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Batch Insert/Update for Mysql in Java
Large inserts/Updates are a costly operation. One foolish way that I used to do is to run each update or insert query one at a time. Its incredibly slow. With most of the systems currently the latency is what is killing the performance not the CPU. Hence latency per query is really really slow. One way to speed it up is to use the Batch query in Java. It gives you the advantages of prepared statements and more over sends batch of query to mysql and there by making it incredibly fast. How fast? One by one query insert takes around 3 hours for a 8 million inserts, while batch inserts with a batch of 1000 gets done in less than 5mins. Here is the a sample code to it.
Important MySQL DBA Interview Questions
Here are a few sets of interview questions expected for MySQL DBA position.These are compilation of the usual questions from various DBA texts: Read the rest of this entry »
Get the nth Word from a text field in mysql
I had a requirement to get the nth word out of a string and sort or order by the same. This is used when the text is stored in a purticular format and you would want to order it according to that or group it or so on.
Display row number in Mysql Select Query
How many times did want to have the row number or the position of the row in the selected query? I had many cases where I needed this feature. I needed the feature for printing the rank of a person where each row is the mark of the person. So lets see how to implement this in mysql.
There is no straight forward function or query parameter to do it (At least none I know of). So I am writing the query to declare a variable and increment that variable on printing that variable along with printing each row. So it just displays the variable on each row. So here is sql query for it. Try it out and tell me.
Create a table like another table or from a select query
There are some cases where we need to create a table similar or exactly same as another table. The easiest and best way is use create table along with additional parameters. We can create a table similar to another table without data and with data. Read the rest of this entry »
Customizing Mysql Prompt For multiple Servers
If you are using mysql regularly on multiple servers its really useful to have the promt in mysql to show something more than mysql>. It would be useful if it showed the username,hostname, current database and things like that.
So how to do this.
Generate Date from a range in Mysql and pad the results where no date is present
If you want to generate dates, MYSQL doesn’t have a range function, so I wrote a work around for the same. So how it works is I have reused a code to generate numbers from my previous post. So I added date function to that query and reduce the generated numbers from the date. Hence effectively its Currrent Date – x number of days. Thus we generate the dates from the date we provide to the x number we generate. So here is the code:
Generate 1 to 1000 in mysql
Sometimes its necessary to have thousand rows to join or generate new values, we need to get the thousand rows first. For this I used union of numbers 0-9. I have joined four of these to get to four digit values. So here is the code:
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