MySQL master master replication, also known as "mysql chained replication", "multi master replication or "mysql daisy chaining replication" is an extension of mysql replication allowing the creation of multiple master servers that can then be masters of multiple slaves. In this post, I demonstrate how to setup mysql master master replication. In a multi master mysql … [Read more...] about How to Setup MySQL Master Master Replication
How To Use SQL to Convert a STRING to an INT
Using SQL to convert a string to an int is used in a variety of situations. You may have text data that you cannot alter at the source and you need to get some accurate answers from it. You may also have text data that you want to insert to an integer column. There could be other reasons too. There is an easy solution to this and I will show you examples in both SQL Server … [Read more...] about How To Use SQL to Convert a STRING to an INT
How to set up MySQL Replication Tutorial
One may setup MySQL replication typically either to scale out, facilitate reporting or to provide backups of MySQL databases. I wrote a post about this before. The whole process relies on binary logs which are output to a location on the master server and read in by the slave. This post is a MySQL replication tutorial. I am going to setup MySQL replication involving two … [Read more...] about How to set up MySQL Replication Tutorial
How to Use SQL CASE for Conditional Logic in Your SQL Queries
SQL CASE provides the author of the query with the ability to perform conditional logic in their SQL queries for SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE. It is also possible to use it with SET, IN, HAVING, ORDER BY and WHERE. It comes in two formats: simple case search case Simple SQL CASE The simple CASE expression compares an expression to a set of simple expressions to … [Read more...] about How to Use SQL CASE for Conditional Logic in Your SQL Queries
Using ISNULL in SQL Server to Replace NULL Values
There are different ways to handle NULL's and I wrote about one such way in my last post. In this post, we look at SQL ISNULL() and specifically at the SQL Server version. MySQL does have this function but it behaves a little differently as it returns a boolean value. Let's look at the syntax ISNULL(check_expression, replacement_value) check_expression - this is the … [Read more...] about Using ISNULL in SQL Server to Replace NULL Values