You are passing a string to compare to a date. If you do this, pass it in the string format. Other wise " and t_boxdaily.boxdate < 199901010000 "
Steve Briant wrote: >Hi, > >I think I may have spotted a bug in connection with the LEFT JOIN statement. > >The following SQL > >select name, sum(repurchasedunits) >from t_fund left join t_boxdaily on t_fund.fundid = t_boxdaily.fundid >where t_fund.fundid = 'BB01' >group by name > >produces the output as below: > >name max(boxdate) sum(repurchasedunits) >---- ------------ --------------------- >Marleborough Fund Managers (BB01) 2002-04-12 0 > >(1 row(s) affected) > > >However, a slight change to the join as below: > >select name, sum(repurchasedunits) >from t_fund left join t_boxdaily on t_fund.fundid = t_boxdaily.fundid >where t_fund.fundid = 'BB01' and t_boxdaily.boxdate < '19990101' >group by name > >produces this output: > >name max(boxdate) sum(repurchasedunits) >---- ------------ --------------------- > >(0 row(s) affected) > > > >As detailed in the release notes, this join should still give a match as per >the first example shouldn't it ? What is causing it not to is that I have no >records in t_boxdaily that have a boxdate previous to 1st January 1999. > >I am running MySQL version 3.23.37 under Windows 2000. > >Regards > >Steve Briant. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
