Re: Concat fields

2004-08-12 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
Egor Egorov wrote: Paul McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not running 4, is there another way to achieve the same result as GROUP_CONCAT(myField) ? I don't think so. :( Except if you are ready to make a User-defined function to make a simple group_concat...

Re: Concat fields

2004-08-12 Thread Egor Egorov
Philippe Poelvoorde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not running 4, is there another way to achieve the same result as GROUP_CONCAT(myField) ? I don't think so. :( Except if you are ready to make a User-defined function to make a simple group_concat...

Re: Concat fields

2004-08-12 Thread SGreen
Philippe, If he is pre-4 (I assume that as he does not seem to have the GROUP_CONCAT() function) and UDFs aren't available until 5+, how exactly would he do this as a UDF? :-D Paul, I believe you are going to have to combine those fields during some form of post-query processing (macro,

Concat fields

2004-08-11 Thread Paul McNeil
Good morning to all. How can I combine the elements from many text fields into one text field. I have a table. ID(auto inc) eventID data ID is unique eventID is repeated data represents what happened at this event. I would like to return all of the data for a given event ID, sorted

Re: Concat fields

2004-08-11 Thread Egor Egorov
Paul McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I combine the elements from many text fields into one text field. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/String_functions.html, in particular, you need CONCAT() I have a table. ID(auto inc) eventID data ID is unique eventID is

RE Concat fields

2004-08-11 Thread Paul McNeil
Thank you for your response, Egor. My question is whether or not it is possible to concatenate the fields without knowing the event ID. pseudo SQL Select concat(data from all grouped fields) from foo group by (eventID); God Bless Paul C. McNeil Developer in Java, MS-SQL, MySQL, and web

Re: RE Concat fields

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Stassen
If you use mysql 4.1, you can use GROUP_CONCAT(). See the manual for details http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/GROUP-BY-Functions.html. Michael Paul McNeil wrote: Thank you for your response, Egor. My question is whether or not it is possible to concatenate the fields without knowing the event

RE: Concat fields

2004-08-11 Thread Paul McNeil
If I am not running 4, is there another way to achieve the same result as GROUP_CONCAT(myField) ? God Bless Paul C. McNeil Developer in Java, MS-SQL, MySQL, and web technologies. Microneil research Sortmonster Anti Spam GOD BLESS AMERICA! To God Be The Glory! -- MySQL

Re: Concat fields

2004-08-11 Thread Egor Egorov
Paul McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not running 4, is there another way to achieve the same result as GROUP_CONCAT(myField) ? I don't think so. :( -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net