How to assign a variable without returning results

2005-04-07 Thread Sean Nolan
I have a batch of SQL code, where I need to calculate an aggregate in a SELECT and then use that value in a second SELECT. I am using MySql 4.0 so unfortunately I cannot use a subquery (which is how I'd like to do this :-)). So I run the first SELECT and assign the aggregate to a variable somet

RE: UDF request?

2005-04-07 Thread Sean Nolan
I think you'll find you can do what you want with a cross join. A cross join will join every row from the first table with every row from the second table. It will not randomly do this, so you'd have to be creative in "randomly" selecting rows in the WHERE clause. Here's how you could do this w

RE: UDF request?

2005-04-07 Thread Sean Nolan
I think you'll find you can do what you want with a cross join. A cross join will join every row from the first table with every row from the second table. It will not randomly do this, so you'd have to be creative in "randomly" selecting rows in the WHERE clause. Here's how you could do this w