RE: Merging Databases

2009-05-11 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
-Original Message- From: Johnny Withers [mailto:joh...@pixelated.net] Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 3:30 PM To: MySQL General List Subject: Merging Databases Hi, I have a lot of databases that have the exact same tables and each table has the exact same column structure. I'm looking at

RE: Need to pivot rows into columns

2009-01-22 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
From: Attila [mailto:attee...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:06 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Need to pivot rows into columns ... I am using MySQL and have found some possibilities with SQL Server (Pivot, crosstab, etc) ... but the requirements call for MySQL. Is the above

RE: SELECT with replacement chars

2008-12-05 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Hi how can i replace, in a SELECT query, the last 3 numbers with asterisks? from 0123456789 to 0123456*** My psudocode for this would be something like: Select CONCAT(left$(`field`,(LENGTH(a)-3),'***') From `table` But there might be more efficient ideas out there.

RE: Access Rights ?

2008-10-06 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
This problem is Chapter 16.6 of The MYSQL Cookbook, (second edition) that has made my(sql) life much easier. You might want to look around at http://artfulsoftware.com/ which has lots of examples and a great e-book resource. Both of these are fantastic resources for me, and they are probably my

RE: Many to many to too many relation.

2008-09-30 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
of data (as simple as possible), a simple psuedo code query and example output of what you want returned. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Weston, Craig (OFT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. I have a complex situation. I have a list of related records (see partial extract below) where I

RE: Many to many to too many relation.

2008-09-30 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Wow, I do feel very lucky. I am only at the this is a cursor part. I sincerely appreciate your help. -Original Message- From: Rob Wultsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:11 AM To: Weston, Craig (OFT) Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Many

RE: Many to many to too many relation.

2008-09-30 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
. -Original Message- From: Rob Wultsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:11 AM To: Weston, Craig (OFT) Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Many to many to too many relation. Luck for you my vpn appears to be screwed up. Here is a stored proc I whipped up

Many to many to too many relation.

2008-09-29 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Hello everyone. I have a complex situation. I have a list of related records (see partial extract below) where I am trying to determine the unique lowest number for each relation. This number should always be an AB number, since all the MA numbers will always relate to an AB number. I need the

RE: Combining Multiple Tables

2008-09-26 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Use null (or custom text) to replace the missing columns A quick ex: Select a,b,c,null,d from table1 Union all Select d,'test valid',e,f,g from table 2 This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or

RE: Database Creating

2008-08-07 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
I would like to create my first mysql database. Is there a gui tool that makes this easy to do? Thanks, Andrew Try Toad - http://toadsoft.com/toadmysql/mysql_freeware.htm This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential,

Calendar creation

2008-07-17 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Hi there, Is there any simple way to create a calendar table? For example I want to create a reference calendar containing all the dates of several years so I can accurately represent even days where I have no data in my data set. Any ideas? Thanks, Craig

RE: Calendar creation

2008-07-17 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Thanks, everybody! Craig Weston nfrastructure Contractor NYS CIO/OFT Enterprise Helpdesk Management 518-486-4569 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Peter Brawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:26 PM To: Weston, Craig (OFT) Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com

date list including dates not in the list

2008-01-29 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Hi there, I have a list of events that occur periodically: 1/1/2008Event 1/1/2008Event 1/1/2008Event 1/2/2008Event 1/2/2008Event 1/4/2008Event 1/4/2008Event I know how to count events per day, but on

RE: [MYSQL]time of elapsed time

2007-10-19 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
. -Original Message- From: Baron Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 8:53 AM To: Weston, Craig (OFT) Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: [MYSQL]time of elapsed time Hi Craig, Weston, Craig (OFT) wrote: Hello everyone. Once again, I am jousting at the windmill

RE: [MYSQL]time of elapsed time

2007-10-19 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
and delete the e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:02 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: [MYSQL]time of elapsed time Weston, Craig (OFT) wrote: Baron, thank you for your response. I

[MYSQL]time of elapsed time

2007-10-19 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Hello everyone. Once again, I am jousting at the windmill of time and date formulae within MYSQL. I seek to create a cross-tab or pivot table of the SUM of all times with a specific category, on a per-ticket basis. I have everything working except the math part. Even that is kind of working ok,

RE: [mysql] Text = Tinytext = MediumText = LongText?

2007-10-18 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: [mysql] Text = Tinytext = MediumText = LongText? Sebastian Mendel schrieb: Weston, Craig (OFT) schrieb: Hello everyone, hopefully a quick question: is there a functional difference between the various text field sizes other than size? For example if I

[mysql] Text = Tinytext = MediumText = LongText?

2007-10-17 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Hello everyone, hopefully a quick question: is there a functional difference between the various text field sizes other than size? For example if I wanted to could I run a FULLTEXT index against a LongText field? The collary is of course how good of an idea is this, assuming that MOST of the

RE: Count syntax

2007-09-28 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Beauford, you might find this article on cross joins interesting, it was something shown to me a few weeks ago that discusses this kind of function. http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/wizard/print_version.html Cheers, craig This

RE: [mysql] duplicating lines

2007-09-14 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
To: Weston, Craig (OFT) Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: [mysql] duplicating lines Hi Craig, would you mind posting the SHOW CREATE TABLE for the tables in question? I'm having trouble determining what is the primary key for your service ticket table... Thanks, -Jay Weston, Craig (OFT

RE: [mysql] duplicating lines

2007-09-14 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:28 PM To: Weston, Craig (OFT) Cc: Jay Pipes; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: [mysql] duplicating lines I think you want to use a GROUP BY query. Try this article: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-select-the-firstleastmax-row -per-group-in-sql/ Baron Weston

[mysql] duplicating lines

2007-09-13 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Hello again, I am having a duplication of results problem. I believe my query (below) is giving me exactly what I deserve in writing it. What it returns to me is a row for each status. What I would most want would be a single row with the oldest status - IE the status datetime

RE: Does this MySQL client exist?

2007-09-13 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
You could look at Navicat, a non-free interface, does SSH and so on. http://navicat.com/index.html This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the

RE: [MYSQL]Time formatting for cycle time.

2007-08-29 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Peter, Baron and all, I think that I am almost there. Here's my query to return cycle time in hours:minutes:seconds accounting for business hours. There is some discussion as to when a ticket cycle time ends - for example if a person works on a ticket at 10:00 at night and closes it,

RE: [MYSQL]Time formatting for cycle time.

2007-08-28 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Wow, thanks. Lots to think about. From: Peter Brawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:18 PM To: Weston, Craig (OFT) Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: [MYSQL]Time formatting for cycle time. Craig, I am working on Martin

RE: [MYSQL]Time formatting for cycle time.

2007-08-28 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Ok, So, What I have come up with (so far) as a variant of Baron's query: SET @d1 = '2007-2-1 00:00:00';# Start date SET @d2 = '2007-2-28 23:59:59';# End date SET @tdiff = TIMEDIFF( TIME(@d1), TIME(@d2) ); SET @dow1 = DAYOFWEEK(@d1); SET @dow2 = DAYOFWEEK(@d2); SET @days = DATEDIFF(@d2,@d1); SET

RE: [MYSQL]Time formatting for cycle time.

2007-08-28 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Ok then, Now I have a result set so very close to where I want to be. The query thus far: mysql SET @d1 = '2007-02-01 18:24:04';# Start date SET @d2 = '2007-2-28 23:05:40';# End date set @wkldays = (select WorkDayDiff`(@d2,@d1)-1); Set @wkldays2 = if(@wkldays 0,1,0); set @Day_End = (select

[MYSQL]Time formatting for cycle time.

2007-08-27 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Hello all, I am working on Martin Minka's date diff function as found at http://forge.mysql.com/snippets/view.php?id=56. It is a beautiful thing. However, I am trying to alter it or identify a similar function that instead of giving me the number of days between two dates it returns

[mysql] reverse join

2007-08-02 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Hi there, I have a situation where I have duplicate data within several tables, but they are all indexed in the same way. How do I pull out all the non-duplicate records? Would I have to create a temporary table, add one data set, then add the second where it doesn't equal

RE: [mysql] reverse join

2007-08-02 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
Thanks for your help. From: Peter Brawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:47 AM To: Weston, Craig (OFT); mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: [mysql] reverse join Craig How do I pull out all the non-duplicate records

[MYSQL]networkdays and business hours

2007-07-31 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Hi there, I am trying to compute cycle time between two dates in mysql. This is a measurement of business hours between two datetimes, in hours. In Excel, I can use the networkdays function to get partway there. What I am trying to calculate is: # hours between start time and resolved time,

[mysql] crosstabs

2007-07-31 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
In Access, designing a crosstab query is fairly straight forward. You just choose crosstab in the query design form. Is there some simple way to replicate this functionality within mysql? Thanks, Craig This e-mail, including any

RE: [mysql] crosstabs

2007-07-31 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
31, 2007 3:56 PM To: Weston, Craig (OFT) Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: [mysql] crosstabs Hi, Weston, Craig (OFT) wrote: In Access, designing a crosstab query is fairly straight forward. You just choose crosstab in the query design form. Is there some simple way to replicate

Cross referenced tables

2007-07-25 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Hi there, I have a situation where I am trying to cross reference entries based on (for example) date and cost center. So without specifying the cost center sites in advance, how could I get a table returned out of mysql like: This

Query against two data types

2007-07-12 Thread Weston, Craig \(OFT\)
Hello all. I have a query I am tring to implement and I can't wrap my mind around it somehow. Can anyone help? . I have two tables within a database. Within the first table, I have a blob field that basically has a large amount of text. Within the second table, I have a list of

RE: Query against two data types

2007-07-12 Thread Weston, Craig (OFT)
within the single list. I just havent figured out how to deal with this yet. Again, I really appreciate your response previously, thank you. Regards, Craig -Original Message- From: Baron Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:17 PM To: Weston, Craig (OFT) Cc