Um, hello? I wasn't trying to turn this into a general bitch session on the manual, and I really don't think that's appropriate. Worse, it obscures and devalues the value of the bug report.
I'm just trying to draw attention to a possible software malfunction in the "commentary" section of the online docs. If you are a tech writer or other employee with mysql.com, please skip the following bracketed paragraphs, they're for others: [[ Please, if you wish to argue about the use of "WHERE" or case-sensitive searches, do it on some other Subject line, okay? The focus here is specifically on the COMMENTS in the ON-LINE DOCUMENTATION of MYSQL. Those COMMENTS are usually totally irrelevant to the topic being discussed, which makes them USELESS. ]] I will offer an example: Looking for commentary and useful tips on INSERT...SELECT syntax: http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/N/INSERT_SELECT.html What I find begins thus: yval : Note that the input to INET_NTOA, and the output from INET_ATON are in host byte order. Michael Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: As opposed to "left.id = right.id", a LEFT join means that all of the left table's IDs are displayed, and only those rows in the right table with the same IDs are joined in. Vice versa for a RIGHT join. Ari Ukkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I think Boolean or logical type is badly needed in Mysql. You can use an Enum and IS NOT NULL/IS NULL in your statements to simulate this to test for the existence or absence of NULL values but this is not an elegant solution. Daniel Scherly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Example how to use the DATE_FORMAT function to reformat a DATETIME (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) column and output the newly formated date with PHP: . . . etc., etc. All valuable and appropriate comments, no doubt. FOR SOME OTHER PART OF THE MANUAL. I hope some tech writer at Mysql AB is reading this. Steve Rapaport --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
