This chapter provides brief but comprehensive explanations of the clauses, flags, and options in MySQL's extensive implementation of SQL. While this chapter covers some new material in Version 5.0 of MySQL, some features are left out, because they were not firm at the time of this writing. This chapter starts with a list of statements grouped by type, as a quick reference. Following this, the statements are listed in alphabetical order. For the more complex statements, to simplify their presentation, the syntax is broken into several sections according to the different uses of the statement. Some general elements of MySQL's SQL syntax include the following:
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