ANSI_QUOTES

Treat ‘"’ as an identifier quote character (like the ‘`’ quote character) and not as a string quote character. You can still use ‘`’ to quote identifiers with this mode enabled. With ANSI_QUOTES enabled, you cannot use double quotes to quote literal strings, because it is interpreted as an identifier. (Added in MySQL 4.0.0)

IGNORE_SPACE

Allow spaces between a function name and the ‘(’ character. This causes built-in function names to be treated as reserved words. As a result, identifiers that are the same as function names must be quoted as described in Section 9.2, “Database, Table, Index, Column, and Alias Names”. For example, because there is a COUNT() function, the use of count as a table name in the following statement causes an error:

mysql> CREATE TABLE count (i INT);
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax

The table name should be quoted:

mysql> CREATE TABLE `count` (i INT);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

The IGNORE_SPACE SQL mode applies to built-in functions, not to user-defined functions. It is always allowable to have spaces after a UDF name, regardless of whether IGNORE_SPACE is enabled.

For further discussion of IGNORE_SPACE, see Section 9.2.3, “Function Name Parsing and Resolution”.

(Added in MySQL 4.0.0)

NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO

NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO affects handling of AUTO_INCREMENT columns. Normally, you generate the next sequence number for the column by inserting either NULL or 0 into it. NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO suppresses this behavior for 0 so that only NULL generates the next sequence number. (Added in MySQL 4.1.1)

This mode can be useful if 0 has been stored in a table's AUTO_INCREMENT column. (Storing 0 is not a recommended practice, by the way.) For example, if you dump the table with mysqldump and then reload it, MySQL normally generates new sequence numbers when it encounters the 0 values, resulting in a table with contents different from the one that was dumped. Enabling NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO before reloading the dump file solves this problem. As of MySQL 4.1.1, mysqldump automatically includes a statement in the dump output that enables NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO to avoid this problem.

NO_DIR_IN_CREATE

When creating a table, ignore all INDEX DIRECTORY and DATA DIRECTORY directives. This option is useful on slave replication servers. (Added in MySQL 4.0.15)

NO_FIELD_OPTIONS

Do not print MySQL-specific column options in the output of SHOW CREATE TABLE. This mode is used by mysqldump in portability mode. (Added in MySQL 4.1.1)

NO_KEY_OPTIONS

Do not print MySQL-specific index options in the output of SHOW CREATE TABLE. This mode is used by mysqldump in portability mode. (Added in MySQL 4.1.1)

NO_TABLE_OPTIONS

Do not print MySQL-specific table options (such as ENGINE) in the output of SHOW CREATE TABLE. This mode is used by mysqldump in portability mode. (Added in MySQL 4.1.1)

NO_UNSIGNED_SUBTRACTION

In integer subtraction operations, do not mark the result as UNSIGNED if one of the operands is unsigned. In other words, the result of a subtraction is always signed whenever this mode is in effect, even if one of the operands is unsigned. For example, compare the type of column c2 in table t1 with that of column c2 in table t2:

mysql> SET SQL_MODE='';
mysql> CREATE TABLE test (c1 BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL);
mysql> CREATE TABLE t1 SELECT c1 - 1 AS c2 FROM test;
mysql> DESCRIBE t1;
+-------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| c2    | bigint(21) unsigned |      |     | 0       |       |
+-------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

mysql> SET SQL_MODE='NO_UNSIGNED_SUBTRACTION';
mysql> CREATE TABLE t2 SELECT c1 - 1 AS c2 FROM test;
mysql> DESCRIBE t2;
+-------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type       | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| c2    | bigint(21) |      |     | 0       |       |
+-------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

Note that this means that BIGINT UNSIGNED is not 100% usable in all contexts. See Section 12.9, “Cast Functions and Operators”. (Added in MySQL 4.0.2)

mysql> SET SQL_MODE = '';
mysql> SELECT CAST(0 AS UNSIGNED) - 1;
+-------------------------+
| CAST(0 AS UNSIGNED) - 1 |
+-------------------------+
|    18446744073709551615 |
+-------------------------+

mysql> SET SQL_MODE = 'NO_UNSIGNED_SUBTRACTION';
mysql> SELECT CAST(0 AS UNSIGNED) - 1;
+-------------------------+
| CAST(0 AS UNSIGNED) - 1 |
+-------------------------+
|                      -1 |
+-------------------------+

ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY

Do not allow queries for which the SELECT list refers to non-aggregated columns that are not named in the GROUP BY clause. (Added in MySQL 4.0.0) The following query is invalid with this mode enabled because address is not named in the GROUP BY clause:

SELECT name, address, MAX(age) FROM t GROUP BY name;

PIPES_AS_CONCAT

Treat || as a string concatenation operator (same as CONCAT()) rather than as a synonym for OR. (Added in MySQL 4.0.0)

REAL_AS_FLOAT

Treat REAL as a synonym for FLOAT. By default, MySQL treats REAL as a synonym for DOUBLE. (Added in MySQL 4.0.0)

ANSI

Equivalent to REAL_AS_FLOAT, PIPES_AS_CONCAT, ANSI_QUOTES, IGNORE_SPACE. Before MySQL 4.1.11, ANSI also includes ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY. See Section 1.9.3, “Running MySQL in ANSI Mode”.

DB2

Equivalent to PIPES_AS_CONCAT, ANSI_QUOTES, IGNORE_SPACE, NO_KEY_OPTIONS, NO_TABLE_OPTIONS, NO_FIELD_OPTIONS.

MAXDB

Equivalent to PIPES_AS_CONCAT, ANSI_QUOTES, IGNORE_SPACE, NO_KEY_OPTIONS, NO_TABLE_OPTIONS, NO_FIELD_OPTIONS.

MSSQL

Equivalent to PIPES_AS_CONCAT, ANSI_QUOTES, IGNORE_SPACE, NO_KEY_OPTIONS, NO_TABLE_OPTIONS, NO_FIELD_OPTIONS.

MYSQL323

Equivalent to NO_FIELD_OPTIONS.

MYSQL40

Equivalent to NO_FIELD_OPTIONS.

ORACLE

Equivalent to PIPES_AS_CONCAT, ANSI_QUOTES, IGNORE_SPACE, NO_KEY_OPTIONS, NO_TABLE_OPTIONS, NO_FIELD_OPTIONS.

POSTGRESQL

Equivalent to PIPES_AS_CONCAT, ANSI_QUOTES, IGNORE_SPACE, NO_KEY_OPTIONS, NO_TABLE_OPTIONS, NO_FIELD_OPTIONS.