I recently took some time to explore the MySQL GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP modifier. As a self-starter, I’m always unknowingly studying SQL concepts that I soon need for a query requirement. Call it luck or premonition, doesn’t matter to me. I’ll take these small wins thanks to my curiosity…

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I went for a deep dive into the WITH ROLLUP GROUP BY modifier over on the OpenLampTech publication page.

Read the article, …

Wow! This is the 6-month issue of the OpenLampTech newsletter. I’ve learned so much during this time in creating the newsletter for PHP/MySQL developers. Here’s to many more months of publishing! Enjoy this week’s articles!

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I hope you are in your comfy place and ready for a great read because this week’s OpenLampTech issue is full of great content.

We are looking at blog posts on:

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We had an interesting set of questions regarding the REGEXP comparison operator in MySQL today in both sections of Database Design and Development. They wanted to know the default behavior.

For example, we built a little movie table so that we didn’t change their default sakila example database. The movie table was like this:

CREATE TABLE movie
( movie_id     int unsigned primary key auto_increment
, movie_title  varchar(60)) auto_increment=1001;

Then, I inserted the following rows:

INSERT INTO movie 
( movie_title )
VALUES
 ('The King and I')
,('I')
,('The I Inside')
,('I am Legend');

Querying all results with this query:

SELECT * FROM movie;

It returns the following results:

+----------+----------------+
| movie_id | movie_title    |
+----------+----------------+
|     1001 | The King and I |
|     1002 | I              |
|     1003 | The I Inside   |
|     1004 | I am Legend …

I’ve been publishing paywall content over on my Kofi Page for the “MySQL Learning Tier” membership mostly in video format. Here is a free post for anyone interested in the type of content you can expect within the membership…

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Ready for your weekly dose of PHP/MySQL content? Well, you’re in luck because this issue of OpenLampTech has just what you need!

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In this week’s OpenLampTech issue #23, we are looking at articles on:

• WordPress WP_Query
• MySQL Deferred Joins
• Modern PHP
• MySQL data change capture
• Custom WordPress taxonomies
• And, a whole lot more…

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Where can you find weekly content on all the things PHP, MySQL, the LAMP stack and related frameworks? If you guessed the OpenLampTech newsletter then you’re correct! Let’s dive into this week’s issue…

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I’m including so much original and curated content in these weekly newsletters, it’s a wonder my email service provider can even deliver them lol.

Let’s see what is in store in this week’s OpenLampTech issue #22:

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In this blog post, you will learn how to create a MySQL table using the various tools MySQL Workbench provides without typing any SQL code. Continue reading and learn how…

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It’s no secret that text or string data are one of the most common datatypes you will process. At times, only a specific portion of a string may be needed and this is the perfect use case for the SUBSTRING() character function…

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Recently, I published an article over on the OpenLampTech Substack publication page, MySQL SUBSTRING() Function – With Examples, where I cover syntax and examples of the function.

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This 20th issue of the OpenLampTech newsletter marks 5 continuous months of weekly publishing. Thank you, the readers, for making it possible and continuing to read these newsletters. Once again, this week’s issue has plenty of PHP/MySQL content so enjoy the newsletter!

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This week’s OpenLampTech newsletter issue has plenty to read for everyone as I am loading these newsletters up! We are looking at articles covering:

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I recently needed to add multiple columns to an existing table to store summary data calculations and wondered if I could do it in one MySQL ALTER TABLE statement. Turns out you can. And, it’s super simple. Convenient too. Continue reading and learn what I learned…

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