MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

Server side help

MySQL 8 provides HELP statement, to get information from the MySQL reference manual. To manage this information, MySQL uses several tables of system database. To initialize these tables, MySQL provides the fill_help_tables.sql script. This script is available at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html. After downloading and unzipping the script file, execute the below command, for invoking the HELP function:

mysql -u root mysql < fill_help_tables.sql

At the time of installation process content initialization occurs. In case of upgrading it will be perform so; execute the above command manually.