RE: How to remove the duplicate values in my table!

2008-11-20 Thread roger.maynard
I have always used this for de-duplicating... ALTER IGNORE TABLE mytbl ADD UNIQUE KEY ( myField1, myField1 ) ; It works a treat, hope it helps Roger -Original Message- From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 November 2008 00:35 To: jean claude babin Cc: mysql@lists.mysq

RE: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS - doesnt??

2008-08-15 Thread roger.maynard
+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> drop table if exists recipes; Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec) * As you see, the table "recipes" doesn't already exist, and I don't get an error. roger.maynard

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS - doesnt??

2008-08-15 Thread roger.maynard
I am finding that DROP TABLE IF EXISTS mytable; Works fine if the table exists - but if it doesn't exist I get an error? Surely it should not error and just not try to drop the table. Is it me?

RE: Auto Fill blank Rows

2008-03-13 Thread roger.maynard
2 | 5 | null 2 | 6 | null 2 | 7 | Reference 7 2 | 8 | null 2 | 9 | null 2 |10 | null == Any thoughts Roger

RE: Auto Fill blank Rows

2008-03-12 Thread roger.maynard
Yup! That's the kind of thing I was looking for - I just had a complete blank moment Thanks!!! From: Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 March 2008 17:05 To: roger.maynard Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Auto Fill blank Rows you could do some

Auto Fill blank Rows

2008-03-12 Thread roger.maynard
Anyone got any bright ideas of how to solve this one? I have documents which can contain up to 15 rows of information. Each row as it is added to the document reference can have any ROW_ID from 1 to 15 when it is added. I want to be able to "Auto Fill" the blank rows on a SELECT. eg data in

RE: Im being dumb!

2008-03-06 Thread roger.maynard
Thanks guys!! << gone to chase some of Dan's coffee >> Brain gone.. and too many remnants of FoxPro SQL with "INNER JOINS" Rog -Original Message- From: Dan Rogart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2008 13:53 To: Dan Rogart; roger.maynard; mysql list

Im being dumb!

2008-03-06 Thread roger.maynard
I got 4 tables: Table A | ID | Description1 | Table B | ID | Description2 | Table C | ID | Description3 | Table D | ID | Description4 | ALL Ids ARE COMMON Values and NONE are MISSING How can I create | ID | Description 1 | Description 2 | Description 3

Help with a pivot-type issue

2008-03-05 Thread roger.maynard
This may take a bit of explaining! I have a incoming table structure of PartRef AttribValue ABC0011 10.00 ABC0012 4 ABC0013 A ABC0021 12.00 ABC0022 6 ABC002

RE: sql help: delete row where only related to one other row

2008-02-21 Thread roger.maynard
Take a look at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-foreign-key-constraints.ht ml "CASCADE: Delete or update the row from the parent table and automatically delete or update the matching rows in the child table. Both ON DELETE CASCADE and ON UPDATE CASCADE are supported. Between two tab

RE: select with table name

2008-02-16 Thread roger.maynard
Can you just do SELECT t1.*, "t1" as tablename FROM t1 UNION SELECT t2.*, "t2" as tablename FROM t2 Roger -Original Message- From: Miguel Vaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2008 00:04 To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: select with table name Hi, I hav

RE: mysql to mysql conversion tool

2008-01-29 Thread roger.maynard
Check out DBConvert variants.. http://www.dbconvert.com/ -Original Message- From: Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 January 2008 18:16 To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: mysql to mysql conversion tool Hi, I'm looking an application which let me convert o

RE: INSERT WHERE NOT EXISTS syntax

2008-01-23 Thread roger.maynard
else . -Original Message- From: roger.maynard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 January 2008 18:58 To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: INSERT WHERE NOT EXISTS syntax Can anyone tell me why this isn't working... v5.0 INSERT INTO master_comments (comment_no,comment

INSERT WHERE NOT EXISTS syntax

2008-01-23 Thread roger.maynard
Can anyone tell me why this isn't working... v5.0 INSERT INTO master_comments (comment_no,comment_text,language_id) SELECT comment_no,comment_text,language_id from mComments WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT comment_no FROM master_comments); I thought I had it working once but now it isn't? Ro

RE: Pass Reference to source table in Stored Procedure - How??

2008-01-23 Thread roger.maynard
Perfect!! Thanks a million. -Original Message- From: Rolando Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 January 2008 15:45 To: roger.maynard; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Pass Reference to source table in Stored Procedure - How?? What you need is Dynamic SQL via the PREPARE

Pass Reference to source table in Stored Procedure - How??

2008-01-23 Thread roger.maynard
Hi Is there any way I can pass the reference to a source table to be used in a SELECT command within a Stored Procedure Something like this CREATE PROCEDURE `myDB`.`sp_test` (myTable varchar(20)) BEGIN SELECT * FROM myTable; END $$ This gives error "cannot find Table myDB.myT