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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide
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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

by Chintan Mehta, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah, Ravi Shah
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Non-spatial index characteristics

MySQL 8 follows the following rules for non-spatial index characteristics:

  • A NULL value is allowed for an indexed column in the case of InnoDB, MyISAM, and MEMORY storage engines.
  • The column prefix length must be specified in the case of each spatial column, if it exists under a non-spatial index. The prefix length will be considered in terms of bytes.
  • Except for ARCHIVE, it is supported for all the storage engines which support spatial columns.
  • A NULL value is allowed for this index, unless it is defined as a PRIMARY key.
  • For an InnoDB table, run the ANALYZE TABLE statement after creating an index on that table, if the innodb_stats_persistent setting is enabled.
  • The index type will depend on the storage ...
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