> hi > > i am experimenting with sql for getting lists of friends. > > select friend.* > from user > left join link on user.id=link.id and user.id = $MYID > right join user friend on link.friend_id = friend.id > where user.name is null; > > on my local windows machine running mysql 5 it works fine, however > when i try with to import the tables to a unix machine running mysql > 4, the select fails. > > - if i do "user.name is null", i get an empty set. > > - if i do "user.name is not null", i get 10000 rows, where each of the > 100 rows from the user table is repeated 100 times each. > > (the error might not even be related to mysql 4/5, but i am at a > loss here) > > does anyone know how to resolve this? >
It won't help that you've got two table listed after the right join statement. I think right join user friend on ... should be right join friend on ... Edward -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
