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In OpenLampTech issue #70, I am sharing some fantastic articles on:

• ‘Tainted’ PHP code
• Linux package dependencies
• 10 useful PHP array functions
• SQL NULL value
• And much, much more

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There is a whole lot of great PHP, MySQL, and LAMP-stack content in this week’s OpenLampTech newsletter. But, would you expect any less? Me neither. Enjoy this edition and share with others. Thank you for being a dedicated reader!

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I recently wanted to check all tables’ current AUTO_INCREMENT value (if any) for a database dump structure. I wasn’t sure if a tables’ Data Definition Language (DDL) statement contained the current AUTO_INCREMENT value or not. So after I loaded the dump file, I learned of a query to use and find out…

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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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I am so pleased to announce that I have published my very first mini eBook, “10 MySQL Tips For Everyone”. Continue reading to find out what it’s about, and how to get your copy.

What is the 10 MySQL Tips For Everyone eBook about?

In this eBook, I share 10 useful tips for anyone working with the MySQL database. These tips are a mix of the relatively common, and a couple of my personal own that I have realized or discovered as I continue to learn MySQL.

Here are a couple of my favorites.

So you’re (hopefully) wondering how you can get your own free copy of “10 MySQL Tips For Everyone”.

Super easy…

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If you are like me, you enjoy your newsletter reading time. If you are a PHP/MySQL developer or a blogging developer yourself, then this post is definitely for you. Continue reading for additional details…

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Joining individual pieces of text data into a singular string is nothing new in the programming world and all languages support some form of concatenation. In MySQL, you can use the CONCAT() function. Let’s see how…

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Sit back, grab your beverage of choice, and get ready for a deep-dive issue of OpenLampTech, the newsletter for PHP/MySQL developers. This month’s featured piece covers select-like methods in the CodeIgniter 4 Query Builder class. Thanks for being here to read the publication

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In this blog post, we will learn how to group sets of values into a comma-separated list, for each group, using the MySQL GROUP_CONCAT() function. Continue reading for more information…

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