February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
This storage engine stores data in the form of comma-separated values in text files. The engine is always compiled into the MySQL server and the source can be examined from the storage/csv directory of your MySQL distribution.
The data file created by the server begins with the given table and the extension of .CSV. The data file is a plain text file containing data in the comma-separate values format.
The MySQL server creates a corresponding metafile along with a CSV table that stores information about the state of the table and the count for the rows that exists in the table. The metafile is also stored with the table name at the beginning with the .CSM extension.
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