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Setting character sets for database in MySQL

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:05:38 +0000

MySQL can store data using various character sets. To view the supported character sets in your server run

mysql> show character set;

MySQL allows to set which character set need to use for database

create database some_db character set cp1250;

and for column

varchar(20) character set cp1250

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Avoiding problems with Date format in MySQL

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:43:09 +0000

If you construct a string with which to populate a date column and that string does not match the expected format, you will receive error. In this case MySQL has function str_to_date which specifies string format

mysql> update ... set birth_data = str_to_date('FEB-12-1990', '%b-%d-%Y') where ...

Formatters:

%a – the short weekday name: Sun, Mon,… . . . → Read More: Avoiding problems with Date format in MySQL No related posts.

Getting query result in XML in MySQL

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:15:17 +0000

MySQL allows to generate XML output from query. It is very useful when you are working with XML data

mysql -u user_name -p --xml database_name

After that you can select data and result will be as an XML document.

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Creating and using databases in MySQL

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:05:44 +0000

In this post I am going to show simple examples which should help to understand how to create database, table, how to populate, update data in table and how to delete data from table and how to delete database. I will use MySQL database server which you can download from mysql.com. If you installed MySQL . . . → Read More: Creating and using databases in MySQL No related posts.