If you’re getting an error that reads something like “START value (11) cannot be greater than MAXVALUE (10)” in PostgreSQL when you’re trying to create a sequence, it’s because your sequence’s start value is higher than its maximum value, when it should be lower or the same.
To fix this issue, be sure that the sequence’s maximum value is not less than its start value.
Continue readingBy default, time zone names aren’t included with MySQL. The MySQL installation process creates the appropriate tables, but it doesn’t populate these tables.
That said, it’s very easy to populate these tables.
Once populated, we can list out the time zone names available in our system by querying the mysql.time_zone_name table.
In MySQL and MariaDB we can use the AUTO_INCREMENT keyword to create an automatically incrementing column in a table. In SQLite, we’d use the AUTOINCREMENT keyword. And in SQL Server we can use the IDENTITY property. Some of those DBMSs also allow us to create sequence objects, which provide us with more options for creating an auto-increment type column.
When it comes to PostgreSQL, there are a few ways to create an auto-incrementing column. Below are three options for creating an AUTO_INCREMENT style column in Postgres.
In MySQL, COLLATION() is a built in function that returns the collation of its string argument.
We provide the string when we call the function.
Continue readingIn MySQL, CHARSET() is a built in function that returns the character set of its string argument.
We provide the string when we call the function.
Continue readingIf you’re getting error msg 8115 that includes the message Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type…, it’s probably because you’re trying to convert a value to a data type that can’t handle that value. For example, trying to convert a number to a tinyint but the number’s too big to fit into a tinyint.
To fix this issue, make sure you convert the value to a data type that can handle the size of the value that you’re trying to convert.
Continue readingPostgreSQL allows us to create sequence objects, otherwise known as “sequence generators”, or simply “sequences”. As the name suggests, a sequence object is used to generate sequence numbers.
We can use sequences to generate incrementing numbers or decrementing numbers.
Continue readingIf you’re getting error msg 9809 which reads something like The style … is not supported for conversions from … to … in SQL Server, it’s probably because you’re trying to convert between data types, but the style that you’re specifying isn’t supported for that operation.
It’s not that the conversion can’t happen, it’s just that the style that you’re providing is wrong.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, we can use functions like CONVERT() or FORMAT() to convert a valid date type into a format like yyyymmdd.
This format adheres to the ISO 8601 standard, which defines dates to be written as yyyymmdd, or when using delimiters, as yyyy-mm-dd.
In SQL Server, the date type expresses dates in the yyyy-mm-dd format, but we can use the following technique to remove the delimiters and express the date as yyyymmdd.
Continue readingIf you get an error that reads “WRONGTYPE Operation against a key holding the wrong kind of value” when using the ZPOPMIN or ZPOPMAX commands in Redis, it’s because you’re passing a key with the wrong data type.
The same issue can apply when using the blocking variants of these commands (BZPOPMIN and BZPOPMAX).
To fix this issue, make sure you pass a sorted set to these commands.
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