Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The SHOW PROCESSLIST statement returns information about the active connections."

A block of code is set as follows:

EXPLAIN [EXTENDED] <statement>;

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

root@this:/usr/local/mysql# mysqldump -uroot -proot test customer --tab=/tmp --fields-terminated-by=, --fields-enclosed-by="'" --fields-escaped-by=/

New terms and important words are shown in bold.

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

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