Re: Codes for U.S. Counties

2004-06-02 Thread P. Hill
David Blomstrom wrote: I just wondered if anyone on this list has worked with counties in databases and is aware of a pre-existing code system that's in fairly wide use. It would be nice to make a database that's compatible with other databases, if they share a common code for counties. I don't kn

Re: INSERT table1 SET col1 = table2.col1

2004-05-17 Thread P. Hill
Garth Webb wrote: I'm not asking for an alternative way to do it; I'm asking what is wrong with what I did? It looks like you want to copy over several or all values from a second table. The INSERT .. SELECT syntax isn't an alternate way, its the only way. Okay, thanks for the clarification. I di

Re: INSERT table1 SET col1 = table2.col1

2004-05-17 Thread P. Hill
Victoria Reznichenko wrote: "P. Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why when there is a figurae, figurae2 table does the follow give an error? INSERT INTO figurae2 SET id = figurae.id; The error is: ERROR 1109 at line 35: Unknown table 'figurae' in field list > Look

INSERT table1 SET col1 = table2.col1

2004-05-17 Thread P. Hill
Why when there is a figurae, figurae2 table does the follow give an error? INSERT INTO figurae2 SET id = figurae.id; The error is: ERROR 1109 at line 35: Unknown table 'figurae' in field list Line 35 is the Insert line shown. There are no following lines in the file. I cut and pasted "figurae" fro

collation in a multi-language text field.

2003-10-08 Thread P. Hill
I have imported 1000s of records into a table and even spent some time cleaning up characters which I messed up as I imported them (not the fault of the DB layer, but the result of bringing things into a text editor), but now I have the following problem. I have a whole series of author and boo