mysql count duplicates

If you want the count of everything, not just the tuples with duplicates, then eliminate the HAVING line, as that’ll filter out anything that doesn’t have duplicates.

Comparing Dates in Oracle SQL

31-DEC-95 isn’t a string, nor is 20-JUN-94. They’re numbers with some extra stuff added on the end. This should be ’31-DEC-95′ or ’20-JUN-94′ – note the single quote, ‘. This will enable you to do a string comparison. However, you’re not doing a string comparison; you’re doing a date comparison. You should transform your string into a date. Either by using the built-in TO_DATE() function, … Read more

Bulk load data conversion error (truncation)

It’s picking up the commas within the comments field as delimiters, because the delimiters are not consistent. The best solution is to insure that all fields are wrapped with double quotes and set FIELDTERMINATOR to ‘”,”‘. Alternately, replace the commas with something unlikely to be in the comments (like ~) and set FIELDTERMINATOR = ‘~’.