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Followings are the synonyms statements of MySQL DESCRIBE i.e. the statements with the help of which we can get the same kind of information/structure of the table as we get from DESCRIBE −EXPLAIN StatementEXPLAIN is the synonym of the DESCRIBE statement. Its syntax is also similar to the DESCRIBE statement. Consider the following example −mysql> Explain Employee; +-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+------------------+ | Field | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra            | +-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+------------------+ | ID    | int(11)     | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment   | | ... Read More

A subquery that contains a reference to a table that also appears in the outer query is called a correlated subquery. In this case,  MySQL evaluates from inner query to the outer query. To understand it we are having the following data from table ‘cars’ −mysql> Select * from Cars; +------+--------------+---------+ | ID   | Name         | Price   | +------+--------------+---------+ | 1    | Nexa         | 750000  | | 2    | Maruti Swift | 450000  | | 3    | BMW          | 4450000 | | 4 ... Read More

The subquery can return at most one value. The value can be the result of an arithmetic expression or a column function. MySQL then compares the value that results from the subquery with the value on the other side of the comparison operator. MySQL subquery can be used before or after any of the comparison operators like =, >, >=,

The DESCRIBE statement gives information about MySQL table’s structure.ExampleConsider the constructing of the following table name ‘Employee’ with Create Table statement as follows −mysql> Create table Employee(ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, Name Varchar(20)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.20 sec)Now with the help of ‘DESCRIBE Employee‘ statement, we can get the information about the employee table.mysql> Describe Employee; +-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+------------------+ | Field | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra            | +-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+------------------+ | ID    | int(11)     | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment ... Read More

It can be understood with the help of an example in which we would copy the values of a table into other table. We are using the data from table ‘cars’ and copy its data to table ‘copy_cars’ −mysql> CREATE TABLE copy_cars LIKE cars; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.86 sec) mysql> SELECT * from copy_cars; Empty set (0.08 sec)The following query using the subquery will insert the values same as ‘cars’ to table ‘copy_cars’ −mysql> INSERT INTO Copy_cars Select * from Cars; Query OK, 8 rows affected (0.07 sec) mysql> SELECT * from copy_cars; +------+--------------+---------+ | ID ... Read More

For sorting the rows in a meaningful way we can use ORDER BY clause. Suppose we want to sort the rows of the following table −mysql> Select * from Student; +--------+--------+--------+ | Name   | RollNo | Grade  | +--------+--------+--------+ | Gaurav |    100 | B.tech | | Aarav  |    150 | M.SC   | | Aryan  |    165 | M.tech | +--------+--------+--------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)The query below sorted the table by ‘Name’.mysql> Select * from student order by name; +--------+--------+--------+ | Name   | RollNo | Grade  | +--------+--------+--------+ | Aarav  |   ... Read More

For combining ROW selection with COLUMN selection, we can use the ‘WHERE’ clause. For example, we have a table below −mysql> Select * from Student; +--------+--------+--------+ | Name   | RollNo | Grade  | +--------+--------+--------+ | Gaurav | 100    | B.tech | | Aarav  | 150    | M.SC   | | Aryan  | 165    | M.tech | +--------+--------+--------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)Now, the following query will show how we can combine ROW selection with COLUMN selection using WHERE clause.mysql> Select Name, RollNo, Grade from Student where Grade='M.Sc' or Grade='B.Tech'; +--------+--------+--------+ | Name   | RollNo ... Read More

LOAD DATAThis statement is used for importing the data from data files into our database. It reads data records directly from a file and inserts them into a table. Its syntax would be as follows −SyntaxLOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '[path/][file_name]' INTO TABLE [table_name ];Here, a path is the address of the file.file_name is the name of the .txt filetable_name is the table where the data will be loaded.To illustrate the concept we are having the following data, separated by tab, in ‘A.txt’ whose path is d:/A.txt −100 John USA 10000 101 Paul UK 12000 102 Henry NZ 11000 103 Rick ... Read More

Suppose we have the following table named stock_item in which the column quantity is having duplicate values i.e. for item name ‘Notebooks’ and ‘Pencil’, the column ‘Quantity’ is having duplicate values ‘40’ and for items ‘Shirts’, ‘Shoes’ and ‘Trousers’ triplicate value 29 is hold by column ‘quantity’ as shown in the table.mysql> Select * from stock_item; +------------+----------+ | item_name  |quantity  | +------------+----------+ | Calculator |       89 | | Notebooks  |       40 | | Pencil     |       40 | | Pens       |       32 | | ... Read More

MySQL scalar subquery returns exactly one column value from one row and we can use it where a single column is permissible. Followings are the cases when scalar subqueries return value other than one row −Case1 − When it returns 0 rowsIn case if the subquery returns 0 rows then the value of scalar subquery expression would be NULL.Case2 − When it returns more than one rowsIn case if the subquery returns more than one row then, due to the property of scalar subquery, MySQL returns an error.It can be understood with the help of an example which uses the ... Read More