Getting the previous months documents

2006-05-02 Thread ross
I have a database that stores documents relating to meetings. They have all the usual stuff agenda, minutes etc. There are 3 paper types for each date agenda (1 only), minutes (1 only), and a bunch of general documents titled 'papers'. I need to display all the documents for a specific date

RE: Getting the previous months documents

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Lauri
-02 and order by that. /Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:04 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Getting the previous months documents I have a database that stores documents relating to meetings. They have all

Re: Getting the previous months documents

2006-05-02 Thread ross
to change the field to DATE? Ross - Original Message - From: Peter Lauri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:06 AM Subject: RE: Getting the previous months documents You should start by using MySQL date as the standard for date: -MM-DD After

RE: Getting the previous months documents

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Lauri
have to change the field to DATE? Ross - Original Message - From: Peter Lauri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:06 AM Subject: RE: Getting the previous months documents You should start by using MySQL date as the standard for date: -MM-DD

RE: Getting the previous months documents

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Lauri
:20 AM Subject: RE: Getting the previous months documents I did this, sorry for bad format. This will do it for you. SELECT CONCAT(SUBSTRING(temptext, 7, 2),SUBSTRING(temptext, 4, 2), SUBSTRING(temptext, 1, 2)) AS docdate FROM `tempdate` WHERE CONCAT(SUBSTRING(temptext, 7, 2),SUBSTRING(temptext