Re: Match Records

2001-03-05 Thread Andy J
SELECT with two (or one) of the three fields - probably with loads of OR's after the intial search returns 0 rows. Messy maybe but I don't see any other way. You can't use a SELECT like you are currently using with fields of the same name in different tables - I'm surprised you are not throwing

Re: Limiting to specific field value of type float

2001-03-05 Thread Andy J
Alec Exact matches on float values are notoriously unreliable - the problem with the math is that it can often turn out the value at something like :- 123.539 which won't produce an equality match. For this you would probably better use a DECIMAL field. And

Re: Can anyone help with this please?

2001-03-05 Thread Andy J
Robb Exact error messages would be good at this point and it may be possible that their version of MySQL may not fully support the command you are trying to perform although with an UPDATE TABLE I would hope this unlikely. I think you probably need to provide:- SQL statement you are trying to e

Re: running mysql not as a server

2001-03-01 Thread Andy J
Broadly speaking, I would agree with Cal becasue MySQL is, by its very nature, a server application.. However, you can easily emulate it being an application by adding net start(s) and net stop(s) to the beginning and end of your application - you may have timing issues, however, with the start a

Re: Table reorg question

2001-02-28 Thread Andy J
John ALTER TABLE ADD [column] col_declaration is what you are after I think - no need to go making another table For example:- ALTER TABLE example_table ADD example_column INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT With the greatest regards to Paul DuBois whose marvellous book MySQL this is unashem

Re: windows 2000

2001-02-28 Thread Andy J
Micke Can't really speak for Professional but I have it running fine on Server and Advanced Server. If my memory is right then 1067 is normally that the service cannot respond to the control function effectively. Together with the fact that you cannot remove the service after uninstall, this sug