Re: calculated field

2005-01-21 Thread Jason Martin
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:38:59PM +0100, Javier wrote: Now I need to put data in a db but the problem is with this calculated data. A friend of mine that use Oracle told me that I could define a field like field1 = field2 + field3, but I can't discover this option in Mysql. You can't define a

Re: calculated field

2005-01-21 Thread V. M. Brasseur
To the best of my knowledge MySQL does not have a way to do this on the fly such that a field value is contigent upon the values of other fields in the table. Does it have to be stored in the database at all? Seems to me that calculated values often are best handled at query time rather than

RE: calculated field

2005-01-21 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Now I need to put data in a db but the problem is with this calculated data. A friend of mine that use Oracle told me that I could define a field like field1 = field2 + field3, but I can't discover this option in Mysql. It's possible to make it ? Any other idea about it ? [/snip] Have you

Re: Calculated Field

2001-03-01 Thread Basil Hussain
Hi, How do I set up a field called Minutes which has the (default) value, where round((SessionTime+30)/60) = Minutes Is it possible to set this up? In other databases (Alpha Five) I would have used a Calculated Field attribute to achieve this. Can MySql handle it.. ??? In SQL