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MySQL 8 Cookbook

By : Karthik Appigatla
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MySQL 8 Cookbook

By: Karthik Appigatla

Overview of this book

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the World today. The recently released MySQL 8 version promises to be better and more efficient than ever before. This book contains everything you need to know to be the go-to person in your organization when it comes to MySQL. Starting with a quick installation and configuration of your MySQL instance, the book quickly jumps into the querying aspects of MySQL. It shows you the newest improvements in MySQL 8 and gives you hands-on experience in managing high-transaction and real-time datasets. If you've already worked with MySQL before and are looking to migrate your application to MySQL 8, this book will also show you how to do that. The book also contains recipes on efficient MySQL administration, with tips on effective user management, data recovery, security, database monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and more. With quick solutions to common and not-so-common problems you might encounter while working with MySQL 8, the book contains practical tips and tricks to give you the edge over others in designing, developing, and administering your database effectively.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Common table expressions (CTE)


MySQL 8 supports common table expressions, both non-recursive and recursive.

Common table expressions enable the use of named temporary result sets, implemented by permitting a WITH clause preceding SELECT statements and certain other statements.

Note

Why do you need CTEs?It is not possible to refer to a derived table twice in the same query. So the derived tables are evaluated twice or as many times as referred, which indicates a serious performance problem. Using CTE, the subquery is evaluated only once.

How to do it...

Recursive and non-recursive CTE will be looked into in the following sections.

Non-recursive CTE

A Common table expression (CTE) is just like a derived table, but its declaration is put before the query block instead of in FROMclause.

Derived Table

SELECT... FROM (subquery) AS derived, t1 ...

CTE

SELECT... WITH derived AS (subquery) SELECT ... FROM derived, t1 ...

A CTE may precede SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE, including subqueries WITH derived AS (subquery)...