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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
69
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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
60
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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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When to use single quotes, double quotes, and backticks in MySQL
I am trying to learn the best way to write queries. I also understand the importance of being consistent. Unti
52
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How do I see what character set a MySQL database / table / column is?
What is the (default) charset for: MySQL database MySQL table MySQL column
58
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SQL injection that gets around mysql_real_escape_string()
Is there an SQL injection possibility even when using mysql_real_escape_string() function? Consider this samp
59
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MySQL Query GROUP BY day / month / year
Is it possible to make a simple query to count how many records I have in a determined period of time like a y
57
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How can I temporarily disable a foreign key constraint in MySQL?
Is it possible to temporarily disable constraints in MySQL? I have two Django models, each with a foreign key
53
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'IF' in 'SELECT' statement - choose output value based on column values
SELECT id, amount FROM report I need amount to be amount if report.type='P' and -amount if report.
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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
60
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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
56
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How can I do a FULL OUTER JOIN in MySQL?
I want to do a full outer join in MySQL. Is this possible? Is a full outer join supported by MySQL?
59
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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
64
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14
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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
47
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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
59
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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
57
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12
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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
