Summary

In this chapter, we have covered how to build a Python class for retrieving MySQL metainformation. We have seen:

• How to retrieve information on the engines used by MySQL

• Which system variables we can retrieve

• The several pieces of metadata about a given table that we can access

• How to retrieve user privileges and the grants used to give them

In the next chapter, we will look at one of the most important aspects of database administration—disaster recovery.