MySQL 5.6.3

Posted 2020-08-25 rsapaper

 

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘%version%‘;

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/explain.html

As of MySQL 5.6.3, permitted explainable statements for EXPLAIN are SELECT, DELETE, INSERT, REPLACE, and UPDATE. Before MySQL 5.6.3, SELECTis the only explainable statement.