Thanks, but I tried that and it doesn't seem to work any better than an "if" statement. Have you tried it? Maybe I am doing something wrong. If you could post some working code that would be awesome.
-----Original Message----- From: sol beach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:25 PM To: Josh Howe Subject: Re: what is wrong woth this statement? > How can I do this? By using the CASE staement? On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:15:11 -0400, Josh Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I don't think I was very clear. I'm asking a more generic > question about control flow expressions. I want to run a sql statement > but only if a certain condition is met, namely if a particular record > exists in a table. I want to do it all in a single mysql statement, like > so: > > If ([record exists]) then > Do some sql > End If > > How can I do this? Thanks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:38 PM > To: Josh Howe > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: what is wrong woth this statement? > > i didnt fully catch you... > is this the kind of query statement you want? > > INSERT INTO some_other_table > SELECT > some_field_list > FROM z_mail_systems > HAVING COUNT(any_field)>0 > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:45:30 -0400, Josh Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if (select count(*) from z_mail_systems > 0) then [insert statement] > > endif; > > > > How do I do this kind of conditional insert? Thanks. > > > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
