There are various different programs in the MySQL installation. A brief overview of these programs is covered in this section. Upcoming sections will cover a detailed description for each of them and the description will have its own invocation syntax and options to perform the operation.
Most of the MySQL distribution will have all these programs, apart from those that are platform-specific; for example, server startup script not used in Windows. RPM (Red-hat package manager) distributions are very specialized and are part of the exceptions to all programs available in distributions. What is specialized about RPM distributions? Well, they have different programs for different operations; for example, one program will be executed for the server, a second program will be executed for the client, and so on. If it looks like one or more programs is missing...
