Re: rows not returned when last column contains null

2001-10-25 Thread Maria Quinn
Thanks Bart, I tried both your suggestions and they seem to work. I think I'm a bit further on in understanding how this all fits together now. Maria On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Bart Lateur wrote: > > Here. You're using fetch_row, which is intended to return a list/array, > as a boolean i.e. in s

rows not returned when last column contains null

2001-10-25 Thread Maria Quinn
I've got a dbi application which is currently running happily on Oracle. However, we have to port it to MySQL for some customers who don't have Oracle and can't afford Oracle licenses. I'm trying to do this is 2 stages. The first stage is to replace any Oracle-specific SQL with generic SQL,

Porting from Oracle to MySQL

2001-08-29 Thread Maria Quinn
I've got an application developed using DBI, Oracle, and CGI. It works well on this platform, but now I'm faced with the prospect or getting it to run with a MySQL back end instead of Oracle. The differences between the two implementations of SQL (especially date functions) are causing some prob

RE: background sql queries

2001-08-09 Thread Maria Quinn
What you are trying to do looks suspiciously concurrent. How about a simpler solution: ## snip## $qh = $dbh->prepare("blabla"); $qh->execute; print "SQL is busy processing your query, please wait ...\n"; @results = $qh->fetchrow_array; print "... Processing complete.\n";

RE: How to add Date records to MS ACCESS

2001-04-27 Thread Maria Quinn
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Sterin, Ilya wrote: > I believe in access you must enter date as "#02/03/1999#" > > Also your query is totally wrong, it's not > "INSERT $date INTO table1 > VALUES($date)" > > but rather > > "insert into table 1 date values ($date) Shouldn't that be: insert into tab

Re: How do I form an acceptable string for an IN clause?

2001-02-07 Thread Maria Quinn
Jim, > my $in_clause1="('abcdef','xzyrst')"; > my $in_clause2="('abcdef')"; > > sth=$db->prepare("select * from table_x where txt in ?"); > $sth->execute($in_clause1); > # that works > $sth->execute($in_clause); > # this doesn't I'm guessing you might have just included a typo in your example,