For more efficiency, use Regular Expression for the same task. Let us first create a table −mysql> create table DemoTable -> ( -> Name varchar(30) -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.62 sec)Insert some records in the table using insert command −mysql> insert into DemoTable values('John'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values('Chris'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.14 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values('Robert'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.16 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values('David'); Query OK, 1 row affected ... Read More

Use MIN() function along with SUBSTRING() for minimum, whereas MAX() for maximum. Let us first create a table −mysql> create table DemoTable -> ( -> Id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, -> Value varchar(100) -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.76 sec)Insert some records in the table using insert command −mysql> insert into DemoTable(Value) values('10-20'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.18 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable(Value) values('200-100'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable(Value) values('780-235'); Query OK, 1 row affected ... Read More

Achieve this using ALTER TABLE. Let us first create a table −mysql> create table DemoTable    -> (    -> StudentId int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,    -> StudentName varchar(100)    -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.86 sec)Let us check the description of the table −mysql> desc DemoTable;This will produce the following output −+-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field       | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          | +-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | StudentId   | int(11)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment | ... Read More

For this, use substring_index() function from MySQL. Let us first create a table −mysql> create table DemoTable -> ( -> StudentId varchar(100) -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.60 sec)Insert some records in the table using insert command −mysql> insert into DemoTable values('STU-1011'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.18 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values('STU-95968686'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.17 sec)Display all records from the table using select statement −mysql> select *from DemoTable;This will produce the following output −+--------------+ | StudentId | +--------------+ | STU-1011 ... Read More

To split a column after hyphen, use the SUBSTRING_INDEX() method −select substring_index(yourColumnName, '-', -1) AS anyAliasName from yourTableName;Let us first create a table −mysql> create table DemoTable -> ( -> StreetName text -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.60 sec)Insert some records in the table using insert command −mysql> insert into DemoTable values('Paris Hill St.-CA-83745646') ; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.32 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values('502 South Armstrong Street-9948443'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.20 sec)Display all records from the table using select statement −mysql> select *from ... Read More

Use SHOW GRANTS for this. Following is the syntax −SHOW GRANTS FOR 'yourUserName'@'yourHostName';Let us display the user name and host name from MySQL.user table.mysql> select user, host from MySQL.user;This will produce the following output −+------------------+-----------+ | user | host | +------------------+-----------+ | Bob | % | | Charlie | % ... Read More

Yes, you can achieve this with ORDER BY FIELD() from MySQL. Let us first create a table −mysql> create table DemoTable -> ( -> Number int -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.54 sec)Insert some records in the table using insert command −mysql> insert into DemoTable values(19); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.20 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(30); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.20 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(34); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.32 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(28); Query OK, 1 row ... Read More

Instead of IN(), use FIND_IN_SET to search between comma separated values within one field. Let us first create a table −mysql> create table DemoTable -> ( -> ListOfValues text -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.56 sec)Insert some records in the table using insert command −mysql> insert into DemoTable values('10|20|30|40|50|60|100'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.18 sec)Display all records from the table using select statement −mysql> select *from DemoTable;This will produce the following output −+-----------------------+ | ListOfValues | +-----------------------+ | 10|20|30|40|50|60|100 ... Read More

Let us first create a table −mysql> create table DemoTable -> ( -> Number int -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.83 sec)Insert some records in the table using insert command −mysql> insert into DemoTable values(20); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.23 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(20); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.14 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(10); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.23 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(30); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.14 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values(10); Query OK, ... Read More

MySQL evaluates “TRUE or TRUE and FALSE” to true because AND has the highest priority than OR i.e. AND is evaluated before OR.The MySQL evaluates the above statement like this. The AND operator gets evaluated first −(TRUE or (TRUE AND FALSE))The statement (TRUE AND FALSE) gives the result FALSE. Then the second statement evaluates like this −(TRUE or FALSE)The above statement gives the result TRUE.Let us implement one by one −mysql> select (TRUE AND FALSE); +------------------+ | (TRUE AND FALSE) | +------------------+ | 0 | ... Read More