I'm working on a version control program, and I would like to implement database structure versioning as well.
Is there a way to get a list of all the queries that have altered the databse structure in any way?
For example I added a column to the 'users' table called 'remember_token'. Is there a way I can get the specific query that was executed on the MySQL server in order to add that column?
You may want to enable the mysql query log and then filter on ALTER queries or anything you need
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I have access to a remote database, and I would like to dump the schema and data of several views onto my local machine and load this into my local database as tables in a quick and easy way.
I lack the user privileges to run CREATE TABLE AS (SELECT * FROM target_view), otherwise this would be trivial to solve. In other words, I want to retrieve and recreate the "composite" schema of target_view as if it were a table.
I do not want the output of SHOW CREATE VIEW, as this only shows a complex SELECT statement with joins to various tables on remote I have limited ability to access. And a problem I'm seeing in MySQL 8.x is when I run SHOW CREATE TABLE on the view, this command simply acts as an alias of SHOW CREATE VIEW (which is reasonable).
Frustratingly, I can run DESCRIBE and see the schema of these views as they were tables. I really just need to convert this information into a CREATE TABLE statement without actually being able to run CREATE TABLE.
In case it weren't obvious, the key is to avoid manual reconstruction of these views' tabular schemas (as they may change in the future). I also want to avoid the solution of reverse engineering a generic table construction of 20-30 generic VARCHAR or TEXT columns from a CSV dump.
I don't know of any way to display the metadata of a result set in CREATE TABLE syntax.
What I would do given your circumstance is first create on your local MySQL instance the base table and the view, then you can use the CREATE TABLE AS SELECT ... syntax to produce a concrete table to match the metadata of the view result set.
I have a mysql database. For which I need to retrieve only the indexes present in my entire database, Is there any way I could get it? OR get a
CREATE indexes script which will help me do so.
I just don't want to SELECT them, rather I would like to get a script which when executed on similar database - the indexes will be added
I would like to recreate a few existing Access queries in a new database so that I can tweak them a bit. The problem I am running into is that some of the tables being queried do not seem to exist in the current database. These tables all end with a 1.
For example, INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS is an imported table in the database, but
INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS_1 is being queried even though it does not show up in the tables panel on the left.
Is this some type of duplication functionality that I am not aware of? The query runs without any errors.
No, the query runs on an aliased table. It's actually just querying INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS
Using SQL, you can create an alias for a table. This is especially useful when querying the same table twice in one query, but also commonly used to shorten queries.
Your query will probably look something like this:
SELECT something
FROM INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS AS INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS_1
Access automatically creates these aliases when using the query builder and if you add the same table more than once. When removing the non-aliased table, the other one stays aliased.
This is entirely normal, and as far as I know, never a problem.
Erik's answer explains it perfectly.
But to be exhaustive, you CAN actually create a query on a table that is NOT in the current database (nor a linked table).
Here is an example:
SELECT *
FROM History IN 'c:\test\mySecretBackend.accdb'
You can also create that in design view, just by
setting the query's Source Database property to c:\test\mySecretBackend.accdb
click on Show table
We will migrate the database from mysql to postgresql in our product(through java). So we need to change the mysql query to postgresql query in java application. How to create the table i.e., databasename.tablename in postgresql.
For mysql, we can directly create the table e.g create table information.employee.
Here database name is "information" and table name is "employee" . Is it possible to achieve same query in postgresql.
I searched google it says cross database reference is not possible. Please help me.
I saw pg_class table it contains the table names in the specific database, like wise databse and tables relationships are stored in any other table.
This is normally done using schemas rather than databases, which is more or less like how MySQL organizes it anyway.
Instead of
create database xyz
use
create schema xyz
When you create tables, create them:
create table xyz.myTable
you will need to update your search path to see them on the psql command line tool, or if you want to query them without using the schema explicitly. The default schema is public, so when you create a table without a schema name, it ends up in public. If you modify your search_path as below, the default schema becomes the first in the list: xyz.
set search_path=xyz,public,pg_catalog;
and you must not have spaces in that statement. You can do it globally for a user/role too:
alter role webuser set search_path=xyz,public,pg_catalog;
Also, don't forget that postgresql string matches are case sensitive by default (this one catches people out a lot).
If you want to have different physical locations for the files for each schema, you can do that with tablespaces. If you have a look at the postgresql documentation page, they have info on how to do it, it's pretty easy.
database in MySQL == schema in PostgreSQL. So you will most probably want to migrate all your mysql dbs into one postgres db. Then you will be able to do "cross-database" queries.
See my answer to this question: Relationship between catalog, schema, user, and database instance
i have to build an application to manage an existing MySQL database. This database was created with MySQLworkbench and some useful comments were added to its tables and columns.
I think it would be great to somehow, query that comments and show them to the user to explain "what that field is". The problem is i don't know if its possible to retrieve that comments (they are only visible from the workbench).
EDIT:
in the MySQL existing database i have to work with there is no INFORMATION_SCHEMA table. I think is something usual to find it but in my model there is no :S
Try with:
SELECT column_comment FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME='table_name';
You can parse the output of
show create table `YOURTABLE`;