Mysql
MySQL is a free, open source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL). DO NOT USE this tag for other DBs such as SQL Server, SQLite etc. These are different DBs which all use SQL to manage the data.
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How do I see all foreign keys to a table or column?
In MySQL, how do I get a list of all foreign key constraints pointing to a particular table? a particular colu
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MySQL: Grant **all** privileges on database
I've created database, for example 'mydb'. CREATE DATABASE mydb CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE ut
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Create new user in MySQL and give it full access to one database
I want to create a new user in MySQL and give it full access only to one database, say dbTest, that I create w
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Find duplicate records in MySQL
I want to pull out duplicate records in a MySQL Database. This can be done with: SELECT address, count(id) a
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MySQL Error 1093 - Can't specify target table for update in FROM clause
I have a table story_category in my database with corrupt entries. The next query returns the corrupt entries:
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Disable ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY
I accidentally enabled ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY mode like this: SET sql_mode = 'ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY'; Ho
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How to truncate a foreign key constrained table?
Why doesn't a TRUNCATE on mygroup work? Even though I have ON DELETE CASCADE SET I get: ERROR 1701 (4
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Host 'xxx.xx.xxx.xxx' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
This should be dead simple, but I cannot get it to work for the life of me. I'm just trying to connect re
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Duplicating a MySQL table, indices, and data
How do I copy or clone or duplicate the data, structure, and indices of a MySQL table to a new one? This is w
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Finding duplicate values in MySQL
I have a table with a varchar column, and I would like to find all the records that have duplicate values in t
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TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, and LONGTEXT maximum storage sizes
Per the MySQL docs, there are four TEXT types: TINYTEXT TEXT MEDIUMTEXT LONGTEXT What is the maximum length t
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MySQL: Large VARCHAR vs. TEXT?
I've got a messages table in MySQL which records messages between users. Apart from the typical ids and m
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"INSERT IGNORE" vs "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE"
While executing an INSERT statement with many rows, I want to skip duplicate entries that would otherwise caus
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How can I find all the tables in MySQL with specific column names in them?
I have 2-3 different column names that I want to look up in the entire database and list out all tables which
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How do you set a default value for a MySQL Datetime column?
How do you set a default value for a MySQL Datetime column? In SQL Server it's getdate(). What is the eq
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How do I specify unique constraint for multiple columns in MySQL?
I have a table: table votes ( id, user, email, address, primary key(id), ); Now I want
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MySQL error code: 1175 during UPDATE in MySQL Workbench
I'm trying to update the column visited to give it the value 1. I use MySQL workbench, and I'm writi
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How to get the sizes of the tables of a MySQL database?
I can run this query to get the sizes of all tables in a MySQL database: show table status from myDatabaseNam
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How do I quickly rename a MySQL database (change schema name)?
The MySQL manual at MySQL covers this. Usually I just dump the database and reimport it with a new name. This
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What's the difference between utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci?
Between utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci, are there any differences in terms of performance?
