Re: Help needed with complex Query

2005-06-06 Thread Philip Lawatsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I pretty much have no idea how I can do this without nested queries (and >>to be frank not even how to do it with them) so I'd really appreciate >>any help! > > >>kind regards Philip > > > Try this as a starting point: > I think you were having two mental problems

Re: Help needed with complex Query

2005-06-06 Thread Brent Baisley
Unless you are keeping track of whether a widget in complete or not, there is no hope but to scan the entire table to determine if a widget is complete. That's something you don't want to do. You should mark a widget as complete when it is completed. This would mean checking if a particular wid

Re: Help needed with complex Query

2005-06-06 Thread gerald_clark
Philip Lawatsch wrote: Hi, I'm trying hard to figure out how to perform a special query in mysql 4.0. I have one table "widgets" which has a column "widget-id" (int) and one column "number_of_parts" (int). And then I have another table "part_mapping" which has one column "widget-id" (int) and

Re: Help needed with complex Query

2005-06-06 Thread SGreen
Philip Lawatsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/06/2005 01:37:37 PM: > Hi, > I'm trying hard to figure out how to perform a special query in mysql 4.0. > I have one table "widgets" which has a column "widget-id" (int) and one > column "number_of_parts" (int). > And then I have another table "p

Help needed with complex Query

2005-06-06 Thread Philip Lawatsch
Hi, I'm trying hard to figure out how to perform a special query in mysql 4.0. I have one table "widgets" which has a column "widget-id" (int) and one column "number_of_parts" (int). And then I have another table "part_mapping" which has one column "widget-id" (int) and one column "part_id" (int