Question

say I had a stored proc like this:

BEGIN
    DECLARE user_id INT; 
    SET user_id = 1; 
    SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `user_id` = user_id;
END

and a table like this:

users
=============================
user_id  |  user_displayname
-----------------------------
1        |  Joe
2        |  Steve
3        |  Brad

Calling the stored proc above gives me:

1  |  Joe
2  |  Steve
3  |  Brad

Is there something I can add to my.cnf that tells MySQL to be very strict about punctuation?

I’m used to being in java land and being able to do:

int userId = 1;
if(aUserObject.userId == userId)
    //do something

Answer 1

How about:

SET @user_id := 1; 
SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `user_id` = @user_id;