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What are HEAP tables in MySQL?

What are HEAP tables in MySQL???
Asked by Balu Prasad | Mar 18, 2010 |  Reply now
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Hi Balu,
HEAP tables are in-memory. They are usually used for high-speed temporary storage. No TEXT or BLOB fields are allowed within HEAP tables. You can only use the comparison operators = and <=>. HEAP tables do not support AUTO_INCREMENT. Indexes must be NOT NULL.
Mar 18, 2010