Moving from MSAccess to MySQL...

2005-02-16 Thread Gel .
Hey folks, I am moving a website from MSAccess to MySQL. WHat started out as a fairly low traffic site has grown and I appear to be bumping against the connection limits of MSAccess. I have some very odd queries in the site, which I inherited from a previous developer, due to the table structu

Re: Moving from MSAccess to MySQL...

2005-02-16 Thread Barney Boisvert
& is the concatenation operator in MS Access. MySQL doesn't have such an operator, it has the CONCAT() function instead. It takes as many parameters as you need, and returns them all concatenated together, as you'd expect. and ',' & myfieldname & ',' LIKE '%,myvalue,%' becomes and CONCAT(',',