Question

I have a script with 800 queries. Most of them return nothing.

How can I modify this scripts to know which ones are returning rows only

SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_notification_template` WHERE `name` LIKE '%1720%';
SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_notification_template` WHERE `push_title` LIKE '%1720%';
SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_notification_template` WHERE `message_title` LIKE '%1720%';
SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_queue` WHERE `push_title` LIKE '%1720%';
SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_queue` WHERE `message_title` LIKE '%1720%';
SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_queue` WHERE `type` LIKE '%1720%';
SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`zizio_groupsale` WHERE `zizio_object_id` LIKE '%1720%';
SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`zizio_groupsale` WHERE `name` LIKE '%1720%';
SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`zizio_groupsale` WHERE `recurrence_child` LIKE '%1720%';
SELECT * FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`zizio_groupsale` WHERE `recurrence_ancestor` LIKE '%1720%';

Answer 1

You could do something like this, which would return just the queries that have rows:

SELECT
  '`theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_notification_template`' as table,
  '`name` LIKE \'%1720%\'' as condition,
  count(*) as count
FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_notification_template`
WHERE `name` LIKE '%1720%'

UNION

SELECT
  '`theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_notification_template`' as table,
  '`push_title` LIKE \'%1720%\'' as condition,
  count(*) as count
FROM `theprint_depotlive-v16`.`xmlconnect_notification_template`
WHERE `push_title` LIKE '%1720%'

UNION

...

WHERE count > 0;

If your list of queries is in a table or something that can be read by mysql, you could potentially generate the above query programmatically using dynamic SQL.