----- Original Message ----- From: "Pascal Délisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: Re: Nested SELECT statements problem
> Finally, I solved my problem by creating a temporary table that holds > the result of the subquery. So, it looks like this: > > > CREATE TABLE livreTemp (IDLivre int(11)); > > INSERT INTO livreTemp (IDLivre) SELECT book.IDLivre > FROM livre book, livreEcritPar ecr, auteur aut WHERE aut.Prenom like > '%$firstName%' AND aut.Nom like '%$lastName%' AND ecr.IDAuteur = > aut.IDAuteur AND book.IDLivre = ecr.IDLivre; > > SELECT book.IDLivre, aut.Prenom, aut.Nom FROM livreTemp book, > livreEcritPar ecr, auteur aut WHERE ecr.IDLivre= book.IDLivre AND > aut.IDAuteur=ecr.IDAuteur; > > DROP TABLE livreTemp; > > The only problem I see is when there are concurrent access to the table > "livreTemp", e.g. when there are multiple simultaneous requests of that > kind. Is there a better way for achieving this under mySQL 3? Can you dynamically generate a unique name for your temporary table? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
