How to make sql-mode=“NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION” permanent in MySQL my.cnf

Question

UPDATE FIXED 1/18/15

After we recently updated to MySQL 5.6.27 (from the Ubuntu repo), this option now works. So this appears to have been a problem with the previ

Answer 1

It should be:

[mysqld]
sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION,STRICT_TRANS_TABLES

instead of

[mysqld]
sql_mode="NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"

then restart mysqld service.