MySQL

Supported versions

5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8.0

Dataedo reads the following metadata from MySQL databases.

Tables
- Columns
  - Data type with length
  - Nullable
  - Default value
  - Generated column formula
  - Data lineage*
- Primary keys
  - Columns
- Unique indexes
  - Columns
- Foreign keys
  - Columns
- Triggers
  - When triggered
  - Script
Views
- Columns (see tables)
- Script
Procedures
- Script
- Parameters (not available on MySQL 5.1)
Functions
- Script
- Parameters (not available on MySQL 5.1)
- Returned value (not available on MySQL 5.1)

* Column-level data lineage is retrieved using Dataedo SQL parser. Read more about the capabilities of MySQL SQL parser.

Dataedo reads MySQL comments from the following objects:

Dataedo does not write comments back to MySQL.

Dataedo supports the following data profiling in MySQL:

Tables
- Row count
Column distribution
- Distinct values
- Non-distinct values
- Empty
- NULL
Numeric columns profile
- Minimum value
- Maximum value
- Average of values
- Variance of values
- Standard deviation
- Span as the difference between min and max value
- Number of distinct values
String columns profile
- Min value as the first string in alphabetical order
- Max value as the last string in alphabetical order
- Number of distinct values
Date columns profile
- Min value as the earliest date
- Max value as the latest date
- Span as the difference between min and max dates
- Number of distinct dates
Top N values
- Top 10/100/1000 popular values
- All values if less than 1000 distinct
- 10 Random values

Read more about profiling in the Data Profiling documentation.

The following schema/metadata elements currently are not supported:

Connection:

Dataedo should work with all cloud instances of MySQL database. We have tested it with the following services: