The tables are being created dynamically, I don't know the column names or
field types. I am currently using a subroutine to return the field types by
issuing a DESCRIBE on the table....but I was wondering if there was a SQL
trick to select stuff using field type criteria in the where clause.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:34 PM
To: Brian Kaney; mySQL Mailing List
Subject: Re: SELECT WHERE fieldtype
You have to select a certain row, there is no way to say all rows that are
NOT an int.
At 04:33 PM 1/16/2001 -0500, Brian Kaney wrote:
>Is there a way to SELECT FROM table WHERE field_type IS (NOT) 'something'.
>
>For example, 'something' could be TIMESTAMP, INT, FLOAT, AUTO_INCREMENT,
>etc...I looked through the manual and archives to no avail.
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