Questions tagged [database]
Drupal provides a standard, vendor-agnostic abstraction layer for accessing database servers.
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Database general error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away
Recently I started getting an error every time I try and add a content no matter what type. This is the error that shows up in the browser:
Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling ...
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Using OR with EntityFieldQuery
I have never had the need to do this before today, but it doesn't seem like you can make OR queries with EntityFieldQuery, since db_or is used for select queries.
An example would get to all entities ...
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PDOException when creating the table: Base table or view not found [closed]
I have Drupal running on MariaDB 5.5.33. When I run update.php (after upgrade to Drupal 7.28 from Drupal 6) I get an error:
Failed: PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 ...
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How do I convert a database from MyISAM to InnoDB?
I am going to convert all the tables of 500MB database from MyISAM to InnoDB to see whether it will improve the overall performance of a busy Drupal 6 site. I am wondering what is the best (i.e. ...
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Print the query which is built using db_select()
I want to print the query which is built using db_select() in a programmatical way. Is there any API function provided by Drupal Abstraction Layer?
It is similar to query output in Views, but I want ...
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Cache Form table size is enormous
Cache table's size had increased to 10+ GB last month, and I had fixed it temporarily by truncating it. Last time I checked it was around 1GB. So in couple of months it will hit 10GB again. How should ...
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Given that db_select is much slower than db_query, why would I want to use it?
For the background on this, please see http://drupal.org/node/1067802.
Given all that, what situations exists where I might want to use db_select(), or should I be relying solely on db_query?
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Solving "MySQL server has gone away", mysql error 2006 [duplicate]
I have a site at hostgator, using their "Business account". It's cheap, and comes with a private SSL cert. HOWEVER, their MySQL settings are such that any db connection goes stale fairly quickly, and ...
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EntityFieldQuery display pager
How do I display pager using EntityFieldQuery for fetch results?
I can't find complete example.
I am doing simmilar to:
Sortable, paged table retrieved using EntityFieldQuery
But I miss part to ...
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How to change the length of field settings?
I have set once to a website a lenght limit to a field. And now the client wants to put more characters to that field.
I cannot change the maximum size from Drupal because I get the following error ...
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"OR" condition in db_select()
I am studying the new database layer, and I am glad it is changed to an OOP layer. I need to implement a query with db_select(). I found I can add a WHERE statement with $query->condition(), but by ...
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Excluding empty(Null) fields when using EntityFieldQuery query condition
Is it possible to select all of the entities who's xyz field is empty?
I tried soemthing like this:
->fieldCondition('field_name', 'value', NULL, 'IS NOT NULL');
However, this doesn't seem to ...
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Can I delete leftover field_deleted_* tables?
I have a lot of field_deleted_* tables in the database and neither drush cr or running cron is removing them. Is it okay to just remove them from the database? How can I tell Drupal to remove them ...
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Which tables are safe to clear?
I have inherited a client site that has an extremely large database for no reason. There is a moderate amount of content and very little enabled modules. However, the database is too large for moving ...
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28k views
Get the actual query executed by a view
I need to find out the SQL query that is executed by a certain query. Views module can show the SQL when configuring the view but apparently the query is not the actual query that gets run in all ...
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How can I setup multiple database connections?
Can anyone help me to setup connection with multiple databases connection in Drupal 8? I have database on the same server and I want to access it along with default Drupal 8 database.
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EntityFieldQuery INNER JOIN
I'd like to run a query using the EntityFieldQuery object. I need value from both the node and node_access table therefore I'd need to use INNER JOIN. From the d.o documentation I can't figure out how ...
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How I can delete all node/field revisions?
I have a drupal 7 sites, where it keeps node and field revisions. I keep revisions for the case where by mistake a new faulty version is saved and I want to revert back.
But, now I want to clean and ...
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Using db_query() or db_select() to connect to multiple databases
How can I execute a query that connects to different databases?
I have the following query, and I need to rewrite it for Drupal.
SELECT a.empid, b.empname FROM db1..empidmaster a, db2..emplist b
...
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Is it always bad to pass a variable through t()?
I have a little helper function for my hook_schema:
function _bbcmap_schema_asr_field($description) {
return array(
'type' => 'int',
'unsigned' => TRUE,
'size' => 'small', // ...
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4answers
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Change module's weight - by module or manualy
I am looking for solution how to change particular module's weight in D7. I know that it is possible to do in config tables in database, but I don't know how. Another solution that I found in Drupal....
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4answers
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What's the proper way to use EntityFieldQuery?
In Drupal 7, the API documentation for node_load_multiple() specifies that using the $conditions parameter has been deprecated in favor of using EntityFieldQuery.
In which way should EntityFieldQuery ...
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Can any of the cache_* be emptied safely?
Sometimes when moving the database it can be too large. Can any of the "cache_" prefixed tables be emptied without causing problems?
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2answers
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How to implement a mysql date or datetime field correctly in hook_schema()?
I have written a mymodule.install file which contains a schema definition to create a table in my database. This table contains two data fields. Theese fields will be populated by the users when they ...
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2answers
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How to define and use an external database connection in a custom module
I'm developing a module that will rely heavily on external database queries. Is there a best practice for defining and using an external database connection throughout a module?
This page tells me ...
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Changing an inner join to a left join in views 3.3?
Using views 3.3, I have a view in Drupal 7 where I am showing two content types. I have a filter criteria based on the value of a field that is attached only to one of the content types. So long as I ...
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2answers
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How do I execute stored procedures?
I have a website which does lot of work on financial data. It involves operations on large volumes of data most of the time. Hence I find it useful to do those operations in MySQL stored procedures. I ...
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3answers
5k views
How to sort on different columns in the same view?
I'm trying to build a Glossary View in Drupal 8. Let's say I have 3 content types: Person, Article, Event. I want sort by title ASC for Article and Event, but sort by Last Name for Person. So that ...
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4answers
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Inserting the value from Datetime field form
I have a form where the user can input datetime and then I want to store it in the database. Here's my schema :
'start' => array(
'type' => 'varchar', 'mysql_type' => 'datetime',
...
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5answers
2k views
Entity Query field condition for Webform submissions
I'm trying to query webform submissions based on a field value. The field is called "ticket_for".
Somethings I tried and do not work:
->condition('ticket_for',$adnummer)
->condition('...
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votes
3answers
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PHP in database: bad practice but
Lots of times here I've been told that using views custom php fields, filters or others is a bad practice, because putting php in the sql is dangerous.
My question is, if you only call to a function, ...
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How do I merge changes from a development copy of the site to the live site without losing new content?
What is the best procedure for merging work done on a development copy of a site to the live production copy? Often times there has been a lot of new content added to the site since development ...
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How to get rid of Deadlocks and Lock time out type issues?
I read multiple blogs, tried to google, it but didn't find any satisfaction from any solution. I have the following issues :
PDOException: SQLSTATE[40001]: Serialization failure: 1213 Deadlock found ...
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hook_schema is not creating database table
The following function is contained in process_login.install as part of a custom module called process_login. The module works if I manually created the database table, but naturally I would like the ...
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PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory in _registry_check_code()
Drush is running on MAMP, PHP 5.6.6.
Inside /Volumes/Doxy/htdocs/omegadoen/sites/all/themes/omega
I run:
drush omega-wizard
I get:
Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling
...
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4answers
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How do you make sortable tables with a pager with data from a custom table?
For Drupal 6 you could do something like this:
$header = array(
array('data' => t('Order id'), 'field' => 'order_id'),
...
array('data' => t('Transaction time'), 'field' => '...
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3answers
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General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away [closed]
This is the error I am suddenly getting.
Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception.
Original
PDOException: SQLSTATE[70100]: Unknown error: 1317 Query execution was interrupted......
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2answers
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How to create complex conditional clauses / queries?
I've been reading the documentatoin on conditional clauses and also studied the api description for db_and() and db_or() but I fail to create a $query with 3 ->conditions:
select all between 0 and ...
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Problem with PDO MySQL
For the last couple of days I've been getting the following error:
Fatal error: Undefined class constant 'MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY' in /home/mydomain/public_html/drupal/includes/database/mysql/...
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Sync +- 70 000 records from CSV into drupal
I have a CSV file with approx. 70.000 records that I want to import into Drupal 7. Once this is done the client will provide a new CSV file on a daily base that has to sync the updated rows to Drupal. ...
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EntityFieldQuery doesn't work correctly in hook_cron
I am programming a new module in my Drupal 7 project. in my module hook_cron is override.
in my hook_cron function, I want to select a node type with specific filter for a cck field.
I am using ...
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How to fix - PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S22] [duplicate]
I cannot seem to get rid of this error after numerous updates, anyone got any ideas/advice how to fix it as my Admin Modules doesn't want to load at all. I'm running D7.26 on this project.
Thanks.
...
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Perform a query with an entity field condition with multiple values
I have a content type that has a entity reference field that allows users to add multiple taxonomy terms in that field. I'm attempting to perform queries that grab nodes that have a specific set of ...
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4answers
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Custom query in Views?
At some point I found the need to modify an SQL query generated by Views, in the end I overrode views_pre_execute and changed the query for that specific view.
This feels like an ugly hack to me and ...
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Using IN clause in db_query
I can't figure out how to add an IN clause in my query, using placeholders.
I'd want it to be something like:
$nids = array(1, 2, 3);
$result = db_query('SELECT * FROM {node} WHERE nid IN :nids', ...
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How do I use "NOT IN" in a query?
What is the proper way to write a query containing 'NOT IN' using a condition statement?
My query is the following one:
SELECT DISTINCT nid FROM node WHERE language NOT IN
(SELECT language
...
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reseting the hook_update_n status of a module
I'm extending a module I've previously written and it needs some schema changes which I implement in hook_update_N.
I've updated the module's version from 7.x-1.0 to 7.x-1.1 and implemented the ...
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what is a reasonable value for max_allowed_packet for Drupal 7 with moderate traffic？
I need to know some ball park number for this variable for my drupal 7 site. I recently got a "drupal "PDOException: SQLSTATE[08S01]: Communication link failure: 1153" error. I am a newbie to mysql ...
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How do I change a field type?
I have a content type with a field_maps whose type is Text (plain, long). I needed to change it to Text (plain).
So I've done this SQL statement:
ALTER TABLE node__field_maps MODIFY field_maps_value ...
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How can I save arrays of values in the database?
I am trying to save multiple values from a textarea to a database table.
I use the following code, but I feel it is the wrong way.
foreach ($user_emails as $key => $value) {
$...
