Event Limitations

The following restrictions apply to Events.

• All of the restrictions listed in Stored Routine Limitations.
• Events cannot return a resultset.
• Event names are case insensitive, so it's not possible to define two events in the same database if their case insensitive names will match. This restriction has applied since MariaDB/MySQL 5.1.8. If you are upgrading from an older version of MySQL, and have events that could clash, these events need to be renamed before the upgrade.
• Events do not support dates beyond the maximum that can be represented in the Unix epoch (2038-01-19).
• Events cannot be created, dropped or altered by another stored program, trigger or event.
• Events cannot create, drop or alter stored programs or triggers
• Event timings cannot be strictly predicted. The intervals MONTH, YEAR_MONTH, QUARTER and YEAR are all resolved in months. All others are resolved in seconds. A delay of up to two seconds is possible in extreme cases, and events scheduled to run at the same second cannot be executed in a given order. The LAST_EXECUTED column in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS table will however always be accurate to within a second.
• A new connection is used for each execution of statements within the body of an event, so the session counts for server status variables such as Com_delete and Com_select will not reflect these.
• Because the Event Scheduler depends on grant tables for its functionality, it is automatically disabled when the server is running with --skip-grant-tables.