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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

Creating and dropping CONNECT tables


CONNECT tables are only superficially similar to other tables. In this recipe, we'll create a CONNECT DIR table.

Getting ready

Enable the CONNECT engine as specified in the Installing the CONNECT storage engine recipe at the beginning of this chapter.

How to do it...

  1. Connect to MariaDB with the mysql command-line client and to the test database with a user that has the CREATE privilege. If the test database is absent, create one.

  2. Run the following CREATE statement to create a table that lists the files in the data directory of the test database:

    CREATE TABLE test_data ( 
      path varchar(256) NOT NULL flag=1, 
      filename varchar(256) NOT NULL flag=2, 
      filesize double(12,0) NOT NULL flag=5 
    ) ENGINE=CONNECT DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
      TABLE_TYPE=DIR FILE_NAME='*.frm'
      OPTION_LIST='subdir=1';
    

    Select everything in the table. The output will vary depending on the tables in the test database and their location and size. Though the columns will be similar to the following...

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