Re: How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key fields

2004-04-12 Thread Kevin Carlson
Andy Ford wrote: I thought LIMIT limited you to N number of CONCURRENT record. ie. limit 10 or limit 20 I believe Ross would like to select select 1000 records and then do a sub select of records 1-20 and then 21-40 on this record set LIMIT also allows you to specify a starting record, i.e. LIM

How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key

2004-04-03 Thread Khashan
It seems to me you want to retrive n records based on the page number the user is in. Here is what i use to page $limit records at a time using PHP: $sql_select = "SELECT * FROM myTableName limit $offset , $limit"; $result = mysql_query($sql_select) or die ("Queryproblem: " . mysql_error());

RE: How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key fields

2004-04-02 Thread Andy Ford
02 April 2004 13:48 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key > fields > > eg. say a table is created using: > > create table fred (f1 char(10), f2 int) > > Then it has neither keys nor an AUTO_INCREMENT field.

RE: How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key fields

2004-04-02 Thread Andy Eastham
lumn, then reload the data. Find more information in the manual at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/index.html Andy -Original Message- From: Ross Honniball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 April 2004 13:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do I determine the row number or key when table

Re: How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key

2004-04-02 Thread Terry Riley
Take a look at LIMIT in the Manual Cheers Terry --Original Message- > eg. say a table is created using: > > create table fred (f1 char(10), f2 int) > > Then it has neither keys nor an AUTO_INCREMENT field. > > Let's say 1000,000 records are then inserted into table fred

How do I determine the row number or key when table has no key fields

2004-04-02 Thread Ross Honniball
eg. say a table is created using: create table fred (f1 char(10), f2 int) Then it has neither keys nor an AUTO_INCREMENT field. Let's say 1000,000 records are then inserted into table fred. I then say 'select * from fred' and loop through results writing to a web page. I stop writing to th