6 Ways to Add a Month to a Date in MariaDB

MariaDB provides several ways to perform arithmetic on dates. This includes adding or subtracting a month (or many months) from a given date.

Here are 6 ways to add a month to a date in MariaDB.

Bonus update: I’ve now added a 7th way to add a month to a date at the end of this article. So I guess it’s now 7 ways to add a month to a date in MariaDB 🙂

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How to do an UPDATE Pass-Through Query in SQL Server

In SQL Server, the OPENQUERY rowset function enables you to execute a pass-through query on a linked server.

OPENQUERY is commonly referenced in the FROM clause of a query as if it were a table, but it can also be referenced as the target table of an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.

This article presents an example of using OPENQUERY to do an UPDATE pass-through query.

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How to Show all Locales in MariaDB

MariaDB supports a large list of locales that are used by functions such as DAYNAME(), MONTHNAME() and DATE_FORMAT().

While these locales are available to MariaDB, by default they’re not loaded into any of the system tables, so you can’t run a query to retrieve them.

However, MariaDB provides a plugin that does load these into a table. Once the plugin has been installed, you can query that table to return the locales available in MariaDB.

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