On Monday 28 November 2005 04:45 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 28), Hal Vaughan said: > > I have a table that lists the tasks a program has to do. Lately I've > > found I can have an "at-a-glance" status report of how things are > > going on by writing a loop (in bash scripting, on Linux, btw) that > > uses "mysql -e" to display the list of tasks and their current state. > > It's quick and a lot simpler than I thought it would be to create a > > self-updating status display. > > > > The only thing missing is that it would be helpful to be able to add > > an extra column on the left for a row count -- preferably so each > > selected row has a number beside it, but putting a summary count on > > the last line (or adding an extra line with a summary count below it) > > would be helpful. > > > > I've Googled, but it seems this is almost impossible to do. Is it? > > Or is there a simple way to have a count next to the rows being > > displayed? > > SET @row=0; > SELECT @row:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AS row, otherfields from mytable; > > If you're doing it with mysql -e, this does it with one command: > > SELECT @row:=(ifnull(@row,0))+1 AS row, otherfields from mytable;
Actually, this kept printing 1 for each row, so I did this: mysql -e "SET @row=0; SELECT @rwo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AS Row..." which, obviously, is using the first way, but setting the variable in the same command line in "mysql -e". That worked perfectly! It's interesting how there were so many pages on the net that indicated this was not possible or easily done. Thank you! Hal -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
