title: Creating ENUM variable type in MySQL
body: <p>I am using an ENUM data type in MySQL and would like to reuse it, but not retype in the values.  Is there an equivalent to the C, C++ way of defining types in MySQL?</p>
  
  <p>I would like to do the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DEFINE ETYPE ENUM('a','b','c','d');
  CREATE TABLE Table_1 (item1 ETYPE, item2 ETYPE);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is this possible?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>