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SSIS: generate create table DDL programmatically

Is there source or library somewhere that would help me generate DDL on the fly? I have a few hundred remote databases that I need to copy to the local server. Upgrade procedure in the field is to …

How to run OPTIMIZE TABLE with the least downtime

I have a MySQL 5.5 DB of +-40GB on a 64GB RAM machine in a production environment. All tables are InnoDB. There is also a slave running as a backup. One table – the most important one – grew to 150M rows, inserting and deleting became slow. To speed up inserting and deleting I deleted half of the …

Complicated MySQL Select query

Here is my table layout: What I would like to do: Count the number of votes for each songID in a particular room (passed in as a parameter). Find out if the userID has at least one vote for a song in a particular room. UserID is also passed in as a parameter. An extension of the two above. If

Query to check if date is between two month-day values

I want to know if a date (Year-Month-Day) is between a day of the month (Month-Day). For example, I want to know if ‘April 2, 2013’ is between ‘April 2’ and ‘April 19’. I can easily do this of the range has a year value. Howver, without a year, I need ideas how to do this. …