mysql.help_topic Table

mysql.help_topic is one of the four tables used by the HELP command. It is populated when the server is installed by the fill_help_table.sql script. The other help tables are help_relation, help_category and help_keyword.

MariaDB starting with 10.4

In MariaDB 10.4 and later, this table uses the Aria storage engine.

MariaDB until 10.3

In MariaDB 10.3 and before, this table uses the MyISAM storage engine.

The mysql.help_topic table contains the following fields:

Field Type Null Key Default Description
help_topic_id int(10) unsigned NO PRI NULL
name char(64) NO UNI NULL
help_category_id smallint(5) unsigned NO NULL
description text NO NULL
example text NO NULL
url char(128) NO NULL

Example

SELECT * FROM help_topic\G;
...
*************************** 704. row ***************************
   help_topic_id: 692
            name: JSON_DEPTH
help_category_id: 41
     description: JSON functions were added in MariaDB 10.2.3.
 
Syntax
------ 
JSON_DEPTH(json_doc)
 
Description
----------- 
Returns the maximum depth of the given JSON document, or
NULL if the argument is null. An error will occur if the
argument is an invalid JSON document.
Scalar values or empty arrays or objects have a depth of 1.
Arrays or objects that are not empty but contain only
elements or member values of depth 1 will have a depth of 2.
In other cases, the depth will be greater than 2.
 
Examples
-------- 
SELECT JSON_DEPTH('[]'), JSON_DEPTH('true'),
JSON_DEPTH('{}');
+------------------+--------------------+------------------+
| JSON_DEPTH('[]') | JSON_DEPTH('true') |
JSON_DEPTH('{}') |
+------------------+--------------------+------------------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
+------------------+--------------------+------------------+
 
SELECT JSON_DEPTH('[1, 2, 3]'), JSON_DEPTH('[[], {},
[]]');
+-------------------------+----------------------------+
| JSON_DEPTH('[1, 2, 3]') | JSON_DEPTH('[[], {}, []]') |
+-------------------------+----------------------------+
| 2 | 2 |
+-------------------------+----------------------------+
 
SELECT JSON_DEPTH('[1, 2, [3, 4, 5, 6], 7]');
+---------------------------------------+
| JSON_DEPTH('[1, 2, [3, 4, 5, 6], 7]') |
+---------------------------------------+
| 3 |
+---------------------------------------+

URL: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/json_depth/
         example: 
             url: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/json_depth/
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