Thanks, that's interesting. Actually the uc.ID column is still type
tinyint
as it holds only one number, but are you saying if I change this to
varchar
my query will work e.g. 15 = 15:17 would work?
>
>What is the type of the 'uc.ID' column? If it's varchar, your match
>will work fine. If it's an integer type, you are going to have a
>problem because you have bt.category_ID holding things which can't be
>represented as integers and will therefore never match. IF both
>column type are being changed here, your query will work fine as is.
>
>- michael dykman
>
>On 6/14/07, Edward Quick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have the following mySQL query in my script which has been working
fine
>>but due to a recent change, I had to modify one of the columns,
>>bt.category_ID. This used to be defined as tinyint(3) but I've changed
>>that
>>now to varchar(20) as it needs to hold values such as 15, or 74:79 or
>>43:56:113
>>
>>In light of that, could anyone tell me what I need to change in my SQL
to
>>get it working please?
>>Presuambly uc.ID=bt.category_ID won't work anymore.
>>
>>INSERT IGNORE $visitstable (url_scheme_ID, url_server_ID, url_path_ID,
>>url_query_ID, url_category_ID)
>> SELECT DISTINCT usc.ID, us.ID, up.ID, uq.ID,
>>uc.ID
>> FROM bulk_table bt
>> INNER JOIN url_servers us ON
us.server=bt.server
>> INNER JOIN $pathstable up ON up.path=bt.path
>> INNER JOIN url_schemes usc ON
>>usc.ID=bt.scheme_ID
>> INNER JOIN $queriestable uq ON
uq.query=bt.query
>> INNER JOIN url_categories uc ON
>>uc.ID=bt.category_ID;
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>
>>Ed.
>>
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