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mysql update enums

I have a field with enums: 'preview','active','closed' When I query like this: $query = "UPDATE albums SET album_active = preview WHERE album_id = 3"; $result = mysql_query($query); if (!$result) die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error()); I get : Invalid query: Unknown column 'p...

MySQL - What is the correct primary key method

I'm starting to develop an application using MySQL and although I've developed apps before using databases, I've normally gone to the incrementing id method. The other day I was reading a posting somewhere and saw someone being picked apart for this, for not properly "normalising the database". I'm not a big database person, but I wanted...

MySQL search a text from two columns

i have a table (tbl_world) which look like this id | first_name | last_name | age | class | now i want to search the text which can be anywhere in first_name or in last_name i m using below mysql query "SELECT * FROM tbl_world WHERE REGEXP '".$word."' IN( first_name, last_name)"; where $word is user input (means if i search ...

How Can I Delete The Contents Of All Tables In My Database In phpMyAdmin Without Dropping The Database?

How Can I Empty The Contents Of All Tables In My Database In phpMyAdmin Without Dropping Any Of The Tables In The Database? Since I Do This Several Times An Hour While In Development, I'd Rather Not Individually Click "Empty" On All 60+ Tables Every Time. Thanks In Advance. ...

How to properly design a simple favorites and blocked table?

Hey, i am currently writing a webapp in rails where users can mark items as favorites and also block them. I came up two ways and wondered which one is more common/better way. 1. Separate join tables Would it be wise to have 2 tables for this? Like: users_favorites - user_id - item_id users_blocked - user_id - item_id 2. s...

mysql data type confusion

So this is more of a generalized question about MySQLs data types. I'd like to store a 5-digit US zip code (zip_code) properly in this example. A county has 10 different cities and 5 different zip codes. city | zip code -------+---------- city 0 | 33333 city 1 | 11111 city 2 | 22222 city 3 | 33333 city 4 | 44444 city 5 | 55555 city...

Is there a way to echo this only once and not have it repeat?

I have the following query: $select = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM posts WHERE id = $postIds"); while ($return = mysql_fetch_assoc($select)) { $postUrl = $return['url']; $postTitle = $return['title']; echo "<h1><a href='$postUrl'>".$postTitle."</a></h1>"; } Now the problem is, the variable...

python MySQLdb got invalid syntax when trying to INSERT INTO table

COMMENT OUT below just for reference "" cursor.execute (""" CREATE TABLE yellowpages ( business_id BIGINT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, categories_name VARCHAR(255), business_name VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, business_address1 VARCHAR(500), business_city VARCHAR(255), business_state...

How to make an id auto_increment from where it last left off after a record delete?

This isn't that big of a deal but I was wondering if it can be done. Right now when I insert a new record, the id field which is auto_increment and set as primary key increases it's value by one: id | first_name | last_name ------------------------------ 1 | John | Smith 2 | Jane | Doe But if I delete record 2, the next ...

mysql query not running correctly from inside the application

I am completely stumped. Here is my php (CodeIgniter) code: function mod() { $uid = $this->session->userdata('uid'); $pid = $this->input->post('pid'); if ($this->_verify($uid,$pid)) { $name = $this->input->post('name'); $price = $this->input->post('price'); $curr = $this->input->post('curr'); ...

tricky SQL when joining

I've two tables, shows and objects. I want to print out the latest objects, and the shownames for them. Right now I'm doing it this way: SELECT MAX(objects.id) as max_id, shows.name, shows.id FROM shows, objects WHERE shows.id = objects.showId GROUP BY shows.name however, if I also want to fetch the episode of the object I can't pu...

returning statement created by mysqli_stmt_bind_param

I am using mysqli_stmt_bind_param() to create an INSERT statement. For some reason I am getting an error. I used mysqli_error() to see the error message, but it's not especially useful. Is there a way to just see what query is actually being executed? the resulting error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that ...

Problem retrieving Strings from varbinary columns using HIbernate and MySQL

Hello, Here's my scenario. I save a bunch of Strings containing asian characters in MySQL using Hibernate. These strings are written in varbinary columns. Everything works fine during the saving operation. The DB contains the correct values (sequence of bytes). If I query (again using Hibernate) for the Strings that I saved I get the co...

Convert a SQL Server database to MYSQL database

Alright so I want to convert an already exist SQL Server database (2005) to a MYSQL database. There is nothing extraordinary to be done The only things I need to achieve is Recreate the tables Transfer data Relationships would be nice but not necessary No views, no sprocs, no functions. Any easy way to do this. Also do you know o...

All symbols after "&" stripped

My query: mysql::getInstance()->update('requests', array('response' => mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['status'])), array('secret' => $_POST['secret'])); ?> If i wand to add string with "&" symbol, all symbols after "&" stripped. Example: string: !"№;%:?*()_+!@#$%^&*()_+ in database i see only: !"№;%:?*()_+!@#$%^ How to fix this? ...

Can this MySQL subquery be optimised?

I have two tables, news and news_views. Every time an article is viewed, the news id, IP address and date is recorded in news_views. I'm using a query with a subquery to fetch the most viewed titles from news, by getting the total count of views in the last 24 hours for each one. It works fine except that it takes between 5-10 seconds ...

Set primary key with two integers

I have a table with primary key (ColumnA, ColumnB). I want to make a function or procedure that when passed two integers will insert a row into the table but make sure the largest integer always goes into ColumnA and the smaller one into ColumnB. So if we have SetKeysWithTheseNumbers(17, 19) would return |-----------------| |ColumnA | ...

Killing Mysql processes staying in sleep command.

Hey I am connecting a MYSQL database through hibernate and i seem to have processes that are not being killed after they are finished in the session. I have called flush and close on each session but when i check the server the last processes are still there with a sleep command. This is a new problem which i am having and was not the ...

Why isn't this simple PHP/MySQL code working?

I am very new to php/mysql and this is causing me to loose hairs, I am trying to build a multi level site navigation. In this part of my script I am readying the sub and parent categories coming from a form for insertion into the database: // get child categories $catFields = $_POST['categories']; if (is_array($catFields)) { $categor...

Wordpress SQL Select Multiple Meta Values / Meta Keys / Custom Fields

I am trying to modify a wordpress / MySQL function to display a little more information. I'm currently running the following query that selects the post, joins the 'postmeta' and gets the info where the meta_key = _liked function most_liked_posts($numberOf, $before, $after, $show_count) { global $wpdb; $request = "SELECT ID, p...