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You'd have to do this with a prepared statement. Something like: Full-Stack Developer, WordPress
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PREPARE stmt1 FROM @s;
EXECUTE stmt1;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt1;
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One more thing it show resul only when i remove DEALLOCATE PREPARE stm1; – Burimi Jan 10 '12 at
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Brilliant solution. Helped me to solve the issue I'm having, thanks. – Tim Visée May 26 '16 at 12:36
1 In MySQL trigger, is it possible to set a
What does the DEALLOCATE PREPARE do? – Frozen Flame Jun 29 '16 at 2:59
user variable with NEW.col and use that in
update query?
1 @FrozenFlame, release the stmt1 . If you do not release it, may you encounter the max limit of statements,
enforced by max_prepared_stmt_count variable system, how you can read here. – ruzenhack Jul 12 '17 at -2 Declaring variables in SQL and “Must
19:29 declare the table variable @TBL” error
is this still valid syntax in 2018?? – Anthony Jul 17 at 1:51 0 Select from table with IF

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