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12.5.5.16. SHOW EVENTS 

SHOW EVENTS [FROM schema_name]
    [LIKE 'pattern' | WHERE expr]

In its simplest form, SHOW EVENTS lists all of the events in the current schema: 

mysql> SELECT CURRENT_USER(), SCHEMA();
+----------------+----------+
| CURRENT_USER() | SCHEMA() |
+----------------+----------+
| jon@ghidora    | myschema |
+----------------+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW EVENTS\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
                  Db: myschema
                Name: e_daily
             Definer: jon@ghidora
           Time zone: SYSTEM
                Type: RECURRING
          Execute at: NULL
      Interval value: 10
      Interval field: INTERVAL_SECOND
              Starts: 2006-02-09 10:41:23
                Ends: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
              Status: ENABLED
          Originator: 0
character_set_client: latin1
collation_connection: latin1_swedish_ci
  Database Collation: latin1_swedish_ci

The LIKE clause, if present, indicates which event names to match. The WHERE clause can be given to select rows using more general conditions, as discussed in Section 27.27, “Extensions to SHOW Statements”.

The columns in the output of SHOW EVENTS — which are similar to, but not identical to the columns in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS table — are shown here:

  • Db: The schema (database) on which the event is defined.

  • Name: The name of the event.

  • Time zone: The time zone in effect when schedule for the event was last modified. If the event's schedule has not been modified since the event was created, then this is the time zone that was in effect at the event's creation. The default value is SYSTEM.

    This column was added in MySQL 5.1.17. See Section C.1.12, “Changes in MySQL 5.1.17 (04 April 2007)”, for important information if you are using the Event Scheduler and are upgrading from MySQL 5.1.16 (or earlier) to MySQL 5.1.17 (or later).

  • Definer: The user account (username@hostname) which created the event.

  • Type: One of the two values ONE TIME (transient) or RECURRING.

  • Execute At: The date and time when a transient event is set to execute. Shown as a DATETIME value.

    For a recurring event, the value of this column is always NULL.

  • Interval Value: For a recurring event, the number of intervals to wait between event executions.

    For a transient event, the value of this column is always NULL.

  • Interval Field: The time units used for the interval which a recurring event waits before repeating.

    For a transient event, the value of this column is always NULL.

  • Starts: The start date and time for a recurring event. This is displayed as a DATETIME value, and is empty if no start date and time are defined for the event. (Prior to MySQL 5.1.8, it defaulted to '0000-00-00 00:00:00' in such cases.)

    For a transient event, the value of this column is always NULL.

  • Ends: The end date and time for a recurring event. This is displayed as a DATETIME value, and defaults to '0000-00-00 00:00:00' if no end date and time is defined for the event.

    For a transient event, the value of this column is always NULL.

  • Status: The event status. One of ENABLED, DISABLED, or SLAVESIDE_DISABLED.

    SLAVESIDE_DISABLED was added in MySQL 5.1.18. This value indicates that the creation of the event occurred on another MySQL server acting as a replication master and replicated to the current MySQL server which is acting as a slave, but the event is not presently being executed on the slave.

  • Originator: The server ID of the MySQL server on which the event was created. Defaults to 0. This column was added in MySQL 5.1.18.

  • character_set_client is the session value of the character_set_client system variable when the routine was created. collation_connection is the session value of the collation_connection system variable when the routine was created. Database Collation is the collation of the database with which the routine is associated. These columns were added in MySQL 5.1.21.

For more information about SLAVE_DISABLED and the Originator column, see Section 19.3.1.5, “Replication of Invoked Features”.

Note that the action statement is not shown in the output of SHOW EVENTS.

Prior to MySQL 5.1.17, the values displayed for Starts and Ends (other than '0000-00-00 00:00:00') were shown using Universal Time (Bug#16420). Beginning with MySQL 5.1.17, these times are all given in terms of local time as determined by the MySQL server's time_zone setting. See also Section 27.20, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA EVENTS Table”.

To see events for a different schema, you can use the FROM clause. For example, if the test schema had been selected in the preceding example, you could view events defined on myschema using the following statement: 

SHOW EVENTS FROM myschema;

You can filter the list returned by this statement on the event name using LIKE plus a pattern.

This statement was added in MySQL 5.1.6.

See also Section 27.20, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA EVENTS Table”.

Note

In MySQL 5.1.11 and earlier, SHOW EVENTS displayed only those events for which the current user was the definer, and the SHOW FULL EVENTS statement was used for viewing events defined by all users on a given schema. SHOW FULL EVENTS was removed in MySQL 5.1.12.