Rename a column in MySQL

Use the following query: The RENAME function is used in Oracle databases. @lad2025 mentions it below, but I thought it’d be nice to add what he said. Thank you @lad2025! You can use the RENAME COLUMN in MySQL 8.0 to rename any column you need renamed. ALTER TABLE Syntax: RENAME COLUMN: Can change a column name but not its definition. More … Read more

ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’

Some systems like Ubuntu, MySQL is using the UNIX auth_socket plugin by default. Basically it means that: db_users using it, will be “authenticated” by the system user credentials. You can see if your root user is set up like this by doing the following: As you can see in the query, the root user is using the auth_socket plugin. There are two ways to solve this: … 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