Re: SELECT with Result Ordered by Minimum of Fields
David T. Ashley wrote: Can I just write something like: SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE fieldofinterestvalue ORDER BY MIN(field1, field2) ASC; I think this will work.. SELECT *, IF(a-b 0,a, b) as SortField FROM table WHERE whatever ORDER BY SortField a and b being the names of the fields you are interested in. -- Chris W KE5GIX Gift Giving Made Easy Get the gifts you want give the gifts they want One stop wish list for any gift, from anywhere, for any occasion! http://thewishzone.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SELECT with Result Ordered by Minimum of Fields
On 8/6/06, Chris W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David T. Ashley wrote: Can I just write something like: SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE fieldofinterestvalue ORDER BY MIN(field1, field2) ASC; I think this will work.. SELECT *, IF(a-b 0,a, b) as SortField FROM table WHERE whatever ORDER BY SortField Question: Is there any way to get SortField (or a similar per-selected-record field) included with the SELECT output? The reason for this inquiry is that my PHP script that uses the SELECT results will also have to calculate SortField as MySQL did as part of the query. If MySQL has done it already, no need to do it a second time in the PHP script. Thank you.
Re: SELECT with Result Ordered by Minimum of Fields
David T. Ashley wrote: On 8/6/06, Chris W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David T. Ashley wrote: Can I just write something like: SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE fieldofinterestvalue ORDER BY MIN(field1, field2) ASC; I think this will work.. SELECT *, IF(a-b 0,a, b) as SortField FROM table WHERE whatever ORDER BY SortField Question: Is there any way to get SortField (or a similar per-selected-record field) included with the SELECT output? The reason for this inquiry is that my PHP script that uses the SELECT results will also have to calculate SortField as MySQL did as part of the query. If MySQL has done it already, no need to do it a second time in the PHP script. If you run that select in MySQL query browser you will see that in addition to all the other fields in the table it adds to the end a field called SortField. If you would like it at the beginning they change it to . SELECT IF(a-b 0,a, b) as SortField, * If you want it the middle you will need to list every field in the select with the SortField if between the 2 you want it between -- Chris W KE5GIX Gift Giving Made Easy Get the gifts you want give the gifts they want One stop wish list for any gift, from anywhere, for any occasion! http://thewishzone.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SELECT with Result Ordered by Minimum of Fields
Hi, I have a table and I'd like to do a SELECT query with the result ordered by the minimum of two fields. I might also like to query by the minimum (but that is an easier problem, as I can just rephrase it as an OR). Can I just write something like: SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE fieldofinterestvalue ORDER BY MIN(field1, field2) ASC; or is it more complicated or impossible? Thanks, Dave.
