Re: Comparing date fields (Delphi programmers take note)

2003-12-18 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi, Interesting. > Thanks for all those who helped me with this a few days ago (I've only now > had the chance to get back to programming). > > As someone correctly surmised, I am using Delphi and connecting to mySQL via > a TQuery (actually a TZQuery, via Zeos components). What I have discovere

RE: Comparing date fields (Delphi programmers take note)

2003-12-18 Thread Noamn
Thanks for all those who helped me with this a few days ago (I've only now had the chance to get back to programming). As someone correctly surmised, I am using Delphi and connecting to mySQL via a TQuery (actually a TZQuery, via Zeos components). What I have discovered is that 1. mySQL doesn't li

RE: Comparing date fields

2003-12-16 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I started with "between", but when this didn't work, I switched to the comparison operators. mysql> select projects.name from projects -> where projects.closeddate between :fd and :td; ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ':fd and :td' at line 2 [/snip] What are those

RE: Comparing date fields

2003-12-16 Thread Noamn
2 mysql> -Original Message- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:04 PM To: Noamn; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Comparing date fields [snip] I'm in the process of converting an application from Paradox to mySQL which is why I have these

RE: Comparing date fields

2003-12-16 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I'm in the process of converting an application from Paradox to mySQL which is why I have these syntax questions. mySQL doesn't like a query with this syntax: select p.name, from projects p, ... where p.closeddate >= :fd and p.closeddate <= :td ... where fd ("from date") and td ("til