RE: Most efficient query

2002-05-09 Thread Max Anderson
SELECT main.id FROM MainTable main OUTER JOIN MapTable map ON main.id = map.id WHERE map.id = null Does this work? Give it a whirl. Another solution could be to do it like this: SELECT col1, col2, coln FROM MainTable WHERE id IN ( SELECT id FROM MainTable WHERE id NOT IN ( S

RE: Pretty Simple MAX Value question...

2002-05-09 Thread Max Anderson
SELECT MAX(id) FROM (SELECT MAX(id) FROM table WHERE DATE = '20020509' LIMIT 100) Dunno if this works in MySQL, I can't access a MySQL database from here to test it out. This should return the value that you want but I would be interested to learn the usefulness of runni

RE: MySQL GROUP BY Anomaly?

2002-05-09 Thread Max Anderson
I don't want to doubt you :-) but can you show us a select including the time component? I don't know how date comparison works in MySQL but here is a test I ran in Oracle. I inserted some dates into a table using sysdate which include time information and inserted more records using to_date('20

RE: MySQL GROUP BY Anomaly?

2002-05-09 Thread Max Anderson
Perhaps the time component of the date is different, hence you are getting back what looks like duplicate rows but they're not really? - Max Martin Anderson QA Engineer ProfitLogic Eleven Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 t: 617.218.1946 -Original Message- From: Jay Blanchard [mailt