Exploring the event scheduler

The Event Scheduler (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/events.html), another new feature of MySQL 5.1, permits the creation of tasks that will run automatically according to a schedule. The schedule is quite flexible and permits, for example, a statement to be run every ten seconds, starting from midnight of May 18, 2011. These can be one-time events or recurring ones.

Activating the scheduler

We should first verify whether the scheduler is active on our server. If not, we need to activate it. Otherwise, nothing will happen! We will start by entering the following statement in the query box: