Calculating MySQL Database, Table, and Column Sizes
Rob Gravelle demonstrates a sure-fire way to calculate how much disk space your MySQL data entities are taking up.
2016-07-12
2,667 reads
MySQL
2016-04-01
1,393 reads
Top 10 MySQL Reporting Tools
Both management and various departments rely on data reports to help guide their business decisions. Rob Gravelle presents ten open source and commercial report generation tools for MySQL and other relational databases.
2016-01-11
4,964 reads
MySQL Pattern Matching using Regular Expressions
In this follow-up to Beyond the LIKE Operator: Advanced Pattern Matching with MySQL, Rob Gravelle shows how to use the REGEXP operator to match alphanumeric characters, explores the role of meta-characters, and compares standard regular expression syntax to that of MySQL.
2015-12-02
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Common MySQL Insert and Update Tasks and Their Solutions
Inserting and updating table contents with data from other tables and/or views within the same database need not be a nail-biting ordeal. Rob Gravelle shares some common Insert and Update tasks to help avoid any problems.
2015-09-25
2,820 reads
MySQL Error Handling using the Signal and Resignal Statements
MySQL introduced the SIGNAL and RESIGNAL statements in version 5.5 to allow you to raise your own error conditions from stored procedures, triggers, and events. Rob Gravelle demonstrates how to utilize both.
2015-08-17
2,032 reads
20 tips on converting MySQL views to MS SQL
This article gives 20 tips how to modify MySQL views to make it compatible with Microsoft SQL Server.
2012-05-02
3,855 reads
Export data from MySQL to SQL Server
Many people want to create a customized migration process using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), but it is hard to start working with heterogeneous databases like MySQL, Postgres, DB2, etc. Check out this tip to learn about how to import data from heterogeneous databases like MySQL to SQL Server.
2012-04-20
3,717 reads
Linked server to MySQL Server.
In this article, we are going to create a linked server to the MySQL Database.
Once finished that task, we will select, insert, update and delete some data using SQL Server.
2012-04-17
9,479 reads
MySQL Primer for the SQL Sever DBA
This is an introduction into Mysql for the SQL Server user. It compares the various engines of Mysql and how they compare to SQL Server.
2008-08-08
7,721 reads
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