Hi,
I want to get all records from Tab1 and the first 20 words for the fieldA
SELECT *, LEFT(fieldA, 20) AS fieldA FROM Tab1
But this query does not work: why?
thanks!
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At 10:55 AM 9/6/2006, spacemarc wrote:
Hi,
I want to get all records from Tab1 and the first 20 words for the fieldA
SELECT *, LEFT(fieldA, 20) AS fieldA FROM Tab1
But this query does not work: why?
thanks!
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http://www.spacemarc.it
First of all - please reply to the list ..
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2006/9/6, Miles Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
First of all - please reply to the list ..
I thought you wanted all fields, that's the way your SELECT statement is
constructed. If just the first 20 char from fieldA, then ...
SELECT LEFT(fieldA, 20) AS fieldA FROM Tab1
should do what you
: SELECT counting chars with LEFT()
2006/9/6, Miles Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
First of all - please reply to the list ..
I thought you wanted all fields, that's the way your SELECT
statement
is constructed. If just the first 20 char from fieldA, then ...
SELECT LEFT(fieldA
Hello MySQL-User,
i need your help with the following query.
I want to get the next birthdays of my friends, but not only the one of
this year.
So when im in december ( or november ) i want to see the birthdays of
next year too
With my query i only see the birthdays of this year :
SELECT
2006/9/6, Bill Tantzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You are actually selecting fieldA twice -- the first time (with '*') will
return the entire column. The second time with only the first 20 chars. If
you only want to see the first 20 chars, you will have to explicitly name
every column in your select
