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Can I set a row-limit for query results that throws an ERROR if the result set exceeds that limit?

I'm looking for a way to protect my database against runaway queries issued by an application. I have control over both the application and the database. It occurs to me that I can protect against two ...
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'Limit INT OFFSET @variable' throw runtime error in mysql server

I'm trying to solve this problem in Hackerrand The problem asks for the median in a specific column my code: SET @VAE = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM STATION); SET @VAE1 = ROUND(@VAE/2)-1; SELECT LAT_N FROM ...
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Why does my LIMITed SELECT fetch the last record of the table, not the first?

I read that to fetch the first table record, you may use LIMIT 1. I tried to apply that knowledge to my JOIN statement and got a diametrically opposite result. It joined the last record of the joined ...
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Tabular Cube SSAS Enterprise - Ignoring "LowMemoryLimit"(And All Others)

I have a really big SSAS Tabular cube server, it's has about 1TB of available memory(x1e.8xlarge). I have allot of cubes on it, it's great, I want to add more, I've added a new one and unfortunately I'...
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How to get the most recent result sets when grouping key and date are in separate tables

Good evening! I'm having some difficulty. I'm trying to obtain the most recent row from a few tables using SQL. I can do this using a loop in code, but it requires a lot of round trips to the database ...
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How to limit the amount of values within a postgres table which are updated

using the following sample: CREATE TABLE tbl( x integer, y integer ) INSERT INTO tbl SELECT g AS x FROM generate_series(1, 10) AS g; Which gives: x | y ----+--- 1 | 2 | 3 | ...
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MariaDB: Limit changes query plan and makes query very slow

It's counter-intuitive and weird to see how adding "LIMIT 2" changes whole plan for MariaDB (version 10.6.7) from using one index and having total time of 2 seconds into another index with ...
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How to limit CPU by Db2 instance?

On Linux/x86_64 I have several Db2 database instances and most of them have one database per instance. Today I have had one "run away instance" that consumed most of the CPU resources of ...
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MySQL query: multiple select with different conditions and LIMIT for each, but also LIMIT whole query + paginator friendly

I would like to write SQL query (for MySQL) that is able to SELECT x rows by condition1 from table1 y rows by condition2 from table1+join1 z rows by condition3 from table1+join2 But on every page (...
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How do I block all IP addresses from connecting remotely to Cassandra?

I want access to remote cassandra with one ip address. how can I change cassandra.yaml to block all ip address except ip that I want to connect? Can I do by cassandra.yaml ?
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How to limit the number of rows in a mysql table

How can I set a limit of rows to a mysql table? (I am using php) POSSIBLE METHOD-1: When the user tries to SIGN-UP I can select everything from the TABLE and get the number of ROWS in the TABLE and ...
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Very slow MariaDB query when adding ORDER BY/LIMIT but there are no rows

I am facing an issue with MariaDB 10.1 on a log table with the following (simplified) structure: CREATE TABLE logs ( log_id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, log_date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT ...
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Best practice for SQL table names when using sub namespaces that exceed maximum table name length

I have a MySQL database that includes many tables named according to a namespace that uses sub names and underscores (_ as in a_b_c), such as the following: life_domain_kingdom_phylum ...
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Limiting the number of records from nested INNER JOIN table

The context is as follows: We have 3 tables: We'll call them A,B and C. A has a foreign key referencing table B, we'll call it "bId". The relationship is a ManyToOne. (One record in B can ...
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mySQL Query with a LIMIT on a row value

I am trying to replace a lot of queries like this with a single query. SELECT * FROM y WHERE x = a ORDER BY timestamp LIMIT 50 SELECT * FROM y WHERE x = b ORDER by timestamp LIMIT 50 SELECT * FROM y ...
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data model limit rows per user

This is regarding to postgres that I was asked to create data model which has a relationship with user. For example a new data model called Comment M:1 User, but while creating the data model is it ...
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Determine Available Blocks of Contiguous Ids

We have a SQL Server table that has an int autoincrement primary key column on it. The table's primary key space is fragmented. For example, ids 1 through 10 are in use but then ids 11 through 100,000 ...
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Fill remaining LIMIT rows selection if conditions met are less than LIMIT number

I have a MySQL database with data in it. They all have locations (London, Liverpool, etc), I want a query to select 10 random rows with a location (for example London), and if there aren't enough to ...
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How to use ORDER BY and LIMIT inside JSON_AGG

I have a query which returns a desired output. SELECT shop, JSON_AGG(item_history.* ORDER BY created_date DESC) as data FROM item_history GROUP BY shop; Results: [ { "shop&...
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MySQL replication username

What is the difference in using these two approaches when setting master-slave replication: Setting the binlog-do-db option on the master to choose which DBs are going to be replicated; Creating a ...
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How to limit tree traversal in case of loops?

So I want to limit tree depth traversal (as the simplest recursion killer tool). Example code that turns normalized records into tree: CREATE TABLE items ( item_id serial PRIMARY KEY, title ...
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postgresql, connection limit for different roles

Is possible setup in postgresql.conf connection limit for specified role globally (in some .conf file) or individually? For example, I have 3 roles and max_connections = 600. Need to setup max 10 ...
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LIMIT and OFFSET a complex query

I have a query generated by a ORM (Sequelize), i ran into an issue where sequelize fails, look at those issues. https://github.com/sequelize/sequelize/issues/7344 https://github.com/sequelize/...
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How to not allow to insert a new record if count of current records exceeds a specified limit

I have two tables as the following team `id` BIGINT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, `member_limit` INT NOT NULL team_member `id` BIGINT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, `team_id` ...
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Mysql self Join query with Limit never terminates

I'm running an experiment with the query Select Distinct table_1.id1, table_2.id1 FROM image as table_1, image as table_2 WHERE table_1.id2 = table_2.id2 LIMIT K; When I run the query ...
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updating n number of records mysql database

I want to update n number of records in table using a query like below, but it will return an error since in mysql, it is not allowed to use value after the limit key update producedItem pi inner ...
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MySQL apply LIMIT and OFFSET to a selected table, rather than to the result set

I have 3 tables as below. mysql> describe IDN_CONFIG_RESOURCE; +---------------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default ...
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Display Top X results for each unique value

I am trying to figure out how I can output any machine that has had the latest 3 backups be larger than 10GB. My SQL Table looks similar to the below table: ComputerID | BackupImageName | ...
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How does adding LIMIT work with Where conditions in mysql?

In my database, there is only one record which satisfies the condition iv_title = 'ball skills'. Now I'm executing the following query : SELECT * FROM `imageAndVideo` WHERE `iv_title` = '...
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Set Maximum Tables In A Database [duplicate]

I need to set up a MySQL database with a maximum number of tables which can be created in it. For example, if I have my maximum at 5 tables for a single database, and someone attempts to create a 6th ...
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Distinct result with row_id for limit query

There are 2 tables: CREATE TABLE sample1 ( id int, name varchar, score int, mode int ) CREATE TABLE sample2 ( id int, mode int ... ) I need to select distinct name with MIN(score) and ...
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Limit left join for multiple rows

Since MySql doesn't support main alias reference in subquery is a bit challenging to create query with multiple rows where you have to limit rows of left join tables. Let's overview simple example. ...
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Predicting the primary keys exhaustion in MySQL based on rate of insertion

We are running out of primary keys for our table in production. We do not want that to occur again. So we need a mechanism to alert us when we are running out of primary keys based on the rate of ...
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SQL Server Express 2017 database size limitation

I have a database hosted on SQL Server Express 2017. The size was small like 200MB. Today I have copied 24GB tables to the same database from external database hosted on different server. The ...
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MySQL logging max_questions resource

How would I know in MySQL if the user has exceeded his max_queries per hour? I know that I can see this error on the client side, but I just want to know that before client is reporting to me, ...
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Limit groups of results based on a column value

I'm not sure I formulated the question properly, but anyway. I have a table with level-2 comments, some of which, expectedly, have the same comment_parent column value. How do I make a SELECT query ...
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What happens if I load last 10 rows then next 10 after other rows are inserted?

What if I had a PHP script that had a pagination that loads last 10 rows then page two loaded next 10 in DESC order, but before loading next 10 on page 2, other 10 rows were added to the table? What ...
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Alternate to use LIMIT in subquery in mysql?

I have 2 tables, Resource and views and I'm trying to get the list of all the items from Resource table whose ran_resId don't match with the ran_resId of last 2 records of views table. I'm trying to ...
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Does switching from INT to BIGINT entails significant downtime?

Hypothetically, if your INT column already has 4 billion rows, how long is the process of converting that column to BIGINT? I know this will depend on server resources but I just want to have a ...
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Delete from table using FK columns, JOIN and LIMIT

This query below will never complete, since it always looks at the first 100,000 (user_type, user_ids). How can I write this to delete 100,000 records from the table with the FK reference (Product) to ...
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Why *not* ERROR: index row size xxxx exceeds maximum 2712 for index "foo"?

We have repeatedly seen failing attempts to index columns with values exceeding a maximum size. Postgres 10 has this kind of error message for it: ERROR: index row size xxxx exceeds maximum 2712 for ...
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MongoDB terminates when it runs out of memory

I have the following configuration: a host machine that runs three docker containers: MongoDB Redis A program using the previous two containers to store data Both Redis and MongoDB are used to ...
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Postgres slow query with order by, index and limit

I am trying to improve the performance of a postgres(9.6) query. Here is my schema and table contains about 60 million rows. Column | Type | Modifiers -------...
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SQL Server Error 8632 due to over 100,000 entries in WHERE clause

My problem (or at least the error message) is very similar to query processor ran out of internal resources - extremely long sql query. My customer is working with an SQL select-query, containing a ...
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Is there a server option which limits the amount of rows returned by a remote query?

I have an issue where a system on our network is making a query (select * from table) which might result in 0 to 70k rows being returned. For large result sets, say around 50k, the calling system is ...
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Is it possible to limit concurrent aggregations in Mongo?

When clients makes certain requests, our service sends aggregation queries to Mongo. Some of these aggregations take longer than others. Usually this is fine, but occasionally multiple heavy ...
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Limits of applock in MS SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server offers an arbitrary application-defined locking mechanism through the sp-getapplock command and related commands. The key, or resource_name, is specified as a string, a varchar ...
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MySQL LIMIT within JOIN

I have an 1:m association. symbols table has many rows in company_key_statistics table. company_key_statistics has column createdAt which is timestamp indicating when row has been created. I need to ...
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PostgreSQL Size Quota on Table or Schema

How do one limit the size of a PostgreSQL table? (or schema) Limit in either bytes or rows would be OK. I'm starting to think that there's no easy and obvious solution. I have a lot of identical ...
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MySQL 5.5 vs 5.6,5.7 above same database same query but different output, limit have duplicated ID

I am using Running same source code and same database for WordPress, only the mysql version is different. It make my pagination post have duplication. Here is what I found out. Any idea how to solve ...
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