Richard,
I use this with all kinds of situations.
I am using this function and others like it on tables with 100k to 3m
records.
They always work best when the field your looking for info on is indexed.
Order By only causes a second process that seems unnecessary but I have not
tested it
At 10:06 -0500 1/28/02, Butch Bean wrote:
Richard,
I use this with all kinds of situations.
I am using this function and others like it on tables with 100k to 3m
records.
They always work best when the field your looking for info on is indexed.
Order By only causes a second process that seems
You are correct... my apologies, I was thinking in VB where I built a
handler to let me sent multiple sql statements in one chunk and where the
'@' doesn't matter.
BB
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From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:28 AM
To: [EMAIL
You are correct... my apologies, I was thinking in VB where I built a
handler to let me sent multiple sql statements in one chunk and where the
'@' doesn't matter.
BB
This Works as a test...
my $getbigage = $dbh-prepare(
SELECT \@maxage:=max(age) from contacts);
my $getbigage1
Thanks, but using
SELECT MAX(age) FROM contacts
only gives me the maximum age, not the person with that age.
The table is tiny, changes very often and therefore indexes would be a waste
of time.
Thanks
Richard
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From: Butch Bean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25
Richard Morton a écrit :
Hello,
I have a simple query, and a problem countless people must have had, I just
cannot work it out at the moment, I am new to MySQL; I hope you can help.
My current statement looking at the manual.
SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE age=MAX(age);
I started
Hello Richard,
I have a simple query, and a problem countless people must have had, I just
cannot work it out at the moment, I am new to MySQL; I hope you can help.
My current statement looking at the manual.
SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE age=MAX(age);
I started with:
mysql select *
At 17:13 + 1/26/02, DL Neil wrote:
Hello Richard,
I have a simple query, and a problem countless people must have had, I just
cannot work it out at the moment, I am new to MySQL; I hope you can help.
My current statement looking at the manual.
SELECT * FROM contacts WHERE
The fastest way I found would be:
SELECT MAX(age) FROM contacts
good luck
bb
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From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 12:14 PM
To: Richard Morton; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Selecting the row with largest number in a column
