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MariaDB Cookbook

MariaDB Cookbook

By : Daniel Bartholomew
4.2 (9)
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MariaDB Cookbook

MariaDB Cookbook

4.2 (9)
By: Daniel Bartholomew

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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MariaDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using virtual columns


The virtual columns feature of MariaDB allows us to create columns which contain precalculated or calculated on-the-fly values.

How to do it...

  1. Launch the mysql command-line client and connect to our MariaDB database.

  2. Create a test database and switch to that database using the following command:

    CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS test;
    USE test;
    
  3. Create a table with virtual columns using the following command:

    CREATE TABLE virt_cols (
      id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
      surname VARCHAR(64),
      givenname VARCHAR(64),
      uid INT AS (id + 1000) VIRTUAL,
      username VARCHAR(6) AS 
        (LOWER(CONCAT(LEFT(givenname,1),(LEFT(surname,5))))) PERSISTENT);
    
  4. Examine the structure of the table using the following command:

    DESCRIBE virt_cols;
    

    The DESCRIBE command displays the structure of the table as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Show a CREATE TABLE command that will recreate the exact table (including the virtual columns):

    SHOW CREATE TABLE virt_cols\G
    

    The preceding command displays the following...

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