MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual Including MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5 and NDB Cluster 7.6
The SET
statement has several forms. Descriptions for those forms that are
not associated with a specific server capability appear in
subsections of this section:
SET
enables you to
assign values to variables that affect the operation of the
server or clients. See Section 13.7.4.1, “SET Syntax for Variable Assignment”.
var_name =
value
SET CHARACTER SET and
SET NAMES assign values to
character set and collation variables associated with the
current connection to the server. See
Section 13.7.4.2, “SET CHARACTER SET Statement”, and
Section 13.7.4.3, “SET NAMES Statement”.
Descriptions for the other forms appear elsewhere, grouped with other statements related to the capability they help implement:
SET PASSWORD assigns account
passwords. See Section 13.7.1.7, “SET PASSWORD Statement”.
SET
TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL sets the isolation level
for transaction processing. See
Section 13.3.6, “SET TRANSACTION Statement”.