If you have been using certain DBMSs, or reading recent versions of the SQL standard, you are probably aware of the so-called “WITH clause” of SQL.
Some call it Subquery Factoring. Others call it Common Table Expression. A form of the WITH CLAUSE, “WITH RECURSIVE”, allows to design a recursive query: a query which repeats itself again and again, each time using the results of the previous iteration.…
Category Archives: Stored Routines
Support for multiple triggers per table for the same value of action/timing.
Introduction
For a long time MySQL server supported only one trigger for every action (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) and timing (BEFORE or AFTER). In other words, there could be at most one trigger for every pair (action, timing). It means that a user couldn’t assign for example two BEFORE INSERT triggers for the same table t1.…
BEFORE triggers and NOT NULL columns in MySQL
Introduction
For a long time there was a Bug#6295 in implementation of BEFORE triggers related to handling of NOT NULL column. The problem was that if a column is declared as NOT NULL, it wasn’t possible to do INSERT NULL (or UPDATE to NULL) even though there was associated trigger, setting NOT-NULL value.…