Re-use a result field into a query

2005-06-12 Thread Alvaro Cobo
Hi guys. I´ve got a low-priority, non-important newbie question: Is it possible to refer into a query to a result field from the same query?. For example: a query which uses the field name of a result (alias) to create a new field: Select a.field1, (a.field2+a.field3) AS result1,

Re: Re-use a result field into a query

2005-06-12 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: Alvaro Cobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 8:17 AM Subject: Re-use a result field into a query Is it possible to refer into a query to a result field from the same query?. For example: a query which uses the field name of a result (alias) to

Re: How to update with select a spatial value ?

2005-06-12 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: Pete Lancashire update fooloc set location = geomfromtext('point(lat lon)'); I have no experience with spatial tables, but from the manual I conclude that either of these should do the job: UPDATE `fooloc` SET `location` = GeoFromWKB(point(`lat`, `lon`)); or UPDATE `fooloc`

Openssl 0.9.8 and Mysql

2005-06-12 Thread Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem
Will MySQL 4.0 + bt OpenSSL 0.9.8 compliant? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

storing recurring dates

2005-06-12 Thread Ramsey, Robert L
Hi, I'm doing an event project and some of the events will be reccuring. For example: Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 10-11:30 am starting June 1 with no end date Every third Monday at 3-4 pm starting July 1 and ending January 1 (last event is third Monday in December) Every other Friday

Re: Re-use a result field into a query

2005-06-12 Thread mfatene
Well Alvaro, you can use variables to re-use resultas like that : mysql set @rs=0; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec) mysql select 1, (@rs:=2+3) as result1, - (@rs*100) as result2 - from dual; +---+-+-+ | 1 | result1 | result2 | +---+-+-+ | 1 | 5 |

RE: storing recurring dates

2005-06-12 Thread christopher . l . hood
Bob, You should check out the Date::Manip module from CPAN, it will do what you need to do. Here is a snippet from the docs about recurrence: RECURRENCE A recurrence is simply a notation for defining when a recurring event occurs. For example, if an event occurs every other Friday or every

RE: storing recurring dates

2005-06-12 Thread mfatene
hi, have you tried to hack something with week, month and weekofyear ? there is an interesting url at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/date-and-time-functions.html be aware that the week begins on sunday. mysql select weekofyear('2005-01-02'); +--+ |

(Fine) Tuning Server Parameters

2005-06-12 Thread Manoj
Dear All, I am trying to tweak some server parameters to fine tune my MySQL (4.0.15) server on a linux box (with 6GB of ram) All my tables/databases use InnoDB. My question is : What is the InnoDB equivalent of the server parameters Key_read_request key_reads. I had a look at show

Re: (Fine) Tuning Server Parameters

2005-06-12 Thread mfatene
hi, look at insert buffer and buffer pool. This is quite interesting : http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.mysql.com/doc/en/InnoDB_Insert_buffering.html mathias Selon Manoj [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear All, I am trying to tweak some server parameters to fine tune my MySQL (4.0.15) server

Re: Re-use a result field into a query

2005-06-12 Thread Alvaro Cobo
Thanks guys for your quick and clear help: It gives me elements to research. I think I'll try the variable approach, and the way in how to use it with PHP. Thanks again and best regards, Alvaro. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jigal van Hemert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Regarding NOT NULL Option for Table Fields....

2005-06-12 Thread Ashok Kumar
Hi friends, I'm having one doubt on NOT NULL specification for the table field properties. That is i have created on table-mine which contains name(Not Null) and pwd(Not Null). Now I intended to execute the following query. insert into mine values('','') This means that i'm trying to insert the

Re: Regarding NOT NULL Option for Table Fields....

2005-06-12 Thread Michael Stassen
Ashok Kumar wrote: Hi friends, I'm having one doubt on NOT NULL specification for the table field properties. That is i have created on table-mine which contains name(Not Null) and pwd(Not Null). Now I intended to execute the following query. insert into mine values('','') This means that i'm

Re: Regarding NOT NULL Option for Table Fields....

2005-06-12 Thread mfatene
Hi, '' or empty string is not a null in mysql. This is true for Oracle ! this simple test lets you understand : * Without NULLs mysql create table notnull (t varchar(10) NOT NULL); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.14 sec) mysql insert into notnull values('test1'); Query OK, 1 row