This blog tell the difference between the Datetime vs Timestamp in MySQL and PHP. 1> Datetime and Timestamp are used to store datetime and then retrieve the datetime back. 2> Basically, In this we ...

Currently in the MySQL reference definition all timestamp columns have TIMESTAMP type. Related comment where @kagkarlsson explains why TIMESTAMP type was selected instead of DATETIME. I'd like to ...

and then looking for the first one that contains a created-time before the timestamp we want. We then read that binlog and look for the first GTID events around $TS ...