Why did this error happened when created EVENT with compound statement?

Question

From this SO question. I got confused with DELIMITER. And I also tried something like following:

CREATE EVENT test
ON SCHEDULE EVERY 2 MINUTE
DO
BEG         


        

Answer 1

Your answer lies in the docs here 21.1 Defining Stored Programs

If you use the mysql client program to define a stored program containing semicolon characters, a problem arises. By default, mysql itself recognizes the semicolon as a statement delimiter, so you must redefine the delimiter temporarily to cause mysql to pass the entire stored program definition to the server.