Given this table
mysql> describe last_user_activity;
+--------------+------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------+------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+
| customer_id | int(11) | NO | | NULL | |
| token | text | NO | | NULL | |
| time_stamp | timestamp | YES | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | |
| is_logged_in | tinyint(1) | NO | | 0 | |
+--------------+------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
I want to "touch" a row of the table, setting the time_stamp to its default, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.
I thought that I could try
UPDATE last_user_activity WHERE token="40aed4d9-c9ac-471e-8d53-b2baa0d72523";
(that is a valid token in the table), but that resulted in
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right
syntax to use near 'WHERE
token="40aed4d9-c9ac-471e-8d53-b2baa0d72523"' at line 1
Oh, well, it seemed clever, but NVM. So, then I tried
UPDATE last_user_activity SET token="40aed4d9-c9ac-471e-8d53-b2baa0d72523"
WHERE token="40aed4d9-c9ac-471e-8d53-b2baa0d72523";
which said that it succeeded, BUT, the timestamp field was not updated.
What am I doing wrongly?
UPDATE last_user_activity
SET time_stamp = NULL
WHERE token="40aed4d9-c9ac-471e-8d53-b2baa0d72523";
OR
UPDATE last_user_activity
SET time_stamp = NOW()
WHERE token="40aed4d9-c9ac-471e-8d53-b2baa0d72523";
It looks as if you have given default value of column time_stamp, but not on update.
You may considering this change :
ALTER TABLE last_user_activity
MODIFY COLUMN time_stamp TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;
I hope this works.After that you could try using your update commands.
Related
I have been trying to alter a table to include a date column with default value of CURDATE() but MySQL is constantly throwing syntax error. Now, I have checked syntax for altering a table from several sources but I believe I do not have any syntax error. When I remove the default value part, the query runs fine but for some reason it cannot add a default value for the date column. I don't know why that is the case.
The code:
mysql> describe test;
+-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| col1 | int | YES | | 0 | |
| col2 | varchar(100) | YES | | hello | |
| col3 | varchar(5) | YES | | T | |
+-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
3 rows in set (0.02 sec)
mysql> ALTER TABLE test ADD COLUMN col4 DATE DEFAULT CURDATE();
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CURDATE()' at line 1
mysql>
Edit: My MySQL version: 8.0.31
I think it has to be like this now:
ALTER TABLE test ADD COLUMN col4 DATE DEFAULT (CURRENT_DATE);
Note the parenthesis, or (curdate())
I am running a mysql query using golang:
query: UPDATE RESTORE_TIMESTAMP SET last_restored_at=? where id=?, updatedTime, 1
Here updatedTime is in strfmt.DateTime format in go.
This query runs fine for some time but after that it starts failing with below error.
Sometimes after mysql retries it passes but most of the times it is failing.
I'm not getting any clue why is this happening.
Error 1292: Incorrect datetime value: '2020-10-19T16:25:08.958Z' for column db.RESTORE_TIMESTAMP.last_restored_at at row 1"
table details:
MariaDB [db]> show columns from RESTORE_TIMESTAMP;
+------------------+-----------+------+-----+---------------------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+------------------+-----------+------+-----+---------------------+-------+
| id | enum('1') | NO | PRI | NULL | |
| last_restored_at | timestamp | NO | | current_timestamp() | |
+------------------+-----------+------+-----+---------------------+-------+
2 rows in set (0.001 sec)
I have only one row in my table as above and I need to update that every time.
Please point me somewhere how can I resolve this query failure.
You should to apply STR_TO_DATE conversion for convert your date into DB format
UPDATE RESTORE_TIMESTAMP
SET last_restored_at=STR_TO_DATE(?, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s.%fZ')
WHERE id=?;
Test it on SQLize.online
I cannot change databases column
My Env
MacOS Mojave, MySQL Server version: 10.1.39-MariaDB Source distribution
why
Making a CRUD app, but I want to change table column,
from text to desc, so I searched and used alter
command, but right SQL command returns error messages.
My table
MariaDB [cake_cms]> describe interns;
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| email | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | |
| name | varchar(64) | NO | | NULL | |
| text | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | |
| location | varchar(64) | YES | | NULL | |
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
MariaDB [cake_cms]> Alter Table interns Rename Column text to desc;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax;
check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version
for the right syntax to use near 'Column text to desc' at line 1
Refered
https://www.dbonline.jp/mysql/table/index18.html
says to use
ALTER TABLE table_name
CHANGE COLUMN old_name TO new_name;
Rename a column in MySQL
This site says:
ALTER TABLE tableName RENAME COLUMN "oldcolname" TO "newcolname" datatype(length);
So I write
alter table interns rename column "name" to "newname" varchar(255);
But returned syntax error message....
I do not know what to do. Please help me!
desc is a sql command so you can't name your table like this
Is there a way to change te value of the Extra column that is shown with the SHOW COLUMNS/DESCRIBE sentences?
The documentation about this column states the following:
Extra
Any additional information that is available about a given column. The
value is nonempty in these cases:
auto_increment for columns that have the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute.
on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP for TIMESTAMP or DATETIME columns that
have the ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP attribute.
VIRTUAL GENERATED or VIRTUAL STORED for generated columns.
DEFAULT_GENERATED for columns that have an expression default value.
I have the next table columns information but I wish to remove the Extra value of the start_date column.
Is there a way to do this?
+--------------------+--------------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------------+--------------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------------------+
| id_machine_product | "int(10) unsigned" | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| start_date | timestamp | NO | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | DEFAULT_GENERATED |
+--------------------+--------------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------------------+
EDIT:
I have implemented a fingerprint validation method in PHP that diffs the DESCRIBE tables values, I have database versions in production that doesn't have that Extra value even though those columns have an expression default value, so currently, I wish to alter that value so I don't get errors from my implemented fingerprint validation method in my development environment.
The production databases are in Mysql < 8.0 so, as per Bill Karwin's answer, I'm having trouble with my MySQL development environment version that is 8.0
It's not clear from your question why you want to eliminate the Extra information. It's just noting that the column's default is an expression.
To make the Extra field blank, you must make the column's default either a constant value or NULL.
mysql> create table foo ( id int unsigned primary key, start_date timestamp not null default current_timestamp);
mysql> show columns from foo;
+------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------------------+
| id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | |
| start_date | timestamp | NO | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | DEFAULT_GENERATED |
+------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------------------+
mysql> alter table foo modify start_date timestamp default null;
mysql> show columns from foo;
+------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | |
| start_date | timestamp | YES | | NULL | |
+------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
Note that the Extra information "DEFAULT_GENERATED" is only present in MySQL 8.0. I suspect it's related to the new feature to support expressions in the DEFAULT clause. Any other expression also results in this Extra information.
mysql > alter table foo modify start_date timestamp default (now() + interval 1 hour);
mysql> show columns from foo;
+------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------------+-------------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------------+-------------------+
| id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | |
| start_date | timestamp | YES | | (now() + interval 1 hour) | DEFAULT_GENERATED |
+------------+------------------+------+-----+---------------------------+-------------------+
Topicstarters comment
I have implemented a fingerprint validation method in PHP that diffs
the DESCRIBE tables values, I have database versions in production
that doesn't have that Extra value even though those columns have an
expression default value, so currently, I wish to alter that value so
I don't get errors from my implemented fingerprint validation method
in my development environment.
The more standard SQL method would be which also works in MySQL 8
Query
SELECT
information_schema.COLUMNS.COLUMN_NAME AS 'Field'
, information_schema.COLUMNS.COLUMN_TYPE AS 'Type'
, information_schema.COLUMNS.IS_NULLABLE AS 'Null'
, information_schema.COLUMNS.COLUMN_KEY AS 'Key'
, information_schema.COLUMNS.COLUMN_DEFAULT AS 'Default'
, information_schema.COLUMNS.EXTRA AS 'Extra'
FROM
information_schema.TABLES
INNER JOIN
information_schema.COLUMNS ON information_schema.TABLES.TABLE_NAME = information_schema.COLUMNS.TABLE_NAME
WHERE
information_schema.TABLES.TABLE_NAME = '<table>'
This query should match the output of DESCRIBE
Then you could use REPLACE() on information_schema.COLUMNS.EXTRA output to remove or edit the way you want. For example removing extra features like DEFAULT_GENERATED or VIRTUAL GENERATED (generated columns)
you need an alter table statement. Something like
ALTER TABLE `document` MODIFY COLUMN `start_date ` INT AUTO_INCREMENT;
You can set a default value like
DEFAULT 1 NOT NULL
Is there any way to convert the warning that MySQL is issuing about an invalid datetime into a hard error? I've tried using SET sql_mode='TRADITIONAL'; which apparently is supposed to turn (some) things that are warnings into errors, but it does not have any effect here. This is MySQL 5.1.56. Something that works on a session-level would be ideal, but I'll take what I can get.
mysql> describe test_table2;
+----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| value | int(11) | YES | | NULL | |
| name | varchar(16) | YES | | NULL | |
| sometime | datetime | YES | | NULL | |
+----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from test_table2;
+-------+-------+---------------------+
| value | name | sometime |
+-------+-------+---------------------+
| 1 | one | 2002-09-01 10:00:00 |
| 2 | two | 2002-09-02 11:00:00 |
| 3 | three | 2002-09-03 12:00:00 |
| 4 | four | 2002-01-04 13:00:00 |
| 5 | five | 2002-01-05 14:00:00 |
+-------+-------+---------------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from test_table2 where sometime = 'foo';
Empty set, 2 warnings (0.00 sec)
Warning (Code 1292): Incorrect datetime value: 'foo' for column 'sometime' at row 1
Warning (Code 1292): Incorrect datetime value: 'foo' for column 'sometime' at row 1
With SET sql_mode='TRADITIONAL', doing an INSERT with an invalid date causes an error, but doing a SELECT with an invalid date still causes a warning. You can trigger the error by passing the (possibly invalid) date value to this query first:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS date_guard (date DATE) SELECT 'foo' AS date;
where 'foo' is the date value you want to validate.
Who is supposed to see the error?
If this is a fixed string 'foo' just try converting 'foo' to a date and see if you can a valid result (i.e. not 00-00-000). Do a pre-query to check the validity of the date, and then continue after.
I have not been able to make MySQL give an error in this case (or even convert the invalid date to a NULL - it insists on making it 00-00-0000).