create-table

Is it possible to roll back CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE statements in major SQL databases?

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transactional_DDL_in_PostgreSQL:_A_Competitive_Analysis provides an overview of this issue from PostgreSQL’s perspective. Is DDL transactional according to this document? PostgreSQL – yes MySQL – no; DDL causes an implicit commit Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and above – by default, no, but an alternative called edition-based redefinition exists Older versions of Oracle – no; DDL causes an … Read more

Mysql: Setup the format of DATETIME to ‘DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS’ when creating a table

“MySQL retrieves and displays DATETIME values in ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS’ format.” This is from mysql site. You can store only this type, but you can use one of the many time format functions to change it, when you need to display it. Mysql Time and Date functions For example, one of those functions is the DATE_FORMAT, … Read more

Create a temporary table in a SELECT statement without a separate CREATE TABLE

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS table2 AS (SELECT * FROM table1) From the manual found at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/create-table.html You can use the TEMPORARY keyword when creating a table. A TEMPORARY table is visible only to the current session, and is dropped automatically when the session is closed. This means that two different sessions can use … Read more