About two years ago I published a blog post about Generated (Virtual) Columns in MySQL 5.7. Since then, it’s been one of my favorite features in the MySQL 5.7 release. The reason is simple: with the ...

Hi people, I stumbled upon this too, as i found the modifyDataType ChangeType (with the name that suggests "modify ONLY datatype") and the documentation today, 2024/02/13 still have nothing alerting ...

Sometimes we need to change the data type of a column in a table. we can do this by using modify keyword with alter command.syntax:to change the data type of a column in a table, use the following ...

The timestamp data type is the only data type which is used to have mysql automatically set the time when a row is inserted and/or updated. datetime columns cant do this.we can define more than one ...

Alternately, you could concatenate all the columns and search once on that, but in general you could find matches that span multiple columns (don't know if that's an issue in your case).

You can set where auto-increment starts. I believe it works in MySQL 4.1; I don't see why it wouldn't (but I hope you have a really good reason for sticking to 4.1).<BR><BR>ALTER TABLE tablename ...