Regular expresion replace possibility?

2003-07-21 Thread Dean Householder
Is it possible to run a query that will just alter text possibly using a regular expression? I have about 250 rows that I want to strip quotes out of. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? Dean

Re: Regular expresion replace possibility?

2003-07-21 Thread Dean Householder
Worked like a charm! I couldn't find anything about this in MySQL docs though... Neither before I knew what to search for nor after. What's up with that? Dean - Original Message - From: Mike Hillyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dean Householder [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Joining multiple tables results not complete

2003-02-19 Thread Dean Householder
I am perplexed trying to retrieve all the rows I need in the query I'm doing. I have a table with keeping track of people using ID numbers as the primary key and another table with coupon numbers and a reference to the first table. But not all the second table is going to have correlating

Re: Problem to access MySQL via MySQLFront

2003-01-13 Thread Dean Householder
think you can simplify the command to:) rpm -Uvh --oldpackage filename (but I haven't tried it) MySQL-Front now seems to work fine for me. Hope this helps, Dean Householder http://mysqlfront.venturemedia.de/index.php?act=STf=8t=434 - Original Message - From: David Rayroud [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accessing new columns within the WHERE condition

2002-08-01 Thread Dean Householder
Okay, I thought I'd done this before but maybe not. I can't figure it out now. What I want to do is: SELECT column AS something FROM table WHERE something 5 Basically I'm creating a new column called something and I want to use it to compare with in the WHERE condition. Is this possible?

basic query question

2002-02-19 Thread Dean Householder
I'm fairly new to MySQL, so if anyone could help me I'd really appreciate it! What I'm trying to do is join two pictures in a database to each other. My database holds info about people with variables: id, lname, fname, engagedto, pic The engagedto field contains the id of the person they are

Re: basic query question

2002-02-19 Thread Dean Householder
and such. I guess I'm looking for a query that will match these to up either in the same row or one after another. Any help is SOOO appreciated! Dean - Original Message - From: Roger Karnouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dean Householder [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19

Re: basic query question

2002-02-19 Thread Dean Householder
Thank you all so much for helping me with this query. It works! Best of all, now I understand how to join tables and such! Thanks again! - Original Message - From: Rick Emery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Dean Householder' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002

Is there an MSSQL limit function?

2002-02-16 Thread Dean Householder
I want to run a query like: select * from table order by rand() limit 3 in MySQL it would work but I need to run it in MSSQL. I've been searching for a limit function in MSSQL and I can't find a way to do it. I'm experienced with MySQL but know nothing about MSSQL. If someone could point me