How To have Dynamic SQL in MySQL Stored Procedure

I don’t believe MySQL supports dynamic sql. You can do “prepared” statements which is similar, but different. Here is an example: The prepared statements are often used to see an execution plan for a given query. Since they are executed with the execute command and the sql can be assigned to a variable you can approximate the some of … Read more

MySQL Error #1071 – Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

767 bytes in MySQL version 5.6 (and prior versions), is the stated prefix limitation for InnoDB tables. It’s 1,000 bytes long for MyISAM tables. This limit has been increased to 3072 bytes In MySQL version 5.7 (and upwards). You also have to be aware that if you set an index on a big char or varchar field which is utf8mb4 encoded, you have to … Read more

There can be only one auto column

My MySQL says “Incorrect table definition; there can be only one auto column and it must be defined as a key” So when I added primary key as below it started working:

How to stop mysqld

Try: Or: Or: Or: If you install the Launchctl in OSX you can try: MacPorts Note: this is persistent after reboot. Homebrew Binary installer I found that in: https://stackoverflow.com/a/102094/58768