Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-12 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Diana Soares declared No. You're right! Unless you generate your own AuthId (with date, not auto-incremented), i think you will have to do a SELECT in the author table to get his ID /you will need it to insert a new tip in the

Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-12 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Diana Soares declared On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 11:22, Nick Wilson wrote: 2 tables content TipId | AuthId | title | keywords | desc | section | text author AuthId | name | email | bio My question is: If I enter a

Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-06 Thread Diana Soares
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 11:22, Nick Wilson wrote: 2 tables content TipId | AuthId | title | keywords | desc | section | text author AuthId | name | email | bio My question is: If I enter a 'tip' and put myself as the author, when /I/ come to write another tip how do I make my

Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-06 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Diana Soares declared On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 11:22, Nick Wilson wrote: 2 tables content TipId | AuthId | title | keywords | desc | section | text author AuthId | name | email | bio My question is: If I enter a

Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-06 Thread Diana Soares
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 11:52, Nick Wilson wrote: You can always use INSERT for the content table and REPLACE for the author table. I don't think that would work as it will change the AuthId and effect any other 'tips' I've written. Each author should have one entry in 'author' and as

Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-06 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Diana Soares declared No. You're right! Unless you generate your own AuthId (with date, not auto-incremented), i think you will have to do a SELECT in the author table to get his ID /you will need it to insert a new tip in the

Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-06 Thread DL Neil
Nick, I don't think ... Am I talking rubbish? An admission and then an invitation??? Boy you must some masochist! You asked a question, it was answered (and there's usually more than one way to skin the proverbial cat); and then you appear to argue. Thinking is not as good as testing: did

Re: Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-06 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] declared Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either spam or simply off topic to our filter. To bypass the filter you must include one of the following words in your message: sql,query If

Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-06 Thread DL Neil
Nick, Well I /hadn't/ tested as I wasn't sure that my DB design wasn't flawed, I was expecting someone to say 'well if you want to do that you need to design like this..' No matter. Again: if you use the native-MySQL/command line, or an administration/management package, you will be able to

Re: visualizing my queries

2002-02-06 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then DL Neil declared My question is: If I enter a 'tip' and put myself as the author, when /I/ come to write another tip how do I make my query avoid putting another entry in author? I'll be using PHP for the front