Comments on: What Data Type is Returned by a Mathematical Function?

By: What Data Type is Returned by a Mathematical Function? « I’m just a simple DBA on a complex production system

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:24:19 +0000

[...] by a Mathematical Function? September 6, 2008 Filed under: tips — prodlife @ 2:24 am This question was asked last week byÂ Nicklas Westerlund. His attempts to answer the question are fascinating and [...]

By: Nicklas Westerlund

Nicklas Westerlund — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:42:13 +0000

Thanks. Especially –column-type-info is very handy, I already like that option.

By: Roland Bouman

Roland Bouman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:30:49 +0000

Especially, look at Sergei’s comment to that blog post:

“You can also start mysql command line client with â€“column-type-info (-T in old versions). Itâ€™ll show correct values as reported by the protocol.”

By: Joe Izenman

Joe Izenman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:46:27 +0000

Baron just posted on this very subject not two weeks ago (and I happened to be reading it today, which is why I remember):

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/13/how-to-emulate-the-typeof-function-in-mysql/