Commit 37901c2f authored by unknown's avatar unknown

Little fixups.

parent eb50f1b4
......@@ -689,8 +689,7 @@ of MySQL:
@c list comparable to commercial competition and a very technical on
@c with max limits (from crash-me) and so on.
@itemize @asis
@item
Internals and portability
@item Internals and Portability
@itemize @bullet
@item
Written in C and C++. Tested with a broad range of different compilers.
......@@ -720,8 +719,7 @@ should be as fast as possible! Usually there isn't any memory allocation
at all after query initialization.
@end itemize
@item
Column types
@item Column Types
@itemize @bullet
@item
Many column types: signed/unsigned integers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8 bytes
......@@ -739,8 +737,7 @@ columns that are not explicitly given values are set to their default
values.
@end itemize
@item
Commands and functions
@item Commands and Functions
@itemize @bullet
@item
Full operator and function support in the @code{SELECT} and @code{WHERE}
......@@ -779,8 +776,7 @@ You can mix tables from different databases in the same query (as of
Version 3.22).
@end itemize
@item
Security
@item Security
@itemize @bullet
@item
A privilege and password system that is very flexible and secure, and
......@@ -788,9 +784,8 @@ allows host-based verification. Passwords are secure because all
password traffic is encrypted when you connect to a server.
@end itemize
@item
@item Scalability and Limits
@itemize @bullet
Scalability and limits
@item
Handles large databases. We are using MySQL with some
databases that contain 50,000,000 records and we know of users that
......@@ -802,41 +797,27 @@ columns or parts of columns. The maximum index width is 500 bytes
of a @code{CHAR} or @code{VARCHAR} field.
@end itemize
@item
Clients and tools
@item Connectivity
@itemize @bullet
@item
Includes @code{myisamchk}, a very fast utility for table checking,
optimization, and repair. All of the functionality of @code{myisamchk}
is also available through the SQL interface as well.
@xref{MySQL Database Administration}.
@item
All MySQL programs can be invoked with the @code{--help} or @code{-?}
options to obtain online assistance.
@end itemize
@item
Connectivity
@itemize @bullet
Clients may connect to the MySQL server using TCP/IP Sockets,
Unix Sockets (Unix), or Named Pipes (NT).
@item
ODBC (Open-DataBase-Connectivity) support for Win32 (with source). All
ODBC 2.5 functions and many others. For example, you can use MS Access to
connect to your MySQL server. @xref{ODBC}.
@item
Clients may connect to the MySQL server using TCP/IP Sockets,
Unix Sockets (Unix), or Named Pipes (NT).
@end itemize
@item
Localization
@item Localization
@itemize @bullet
@item
The server can provide error messages to clients in many languages.
@xref{Languages}.
@item
Full support for several different character sets, including
ISO-8859-1 (Latin1), german, big5, ujis, and more. For example, the
Scandinavian characters `@ringaccent{a}', `@"a' and `@"o' are allowed
in table and column names.
ISO-8859-1 (Latin1), german, big5, ujis, and more. For example,
the Scandinavian characters 'å', 'ä' and 'ö' are allowed in table
and column names.
@item
All data is saved in the chosen character set. All comparisons for normal
string columns are case insensitive.
......@@ -848,6 +829,18 @@ Czech sorting code. MySQL supports many different character sets
that can be specified at compile and run time.
@end itemize
@item Clients and Tools
@itemize @bullet
@item
Includes @code{myisamchk}, a very fast utility for table checking,
optimization, and repair. All of the functionality of @code{myisamchk}
is also available through the SQL interface as well.
@xref{MySQL Database Administration}.
@item
All MySQL programs can be invoked with the @code{--help} or @code{-?}
options to obtain online assistance.
@end itemize
@end itemize
......@@ -18535,8 +18528,8 @@ To get secure connections to work with MySQL you must do the following:
@enumerate
@item
Install the openssh library. We have tested MySQL with openssl 0.9.6.
@uref{http://www.openssh.org}.
Install the openssl library. We have tested MySQL with openssl 0.9.6.
@uref{http://www.openssl.org}.
@item
Configure MySQL with @code{--with-vio --with-openssl}.
@item
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