MySQL: What’s the difference between float and double?

They both represent floating point numbers. A FLOAT is for single-precision, while a DOUBLE is for double-precision numbers. MySQL uses four bytes for single-precision values and eight bytes for double-precision values. There is a big difference from floating point numbers and decimal (numeric) numbers, which you can use with the DECIMAL data type. This is … Read more

How to solve “Error: MySQL shutdown unexpectedly”?

IMPORTANT: do NOT delete ibdata1 file. You could destroy all your databases. Instead, first try using the MySQL backup folder which is included with XAMPP. So do next steps: Rename folder mysql/data to mysql/data_old Make a copy of mysql/backup folder and name it as mysql/data Copy all your database folders from mysql/data_old into mysql/data (except … Read more