Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Rhino
time of events 2) etype is nominal, not inteval data so You can't use < or > operator - Original Message - From: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Stassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Søren Merser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent:

Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Søren Merser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Stassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Søren Merser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 9:05 PM Subject: Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik) You're absolutely right that I'd need some good luck for thi

Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Rhino
probably be a lot easier if the data was clean to start with. In any case, thanks for keeping me honest. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: "Michael Stassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Søren Merser" <[EMAIL

Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Michael Stassen
Rhino wrote: I don't really understand _why_ you want to do this but here is a query that gives the result you want: select id, case type when 4 then 4 else null end as type from Soren01 group by id; The GROUP BY ensures that you get one row for each value of id; the case expression in the Se

Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Rhino
le will try to help you. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: "Michael Stassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Søren Merser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 1:13 PM Subject: Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik) Søren Merser wrote:

Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Rhino
says that if the value of the type is 4, leave it alone, otherwise display null. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: "Søren Merser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Help on sql state

Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Michael Stassen
Søren Merser wrote: Hi, I'll try I need one record for each id in the tabel, i.e. NO duplicate id's with TYPE set to 4 or NULL Now, the TYPE of id 2 is 4 so I peserve it; As id 2 has more than one entry I have to delete it/them Id's with TYPE = NULL (id 1,4,5)is kept Id 5 (and 6) has two rec

Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Søren Merser
Hi, I'll try I need one record for each id in the tabel, i.e. NO duplicate id's with TYPE set to 4 or NULL Now, the TYPE of id 2 is 4 so I peserve it; As id 2 has more than one entry I have to delete it/them Id's with TYPE = NULL (id 1,4,5)is kept Id 5 (and 6) has two records, none of which h

Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
I think he wants to update rows where != 4 to null that is, update TYPE setting TYPE to null where TYPE != 4 -Ron Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: "Søren Merser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 9:12 AM Subject: Help on sql statement (no

Re: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Søren Merser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 9:12 AM Subject: Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik) Hi Could someone please help me out here? TABLE: RECNO| ID |TYPE ---

Help on sql statement (not MySQL specifik)

2006-03-05 Thread Søren Merser
Hi Could someone please help me out here? TABLE: RECNO| ID |TYPE - 1| 1|NULL 2| 2|4<-KEEP AS IS 3| 2|6<- DROP 4| 3