Answered: TO_DATE Equivalent in MySQL

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:59:08 +0000

You can use STR_TO_DATE() function to convert a string to date.

A detailed note is available here.. http://dbaspot.com/mysql-faq/476027-mysql-to_date-equivalent.html

On the second question about PL/SQL working in My SQL, I dont think oracle has announced any plans on that yet. you may want to propose that as a feature request to Oracle on Metalink / CSP

Answered: ERROR 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:16:22 +0000

Yep, this is a clear case of wrongly sized max packet size. Increase it and test, it should work.

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