MySQL query String contains

Quite simple actually: The % is a wildcard for any characters set (none, one or many). Do note that this can get slow on very large datasets so if your database grows you’ll need to use fulltext indices.

SQL SELECT WHERE field contains words

Rather slow, but working method to include any of words: If you need all words to be present, use this: If you want something faster, you need to look into full text search, and this is very specific for each database type.

Using group by on multiple columns

Group By X means put all those with the same value for X in the one group. Group By X, Y means put all those with the same values for both X and Y in the one group. To illustrate using an example, let’s say we have the following table, to do with who is attending what subject at … 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

How can I do a FULL OUTER JOIN in MySQL?

You don’t have full joins in MySQL, but you can sure emulate them. For a code sample transcribed from this Stack Overflow question you have: With two tables t1, t2: The query above works for special cases where a full outer join operation would not produce any duplicate rows. The query above depends on the UNION set operator to remove duplicate rows introduced by the query pattern. … Read more

What’s the difference between identifying and non-identifying relationships?

An identifying relationship is when the existence of a row in a child table depends on a row in a parent table. This may be confusing because it’s common practice these days to create a pseudokey for a child table, but not make the foreign key to the parent part of the child’s primary key. Formally, the “right” way … Read more