mysql.help_topic is one of the four tables used by the HELP command. It is populated when the server is installed by the fill_help_table.sql script. The other help tables are help_relation, help_category and help_keyword.

The mysql.help_topic table contains the following fields:

Example

SELECT * FROM help_topic\G;
...
*************************** 508. row ***************************
   help_topic_id: 507
            name: FIND_IN_SET
help_category_id: 37
     description: Syntax:
FIND_IN_SET(str,strlist)

Returns a value in the range of 1 to N if the string str is in the
string list strlist consisting of N substrings. A string list is a
string composed of substrings separated by "," characters. If the first
argument is a constant string and the second is a column of type SET,
the FIND_IN_SET() function is optimized to use bit arithmetic. Returns
0 if str is not in strlist or if strlist is the empty string. Returns
NULL if either argument is NULL. This function does not work properly
if the first argument contains a comma (",") character.

URL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/string-functions.html


         example: mysql> SELECT FIND_IN_SET('b','a,b,c,d');
        -> 2

             url: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/string-functions.html