Working with MySQL stored functions
Stored functions in MySQL return a scalar value and can be used in a SQL statement. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains how to create and use a MySQL stored function.
2022-06-06
Additional Articles
10 Benefits of Database Monitoring for Business Leaders [Video]
A third-party database monitoring tool is an investment that drives enormous value for the bottom line of your business in ten key ways. Here's how a tool like Redgate SQL Monitor can save you money, time and assist with security and compliance concerns.
2022-06-03
Advanced Databricks Lakehouse Capabilities
Learn about several different aspects of Databricks Lakehouse such as encryption, row level security, visually viewing query plans, SQL merge, change data capture and more.
2022-06-03
Combinations, permutations, and derangements
Joe Celko explains how several mathematical concepts, combinations, permutations, and derangements, relate to databases.
2022-06-01
Managing Database Code Quality in a Flyway Development
In this article, I'll discuss the most important quality metrics for a database development, and then practical ways to ensure that a Flyway-managed database is designed and implemented to a high enough standard that it is reliable to use.
2022-06-01
Getting Started with Flyway and any RDBMS
How to get started with Flyway, as simply as possible, using PowerShell. This article provides a practice set of Flyway migration scripts that will build the original pubs database on either SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB or SQLite and then migrate it from version to version, making a series of improvements to its schema design.
2022-05-30
Search all String Columns in all SQL Server Tables or Views
In this article we look at T-SQL script you can use to search for a string in every table and view in every database or in a specific database.
2022-05-30
Memory profiling in Python with tracemalloc
You can find memory leaks in Python code with tracemalloc. In this article, Priyanka Nawalramka demonstrates how to use tracemalloc to find the leaks.
2022-05-27
Simple Reporting with Flyway and Database Models
If you can generate a file-based (JSON) model for each new version of a database, produced by a Flyway migration, then you have an easy way to run simple reports to help you search, list, and understand the structure of these databases. I'll show how to produce the models using PowerShell and then run some queries against them to generate the reports.
2022-05-27
Oracle optimizer removing or coalescing subqueries
The Oracle optimizer often changes the query to get better performance. In this article, Jonathan Lewis explains two more optimizations involving subqueries.
2022-05-25
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Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
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