Re: Help with formatting of 1:n relationship

2009-01-27 Thread Walter Heck
I don't think so unfortunately. He says in his first mail: > I'm using an excel library that accepts a SELECT as input and generates an > XLS file with the records as output. So, probably csv is not going to help him, which is a shame :) Walter OlinData: Professional services for MySQL Support

Re: Help with formatting of 1:n relationship

2009-01-27 Thread Claudio Nanni
I think what you are looking for is something like this: - SELECT CONCAT(A.FIELD1,',',GROUP_CONCAT(B.FIELD2)) FROM TABLE1 A LEFT JOIN TABLE2 B ON A.ID=B.ID_TABLE1 -

Re: Help with formatting of 1:n relationship

2009-01-26 Thread Vikram Vaswani
Hi, I did consider a procedure but the problem is that the client is still using MySQL 4.x, which afaik doesn't support stored procedures. An upgrade is not something they can do at this point, as they're using s shared host so the server isn't really under their control. I think what you're r

RE: Help with formatting of 1:n relationship

2009-01-26 Thread Jerry Schwartz
>-Original Message- >From: blue.trapez...@gmail.com [mailto:blue.trapez...@gmail.com] On >Behalf Of Vikram Vaswani >Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:29 AM >To: Jerry Schwartz >Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: Re: Help with formatting of 1:n relationship > >

Re: Help with formatting of 1:n relationship

2009-01-26 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi, On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Vikram Vaswani wrote: > Hi Jerry > > Thanks for your input on this! > > >>> I'm using an excel library that accepts a SELECT as input and generates >>> an XLS file with the records as output. I'd like to use this where >>> possible. However I don't know if it

Re: Help with formatting of 1:n relationship

2009-01-26 Thread Vikram Vaswani
Hi Jerry Thanks for your input on this! I'm using an excel library that accepts a SELECT as input and generates an XLS file with the records as output. I'd like to use this where possible. However I don't know if it's possible to write a SELECT that compresses a 1:n relationship into a single

RE: Help with formatting of 1:n relationship

2009-01-26 Thread Jerry Schwartz
>-Original Message- >From: blue.trapez...@gmail.com [mailto:blue.trapez...@gmail.com] On >Behalf Of Vikram Vaswani >Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:02 AM >To: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: Help with formatting of 1:n relationship > >Hello all > >I have a database with a 1:n relationshi