Trying to perform MINUS operation in MySQL

MySql does not recognise MINUS and INTERSECT, these are Oracle based operations. In MySql a user can use NOT IN as MINUS (other solutions are also there, but I liked it lot). Example:

MySQL > Table doesn’t exist. But it does (or it should)

Just in case anyone still cares: I had the same issue after copying a database directory directly using command If you do this with a database that uses InnoDB tables, you will get this crazy ‘table does not exist’ error mentioned above. The issue is that you need the ib* files in the root of the MySQL datadir (e.g. ibdata1, ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1). … Read more

Generating a random & unique 8 character string using MySQL

This problem consists of two very different sub-problems: the string must be seemingly random the string must be unique While randomness is quite easily achieved, the uniqueness without a retry loop is not. This brings us to concentrate on the uniqueness first. Non-random uniqueness can trivially be achieved with AUTO_INCREMENT. So using a uniqueness-preserving, pseudo-random … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)