error: ‘Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)’ — Missing /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

To find all socket files on your system run: My Mysql server system had the socket open at /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Once you find where the socket is being opened, add or edit the line to your /etc/my.cnf file with the path to the socket file: Sometimes the system startup script that launched the command line executable specifies … Read more

sql query with multiple where statements

You need to consider that GROUP BY happens after the WHERE clause conditions have been evaluated. And the WHERE clause always considers only one row, meaning that in your query, the meta_key conditions will always prevent any records from being selected, since one column cannot have multiple values for one row. And what about the redundant meta_value checks? If a value is allowed to … Read more

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

So, you have a com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failurejava.net.ConnectException: Connection refused I’m quoting from this answer which also contains a step-by-step MySQL+JDBC tutorial: If you get a SQLException: Connection refused or Connection timed out or a MySQL specific CommunicationsException: Communications link failure, then it means that the DB isn’t reachable at all. This can have one or more of the following causes: IP … Read more

How can I do a FULL OUTER JOIN in MySQL?

You don’t have full joins in MySQL, but you can sure emulate them. For a code sample transcribed from this Stack Overflow question you have: With two tables t1, t2: The query above works for special cases where a full outer join operation would not produce any duplicate rows. The query above depends on the UNION set operator to remove duplicate rows introduced by the query pattern. … Read more

error: ‘Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)’ — Missing /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

To find all socket files on your system run: My Mysql server system had the socket open at /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Once you find where the socket is being opened, add or edit the line to your /etc/my.cnf file with the path to the socket file: Sometimes the system startup script that launched the command line executable specifies … Read more

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

So, you have a com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failurejava.net.ConnectException: Connection refused I’m quoting from this answer which also contains a step-by-step MySQL+JDBC tutorial: If you get a SQLException: Connection refused or Connection timed out or a MySQL specific CommunicationsException: Communications link failure, then it means that the DB isn’t reachable at all. This can have one or more of the following causes: IP … Read more