title: Select all but the first character in a string
body: <p>How can you return a string minus the first character in a string in MySQL?</p>
  
  <p>In other words, get 'ello' from 'hello'.</p>
  
  <p>The only way I can think to do it is to use mid() with the second offset being larger than the string could possibly be:</p>
  
  <pre><code>select mid('hello', 2, 99)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I'm convinced there must be a more elegant way of doing it. Is there?</p>