RE: Help with a tricky/impossible query...

2005-04-14 Thread Gordon
not null primary key) -Original Message- From: Andrew Braithwaite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:33 PM To: MySQL Subject: Re: Help with a tricky/impossible query... I should mention that I'm constrained to version 4.0.n so no sub queries for me! An

Re: Help with a tricky/impossible query...

2005-04-14 Thread Paul B van den Berg
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:57:50 +0100 "Andrew Braithwaite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the idea, > > Unfortunately I can't do that as the ranges involved are unknown and > will be from 1 to several billion at lease. I can't have another table > that needs to be augmented each time my ra

RE: Help with a tricky/impossible query...

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
om: Paul B van den Berg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 14 April 2005 10:47 To: MySQL Cc: Andrew Braithwaite Subject: Help with a tricky/impossible query... Hi, In SQL you need to define the data that you want to work with: create table z ( z int(5) not null primary key); insert into z values

Help with a tricky/impossible query...

2005-04-14 Thread Paul B van den Berg
Hi, In SQL you need to define the data that you want to work with: create table z ( z int(5) not null primary key); insert into z values (1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9),(10),(11),(12),(13),(14),(15),(16),(17),(18),(19),(20),(21),(22); If you need more values you could use a simple perl loo

Re: Help with a tricky/impossible query...

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
I should mention that I'm constrained to version 4.0.n so no sub queries for me! Andrew On 14/4/05 1:11 am, "Andrew Braithwaite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need some help with a tricky query. Before anyone asks, I cannot bring > this functionality back to the application layer (as

Help with a tricky/impossible query...

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
Hi, I need some help with a tricky query. Before anyone asks, I cannot bring this functionality back to the application layer (as much as I'd like to). Here's what I need to do... create table wibble( seq int(3) auto_increment primary key, x int(5), y int(5) ); insert into wibble set x=5, y=10