Hello, and thanks for your time. Basically, I am using telnet to create tables/columns, and all is ok, except I do not know the correct syntax for using blob text. For example, if I create a table named 'members' with id/name/description it would look like: CREATE TABLE movieform ( ID INT NOT NULL, name CHAR(255) NOT NULL, description CHAR(255) NOT NULL); Ok. The last line, creating 'description', I want to create 'CHAR' with 'BLOB' Is it as easy as replacing it with 'BLOB', and if so, do I leave the (255) out of it, or add the # of char's to be allowed? I want blob so I can have a text description over 255 characters, basically. But I don't know the syntax for blob *when creating a column*, and I don't know if I need to mention in ()'s, the # of characters, like you do with 'char' How do I use it? Thanks Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: Angela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Greg Skouby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Selecting rows with same data in all fields except one > Have you tried something like this? > SELECT * FROM table_name where col1=col2 and col2=col3 and col3=col4 and > col4!=col5; > > > > Greg Skouby wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a table which consists of 5 columns. > > There are a large number of rows that have the same values for the > > first 4 columns and the last column is the only thing that differs. > > I would like to grab all the rows that have these identical > > columns so I can store it into one rows with all the different > > values in the last column of just one row. What would the syntax > > be to grab all the rows that have identical data in > > the first 4 columns? I know this is pretty trivial but everthing > > I try seems to be wrong. Thanks for your help. > > > > Greg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Before posting, please check: > > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > -- > Angela Curtis > Innovative Business Consultants > http://www.ibc2001.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php