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MySQL and MariaDB don’t allow optional parameters for stored procedures, nor procedures accepting any number of parameters. However, these features can be emulated by passing JSON documents. Let’s see how.
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Changing triggers in production is problematic, because for a short time triggers will be missing, or inconsistent with each other. This article proposes a solution to resolve the problem.
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