Equivalent of explode() to work with strings in MySQL

MYSQL has no explode() like function built in. But you can easily add similar function to your DB and then use it from php queries. That function will look like: Usage: The example above will return apple. I think that it will be impossible to return array in MySQL so you must specify which occurrence … Read more

DATEDIFF function in Oracle

In Oracle, you can simply subtract two dates and get the difference in days. Also note that unlike SQL Server or MySQL, in Oracle you cannot perform a select statement without a from clause. One way around this is to use the builtin dummy table, dual:

Oracle: If Table Exists

The best and most efficient way is to catch the “table not found” exception: this avoids the overhead of checking if the table exists twice; and doesn’t suffer from the problem that if the DROP fails for some other reason (that might be important) the exception is still raised to the caller: ADDENDUM For reference, … Read more

Cannot create an instance of OLE DB provider Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 for linked server null

I have MS Sql server 2012, and Office 2013. This seems to be very finicky, so you may have to adjust to your particular versions. Download the Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 for Windows, 64 bit version found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255 Install it on your server. Check the user running SQL Server and make sure that user has access to the … Read more

PostgreSQL visual interface similar to phpMyAdmin?

phpPgAdmin might work for you, if you’re already familiar with phpMyAdmin. Please note that development of phpPgAdmin has moved to github per this notice but the SourceForge link above is for historical / documentation purposes. But really there are dozens of tools that can do this.

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