This blog post discusses the ramifications of STRICT mode in MySQL 5.7.

In short

By default, MySQL 5.7 is much “stricter” than older versions of MySQL. That can make your application fail. To temporarily fix this, change the

SQL_MODE

 to

NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

 (same as in MySQL 5.6):

mysql> set global SQL_MODE="NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION";

MySQL 5.7, dates and default values

The default

SQL_MODE

 in MySQL 5.7 is:

ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY,STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

That makes MySQL operate in “strict” mode for transactional tables.

“Strict mode …

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As a part of improving the error handling, in MySQL 5.7.5 we have re-implemented STRICT sql mode.

STRICT mode in MySQL affects the errors that arise from invalid, missing, or out of range values in DML statements such as INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. The new implementation aims to make the behavior of STRICT mode more consistent, yet maintain backward compatibility as much as possible.

In MySQL 5.7.5, we have made three general improvements to STRICT mode behavior:

 1. STRICT mode got simpler

It was observed that having a large number of sql modes dependent on STRICT mode creates confusion among users. Specifically, we are talking about NO_ZERO_DATE, NO_ZERO_IN_DATE and ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO modes. You can se further details on the above sql modes here. These modes only …

In 5.7.5, as a part of the larger effort to improve error handling, we re-implemented the IGNORE clause (WL#6614). The IGNORE clause is a MySQL extension to the SQL standard. It affects the errors which occur for each row. The new implementation aims to make the behavior of the IGNORE clause more consistent.

Statements which support the IGNORE clause are:

• INSERT [ IGNORE ]
• UPDATE [ IGNORE ]
• DELETE [ IGNORE ]
• LOAD DATA [ IGNORE ]
• LOAD XML [ IGNORE ]
• CREATE TABLE… [ IGNORE ] SELECT

When the INSERT statement is used to insert a number of rows into a table, an exception during processing would normally abort the statement and return an error message. With the IGNORE keyword, rows that cause certain exceptions are ignored, but the remaining rows are inserted and the …

Just the previous week, Anders mentioned the sql_mode with regard to Joomla. Past week, Shlomi's started a nice discussion pertaining to MySQL's sql_mode. He offers the suggestion to modify the installation procedure so MySQL is by default installed using a so-called "strict" sql_mode. In addition, he suggest it would be better if it would not be allowed to change …