Re: How to do a check to see if I update or insert
you SURE you want to do that in a shell script? I'd do it in perl On Monday 26 January 2004 11:39 am, Mike Tuller wrote: I am stuck on this problem, and know there has to be a solution. I have a shell script, where I want to check to see if a record exists, and if it does then update the record with new information. If it doesn't then insert the information gathered by a script. How, in MySql, using a shell script, can I do this? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inserting Dates
Actually, you can insert the date with hyphens, also..so '2003-09-12' will work. and if you're not going to use the time, don't use a datetime datatype...just use date. On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 14:28, Donald Henson wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 12:46, Ian O'Rourke wrote: I'm very new to MySql and I'm having problems inserting dates into my tables (via the Web using Coldfusion). The user can put the following in the field: 12/09/2003 But the data returned from the database is: 2012-09-20 03:00:00.0 So I'm a bit confused about what I need to do in the insert statement so the user can just add the date (without a time). It's probably something really easy, but it;'s driving me nuts. Dates must be inserted in the mmdd format. For example, your entry above should be inserted as 20031209, assuming you meant 9 Dec 2003. Also note that the date must be inserted as a string which means enclosed in double quotation marks. Don Henson -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Unusual date storage requirement
what about forcing the date to the first of whatever month the sale was in? if it's got a valid date, put that, otherwise, put the first. -Original Message- From: sean peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unusual date storage requirement Hi all, I have run into a date storage problem that i don't like. A am storing historic house sales, and some of the old data i have received only contains the month and year, but not the date of the sale. Of course we want to store this information, but a DATE column won't quite do the job, because year, month, and day are all required. So, my homecooked solution is to use a DATE column, and another column as a flag to denote whether the day-of-month is valid. Then i'll need to properly craft my searches to understand this. I know that this is a horrible break of normalization, etc. but i haven't come up with a better solution. Also note that this is for a data warehouse, and myself and 1 other programmer are the only people who manipulate the data. thanks in advance sean peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
