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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.

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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.

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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. Continue reading “Create a table like another table or from a select query” »


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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:

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Check if a table exists in MySQL from PHP

Sometimes its necessary to execute a query or execute some code if a table exists or not. So a bit of searching got me to the conclusion that mysql doesn’t have a direct query or method for it from php. So there are two methods to do it. Continue reading “Check if a table exists in MySQL from PHP” »


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