By default, scheduled events in MySQL are dropped from the system once they expire. That means that if the event’s schedule has completed, then the event is dropped.

But we can override this behaviour with the ON COMPLETION clause. Specifically we can specify ON COMPLETION PRESERVE to keep the event in the system after it has expired. By default, events have ON COMPLETION NOT PRESERVE added to their definition, which means they are dropped as soon as they expire. Using ON COMPLETION PRESERVE changes this so that they aren’t dropped when they expire.

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There are several ways to list out all scheduled events in MySQL. But sometimes we might want to limit the results to just those that are set to a given status. Sometimes we might only want to see a list of disabled events.

Below are two options we can use to return all disabled events.

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In MySQL the REPLACE statement is normally used to replace existing rows in a table. But it’s not limited to just replacing existing rows. There are times when REPLACE will also insert new rows. It all depends on the incoming data, as well as how the table is structured in relation to the incoming data.

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Suppose you have an existing MySQL event that has a comment. But the comment isn’t as helpful as you’d like it to be, and so you’d like to change it to something else.

This can be done easily with the ALTER EVENT statement along with the COMMENT clause. When we include the COMMENT clause in the ALTER EVENT statement, it replaces whatever comment was in the event with the new comment. If the event didn’t have a comment, then a new comment appears.

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MySQL provides us with the ability to create scheduled events – tasks that run according to a specified schedule. Scheduled events allow for the ability to add comments within the event. We can do this with the COMMENT clause.

We can include the comment when creating the event, or we can add one to an existing event.

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In MySQL, adding a composite primary key to an existing table is similar to adding a singular primary key. We define the primary key with the ALTER TABLE statement.

However, when adding a composite primary key we need to use the ADD PRIMARY KEY clause. We can’t define it at the column level. With singular primary keys on the other hand, we have the choice of using the ADD PRIMARY KEY clause or applying it at the column level.

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In MySQL, GIPK stands for generated invisible primary key. A GIPK is created whenever we create an InnoDB table without explicitly defining a primary key and when we have GIPKs enabled.

To enable GIPKs, we need to set our sql_generate_invisible_primary_key server system variable to ON. By default this is set to OFF, which means GIPKs are disabled by default.

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In MySQL we can create events that run on a specified schedule. But events will only run if the Event Scheduler is on. If the Event Scheduler is off or disabled, then such events won’t run as scheduled.

Therefore if we create any events on the server, it’s a good idea to check whether the Event Scheduler is on or not.

Here are three options for doing this using SQL.

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If you’re using MySQL’s SHOW CREATE TABLE statement, but you don’t want quotes to be included in the output, this is easily addressed.

By default, SHOW CREATE TABLE (and SHOW CREATE DATABASE) includes quotes around table and column names, etc. When I say “by default”, I mean assuming you haven’t yet changed anything to disable these quotes.

Fortunately there’s an easy way to disable these quotes. MySQL provides us with the sql_quote_show_create system variable. This variable can be set to 1 or 0, which enables and disables such quotes respectively.

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