Server-Side Help
MySQL Server supports a HELP statement that returns online information from the MariaDB Reference manual (see , "HELP Syntax"). The proper operation of this statement requires that the help tables in the MariaDB database be initialized with help topic information, which is done by processing the contents of the fill_help_tables.sql script.
If you install MariaDB using a binary or source distribution on Unix, help table setup occurs when you run mysql_install_db. For an RPM distribution on Linux or binary distribution on Windows, help table setup occurs as part of the MariaDB installation process.
If you upgrade MariaDB using a binary distribution, the help tables are not upgraded automatically, but you can upgrade them manually. Locate the fill_help_tables.sql file in the share or share/mysql directory. Change location into that directory and process the file with the mysql client as follows:
shell> mysql -u root mysql < fill_help_tables.sql
You can also obtain the latest fill_help_tables.sql at any time to upgrade your help tables. Download the proper file for your version of MariaDB from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html. After downloading and uncompressing the file, process it with mysql as described previously.
If you are working with Bazaar and a MariaDB development source tree, you will need to download the fill_help_tables.sql file because the tree contains only a "stub" version.