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What does MUL refer to?
I had to re-index stuff to get my innodb r/ships to work and many of the intended foreign keys (I think)
read as KEY (key name) but in the table descriptions instead of saying PRI like they do for Primary key its says MUL
what's it stand for and what's the deal with it?
MUL stands for MULTIPLE_KEY_FLAG which indicates a non-unique index field. The abbreviation is used by MySql and not by SQLyog.
Foreign keys are excellent examples of such keys as multiple records may refer to the same field in the referenced table.