Hi Renee, Check the version of your MySQL. The subqueries feature is available from MySQL 4.1
Hope this helps you. - Harish -----Original Message----- From: Renee Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 6:17 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: simple subquery syntax not working! I have read through quite a bit of the MySQL manual concerning subqueries and cannot seem to get even the simplist of queries to work! I have a table called PersonRole which is the many-to-many joint table between two upper tables, Person and Role. I have tested the two pieces of the query alone and they work fine. (e.g. if I enter a "5" after the equal sign, it works and if I just type the subquery alone, it returns the single number 5.) So, why does mysql give me a syntax error? --------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT personRoleDBNum FROM PersonRole WHERE roleDBNum = (SELECT roleDBNum FROM Role WHERE role = 'STAFF') ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SELECT roleDBNum FROM Role WHERE role = 'STAFF')' at line 2 --------------------------------------------------------------- I must be dumb or just really really confused. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Renee ===== ******************************************************** Renee Henderson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WA state) Computer Programmer / Internet Specialist "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries, and you rejoice." ******************************************************** -- 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]
