Re: Help needed with complex Query

2005-06-06 Thread SGreen
Philip Lawatsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/06/2005 01:37:37 PM: Hi, I'm trying hard to figure out how to perform a special query in mysql 4.0. I have one table widgets which has a column widget-id (int) and one column number_of_parts (int). And then I have another table part_mapping

Re: Help needed with complex Query

2005-06-06 Thread gerald_clark
Philip Lawatsch wrote: Hi, I'm trying hard to figure out how to perform a special query in mysql 4.0. I have one table widgets which has a column widget-id (int) and one column number_of_parts (int). And then I have another table part_mapping which has one column widget-id (int) and one

Re: Help needed with complex Query

2005-06-06 Thread Brent Baisley
Unless you are keeping track of whether a widget in complete or not, there is no hope but to scan the entire table to determine if a widget is complete. That's something you don't want to do. You should mark a widget as complete when it is completed. This would mean checking if a particular

Re: Help needed with complex Query

2005-06-06 Thread Philip Lawatsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I pretty much have no idea how I can do this without nested queries (and to be frank not even how to do it with them) so I'd really appreciate any help! kind regards Philip Try this as a starting point: snip I think you were having two mental problems: 1) how