I’ve grown to love MySQL, but every now and then it has some strange restriction that temporarily stumps me. Then I discover a marvelous workaround and fall in love with it all over again. This hack lets you overcome the restriction that you’re not allowed to have a subquery in FROM clause of a VIEW. The trick is toContinue reading “A neat MySQL hack to create a VIEW with subquery in the FROM clause…”
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How to write DRY SQL in MySQL – Part 2: Stored Procedure Hacks
In Part 1 we looked at using VIEWS to keep our SQL DRY. Unfortunately, there are cases when VIEWS are either not allowed or perform terribly and can’t be optimised. Stored Procedures are, of course, the mainstay of writing DRY SQL, and optimisation. Unfortunately, you can’t treat the result set of Stored Procedure as a query; therefore you can’t join storedContinue reading “How to write DRY SQL in MySQL – Part 2: Stored Procedure Hacks”
How to write DRY SQL in MySQL – Part 1: Views
Writing DRY code is a fundamental principle of software development. DRY, or Don’t Repeat Yourself, was popularised by the 1999 Pragmatic Programmer coding practices book (the alternative being WET code, meaning Write Everything Twice, or possibly “We Enjoy Typing”). DRY code is optimal, not just because it’s less typing, but because when you come to refactor code (make changes to it), it’s much easier if there’s aContinue reading “How to write DRY SQL in MySQL – Part 1: Views”
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