disappearing data

2005-01-30 Thread Sheryl Canter
I've got a weird problem that's driving me nuts. I'm updating a set of scripts for a customer database that supports sending out software registration codes in real time. I've had this working for some time now, but I'm having the most frustrating problem. Data I've inserted simply VANISHES. I'

Re: need help with subselect workaround

2003-06-22 Thread Sheryl Canter
D AND a.AuthorID = r.AuthorID AND r.Royalty = pr.MaxRoyalty; What I didn't understand was that the temporary table is simply a look-up table for the max royalty for each utility. I use this in the WHERE clause of the SELECT statement. Sheryl Canter Permutations Software www.permut

need help with subselect workaround

2003-06-22 Thread Sheryl Canter
ple data, I'd want it to look like this: ProgramRoyalties table (primary key is a combination of AuthorID and UtilityID): AuthorIDUtilityIDRoyalty -- Author1 Utility1 0.15 Author3 Utility2 0.25 Author5 Utility3 0.20 Th

Re: SELECT DISTINCT question

2003-03-01 Thread Sheryl Canter
Thanks for the clarification. Is the MySQL list down? I was getting constant email before, and now I've received nothing for almost 12 hours. - Sheryl - Original Message - From: "Uttam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Sheryl Canter'" <[EMAIL

Re: SELECT DISTINCT question

2003-02-28 Thread Sheryl Canter
this correctly? - Sheryl mysql - Original Message - From: "Juan Nin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sheryl Canter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: Re: SELECT DISTINCT question From: "Sheryl Ca

Re: SELECT DISTINCT question

2003-02-28 Thread Sheryl Canter
L PROTECTED]> To: "Sheryl Canter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Frank Peavy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:34 PM Subject: Re: SELECT DISTINCT question At 11:50 -0500 2/28/03, Sheryl Canter wrote: >Frank, > >Sorry tha

Re: SELECT DISTINCT question

2003-02-28 Thread Sheryl Canter
up so I can identify which author name to display. Thanks for your help. - Sheryl - Original Message ----- From: "Frank Peavy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sheryl Canter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:22 AM S

MySQL and email

2003-02-28 Thread Sheryl Canter
I have a big problem to solve on my site, and I'm not sure how to approach it. I'm selling software that's distributed as trialware (will be--haven't launched yet). Users will be able to unlock the time-limited versions with a license. I want to send the license to the user after her payment has be

Re: SELECT DISTINCT question

2003-02-28 Thread Sheryl Canter
others know of other ways of handling this. - Sheryl - Original Message - From: "Tore Bostrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sheryl Canter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:41 AM Subject: Re: SELECT DISTINCT quest

Re: SELECT DISTINCT question

2003-02-27 Thread Sheryl Canter
on this list showed me how a subselect could achieve this result, but MySQL doesn't support subselects. - Sheryl >- Original Message - >From: "Sheryl Canter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:49 A

Re: SELECT DISTINCT question

2003-02-27 Thread Sheryl Canter
field in the table)? That is the one that I want. Details on the database structure are below. Thanks. - Sheryl - Original Message - From: "Frank Peavy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sheryl Canter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent

Re: SELECT DISTINCT question

2003-02-27 Thread Sheryl Canter
Didn't receive answer to message below. Could someone please take a look? TIA. - Sheryl - Original Message - From: "Sheryl Canter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:49 AM Subject: SELECT DISTINCT question

Re: index questions

2003-02-26 Thread Sheryl Canter
n for a surprise. Regards, Tore. - Original Message - From: "Sheryl Canter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tore Bostrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:29 AM Subject: Re: index questions > > 4: The name o

SELECT DISTINCT question

2003-02-26 Thread Sheryl Canter
I need help with a query. I have a 'royalties' table that looks like this: AuthorIDProgramIDRoyalty -- Author1 Program1 0.15 Author2 Program1 0.10 Author3 Program2 0.25 Author4 Program3 0.05 Author5 Program3

Re: Help needed with SQL...

2003-02-26 Thread Sheryl Canter
I've never seen opening a table twice and then doing a join back with itself. Am I wording this correctly? Is that how to describe what you're doing? Thanks for posting this to the full list. - Sheryl - Original Message - From: "Don Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: index questions

2003-02-26 Thread Sheryl Canter
Tore, Thanks very much for taking the time to respond! I'm not insulted by "basic". Some things I knew, but my questions were basic. > 1: There is no difference: KEY is a synonym for INDEX. So these two statements are equivalent: KEY [index_name] (index_col_name,...) INDEX [index_name] (index_

replying to "all"

2003-02-26 Thread Sheryl Canter
I just received an answer to a question that I was about to post by reading a reply to someone else's question. So in this case, replying to all has *reduced* traffic. I don't have to post my question. - Original Message - From: "Bernhard Döbler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: index questions

2003-02-25 Thread Sheryl Canter
please someone answer! see below - Original Message - From: "Sheryl Canter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:07 PM Subject: index questions I have some basic questions that are driving me nuts, and I can't find

index questions

2003-02-25 Thread Sheryl Canter
I have some basic questions that are driving me nuts, and I can't find answers anywhere. I've been banging my head against the wall for hours and hours. I've searched everywhere on the internet and looked in every book I own. I can't find the information. Here are my questions. In the CREATE TABLE