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MySQL Countries Of The World Table in SQL

Sometimes we need a list of all countries, and whilst searching Wikipedia and copy and pasting is fine, it can take a long time and is tedious, so here is an SQL Country List to copy and paste.

 

CREATE TABLE `settingsCountries` (
`CountryID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`CountryCode` varchar(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
`CountryName` varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
PRIMARY KEY (`CountryID`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

….and then insert all the items

ALTER TABLE `settingsCountries` DISABLE KEYS;

INSERT INTO `settingsCountries` VALUES (1,’AF’,’Afghanistan’),(2,’AL’,’Albania’),(3,’DZ’,’Algeria’),(4,’DS’,’American Samoa’),(5,’AD’,’Andorra’),(6,’AO’,’Angola’),(7,’AI’,’Anguilla’),(8,’AQ’,’Antarctica’),(9,’AG’,’Antigua and Barbuda’),(10,’AR’,’Argentina’),(11,’AM’,’Armenia’),(12,’AW’,’Aruba’),(13,’AU’,’Australia’),(14,’AT’,’Austria’),(15,’AZ’,’Azerbaijan’),(16,’BS’,’Bahamas’),(17,’BH’,’Bahrain’),(18,’BD’,’Bangladesh’),(19,’BB’,’Barbados’),(20,’BY’,’Belarus’),(21,’BE’,’Belgium’),(22,’BZ’,’Belize’),(23,’BJ’,’Benin’),(24,’BM’,’Bermuda’),(25,’BT’,’Bhutan’),(26,’BO’,’Bolivia’),(27,’BA’,’Bosnia and Herzegovina’),(28,’BW’,’Botswana’),(29,’BV’,’Bouvet Island’),(30,’BR’,’Brazil’),(31,’IO’,’British Indian Ocean Territory’),(32,’BN’,’Brunei Darussalam’),(33,’BG’,’Bulgaria’),(34,’BF’,’Burkina Faso’),(35,’BI’,’Burundi’),(36,’KH’,’Cambodia’),(37,’CM’,’Cameroon’),(38,’CA’,’Canada’),(39,’CV’,’Cape Verde’),(40,’KY’,’Cayman Islands’),(41,’CF’,’Central African Republic’),(42,’TD’,’Chad’),(43,’CL’,’Chile’),(44,’CN’,’China’),(45,’CX’,’Christmas Island’),(46,’CC’,’Cocos (Keeling) Islands’),(47,’CO’,’Colombia’),(48,’KM’,’Comoros’),(49,’CG’,’Congo’),(50,’CK’,’Cook Islands’),(51,’CR’,’Costa Rica’),(52,’HR’,’Croatia (Hrvatska)’),(53,’CU’,’Cuba’),(54,’CY’,’Cyprus’),(55,’CZ’,’Czech Republic’),(56,’DK’,’Denmark’),(57,’DJ’,’Djibouti’),(58,’DM’,’Dominica’),(59,’DO’,’Dominican Republic’),(60,’TP’,’East Timor’),(61,’EC’,’Ecuador’),(62,’EG’,’Egypt’),(63,’SV’,’El Salvador’),(64,’GQ’,’Equatorial Guinea’),(65,’ER’,’Eritrea’),(66,’EE’,’Estonia’),(67,’ET’,’Ethiopia’),(68,’FK’,’Falkland Islands (Malvinas)’),(69,’FO’,’Faroe Islands’),(70,’FJ’,’Fiji’),(71,’FI’,’Finland’),(72,’FR’,’France’),(73,’FX’,’France, Metropolitan’),(74,’GF’,’French Guiana’),(75,’PF’,’French Polynesia’),(76,’TF’,’French Southern Territories’),(77,’GA’,’Gabon’),(78,’GM’,’Gambia’),(79,’GE’,’Georgia’),(80,’DE’,’Germany’),(81,’GH’,’Ghana’),(82,’GI’,’Gibraltar’),(83,’GK’,’Guernsey’),(84,’GR’,’Greece’),(85,’GL’,’Greenland’),(86,’GD’,’Grenada’),(87,’GP’,’Guadeloupe’),(88,’GU’,’Guam’),(89,’GT’,’Guatemala’),(90,’GN’,’Guinea’),(91,’GW’,’Guinea-Bissau’),(92,’GY’,’Guyana’),(93,’HT’,’Haiti’),(94,’HM’,’Heard and Mc Donald Islands’),(95,’HN’,’Honduras’),(96,’HK’,’Hong Kong’),(97,’HU’,’Hungary’),(98,’IS’,’Iceland’),(99,’IN’,’India’),(100,’IM’,’Isle of Man’),(101,’ID’,’Indonesia’),(102,’IR’,’Iran (Islamic Republic of)’),(103,’IQ’,’Iraq’),(104,’IE’,’Ireland’),(105,’IL’,’Israel’),(106,’IT’,’Italy’),(107,’CI’,’Ivory Coast’),(108,’JE’,’Jersey’),(109,’JM’,’Jamaica’),(110,’JP’,’Japan’),(111,’JO’,’Jordan’),(112,’KZ’,’Kazakhstan’),(113,’KE’,’Kenya’),(114,’KI’,’Kiribati’),(115,’KP’,’Korea, Democratic People\’s Republic of’),(116,’KR’,’Korea, Republic of’),(117,’XK’,’Kosovo’),(118,’KW’,’Kuwait’),(119,’KG’,’Kyrgyzstan’),(120,’LA’,’Lao People\’s Democratic Republic’),(121,’LV’,’Latvia’),(122,’LB’,’Lebanon’),(123,’LS’,’Lesotho’),(124,’LR’,’Liberia’),(125,’LY’,’Libyan Arab Jamahiriya’),(126,’LI’,’Liechtenstein’),(127,’LT’,’Lithuania’),(128,’LU’,’Luxembourg’),(129,’MO’,’Macau’),(130,’MK’,’Macedonia’),(131,’MG’,’Madagascar’),(132,’MW’,’Malawi’),(133,’MY’,’Malaysia’),(134,’MV’,’Maldives’),(135,’ML’,’Mali’),(136,’MT’,’Malta’),(137,’MH’,’Marshall Islands’),(138,’MQ’,’Martinique’),(139,’MR’,’Mauritania’),(140,’MU’,’Mauritius’),(141,’TY’,’Mayotte’),(142,’MX’,’Mexico’),(143,’FM’,’Micronesia, Federated States of’),(144,’MD’,’Moldova, Republic of’),(145,’MC’,’Monaco’),(146,’MN’,’Mongolia’),(147,’ME’,’Montenegro’),(148,’MS’,’Montserrat’),(149,’MA’,’Morocco’),(150,’MZ’,’Mozambique’),(151,’MM’,’Myanmar’),(152,’NA’,’Namibia’),(153,’NR’,’Nauru’),(154,’NP’,’Nepal’),(155,’NL’,’Netherlands’),(156,’AN’,’Netherlands Antilles’),(157,’NC’,’New Caledonia’),(158,’NZ’,’New Zealand’),(159,’NI’,’Nicaragua’),(160,’NE’,’Niger’),(161,’NG’,’Nigeria’),(162,’NU’,’Niue’),(163,’NF’,’Norfolk Island’),(164,’MP’,’Northern Mariana Islands’),(165,’NO’,’Norway’),(166,’OM’,’Oman’),(167,’PK’,’Pakistan’),(168,’PW’,’Palau’),(169,’PS’,’Palestine’),(170,’PA’,’Panama’),(171,’PG’,’Papua New Guinea’),(172,’PY’,’Paraguay’),(173,’PE’,’Peru’),(174,’PH’,’Philippines’),(175,’PN’,’Pitcairn’),(176,’PL’,’Poland’),(177,’PT’,’Portugal’),(178,’PR’,’Puerto Rico’),(179,’QA’,’Qatar’),(180,’RE’,’Reunion’),(181,’RO’,’Romania’),(182,’RU’,’Russian Federation’),(183,’RW’,’Rwanda’),(184,’KN’,’Saint Kitts and Nevis’),(185,’LC’,’Saint Lucia’),(186,’VC’,’Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’),(187,’WS’,’Samoa’),(188,’SM’,’San Marino’),(189,’ST’,’Sao Tome and Principe’),(190,’SA’,’Saudi Arabia’),(191,’SN’,’Senegal’),(192,’RS’,’Serbia’),(193,’SC’,’Seychelles’),(194,’SL’,’Sierra Leone’),(195,’SG’,’Singapore’),(196,’SK’,’Slovakia’),(197,’SI’,’Slovenia’),(198,’SB’,’Solomon Islands’),(199,’SO’,’Somalia’),(200,’ZA’,’South Africa’),(201,’GS’,’South Georgia South Sandwich Islands’),(202,’ES’,’Spain’),(203,’LK’,’Sri Lanka’),(204,’SH’,’St. Helena’),(205,’PM’,’St. Pierre and Miquelon’),(206,’SD’,’Sudan’),(207,’SR’,’Suriname’),(208,’SJ’,’Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands’),(209,’SZ’,’Swaziland’),(210,’SE’,’Sweden’),(211,’CH’,’Switzerland’),(212,’SY’,’Syrian Arab Republic’),(213,’TW’,’Taiwan’),(214,’TJ’,’Tajikistan’),(215,’TZ’,’Tanzania, United Republic of’),(216,’TH’,’Thailand’),(217,’TG’,’Togo’),(218,’TK’,’Tokelau’),(219,’TO’,’Tonga’),(220,’TT’,’Trinidad and Tobago’),(221,’TN’,’Tunisia’),(222,’TR’,’Turkey’),(223,’TM’,’Turkmenistan’),(224,’TC’,’Turks and Caicos Islands’),(225,’TV’,’Tuvalu’),(226,’UG’,’Uganda’),(227,’UA’,’Ukraine’),(228,’AE’,’United Arab Emirates’),(229,’GB’,’United Kingdom’),(230,’US’,’United States’),(231,’UM’,’United States minor outlying islands’),(232,’UY’,’Uruguay’),(233,’UZ’,’Uzbekistan’),(234,’VU’,’Vanuatu’),(235,’VA’,’Vatican City State’),(236,’VE’,’Venezuela’),(237,’VN’,’Vietnam’),(238,’VG’,’Virgin Islands (British)’),(239,’VI’,’Virgin Islands (U.S.)’),(240,’WF’,’Wallis and Futuna Islands’),(241,’EH’,’Western Sahara’),(242,’YE’,’Yemen’),(243,’ZR’,’Zaire’),(244,’ZM’,’Zambia’),(245,’ZW’,’Zimbabwe’);

ALTER TABLE `settingsCountries` ENABLE KEYS;

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SQL Server check table fragmentation level

If you are using SQL Server, and discover that what should be a simple select query, or particularly multiple select queries that are unioned together with a sort are running slowly, then the issue is your table indexes. This is particularly the case when using Date and DateTime fields for sorting.

If you are trying to sort a table or multiple tables by Date, then it is a good idea to add an index on the Date column, it makes things significantly faster.

Here is the SQL Query to check all tables in your database and the levels of fragmentation of each:

SELECT dbschemas.[name] as 'Schema',
dbtables.[name] as 'Table',
dbindexes.[name] as 'Index',
indexstats.avg_fragmentation_in_percent,
indexstats.page_count
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (DB_ID(), NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) AS indexstats
INNER JOIN sys.tables dbtables on dbtables.[object_id] = indexstats.[object_id]
INNER JOIN sys.schemas dbschemas on dbtables.[schema_id] = dbschemas.[schema_id]
INNER JOIN sys.indexes AS dbindexes ON dbindexes.[object_id] = indexstats.[object_id]
AND indexstats.index_id = dbindexes.index_id
WHERE indexstats.database_id = DB_ID()
ORDER BY indexstats.avg_fragmentation_in_percent desc
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SQL Server – List all tables and the fragmentation percentage

This is another check you should perform once databases start to get large, as having fragmented indexes have a huge performance hit.

For more on what fragmented indexes are, read this fantastic article.

After significant trial and error we have come up with an SQL script that lists all indexes for every table and shows the percentage fragmentation for the selected database on your server in one go!

 

SELECT
a.database_id,
db_name(a.database_id) As DatabaseName,
a.page_count,
a.OBJECT_ID,
a.index_id,
b.name,
a.avg_fragmentation_in_percent
FROM
sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (DB_ID(), NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) AS a
INNER JOIN sys.indexes AS b ON a.OBJECT_ID = b.OBJECT_ID AND a.index_id = b.index_id
WHERE
a.database_id = DB_ID()
ORDER BY
a.OBJECT_ID