Re: Aggregating function which returns more than one row

2002-12-04 Thread DL Neil
Felix, Is is it possible to write an aggregation function which returns more than one row? Yes - if I have understood your requirement correctly. It would have been helpful if you had given some idea of the application/what you want to achieve. Here's an example from out of my imagination:

Re: Advice please

2002-12-03 Thread DL Neil
Hi George, I am about to start the planning process in moving my FileMaker/Lasso/PHP site over to MySQL/PHP. Before I get too far down the road, should I be using InnoDB or MyISAM tables? The service is initially going to be hosted on WinNT but may move over to Linux later. =main response,

Re: help with picking the right index(s)

2002-12-03 Thread DL Neil
Hi Justin, I'm after a little help/advice with indexing... I have a table for measuring hits on each page within a site: year month page hits basically, my php script looks for a row matching this year (2002), this month (12) and this page (something.php). if it finds it, increment by 1,

Re: Table setup question

2002-12-03 Thread DL Neil
/which is the 'industry standard' approach). =however the ultimate answer to your question is: if it works for you/your users, then it is 'right'! Thanks again, Beauford =hope it helps you along your way to MySQL expertise, =dn - Original Message - From: DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED

Fw: Re: Select and count duplicates

2002-12-03 Thread DL Neil
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:05 PM Subject: Re: Re: Select and count duplicates Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either spam or simply off topic to our filter. To bypass the filter

Re: TimeDate in SQLServer7

2002-12-03 Thread DL Neil
Sam, heads up! MySQL list members don't want this = spam! =dn - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:54 PM Subject: TimeDate in SQLServer7 Hi I am inserting a Time like 06:00 from my code to a Date/Time

Re: Virtual Mem. problem w/ mysql-3.23.53-win.zip

2002-12-03 Thread DL Neil
Thanks for the quick response. Excellent support =you must have some 'magic touch'! =a bunch of us held a conversation on the list trying to run this fault down, and culminating in a bug report. We weren't even acknowledged... Quite dispiriting. Obvious suggested work-around was to get

Re: mysql join problem (bug?)

2002-12-02 Thread DL Neil
if it is a bug please? Thanks! Haksun -Original Message- From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 3:39 PM To: Haksun Li; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mysql join problem (bug?) Hi Haksun, Cross-join works perfectly on 3.23.53-max-nt

Re: system date / curdate()

2002-12-02 Thread DL Neil
Hi Kath, Are the MySQL machine, the Linux machine, and the client you are using all the same machine? Which timezone is Linux set to? Which timezone is your local/client machine in, and/or set to? Please advise, =dn hi, which date does mysql use to calculate CURDATE()? I have a master database

Re: Table setup question

2002-12-02 Thread DL Neil
Hi Beauford, You are on the right track. Yes you should remove the songs to a separate table. If you merely duplicate the first example (below) in two tables you have created a one-to-many relationship between the Album table and the Songs table - one album has many songs on it. Your query code

Re: ENUM and select performance

2002-12-02 Thread DL Neil
Alex, This is a specialised question! Unfortunately, in my experience, it comes down to the phrase YMMV (your mileage might vary) and thus requires you to experiment with your data/machine combinations/etc - good job MySQL makes this quite easy! Can I assume that you have done your (manual)

Fw: Sorting by abbr weekdays

2002-12-02 Thread DL Neil
maps filter fodder: MySQL Hi Terence, Is there a way to sort records based on a particular column, varchar(3), which contains days of the week, mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, sun I need the order to be mon, tue, wed, thu etc. Select day_of_week from my_timetable order by

Re: Table setup question

2002-12-02 Thread DL Neil
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Re: NOT IN

2002-12-02 Thread DL Neil
Select * from employees left outer join dept on employees.emp_DepId = dept.dep_id where dept.dep_id is null (Subselect would be easier if MySQL supported it!) Likely easier to write, but equally likely to be more expensive to run (on any tbl of realistic size) NB Comment only pertinent as

Re: setting auto-increment to start at higher number

2002-12-02 Thread DL Neil
RD, How can I set auto-increment in mysql to start counting at say 5 rather than 1 The manual is your friend. Enter auto_increment into the search facility. Read 6.5.3 CREATE TABLE Syntax - which illustrates the answer, or move on to the better description in the next 'hit' 6.5.4 ALTER

Re: mysql join problem (bug?)

2002-12-01 Thread DL Neil
Hi Haksun, Cross-join works perfectly on 3.23.53-max-nt under Win2000 SP2, both from command line and MySQL Control Center 0.8.6-alpha. Regards, =dn Hi all, I found this join problem using mysql 3.23.53-max-nt (on WinXP). It works fine on MySQL 3.23.52-log (on Linux). Could someone

Re: Date()

2002-11-30 Thread DL Neil
Is it possible for mySQL to recognize and compare dates written in this format: MM/DD/YY? =the short answer is yes and no: yes it can be done by combining various SQL/MySQL functions, but no there is no easy 'built-in' method. I know standard date format for mySQL is YYY-MM-DD, but I need to

Re: Records missing from web query

2002-11-27 Thread DL Neil
Jim, Situation.. main table in a relatively small database. Table contains approx 370K rows. Table is indexed on the unique identifier. New table, fresh import of clean data. Querying on a single field... run from the command line, returns 3 rows, run from phpMyAdmin, returns 3 rows.

Re: Data base driven web page idea - need help!

2002-11-27 Thread DL Neil
Grant, I need help. I am building a database for a small college that wants to be able to update their program information for each department through an web/gui program. I've decided to use, MYSQL, Apache, PHP and FreeBSD as the OS. (I built my web page this way) Here's my QUESTION!

Re: mysql load issue

2002-11-27 Thread DL Neil
Tim, Normally PHP/MySQL doesn't run as mine, even if that is your Windows login name - but it is possible... Use command line. Log on as root. Check localhost privileges for user mine. (good coverage in the manual) Regards, =dn I have been trying to get mysql db to run but keep getting access

Re: reg:time difference

2002-11-27 Thread DL Neil
Chandra, I need some help in finding the time/day difference as i want to know the session times is there a way/function to calculate time difference in mysql Self help - from the foot of each list msg: - Before posting,

Re: Data base driven web page idea - need help!

2002-11-27 Thread DL Neil
to sleep on it. Thanks for your input. I'm a one man team developing this and I've been sinful. This is the time God's going to punish me if this blows up in my face. hehe. =one man...sinful??? No, I'm not going there... =dn - Original Message - From: DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant

Re: mysql load issue

2002-11-27 Thread DL Neil
pswd, I trust this is not an Internet-facing machine! =Idle curiousity: what will the gulf db contain? =Regards, =dn --- DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, Normally PHP/MySQL doesn't run as mine, even if that is your Windows login name - but it is possible... Use command line

Re: Insert error

2002-11-26 Thread DL Neil
Mark, Are you working from the command line or using a tool (which)? MySQL version nr? Are you running WinMySQLadmin (the traffic lights in the System Tray)? =dn I'm running MySQL as a service on win2k and trying to insert data into a database. Each time I try to do this I receive the

Re: displaying a letter based on a query value

2002-11-24 Thread DL Neil
Hey Alex select captain from stats where captain 0 and number = '23' group by number; this returns a 1 for any player with the number that matches being a captain, however it display a 1 is it possible to make that 1 displayed as a C on my page? MySQL allows an IF() within the SELECT

Re: displaying a letter based on a query value

2002-11-24 Thread DL Neil
group by number This returns 'C' whenever the captain field is 1 and '' (empty string) otherwise. --jeff - Original Message - From: Alex Behrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MYSQL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 3:53 PM Subject: Re

Re: WinMySQLAdmin.exe in mySQL-build 3.23.53 (Windows version)

2002-11-22 Thread DL Neil
Guenter, Nice piece of analysis! As it happens WinMySQLadmin v1.4 under Win2000 fares little better, apparently gobbling up VM until... (Bug Report posted 20Nov2002 shortly after midnight UTC - as yet unacknowledged) [won't attach here (not correct list procedure), so will forward private copy

Re: How to set Database Name, Username, etc.

2002-11-22 Thread DL Neil
Hi Trask, Can anyone tell me how to set the following parameters in mySQL 3.23? I'm new to MySQL and am setting up a BBS. MySQL is installed and running OK. Database Server Hostname / DSN: Database Name: Database Username: Database Password: Prefix for tables in database: Welcome to a

Re: Selecting rows issue

2002-11-22 Thread DL Neil
Hello Tarik, The DISTINCT option will sort this out for you. =dn I got two tables containing following data : table1 -- id -- 2 3 2 2 table2 -- id | label -- 1 | one 2 | two 3 | three 4 | four I would like to select table2's rows that got at less one

Re: Re: load data worked with warnings

2002-11-21 Thread DL Neil
'broken' the sample code. =when you've had a 'play', come back and let us know how much things are improved, =dn On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 DL Neil wrote : Pallavi, mysql load data infile pet.txt into table pet; ERROR 1105: File './test/pet.txt' not found (Errcode: 2) mysql load data infile

Re: MySQL on windows

2002-11-20 Thread DL Neil
Simon, I have been asked to support/bug-fix a Windows based web site using MySQL. I have used MySQL on Linux/FreeBSD for 3/4 years, but never on Windows. How does MySQL compare on Linux and Windows for stability and performance ? =congratulations. Your relief appears in the phrase, MySQL is

Re: load data worked with warnings

2002-11-20 Thread DL Neil
Pallavi, mysql load data infile pet.txt into table pet; ERROR 1105: File './test/pet.txt' not found (Errcode: 2) mysql load data infile pet.txt into table pet; Query OK, 8 rows affected (0.00 sec) Records: 8 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 Warnings: 4 mysql select * from pet;

Re: Thx to Martin Waite, and 1 more question

2002-11-19 Thread DL Neil
Hi Warren, I wrote in a little while ago about getting unique visits to a website listed by day. Martin Waite came up with a very nice formulation, which does wonders! However, I have done something that is now yielding inconsistent results. The screen shot is basically like this: Day by

WinMySQLadmin ?eating memory

2002-11-18 Thread DL Neil
I have just updated from MySQL 3.23.51 to 4.0.4 on my Win2000 Prof SP2 portable, and shortly afterwards noted some runaway problem was consuming memory. Left long enough, Windows eventually starts bleating about its amount of virtual memory; obviously things start to thrash, and apps gradually

(OT) Re: Bill, your computer has got a worm (virus-like thingie) Re: Sub-select look-alike?

2002-10-16 Thread DL Neil
Michael, Thank you for your alert. In the same way that you did not ask the original question, I did not write the part attributed to 'me'! There is no such address [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only address in this sub-domain subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have reduced myself to

BBC article: Intellectual Property

2002-09-13 Thread DL Neil
MySQL/Open source campaigners and 'evangelists' may be interested in BBC coverage of a report by the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2253270.stm. It talks of medical, agricultural, industrial, and IT/educational disadvantages placed in front

Re: Have A problem

2002-09-08 Thread DL Neil
Hi Chuck, or take a look at the LEFT() function. =dn Try : SELECT * FROM yourtable WHERE word LIKE 'D%'; Regards, Jocelyn - Original Message - From: Chuck PUP Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 2:42 AM Subject: Have A problem

Re: problem with date/time column

2002-09-04 Thread DL Neil
Hi Erick, i have a date/time column. i insert into it using now(). works fine. now i want a query where data/time is either today or yesterday. how should i do it? Calculate the date required (yesterday and/or today) and then add a time component of midnight (all zeroes) to make up a

Re: problem with date/time column

2002-09-04 Thread DL Neil
that happened during the last one day/24-hours - both yesterday's and today's 'hours'! Q: Which is 'right'? A: Depends which suits Erick's requirement! Regards, =dn - Original Message - From: DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Erick Papadakis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Insert date format

2002-09-03 Thread DL Neil
Hello Javier, I am developing an aplication where I need format the date for inserting into mySQL. =what language is your application written in? =dn With DATE_FORMAT I can format the mySQL date to my date, but I haven't found a good way to format my date to the mySQL date. My format is

Re: UPDATE syntax dummy question...

2002-09-03 Thread DL Neil
Howdy Matthias, update vbooth_data set optionText='Not at all, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop' where (pollID='34' AND voteID='3'); When I hit Enter, it gives me this prompt: ' Two things: 1 (the ) is because it is waiting for the end of the string - you have an apostrophe opening

Re: Problem installing

2002-09-02 Thread DL Neil
Scott, MySQL is available in two 'flavors': source code and (binary) executables. Which one did you intend to download/install? Which OpSys are you using? Please advise, =dn The instructions that I have to install MySQL, tells me to cd to the bin directory and run this command:

Re: sysdate or curdate as default date in mysql

2002-09-02 Thread DL Neil
Dear Chugh, Can we define sysdate or curdate as default date for a column of datatype 'date' while creating a table? The question is ambiguous: - if a table is created with a column defined to be a TIMESTAMP data type, then every time a row is INSERTed or UPDATEd, the current date will be

Re: JOIN?

2002-09-01 Thread DL Neil
Hi Justin, ...the docs to be looking for examples. I have three tables... cd (id, title, etc) artist (id, name) cd_to_artist (cdid, artistid) Given an artist id, I want to retrieve all cds related to that artist, given the information in the table cd_to_artist. The reason for the third

Re: Problem with Tables...

2002-08-30 Thread DL Neil
Tony, What data type is the autoindex field/column? =dn I have a problem with MySQL. I am trying to insert data using INFILE, and it works, except that it ALWAYS stop at 255 (autoindex) and will not go any further, either by manual insert or textfile insert. I am running MySQL

Re: MySQL and Service Pack 3

2002-08-30 Thread DL Neil
Marc, Is there any record of a startup 'confusion' in the Event Viewer/logs? Once the machine is started and sitting static, what do you see (of MySQL/unidentified) in the Services list? If there is some entry, use a DOS box to stop the service. Then clear out any reference to the service from

Re: auotincrement

2002-08-27 Thread DL Neil
Frederick, ALTER TABLE will do the biz: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ALTER_TABLE.html Regards, =dn I would like to know if it is possible to configure mysql auto increment field to start at a specific number or to configure the auto increment field with a character such as a letter inserted

Re: mysql auto-increment

2002-08-27 Thread DL Neil
Elias, ALTER TABLE will do the biz: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ALTER_TABLE.html Regards, =dn I would like to know if it is possible to configure mysql auo increment feild to start from a specific number or configure it to have a specific character such as a letter inserted infront of it.

Re: spanish books about mysql?

2002-08-25 Thread DL Neil
Are there any mysql books in Latin? Me sequelae datorum ordinatrum, scribo Paulus ExSilvaticus - when you write the rest yourself you may find the following useful/entertaining Vocabula computatralia Vocabula computatralia. A. abort 1. vt interrumpere 2. subst. interruptus,us m. address 1.

Re: How can I do this query ? (Join with a preselction)

2002-08-22 Thread DL Neil
Hi Andreas, I'm just getting started with mysql so please bear with me. =8-} I do a 3 table query like: SELECT a.x, b.y, c.z FROM a, b, c WHERE a.b_fk = b.id AND a.c_fk = c.id; That works so far. In c can be rows which aren't active anymore. There is a good_from and a good_until

Re: Load Data Infile

2002-08-20 Thread DL Neil
Hello Serge, I am having troubles with Load Data Infile and cannot figure out the problem. I have a date field but the format is 'Jan 1 1986' rather than mysql's default. So when I import I only get '-00-00' rather than the date. How can I tell MySQL what the format is? I have read

Re: insert command

2002-08-20 Thread DL Neil
Joseph, I need to know if there is a way to do a simple insert from a .txt file, using insert and only populate one column. Its a streamline db and I want to enter only a few of the columns. I have exported all data into txt files at this point. I can not find any mention on mysql's site

Re: Load Data Infile

2002-08-20 Thread DL Neil
their data since I'm only one of many many people downloading everyday. Is their no way for load data to do this automaticaly? Serge. On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:31:45 +0100 DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Serge, I am having troubles with Load Data Infile and cannot figure out

Re: query quandary

2002-08-13 Thread DL Neil
Mark, I'm a great believer in 'divide and conquor', so let's take your clear statement of problem and knowing that we can't achieve it by brute force/direct attack, let's break it down and solve it a piece at a time: table contains title and date of records a) sort so that records are listed by

Re: How to separate different domains on an e-mail database

2002-08-12 Thread DL Neil
Nick, Understood - but did Carlos say that he is using PHP, and why use PHP when a more efficient/quicker MySQL solution is available? =dn - Original Message - From: nick gatsis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:06 AM

Re: How to separate different domains on an e-mail database

2002-08-12 Thread DL Neil
the information you want that time. Then you just call the results from the table (you have them ready) and dont ask the server to work for it. If you know an other solution, i'll be happy to learn it. Cheeres --- DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Nick, Understood - but did Carlos say

Re: Need to change MySQL results to numbers

2002-08-10 Thread DL Neil
Gloria in a database on adjunct faculty. Well, I set my table up withalphnumeric codes and most stats software want those mutliple choices as numbers. =which is why most people design to enter such data as number codes (1~5) rather than alpha. So I need to change the things already

Re: Another pattern matching question

2002-08-10 Thread DL Neil
Obiajulu, Please refer to previous response and the as yet unanswered question within. I have the following values in my db table: Id. regdate 001040-1467 011910-2002 021700-1789 031550-2002 041600-1700 051900-2000 ... How

Re: Subtracting 2 times

2002-08-10 Thread DL Neil
Hello Christopher, I need to ask for some help and I can't find anything in the manuals. I am writing a php based app that as one of it's functions keeps an employee time sheet. The times are stored in a mysql database with 2 columns - time_in and time_out. What I need to do is subtract

Re: Subtracting 2 times

2002-08-10 Thread DL Neil
job_time= 21500 Any pointers? -Chris On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 09:36 AM, DL Neil wrote: Hello Christopher, I need to ask for some help and I can't find anything in the manuals. I am writing a php based app that as one of it's functions keeps an employee time sheet. The times

Re: Replication Circle

2002-07-31 Thread DL Neil
Bhavin, Is there a way to have DB-A and DB-B such that DB-A is the master and DB-B Can't help you with the replication question - but here is a replication answer - have everyone in your installation repeat after me: the DBA is your master! (and say it again...and again...) =dn List fodder:

Re: [PHP-DB] time field query problems.

2002-07-29 Thread DL Neil
Steve, For some reason the below statement is not working. Can anyone tell me why? Select EDIT_LOCK from ordmaster where EDIT_LOCK + INTERVAL 10 MINUTE now() AND ORDER_NO = '5' AND EDIT_LOCK 0; -EDIT_LOCK is a MySQL (ver 3.23.49-max) time field, allows nulls, default is NULL. If this

Re: [PHP-DB] Time Allocation Issue

2002-07-29 Thread DL Neil
Jefferson, I'm writing a web application in PHP to do referee scheduling for soccer games. For each game (a single row in a table) I have a cell for referee. The cell stores an integer that I can do a join on with another table of people. I need a way to prevent people from being able to

Re: Merge records from multiple tables???

2002-07-19 Thread DL Neil
Ollie, Ahh, all this talk of old-timers writing merges to cut their teeth in the 'new' field of data processing... it brings on a wave of tender memories - however looking back, I find that even nostalgia ain't what it used to be! The earlier response works (assuming key behavior), and is a good

Re: Multiple Inserts

2002-04-15 Thread DL Neil
Mark Does anyone know if it's possible to insert mutilple records into 1 table in one query? yes Something like - insert into mytable (id,name,job_number,job_date) values ('1','Mark','AA1','2002-04-15') insert into mytable (id,name,job_number,job_date) values

Re: Multiple updates

2002-04-15 Thread DL Neil
Mark, Is it a two-fer-one sale today? I'm now trying to UPDATE the three records with one query. Once the data is INSERTED into the db with this - insert into mytable (id,name,job_number,job_date) values ('1','Mark','AA1','2002-04-15'), ('2','Mark','AA2','2002-04-16'),

Re: Multiple updates

2002-04-15 Thread DL Neil
Mark, Earlier joke rebounds - pardon me whilst I wipe the comedic egg from my face... That the thing see, the form(using GET instead of POST) sends data with the new dates like this:- id=1name=Markjob_number=AA1job_date=2002-5-19 id=2name=Markjob_number=AA2job_date=2002-5-21

Re: How does DISTINCT really work ?

2002-04-14 Thread DL Neil
Hi Jocelyn, I wonder how works DISTINCT when using it with the following join. Ex : mysql SELECT DISTINCT topic FROM searchmainhardwarefr7,searchjoinhardwarefr7 WHERE searchmainhardwarefr7.numreponse=searchjoinhardwarefr7.numreponse AND (mot='test') AND date = '2002-03-24' ORDER BY date

Re: Unique column ?

2002-04-14 Thread DL Neil
Hi gordon, This is NOT needed as of now.. (just future-thinking on my part), Hi there... Im just experimenting with a new database, i'm wondering.. Is there a way in which I can create a column in a mysql table to be a unique number/reference.. - once set, I dont need to keep

Re: Timestamps querying question

2002-04-14 Thread DL Neil
Hi Ben, I have a database table which includes a timestamp(14) field. I would like to construct an SQL statement that pulls out records between two dates, based on this field (i.e. time is not important, date is). So a user input 01/01/2001 - 01/01/2002 and I want to retrieve all records

Re: How does DISTINCT really work ?

2002-04-14 Thread DL Neil
? (perhaps a bug ?) Regards, Jocelyn Fournier - Original Message - From: DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fournier Jocelyn [Presence-PC] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 5:54 PM Subject: Re: How does DISTINCT really work ? Hi Jocelyn, I wonder how

Re: time zones?

2002-04-14 Thread DL Neil
Hi everyone, Apologies, I'm coming very late into this conversation, but perhaps I can disperse some of the confusion... Rob's original question: * I'm curious about how MySQL deals with time zones. Our machines are located in the GMT time zone, and recently rolled over to British Standard

Re: How does DISTINCT really work ?

2002-04-14 Thread DL Neil
] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 April 2002 18:46 Subject: SV: How does DISTINCT really work ? Fra: Fournier Jocelyn [Presence-PC] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sendt: 14. april 2002 19:22 In fact what it's odd is when I use EXPLAIN, I don't see anywhere

Re: multiple joins, order questions

2002-04-14 Thread DL Neil
Hi Roger, consider this select statement as an example: SELECT d_person.dispname, d_title.title FROM d_person, d_title, s_first, s_last, t_person, l_first, l_last WHERE t_person.dperson_id = d_person.dperson_id AND t_person.dtitle_id = d_title.dtitle_id AND

Re: multiple joins, order questions

2002-04-14 Thread DL Neil
I'm quite sure it does not matter if I write t_person.dperson_id = d_person.dperson_id AND or d_person.dperson_id = t_person.dperson_id AND but please tell me if it does... :o) Logically there is no difference, however prevailing wisdom suggests that you put the

Re: SQL Query Help

2002-04-03 Thread DL Neil
Stéphane, Answers: There are nine different states (and there are 12 months). * The main problem is the layout and the order of the results set. I will have 9 state (provinces) and I would prefer the month to be the columns. The ideal results would look like this, Please note I have only

Re: SQL Query Help

2002-04-02 Thread DL Neil
Stéphane, I have INVOICE table here is the layout: +-+---+--+-+-+-- --+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-+---+--+-+-+--

Re: MySQL

2002-03-30 Thread DL Neil
Nicklaus, Now that we've got you warmed up: are you able to recommend any online tutorials/references which cover the interfacing of VB/M$ Office products (macros/VBA) to MySQL? Please advise, =dn Absolutely. I must tell you that we have MUCH fewer problems using VB with MySQL than we do

Re: [newbie post] linked lists..

2002-03-29 Thread DL Neil
Daniel, Was reading an article last night on tree structures and linked list structures at searchdatabase.com. As to simple, no linked lists are not, and for that reason not a good topic for a first foray into the world of databases. Why don't you work through one of the 'intro to dynamic web

Re: Help with JOIN query

2002-03-29 Thread DL Neil
Jeff, What i want to do seems simple, but i can not for the life of me figure out how to do it. Tables: These tables are not related in any way. A -- 1 2 3 4 5 B -- 1,Bob 3,Jack 7,Janet 8,Gary 9,Kelly I would like to combine tables A and B with a SELECT statement to get

Re: Two tables, which did not match?

2002-03-29 Thread DL Neil
Daniel, I have a question about determining which case occurred when there are no matches - using two tables. Scenario: - two tables, one for photos, and one for collections - zero or more photos can belong to a collection - the database may not know the collection_id requested

Re: Re[2]: client dependent timezone

2002-03-29 Thread DL Neil
Hello Maxim, There's a bit of confusion in this discussion: Do you (a) want to have several databases running on the db-server, and all set to different time zones, or (b) want each client to see db-stored times stated in his/her local timezone? (a) AFAIK (and I claim no special expertise here)

Re: GUI

2002-03-29 Thread DL Neil
Anoop, I need to build a small database for my school project.Is there a way I can interface GLADE to MySQL? A confusion of tools - further research needed. GLADE (as in GTK) will interface to various scripting/programming languages. Various scripting/programming languages will interface to

Re: queries ( your help appreciated)

2002-03-28 Thread DL Neil
David, Steven, I think this is what you want? select * from table order by date_column ASC; ( for ascending order..) select * from table order by date_column DESC; ( for descending order..) Replace 'table' with the name of your table and date_column with the name of the column that

Re: SQL query question - using LIKE

2002-03-28 Thread DL Neil
Mark, Peter, The query below assumes that the user will search of FirstName and none or more of the other fields - which was not how the question reads (to me). To answer the question it would be useful to know how you are accessing MySQL - are you using PHP (as per example code below) for

Re: Database Design Question

2002-03-28 Thread DL Neil
Nick, This is pretty familiar to me because I'm analyzing the behavior of people in on-line discussions, so I'm gathering such data. Which begs the questions: - in what way are you analyzing behavior? and - in what way are you analyzing this list-community? =dn MySQL list busting

Re: SQL query question - using LIKE

2002-03-28 Thread DL Neil
Mark, Tutorials: Start at the PHP home page and look for the links page. DevShed would be a good start. Regards, =dn - Original Message - From: Mark Stringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DL Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Peter Lovatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MySQL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 March 2002 19

Re: Date Interval Grouping

2002-03-27 Thread DL Neil
~! Ok here's what I trying to do. I am trying to design a little browser/ip tracking page and I need an SQL statement that will allow me to group IPs that hit the site in 5 minute intervals (well I just want the interval thing to work cuz I'll prolly want to make this like 30 minutes or a

Re: Selecting entries in table A that are NOT in table B.

2002-03-18 Thread DL Neil
Hello Markus, There -has- to be an easy solution to this, but I just can't for the world figure it out. I have a table called members(id,membernum,firstname,lastname) and a table called paid(id,membernum,year,paid). How on earth do I select the members in table members that are -NOT- in

Re: How MySQL handles variables

2002-03-15 Thread DL Neil
Hi GEORGE, I would like to ask a simple question about the way MySQL handles string variabels. Say i have a variable whose value is foo and I want to change it to foobar. Instead of doing it the 'typical' way, I would like to ask whether there is any mysql command that will allow me to

Re: How MySQL handles variables

2002-03-15 Thread DL Neil
Hi GEORGE, The typical way refers to the update syntax. Ideally, I would like to be able to do something like that: - read the value of the variable through a read statement. -Specify the value to be appended. -Do the task. Could you please help me out with that? I would like to ask

Re: joining 2 identical tables

2002-03-15 Thread DL Neil
Hi Christian, i'm working on a project for managing used motorcycles. for security reasons i setup two identical tables. both with the same attributes. ID,UNIID,Manufacurer... one of the tables is named Com and the other Prv. till now i used to search either Com or Prv. but i want to look

Re: [mysql] Multiple WHERE options in SELECT

2002-03-14 Thread DL Neil
Jan, i wonder if its possible to perform multiple WHERE statements in one mysql SELECT statement like: SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1=3D'one' AND field2=3D'two' OR field3=3D'three'; it works with as many AND and it works with OR but not together is there something like brackets or other

Re: Changing character X to Y in a table

2002-03-14 Thread DL Neil
Hi Jari, have not figured out if one can do character changes with mysql, any one know how to do the following for fields in a table Altering all the x-characters to character y ? =You sure can. Manual reference: 6.3.2 String Functions REPLACE() will find the x-characters and replace them all

Re: Changing character X to Y in a table

2002-03-14 Thread DL Neil
Hi Jari, have not figured out if one can do character changes with mysql, any one know how to do the following for fields in a table Altering all the x-characters to character y ? =You sure can. Manual reference: 6.3.2 String Functions REPLACE() will find the x-characters and replace

Re: automating mysql command

2002-03-14 Thread DL Neil
Hi Andrew, Let me first say that I am used to using mysql through PHP rather than command line . . . And, as I understand it mysql does not support any sort of “timers”. I need to use a Unix command like cron to automate either a mysql command or php script to output a selection from a few

Re: Inserting strings containing spaces only fails?

2002-03-13 Thread DL Neil
Hello Wout, Appareantly it's impossible to insert a string, consisting entirely out of spaces, in a textual field (I've tried varchar(19) and char(2) types, they both don't work). MySQL doesn't complain about it, but it trims the strings down to the empty string. If I try a select searching

Re: How to timestamp records across time zones? ##

2002-03-11 Thread DL Neil
Brent, What's the best way to timestamp records if records are to be exported and then re-imported to another web server in a different time zone? Data will be exported as comma delimited data. All of the combined records should reflect the same instant in time, and not have the web site in

Re: Data series selection help

2002-03-07 Thread DL Neil
Hi MySQL, I record some stock data into MySQL, I'm looking for the correct syntax for a SELECT statement. SELECT min(Tmin) FROM quotes WHERE low=min(low) In short, I want the time of the occurance of the low for the day, Tmin is time column. Once the low is achieved, all the remaining

Re: MySQL text type field

2002-03-07 Thread DL Neil
Hi Alexander, I am interested if there any URL I can read more about text type fields in MySQL. I had an argument with a friend who said that if I use text type in a table it will make the system to work to slow. But I realy needed this text field because I wanted to store text more than

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