On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:23:28 -0400, David Shelley wrote: > Actually it's not FileMaker that the old database is in, it's R:Base.
I haven't heard of R:Base in YEARS. > I was hoping mySQL supported calculated columns because they're mentioned a > couple of times in the manual.pdf for version 4.0.3. What the manual is referring to as "calculated columns" are the columns in a select statement (like the ones mentioned below). Which isn't what you are wanting. > Thanks for the suggestion on select concat ... > I realize I could do that but I was hoping to make the conversion to mySQL > with as few code changes as possible to ensure cross compatability with > various databases. I could also solve this with triggers and/or stored > procedures if they were supported. Or I could recode the inserts and updates > but that would also involve code changes. Well, off hand. I'd say that you are going to have to do some recoding. Hopefully, someone else will have a better idea. > .... snip .... snip ..... > You can do what you want on retrieval (or for that matter on INSERTion) > with: > > SELECT CONCAT(fName, ' ', lName) as FullName, > (TO_DAYS(eDat) - TO_DAYS(sDat) + 1) as DaysDuration > FROM mytable; --- Listserv only address. Jeff Shapiro -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
