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On Multiple programming languages ?

Well, I just wanted to note from this blog  Keeping multiple programming languages straight . I found this very helpful to read, and thus he has also his notes with what he had done and contributed so far, in Open Source world. Keep on reading on his blog. It has lot to learn from what he have done so far.

MySQL: list all fields into a CSV result or set custom delimiter

So the topic here is how would you come up with listing all the fields of a table where it will output into a comma separated values? Say for example, you have a database named BILLING with a sample table name and fields below. __________________ |                 | |     CUSTOMERS         | |_________________| | name              | | address           | | username          | | password        | |_________________| and wanted to have a result of name, address, username, and password. You have to query the database supplied by default in MySQL using the DB name INFORMATION_SCHEMA and then filter the result with its table name and select only the COLUMNS field. So the query should look something like this, // set a value for the variable @table mysql > set @table='customers'; mysql> select GROUP_CONCAT(COLUMN_NAME SEPARATOR ',') from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where TABLE_SCHEMA='BILLING' AND TABLE_NAME=@table; The r