 754
9.2.3. Function Name Parsing and Resolution ............................................................ 755
9.3. Reserved Words ........................................................................................................ 758
9.4. User-Defined Variables ............................................................................................... 761
9.5. Expression Syntax ...................................................................................................... 764
9.6. Comment Syntax ........................................................................................................ 766
10. Globalization ....................................................................................................................... 767
10.1. Character Set Support .............................................................................................. 767
10.1.1. Character Sets and Collations in General ........................................................ 768
10.1.2. Character Sets and Collations in MySQL ........................................................ 769
10.1.3. Specifying Character Sets and Collations ........................................................ 770
10.1.4. Connection Character Sets and Collations ...................................................... 776
10.1.5. Configuring the Character Set and Collation for Applications ............................ 778
10.1.6. Character Set for Error Messages .................................................................. 780
10.1.7. Collation Issues ............................................................................................. 780
10.1.8. String Repertoire ............................................................................................ 787
10.1.9. Operations Affected by Character Set Support ................................................ 788
10.1.10. Unicode Support .......................................................................................... 791
10.1.11. UTF-8 for Metadata ...................................................................................... 792
10.1.12. Column Character Set Conversion ................................................................ 793
10.1.13. Character Sets and Collations That MySQL Supports .................................... 794
10.2. Setting the Error Message Language ........................................................................ 804
10.3. Adding a Character Set ............................................................................................ 805
10.3.1. Character Definition Arrays ............................................................................. 807
10.3.2. String Collating Support for Complex Character Sets ....................................... 808
10.3.3. Multi-Byte Character Support for Complex Character Sets ................................ 808
10.4. Adding a Collation to a Character Set ....................................................................... 808
10.4.1. Collation Implementation Types ...................................................................... 809
10.4.2. Choosing a Collation ID ................................................................................. 811
10.4.3. Adding a Simple Collation to an 8-Bit Character Set ........................................ 812
10.4.4. Adding a UCA Collation to a Unicode Character Set ........................................ 813
10.5. Character Set Configuration ...................................................................................... 816
10.6. MySQL Server Time Zone Support ............................................................................ 816
10.6.1. Staying Current with Time Zone Changes ....................................................... 819
10.6.2. Time Zone Leap Second Support ................................................................... 820
10.7. MySQL Server Locale Support .................................................................................. 821
11. Data Types ......................................................................................................................... 825
11.1. Data Type Overview ................................................................................................. 825
11.1.1. Numeric Type Overview ................................................................................. 825
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