When you need to optimize a query, it is common that you need information about the schema, indexes, and the like. In that case, the Information Schema is a good resource of data. This chapter introduces the Information Schema together with an overview of the views it contains. The Information Schema is used on several occasions in the rest of the book.
What Is the Information Schema?
The Information Schema is a schema common to several of the relational databases including MySQL where it was added in MySQL 5.0. MySQL mostly follows the SQL:2003 standard for
