Creating a "Numbers Table" in MySQL

Creating a Numbers Table in MySQL

You are missing semicolons, commas, and even after correcting syntax it is still not a good idea to select max from the table every time just to insert one more row in a loop.

Drop that and use generators from http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2011-07-30/mysql-row-generator :

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_16
AS SELECT 0 n UNION ALL SELECT 1  UNION ALL SELECT 2  UNION ALL 
   SELECT 3   UNION ALL SELECT 4  UNION ALL SELECT 5  UNION ALL
   SELECT 6   UNION ALL SELECT 7  UNION ALL SELECT 8  UNION ALL
   SELECT 9   UNION ALL SELECT 10 UNION ALL SELECT 11 UNION ALL
   SELECT 12  UNION ALL SELECT 13 UNION ALL SELECT 14 UNION ALL 
   SELECT 15;

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_256
AS SELECT ( ( hi.n << 4 ) | lo.n ) AS n
     FROM generator_16 lo, generator_16 hi;

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_4k
AS SELECT ( ( hi.n << 8 ) | lo.n ) AS n
     FROM generator_256 lo, generator_16 hi;

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_64k
AS SELECT ( ( hi.n << 8 ) | lo.n ) AS n
     FROM generator_256 lo, generator_256 hi;

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW generator_1m
AS SELECT ( ( hi.n << 16 ) | lo.n ) AS n
     FROM generator_64k lo, generator_16 hi;

And if for whatever reason you really need a table of numbers just do:

INSERT INTO numbers(number)
SELECT n FROM generator_64k WHERE n < 64000

MYSQL: Sequential Number Table

-- To use the bitwise solution you need a view of 2 to the power 25.
-- the following solution is derived from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9751318/creating-a-numbers-table-in-mysql
-- the following solution ran in 43.8 seconds with the primary key, without it 4.56 seconds.

-- create a view that has 2 to the power 25 minus 1

-- 2 ^ 1
CREATE or replace VIEW `two_to_the_power_01_minus_1` AS select 0 AS `n` union all select 1 AS `1`;

-- 2 ^ 2
CREATE or replace VIEW `two_to_the_power_02_minus_1` 
AS select
   ((`hi`.`n` << 1) | `lo`.`n`) AS `n`
from (`two_to_the_power_01_minus_1` `lo` join `two_to_the_power_01_minus_1` `hi`) ;

-- 2 ^ 4
CREATE or replace VIEW `two_to_the_power_04_minus_1` 
AS select
   ((`hi`.`n` << 2 ) | `lo`.`n`) AS `n`
from (`two_to_the_power_02_minus_1` `lo` join `two_to_the_power_02_minus_1` `hi`) ;

-- 2 ^ 8
CREATE or replace VIEW `two_to_the_power_08_minus_1` 
AS select
   ((`hi`.`n` << 4 ) | `lo`.`n`) AS `n`
from (`two_to_the_power_04_minus_1` `lo` join `two_to_the_power_04_minus_1` `hi`) ;

-- 2 ^ 12
CREATE or replace VIEW `two_to_the_power_12_minus_1` 
AS select
   ((`hi`.`n` << 8 ) | `lo`.`n`) AS `n`
from (`two_to_the_power_08_minus_1` `lo` join `two_to_the_power_04_minus_1` `hi`) ;

-- 2 ^ 13
CREATE or replace VIEW `two_to_the_power_13_minus_1`
AS select
   ((`hi`.`n` << 1) | `lo`.`n`) AS `n`
from (`two_to_the_power_01_minus_1` `lo` join `two_to_the_power_12_minus_1` `hi`);



-- create a table to store the interim results for speed of retrieval
drop table if exists numbers_2_to_the_power_13_minus_1;

create table `numbers_2_to_the_power_13_minus_1` (
  `i` int(11) unsigned
) ENGINE=myisam DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 ;

-- faster 2 ^ 13
insert into numbers_2_to_the_power_13_minus_1( i )
select n from `two_to_the_power_13_minus_1` ;

-- faster 2 ^ 12
CREATE or replace view `numbers_2_to_the_power_12_minus_1`
AS select
   `numbers_2_to_the_power_13_minus_1`.`i` AS `i`
from `numbers_2_to_the_power_13_minus_1`
where (`numbers_2_to_the_power_13_minus_1`.`i` < (1 << 12));

-- faster 2 ^ 25
CREATE or replace VIEW `numbers_2_to_the_power_25_minus_1`
AS select
   ((`hi`.`i` << 12) | `lo`.`i`) AS `i`
from (`numbers_2_to_the_power_12_minus_1` `lo` join `numbers_2_to_the_power_13_minus_1` `hi`);

-- create table for results

drop table if exists numbers ;

create table `numbers` (
  `i` int(11) signed 
  , primary key(`i`)
) ENGINE=myisam DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

-- insert the numbers
insert into numbers(i)
select i from numbers_2_to_the_power_25_minus_1
where i <= 20000000 ;

drop view if exists numbers_2_to_the_power_25_minus_1 ;
drop view if exists numbers_2_to_the_power_12_minus_1 ;
drop table if exists numbers_2_to_the_power_13_minus_1 ;
drop view if exists two_to_the_power_13_minus_1 ;
drop view if exists two_to_the_power_12_minus_1 ;
drop view if exists two_to_the_power_08_minus_1 ;
drop view if exists two_to_the_power_04_minus_1 ;
drop view if exists two_to_the_power_02_minus_1 ;
drop view if exists two_to_the_power_01_minus_1 ;

Are you allowed to use numbers as table names in MySQL?

Rules for naming objects, including tables in MySql:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/identifiers.html

Identifiers may begin with a digit but
unless quoted may not consist solely
of digits.

So this would be invalid:

 SELECT * FROM 12345;

But the following would be valid:

 SELECT * FROM `12345`;

Or if running in ANSI mode the following would work:

SET @@session.sql_mode=ANSI_QUOTES;
SELECT * FROM "12345";

Generating a range of numbers in MySQL

If you need the records in a table and you want to avoid concurrency issues, here's how to do it.

First you create a table in which to store your records

CREATE TABLE `incr` (
  `Id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`Id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Secondly create a stored procedure like this:

DELIMITER ;;
CREATE PROCEDURE dowhile()
BEGIN
  DECLARE v1 INT DEFAULT 5;
  WHILE v1 > 0 DO
    INSERT incr VALUES (NULL);
    SET v1 = v1 - 1;
  END WHILE;
END;;
DELIMITER ;

Lastly call the SP:

CALL dowhile();
SELECT * FROM incr;

Result

Id
1
2
3
4
5

How to insert numbers from 1 to 1000 to a table what i created in a procedure?

As per the docs, you can only use DECLARE at given locations:

DECLARE is permitted only inside a BEGIN ... END compound
statement and must be at its start, before any other statements.

Declarations must follow a certain order. Cursor declarations must
appear before handler declarations. Variable and condition
declarations must appear before cursor or handler declarations.

_{(You're also missing a space at numberINT.)}

Create a new table based on another two tables in MYSQL

You can use a CREATE ... SELECT query to generate the user_summary table. The SELECT query counts how many purchases were made before or after each coupon for each user, as well as counting the total number of their coupons:

CREATE TABLE user_summary AS
SELECT u.user_id, 
       COALESCE(SUM(u.purchase_time < c.coupon_time), 0) AS purchase_before,
       COALESCE(SUM(u.purchase_time >= c.coupon_time), 0) AS purchase_after,
       COUNT(c.coupon_id) AS total
FROM user u
LEFT JOIN coupon c ON c.user_id = u.user_id
GROUP BY u.user_id

Output (of SELECT * FROM user_summary) after running this query:

user_id     purchase_before     purchase_after  total
Marta       1                   1               2
Michael     0                   0               0
Steve       0                   1               1

Demo on db-fiddle

generate sequence of (telephone) numbers in table in mySQL

Create a table that contains the numbers from 0 to 9. Extract the starting and ending digits of each number, and join with the number table to find all the numbers in the range.

WITH digits AS (
    SELECT 0 AS dig
    UNION
    SELECT 1 AS dig
    ...
    UNION 
    SELECT 9 AS dig)
SELECT SUBSTR(phone1, 1, 5) + digits.dig
FROM yourTable
JOIN digits ON dig BETWEEN SUBSTR(phone1, 6, 1) AND SUBSTR(phone1, 8, 1)
WHERE phone1 != ''

This shows how to do it for the phone1 column, you can use UNION to repeat it for the other 3 columns.

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