Tag: DB

Purging a MySQL database without losing meta data

When I clone a production database to a development database, I always need to empty the development database first. I could never find an SQL command to completely purge a database, bur, recently, I learned something about MySQL that surprised me: MySQL doesn't lose the user rights for a database when you drop it. So, purging a MySQL database (without losing any access data meta data about that DB) is as simple as issuing the following statements: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 years ago, on July 12, 2008, at 01:07 | No comments

Unique constraints and indexes in PostgreSQL

This afternoon, I had to add a unique index for some table in the Sicirec PostgreSQL database. I had already assumed that I needed to use CREATE UNIQUE INDEX to create my new unique index until I noticed, thanks to pgAdmin's clear GUI, that some tables clearly had unique constraints and unique indexes while one table lacked a unique constraint and only had an unique index defined. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on February 02, 2007, at 23:02 | 2 comments