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Chapter 11. Important Algorithms and Structures

Table of Contents

11.1. The Item Class
11.2. How MySQL Does Sorting (filesort)
11.3. Bulk Insert
11.4. How MySQL Does Caching
11.5. How MySQL Uses the Join Buffer Cache
11.6. How MySQL Handles FLUSH TABLES
11.7. Full-Text Search
11.8. FLOAT and DOUBLE Data Type Representation
11.9. Date and Time Data Type Representation
11.10. Threads
11.11. Character Sets and Collations
11.12. Error Flags and Functions
11.13. Functions in the mysys Library
11.14. Bitmaps

MySQL uses many different algorithms and structures. This chapter tries to describe some of them.

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