I am hoping someone can shed light on this for me. We have a fairly simple query that is pulling data from numeric fields and concatenating the field contents into a single results column. The problem is the resulting data is reported to be BLOB instead of the expected concatenated string....which in turn is causing our application to complain about an unsupported data type (our application is expecting a string value to be returned). It seems like an error in MySQL to us.
If anyone is feeling adventurous, I can provide access to a data server to see the actual data and play with the query. this query returns BLOB's: SELECT CONCAT(tblSystemType_1.strDescription, '/', tblSystemType_2.strDescription, '/', tblSystemType_3.strDescription, '_', tblSystemType_1.intSystemTypeID, '/',tblSystemType_2.intSystemTypeID, '/',tblSystemType_3.intSystemTypeID) FROM tblSystemType AS tblSystemType_1, tblSystemType AS tblSystemType_2, tblSystemType AS tblSystemType_3 INNER JOIN tblLineItems ON tblSystemType_1.intSystemTypeID = tblLineItems.intSystemTypeID1 AND tblSystemType_2.intSystemTypeID = tblLineItems.intSystemTypeID2 AND tblSystemType_3.intSystemTypeID = tblLineItems.intSystemTypeID3 WHERE (((tblLineItems.varProjectID)=1) AND (tblLineItems.intLineItemTypeID = 5) AND booActive <> 0) ORDER BY tblSystemType_1.intSystemTypeID AND tblSystemType_2.intSystemTypeID AND tblSystemType_3.intSystemTypeID strangely enough, this one wroks as expected (has only 2 system types, rather than 3...): SELECT CONCAT(tblSystemType_1.strDescription, '/', tblSystemType_2.strDescription, '_', tblSystemType_1.intSystemTypeID, '/',tblSystemType_2.intSystemTypeID) FROM tblSystemType AS tblSystemType_1, tblSystemType AS tblSystemType_2 INNER JOIN tblLineItems ON tblSystemType_1.intSystemTypeID = tblLineItems.intSystemTypeID1 AND tblSystemType_2.intSystemTypeID = tblLineItems.intSystemTypeID2 WHERE (((tblLineItems.varProjectID)=4) AND (tblLineItems.intLineItemTypeID = 1) AND booActive <> 0) ORDER BY tblSystemType_1.intSystemTypeID AND tblSystemType_2.intSystemTypeID Thanks for any suggestions or answers anyone is kind enough to provide. ----------------------------------------------------- Jerry Jackson Director of Software Development BCA Technologies, Inc. (407) 659-0653 ext. 320 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 4/17/2002 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
