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How To Store and Query JSON Data in MySQL
MySQL has support for JSON data types, allowing you to store, index, and query JSON data efficiently. Here’s a brief overview of how you can store JSON data in MySQL: JSON Data Type: MySQL introduced the JSON data type to store JSON data efficiently. You can define a column with the JSON data type to…
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MySQL column type: TIMESTAMP vs DATETIME
In MySQL, both TIMESTAMP and DATETIME are used to store date and time values, but they have some differences in terms of behavior and storage: Storage: TIMESTAMP: Stored as a Unix timestamp. It requires 4 bytes for storage, which means it can store values from ‘1970-01-01 00:00:01’ UTC to ‘2038-01-19 03:14:07’ UTC. It also automatically…
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MySQL reserved keywords
In MySQL, there are several reserved keywords that have special meanings in SQL and cannot be used as identifiers such as table names, column names, or aliases without quoting. Here are some of the reserved keywords in MySQL: ADD ALL ALTER ANALYZE AND AS ASC AUTO_INCREMENT BETWEEN BINARY BOTH BY CASE CASCADE CHAR CHECK COLLATE…