
MariaDB Cookbook
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Inserting new data and updating existing data in a dynamic column is not the same as with traditional columns. Without some help from a set of special dynamic columns functions, the standard MariaDB INSERT
, UPDATE
, and DELETE
statements do not understand how to work with a dynamic column or the data stored in it. They will only see it as a BLOB
column. This recipe introduces and demonstrates the basic functions used when interacting with a dynamic column.
First, you need to complete the Creating tables with dynamic columns recipe.
Launch the mysql
command-line client and connect to the test
database in our MariaDB server.
Insert some values into the dyn_example
table we created earlier:
INSERT INTO dyn_example (dyn_cols) VALUES (COLUMN_CREATE('name','t-shirt', 'color','blue' AS CHAR, 'size','XL' AS CHAR)), (COLUMN_CREATE('name','t-shirt', 'color','blue' AS CHAR, 'size','L' AS CHAR)), (COLUMN_CREATE...
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