2 Ways to Return the Julian Day in SQLite

Here are two methods for returning the Julian Day in SQLite.

The Julian Day is the fractional number of days since noon in Greenwich on November 24, 4714 B.C. It’s the continuous count of days since the beginning of the Julian period, and is used primarily by astronomers, and in software for easily calculating elapsed days between two events.

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Fix “ERROR 1136 (21S01): Column count doesn’t match value count at row 1” when Inserting Data in MariaDB

If you find yourself getting an error that reads something like “ERROR 1136 (21S01): Column count doesn’t match value count at row” in MariaDB, it’s probably because you’ve specified the wrong number of expressions for the number of columns in the column when attempting to insert data into a table.

In other words, you’re trying to insert too many columns or not enough columns.

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Fix “ERROR 3942 (HY000): Each row of a VALUES clause must have at least one column” when using the VALUES Statement in MySQL

If you’re getting an error that reads “ERROR 3942 (HY000): Each row of a VALUES clause must have at least one column” in MySQL, you could have an empty row constructor when using the VALUES statement.

To fix this issue, make sure you’ve got at least one value in each ROW() clause within the VALUES statement.

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