phpMyAdmin is great! And I hear that they are coming out with a new version
pretty soon (or is it here - haven't checked)..
However I don't think that you can join tables in phpMyAdmin.. Perhaps I don't
know the app well enough though.
Mike
Beau Lebens wrote:
> altho this may not help at all, rather than bashing away with php+SQL
> statements, i usually just pilot my sql in phpmyadmin, then once it works
> with set values (ie SELECT * FROM people WHERE personID='3' rahter than
> personID='$personID' or something) i can then drop that SQL into my script.
>
> HTH
> Beau
>
> // -----Original Message-----
> // From: Mike Gifford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> // Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2001 11:01 AM
> // To: Ken
> // Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> // Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Left Join is producing duplicate
> // results - MySQL &
> // relational tables
> //
> //
> // Sorry Ken,
> //
> // I'm trying to learn a few too many things at once.
> // Switching it around
> // eliminated the error message but not the duplication.
> //
> // I'm eliminating as much of the code as I can to see that it
> // isn't coming from PHP.
> //
> // Thanks again for your help.
> //
> // Mike
> //
> // Ken wrote:
> //
> // > In general, you should always be reading the manual first.
> // From the SELECT syntax at
> // > http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/E/SELECT.html
> // > GROUP BY must be indicated before ORDER BY. So reverse
> // the order of those portions.
> // >
> // > - Ken
> // >
> // > At 10:35 PM 7/11/01 -0400, Mike Gifford wrote:
> // >
> // >>It looked good, but it gave me an error.. Sorry
> // >>...
> // >>WLPcountry.countryID ORDER BY WLPbib.title GROUP BY WLPbib.bibID
> // >>
> // >>MySQL Error: 1064 (You have an error in your SQL syntax
> // near 'GROUP BY WLPbib.bibID ' at line 10)
> // >>Please contact the webmaster and report the exact error message.
> // >>Session halted.
> // >>
> // >>Ken wrote:
> // >>
> // >>
> // >>>Mike -
> // >>>I'm not certain but it sounds like you might be looking
> // for "GROUP BY". Do GROUP BY and then the columns that are
> // identical in your results.
> // >>>- Ken
> // >>>At 09:46 PM 7/11/01 -0400, Mike Gifford wrote:
> // >>>
> // >>>
> // >>>>Hello,
> // >>>>
> // >>>>I posted this to the general list this morning & got a
> // couple of good leads, but they weren't able to actually fix
> // the problem, so I'm posting here to the db list.
> // >>>>
> // >>>>I'm making some headway on joining three MySQL tables.
> // >>>>
> // >>>>However, when I run this query:
> // >>>>
> // >>>>mysql_query("SELECT
> // >>>> WLPbib.bibID,
> // >>>> WLPbib.title,
> // >>>> WLPbib.publisher,
> // >>>> WLPbib.publicationDate,
> // >>>> WLPaddress.city,
> // >>>> WLPaddress.state,
> // >>>> WLPprofile.firstName,
> // >>>> WLPprofile.lastName,
> // >>>> WLPprofile.organization,
> // >>>> WLPcountry.languageName
> // >>>>
> // >>>>FROM WLPbib
> // >>>
> // >>>> LEFT JOIN WLPprofile ON WLPprofile.profileID =
> // WLPbib.profileID
> // >>>> LEFT JOIN WLPaddress ON WLPaddress.publisherID =
> // WLPbib.publisherID
> // >>>> LEFT JOIN WLPcountry ON WLPcountry.countryID =
> // WLPaddress.countryID");
> // >>>>
> // >>>>I now get results in triplicate. ie. I'm getting three
> // copies of the same title, firstName, organization, etc....
> // >>>>
> // >>>>I somehow suspected that this should be the result with
> // LEFT JOIN, but I'm not sure how to return a query without
> // duplication.
> // >>>>
> // >>>>This is far better than what I had this morning (which
> // was no response from the server).
> // >>>>
> // >>>>Thanks. I'm new to joining tables...
> // >>>>
> // >>>>Someone wrote back suggesting that SELECT DISTINCT could
> // be used to to the job.
> // >>>>
> // >>>>Another person suggested that using UNIQUE(profileID)
> // would make it look nicer. I wasn't sure how to use UNIQUE
> // with the last JOIN as it isn't directly linked to WLPbib..
> // >>>>
> // >>>>Any suggestions would be useful.
> // >>>>
> // >>>>Mike
> // >>>>
> // >>
> // >>
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