What is it exactly a BLOB in a DBMS context

BLOB : BLOB (Binary Large Object) is a large object data type in the database system. BLOB could store a large chunk of data, document types and even media files like audio or video files. BLOB fields allocate space only whenever the content in the field is utilized. BLOB allocates spaces in Giga Bytes. USAGE OF BLOB : You can write a … Read more

Getting “Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction” even though I’m not using a transaction

You are using a transaction; autocommit does not disable transactions, it just makes them automatically commit at the end of the statement. What is happening is, some other thread is holding a record lock on some record (you’re updating every record in the table!) for too long, and your thread is being timed out. You … Read more

Usage of MySQL’s “IF EXISTS”

You cannot use IF control block OUTSIDE of functions. So that affects both of your queries. Turn the EXISTS clause into a subquery instead within an IF function In fact, booleans are returned as 1 or 0

SELECT * FROM multiple tables. MySQL

What you do here is called a JOIN (although you do it implicitly because you select from multiple tables). This means, if you didn’t put any conditions in your WHERE clause, you had all combinations of those tables. Only with your condition you restrict your join to those rows where the drink id matches. But there are still X … Read more

Exit a SQLite 3 database

I have an SQLite 3 database in SUSE Linux. It’s stuck at the command prompt like so: How do I exit out of the database?