MySQL provides several alternatives to the standard INSERT statement and each handles duplicate rows slightly differently: "INSERT IGNORE," "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE," and "REPLACE." ...

How to Sequence Names in MySQL. Sequences in MySQL help ensure that values aren't repeated, and many applications require database tables to have an incrementing "id" column. The MySQL syntax ...

I need to search about twenty columns for given a string with wildcards. The query essentially looks like this: SELECT * FROM `the_table` WHERE `field1` LIKE 'string%' OR `field2` LIKE 'string ...

Hibernate 5 has updated dialects for various databases, and MySQL 8 has a special one of its own. Here's an example hibernate.cfg.xml for MySQL 8 for Hibernate 5 apps or newer.