Re: Issue With Subqueries

2011-11-10 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Shawn Green (MySQL)" > > Simple math (set theory) suggests that all of the values of field1 on > db2.table1 contain only copies or duplicates of the field1 values in > the rows in db1.table1. Shawn, The "select count(distinct)"s show that db1.table1.field1

Re: Issue With Subqueries

2011-11-10 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Javier Yévenez" > > If the field db1.table1.field1 has the same name that the field > db2.table1.field1, maybe you have to use an alias for each table: No, he's using a subquery, those fields cannot be referenced. -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den

Re: Issue With Subqueries

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Seda
:* Wednesday, November 09, 2011 7:19 AM *To:* Shawn Green (MySQL) *Cc:* Mike Seda; mysql@lists.mysql.com; Rong Chen *Subject:* Re: Issue With Subqueries Hi, mysql> select count(distinct field1) from db2.table1 where field1 not in (select field1

Re: Issue With Subqueries

2011-11-09 Thread Javier Yévenez
Hi, mysql> select count(distinct field1) from db2.table1 where field1 not in >> (select field1 from db1.table1); >> ++ >> | count(distinct field1) | >> ++ >> >> If the field db1.table1.field1 has the same name that the field db2.table1.field1, may

Re: Issue With Subqueries

2011-11-09 Thread Shawn Green (MySQL)
Hi Mike, On 11/8/2011 20:46, Mike Seda wrote: All, Can anyone out there explain the result of the third statement provided below: mysql> select count(distinct field1) from db1.table1; ++ | count(distinct field1) | ++ | 1063 | +

Issue With Subqueries

2011-11-08 Thread Mike Seda
All, Can anyone out there explain the result of the third statement provided below: mysql> select count(distinct field1) from db1.table1; ++ | count(distinct field1) | ++ | 1063 | ++ 1 row in set (0.01 sec

Re: Subqueries in the FROM Clause

2011-04-18 Thread Ants Pants
t; +-+ > > | sum(donation_pledge) - paid_donation_pledge | > > +-+ > > | 22270 | > > |5924 | > > +---

Re: Subqueries in the FROM Clause

2011-04-18 Thread Joerg Bruehe
between the subquery and the other tables. This would explain why the 70 is subtracted not only from the BRL value but also from the EUR. Off-hand, I have no explanation for the doubling of the sums, but I have never used subqueries in the FROM clause. Others might know more about this, but tellin

Subqueries in the FROM Clause

2011-04-18 Thread Ants Pants
Hello All, Tables: # relevant fields invitations: donation_pledge, paid (boolean), currency_id currencies: code I am trying to subtract the paid amounts from the amounts pledged using a subquery in the FROM clause but am having problems and am going blind. Plus, My SQL is weak at present. I was

Re: Totalling Counts done in Subqueries

2009-04-30 Thread Nigel Peck
Thanks Nigel and Peter, I went for Nigel's solution below. Both very useful, learnt a lot, thank you. Cheers, Nigel nigel wood wrote: > Is there a way to total counts done in subqueries? Never done this but my educated guess is: SELECT `Notes`.`note_id`, `Notes`.`last_updated_

Re: Totalling Counts done in Subqueries

2009-04-30 Thread nigel wood
Peter Brawley wrote: > Is there a way to total counts done in subqueries? Select expression aliases can't be referenced at the same level. You have to create another outer level ... alternatively use variables: mysql> select @first := 1 as value1, @second := 2 as value2, @fir..

Re: Totalling Counts done in Subqueries

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Brawley
> Is there a way to total counts done in subqueries? Select expression aliases can't be referenced at the same level. You have to create another outer level ... SELECT note_id, last_updated_datetime,event_date,subject,summary,content, linked_issues_count,linked_peop

Totalling Counts done in Subqueries

2009-04-30 Thread Nigel Peck
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me with this please. Is there a way to total counts done in subqueries? So I want to do: -=-=-=-=-=-=-= SELECT `Notes`.`note_id`, `Notes`.`last_updated_datetime`, `Notes`.`event_date`, `Notes`.`subject`, `Notes`.`summary`, `Notes`.`content`, (S

Re: Joining subqueries

2008-10-23 Thread Moon's Father
mrc_titles is a temp table? On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Jerry Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > I tried to make a query that joins to subqueries: > > > > SELECT discontinued.b > > FROM > > (SELECT mrc_titles.title AS a > >

Joining subqueries

2008-10-15 Thread Jerry Schwartz
I tried to make a query that joins to subqueries: SELECT discontinued.b FROM (SELECT mrc_titles.title AS a FROM mrc_titles JOIN prod ON mrc_titles.title = prod.prod_title JOIN pub ON prod.pub_id = pub.pub_id WHERE pub.pub_code = &quo

bug in mysql with COUNT() in subqueries

2006-11-15 Thread H. Steuer
guys, strange things happen when using COUNT() in subqueries. even the use of HAVING in a SELECT statement turns up a weired result, as it should work on the result set and should be filtered while rows are returned to the client. (you can find the selects and stuff in a more readable way on

Re: join vs subqueries

2006-10-03 Thread Martijn Tonies
unable to handle them, then I was using 'join'. > > I wish to know if it's possibile to do all what I did with 'join' > with subqueries. > > and which one is faster/better to use? > > for example it'd be possibile to 'translate' that usin

join vs subqueries

2006-10-03 Thread MAS!
I'm not (yet) using sub-queries since the old version of MySQL were unable to handle them, then I was using 'join'. I wish to know if it's possibile to do all what I did with 'join' with subqueries. and which one is faster/better to use? for example it'

Re: IN & ANY subqueries

2006-09-12 Thread Peter Van Dijck
Thanks > > ViSolve DB Team > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Ben Lachman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > > Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 10:33 AM > > Subject: IN & ANY subqueries > > > > > >> I have a

Re: SQL subqueries and JOIN conditions

2006-09-06 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
2006/9/4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello all, I need to perform an SQL statement over 5 different tables, with complex request. To do so, i'm using subqueries. SELECT ... FROM (SELECT .WHERE) as T1 LEFT JOIN (SELECT .WHERE) as T2 WHERE . The prob

Re: IN & ANY subqueries

2006-09-06 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
p://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/any-in-some- > subqueries.html > > Thanks > ViSolve DB Team > > - Original Message - > From: "Ben Lachman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 10:33 AM > Subject: IN & ANY subqueries > > &g

Re: IN & ANY subqueries

2006-09-04 Thread Ben Lachman
com/doc/refman/5.0/en/any-in-some- subqueries.html Thanks ViSolve DB Team - Original Message - From: "Ben Lachman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 10:33 AM Subject: IN & ANY subqueries I have a string comparison that I would like to d

SQL subqueries and JOIN conditions

2006-09-04 Thread Vincent . Badier
Hello all, I need to perform an SQL statement over 5 different tables, with complex request. To do so, i'm using subqueries. SELECT ... FROM (SELECT .WHERE) as T1 LEFT JOIN (SELECT .WHERE) as T2 WHERE . The problem is that only JOIN seems working with subqueries

Re: IN & ANY subqueries

2006-09-04 Thread Visolve DB Team
y, September 03, 2006 10:33 AM Subject: IN & ANY subqueries >I have a string comparison that I would like to do against a short > list of constant strings. > > at the moment I am using the syntax > > SELECT id FROM t1 WHERE name IN('s1', 's2', 

IN & ANY subqueries

2006-09-02 Thread Ben Lachman
I have a string comparison that I would like to do against a short list of constant strings. at the moment I am using the syntax SELECT id FROM t1 WHERE name IN('s1', 's2', 's3', ...); However, this limits me to exact matches and I'd like to move to a caparison expersion that lets me match

Re: Subqueries in MySQL < 4.1

2006-08-23 Thread Jay Pipes
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 22:23 +0200, spacemarc wrote: > Hi, > I have a query like this: > > SELECT table1.*,( > SELECT COUNT( field2 ) > FROM table2 > WHERE id=10 > ) AS total > FROM table1 > GROUP BY id > LIMIT 1 > > but the subqueries do not work with mysql

Re: Subqueries in MySQL < 4.1

2006-08-23 Thread Dan Buettner
ut the subqueries do not work with mysql < 4.1. How can I convert it (or make to work) in MySQL 3.x, 4.0 possibly in one only query? thanks -- http://www.spacemarc.it -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL

Subqueries in MySQL < 4.1

2006-08-23 Thread spacemarc
Hi, I have a query like this: SELECT table1.*,( SELECT COUNT( field2 ) FROM table2 WHERE id=10 ) AS total FROM table1 GROUP BY id LIMIT 1 but the subqueries do not work with mysql < 4.1. How can I convert it (or make to work) in MySQL 3.x, 4.0 possibly in one only query? thanks -- h

RE: Help with subqueries... MAX() and GROUP BY [sovled]

2006-04-29 Thread Shawn Green
--- Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I think this is mostly working. I have a 'NULL' user ID which is > 'system' that I need to get into here, but I think I'm mostly on > track... > > There are lots of ways to accomplish this task it seems. ALL of which > would > be so much easi

RE: Help with subqueries... MAX() and GROUP BY

2006-04-28 Thread Pat Adams
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 00:13 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > The problem is now that I can't get the right data. > > mysql> select max(created_on), user_id, id from logs group by user_id; > +-+-++ > | max(created_on) | user_id | id | > +-+

RE: Help with subqueries... MAX() and GROUP BY [sovled]

2006-04-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
| | 431 | 2 | 2006-04-27 22:18:35 | Viewed Users Stats | bob | +-+-+-++--+ From: Alex Arul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:18 AM To: D

RE: Help with subqueries... MAX() and GROUP BY

2006-04-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
> Thanks Alex, that got me started. I don't understand why I > had to use "IN" > when the example uses "=" but at least it kinda works... > > The problem is now that I can't get the right data. > > mysql> select max(created_on), user_id, id from logs group by user_id; > +-+-

RE: Help with subqueries... MAX() and GROUP BY

2006-04-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
> -Original Message- > From: Alex Arul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:28 PM > To: Daevid Vincent > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Help with subqueries... > > On 4/28/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

Re: Help with subqueries...

2006-04-27 Thread Alex Arul
On 4/28/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > vmware reviewit # mysql --version > mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.19, for pc-linux-gnu (i686) using readline > 5.1 > > Given two tables: > > CREATE TABLE `logs` ( > `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, > `user

Help with subqueries...

2006-04-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
vmware reviewit # mysql --version mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.19, for pc-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.1 Given two tables: CREATE TABLE `logs` ( `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `user_id` int(10) unsigned default '0', `created_on` timestamp NOT

Just for fun... subqueries

2005-11-11 Thread Scott Hamm
I was fooling around, learning subqueries, group by and everything unearthing my mental unknowns of SQL world. So I thought I would divide total letters of the entire bible by total numbers of books, chapters and verses. Here is what I came up with the best optimization possible to my knowledge

Re: How to write subqueries?

2005-06-15 Thread admin
Hello! > another simpler solution : > ... Thanks, Mathias! You helped me greatly! Now my program works as desired. -- Good luck! Vladimir Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- MySQL General Mailing List For list

Re: How to write subqueries?

2005-06-14 Thread mfatene
You're welcome. if you have more than one pnid, you should use perl or php. then use a loop to manage each pnid query, then send it to the server, and use it's result. another simpler solution : mysql> create table sql as select concat('vt_',pnid) tbl from vt_parition where pnid regexp ('^[0-9]{

Re: How to write subqueries?

2005-06-14 Thread admin
Hello! Many thanks to everybody who tried to help me! > N.B. you should have only one pnid to make your query work (UNIQUE pnid), > or LIMIT the result of the subquery by LIMIT 1. I need to do the following: Get one or more than one "pnid" from vt_partition and then make queries to the "vt_pni

Re: How to write subqueries?

2005-06-14 Thread mfatene
Hello, You forgot a parenthesis in the regexp function. Second, if you construct your query with prepared statements, you can do it : mysql> insert into vt_partition(pnid) values('01234567890'); mysql> select concat('vt_',pnid) into @tbl from vt_parition where pnid regexp ('^[0-9]{11}$') ; mysql>

RE: How to write subqueries?

2005-06-14 Thread Rhino
To: admin Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: How to write subqueries? admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/14/2005 01:01:33 PM: > Hello! > MySQL v. 4.1.11. > I'm trying to write a subquery, MySQL says "Error". > select num, theme, intro > from vt_(se

RE: How to write subqueries?

2005-06-14 Thread Rhino
. Rhino -Original Message- From: admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 1:02 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: How to write subqueries? Hello! MySQL v. 4.1.11. I'm trying to write a subquery, MySQL says "Error". se

Re: How to write subqueries?

2005-06-14 Thread SGreen
admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/14/2005 01:01:33 PM: > Hello! > MySQL v. 4.1.11. > I'm trying to write a subquery, MySQL says "Error". > select num, theme, intro > from vt_(select pnid from vt_partition where pnid regexp '^[0-9]{11}$') > order by date desc, timer desc; > describe vt_parit

How to write subqueries?

2005-06-14 Thread admin
Hello! MySQL v. 4.1.11. I'm trying to write a subquery, MySQL says "Error". select num, theme, intro from vt_(select pnid from vt_partition where pnid regexp '^[0-9]{11}$') order by date desc, timer desc; describe vt_parition: +--+--+--+-+--+

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Kevin Burton
Jochem van Dieten wrote: Also, let's not mistake the means for the goal. Using indexes is just a way to solve it and there may be other fixes. The goal is to improve performance. no.. using indexes is THE way to fix it :) I don't want a subquery scanning all 700 million rows in my table wh

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 6/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Okay, so I understand the idea about one field being the "creation" time, and > the other being the "last modified" time (which a particularly pedantic > application might regard as being one-and-the-same, at time of > first-creation) and so I see you might

Re: Timestamp and it's usage (Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!)

2005-06-09 Thread Martijn Tonies
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/timestamp-4-1.html > > > Absolutely brilliant document *g* ... > > > > So now, it makes a difference if it's the first TIMESTAMP column, > > if it's running in MaxDB mode, if it has a defaulf of NULL (which will > > be silently changed), if it has no default, a

Re: Timestamp and it's usage (Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!)

2005-06-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 6/9/05, Martijn Tonies wrote: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/timestamp-4-1.html > Absolutely brilliant document *g* ... > > So now, it makes a difference if it's the first TIMESTAMP column, > if it's running in MaxDB mode, if it has a defaulf of NULL (which will > be silently changed), if

Timestamp and it's usage (Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!)

2005-06-09 Thread Martijn Tonies
> You can have any number of timestamp columns, but only one of them can > be set to autoupdate. As of 4.1 you are not limited to this being the > 1st one in the table and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), or > NOW() can be used in the DEFAULT. Read > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/times

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A long time ago when I was doing support for Lotus Notes, I was told that > the customer who 'complains' about legitimate bugs may be the most valuable > type of customer of all. This is because they care enough to vent. Who > knows how many unhappy c

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread daniel
, not some little Mickey Mouse MS Access system, where the whole database manager is supposed to provide all of the functionality for input, output and storage! Anyway, what's all this got to do with subqueries? On Thursday 09 June 2005 20:53, Greg Whalin wrote: > Jeff Smelser wrote: &

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Gordon Bruce
.html The DATETIME, DATE, and TIMESTAMP Types for MUCH more detail. -Original Message- From: Greg Whalin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:54 PM To: Jeff Smelser Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?! Jeff Smelser

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Greg Whalin
Jeff Smelser wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2005 01:26 pm, George L. Sexton wrote: Another limitation in MySQL is that you can only have one timestamp column with a default of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. How many friggin times do I have to say that this is not an issue with 4.1 and above? Which, BTW,

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 09 June 2005 01:26 pm, George L. Sexton wrote: > Another limitation in MySQL is that you can only have one timestamp column > with a default of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. > How many friggin times do I have to say that this is not an issue with 4.1 and above? Which, BTW, is production mysql..

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 6/9/05, Bartis, Robert M (Bob) wrote: > > Its an email alias. You're asking for help from people you don't even know. > You should therefore present your needs clearly and concisely. You should > expect there to be questions. You should expect to not always get timely > information. you sho

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 6/9/05, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > > If you're the first person this has bothered He isn't, search the bugbase. (Including reports that are closed because it is documented, without providing a fix, workaround or even recategorizing as feauture request.) > and if the limitations don't provid

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] ...minimal level of common decadency... [/snip] heh. I am minimally decadent! -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Bartis, Robert M (Bob)
Original Message- From: George L. Sexton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:26 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?! You obviously don't understand the limitations of timestamps. Another limitation in MySQL

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread George L. Sexton
On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:42, George L. Sexton wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:31, you wrote: > > George L. Sexton wrote: > > >You obviously don't understand the limitations of timestamps. > > > > You obviously don't understand how ineffective leading with an insult is. My mistake. > > If

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
George L. Sexton wrote: You obviously don't understand the limitations of timestamps. You obviously don't understand how ineffective leading with an insult is. If you're the first person this has bothered, and if the limitations don't provide inconsistency with a standard -- just with ot

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread George L. Sexton
If my compiler would validate the SQL Statements and ensure that they were perfect, then I wouldn't have a problem at all. However, since no developer tool that I have ever used (and I've used a lot of different ones) does compile time validation of SQL syntax, that's pretty much out of the que

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread George L. Sexton
You obviously don't understand the limitations of timestamps. Another limitation in MySQL is that you can only have one timestamp column with a default of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. It's not an issue I don't know. It's an issue I'd like to see fixed so that I can list MySQL as a supported database alon

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 6/9/05, Keith Ivey wrote: > I'm a little surprised that case-sensitivity is such a big deal. What sort of > programmers randomly vary their capitalization from one occurrence of an > identifier to the next Inconsistencies in the capitalization aren't necessarily introduced by a programmer. Esp

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread J.R. Bullington
o the open source community, and subqueries than you would have found simply by looking on your own. This is the kind of thread that most people both love and hate -- 1) It takes up space in all our mailboxes and time to read it (the hate) 2) It shows what collaboration and putting multiple head

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Keith Ivey
I'm a little surprised that case-sensitivity is such a big deal. What sort of programmers randomly vary their capitalization from one occurrence of an identifier to the next, and wouldn't people who are so non-detail-oriented be making a lot of typos as well? -- Keith Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thursday 09 June 2005 11:47 am, George Sexton wrote: > I'm working in that direction. I first posted to the regular mysql list, > and then I posted again to the internals list. I guess the next step is to > talk to the MySQL people. We answered you I thought.. Whats the issue you dont know? J

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread David Griffiths
ldn't use subqueries due to the indexing issues unless all tables in the query were static in size and small enough that the performance hit was negligable. A table that is growing would mean performance would drop quickly (especially if there were joins between larger tables that could ha

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread George Sexton
> -Original Message- > From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:34 AM > To: George Sexton; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?! > > [snip] > > 1. Join the

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] > 1. Join the development work. > I tried contributing over at the Tomcat project and really just got abused by the team there. [/snip] That is unfortunate, but cannot be held against the MySQL team, can it? [snip] > B. Find a product more suitable to your needs. My issue is that shops

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread George Sexton
> -Original Message- > From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:30 AM > To: George Sexton > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?! > > If you are > not pleased with

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Well, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Access, PostgreSQL, and Sybase SQL Anywhere all do this. I looked at my copy of "A Guide to The SQL Standard" by Chris Date. It pretty plainly states that DEFAULT allows niladic (no argument) functions. Its about time MySQL stopped complaining about things bein

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Not true. Triggers are in the SQL specification. They are a legitimate feature with specified expected behaviour. A hack is only implementing function returns as default field values on timestamps, rather than handling all field types in a unified way and allowing them to be set to the r

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Gordan Bobic
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Well, George, you never mentioned that this was your problem. And you would run into the same problem, given your definition above, regardless of database (unless the database product has a hack to account for it, I am not aware of any). Not true. PostgreSQL c

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] > Well, George, you never mentioned that this was your problem. And you > would run into the same problem, given your definition above, regardless > of database (unless the database product has a hack to account for it, I > am not aware of any). Not true. PostgreSQL can do it. If you want t

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:28:56 +0100 Gordan Bobic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding was the timestamp fields were only set when the > record is created. They are not changed when the record is > modified. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/timestamp-4-1.html "The first TIMESTAMP column

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] > 1)Why can't I declare a datetime field with DEFAULT NOW() 4.1 has options to default timestamps on update/inserts or both.. [/snip] Cool, I didn't know that. I should have read the docs more closely this morning. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.c

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:57:25 -0600 "George Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think MySQL has a little ways to go yet before I would > subjectively call it best. ok. > I posted twice to the list with questions about porting my > application that runs on (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Gordan Bobic
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] The issue with timestamp is this: You can only have one timestamp with a default of the current date. My app has two fields in one table Created_datedatetime default now() Last_update datetime default now() This doesn't work with timestamp because t

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 10:57 pm, George Sexton wrote: > 1)Why can't I declare a datetime field with DEFAULT NOW() 4.1 has options to default timestamps on update/inserts or both.. Jeff pgp2pHd6mM2jF.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] The issue with timestamp is this: You can only have one timestamp with a default of the current date. My app has two fields in one table Created_datedatetime default now() Last_update datetime default now() This doesn't work with timestamp because timestamp doesn't suppor

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread George Sexton
Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 > -Original Message- > From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 5:56 AM > To: George Sexton; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: RE: Seriously.. When are we going to ge

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Gordan Bobic
I think MySQL has a little ways to go yet before I would subjectively call it best. I posted twice to the list with questions about porting my application that runs on (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase SQL Anywhere, MS Access, and DB2) to MySQL. No one on the mysql list, or the internals

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I think MySQL has a little ways to go yet before I would subjectively call it best. I posted twice to the list with questions about porting my application that runs on (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase SQL Anywhere, MS Access, and DB2) to MySQL. No one on the mysql list, or the intern

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 6/9/05, Kevin Burton wrote: > Jeff Smelser wrote: >> >> Thats funny.. looks like it will be added to 5.1.. Dunno why they think fixing >> it is adding a feature.. > > WOW! That's just insane! This seriously has to be fixed in 5.0 or sooner... Chill out man. It is not like it is returning the

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread George Sexton
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:16 AM > To: Jeff Smelser; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?! > > > The best open-source database on the market today? Free > Constant improvements to database? Free >

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Kevin Burton
uld remove the feature. Its just going to shoot people in the foot and claiming that you support subqueries isn't actually correct since they're not usable. The performance of sub-queries in mysql when used in an IN() clause is embarassingly slow. They are in most cases, unusable beca

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Kevin Burton
Jeff Smelser wrote: Thats funny.. looks like it will be added to 5.1.. Dunno why they think fixing it is adding a feature.. WOW! That's just insane! This seriously has to be fixed in 5.0 or sooner... The thing is that MySQL has both promised this feature and is claiming that 5.0 is now

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Bob_Savard
A long time ago when I was doing support for Lotus Notes, I was told that the customer who 'complains' about legitimate bugs may be the most valuable type of customer of all. This is because they care enough to vent. Who knows how many unhappy customers one has if none ever complain? What if al

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread PMilanese
AIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?! Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > On Wednesday 08 June 2005 11:16 am, you wrote: > >>[snip] >>

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I personally find the idea that just because a product is free that people are not allowed to... [/snip] I was just trying to fling a little humor on to the situation, not start a flame war about who is right and what rights they do or do not have. I too believe that criticism, in the prop

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Greg Whalin
Ability to complain when we don't get what we want? Priceless First, *I* wasnt requesting anything.. So you need to reply to the person who was complaining in the first place. I just thought it was funny.. Them fixing has no care in the world in my mind since I never use subqu

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 11:49 am, you wrote: > Easy there boss, I was just responding to the thread and meant no > offense. I saw the whole thing as funny. Oh.. email sucks that way.. My apologies as well.. Jeff pgpvHgJLsGjaw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Martijn Tonies
> [snip] > Thats funny.. looks like it will be added to 5.1.. Dunno why they think > fixing > it is adding a feature.. > [/snip] > > The best open-source database on the market today? Free > Constant improvements to database? Free > > Ability to complain when we don't get what we want? Priceless

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Jay Blanchard
tabase? Free > > Ability to complain when we don't get what we want? Priceless First, *I* wasnt requesting anything.. So you need to reply to the person who was complaining in the first place. I just thought it was funny.. Them fixing has no care in the world in my mind since I n

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Jeff Smelser
ase? Free > > Ability to complain when we don't get what we want? Priceless First, *I* wasnt requesting anything.. So you need to reply to the person who was complaining in the first place. I just thought it was funny.. Them fixing has no care in the world in my mind since I never use

RE: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Thats funny.. looks like it will be added to 5.1.. Dunno why they think fixing it is adding a feature.. [/snip] The best open-source database on the market today? Free Constant improvements to database? Free Ability to complain when we don't get what we want? Priceless -- MySQL General

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 10:56 am, you wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 08), Jeff Smelser said: > > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 04:22 pm, Kevin Burton wrote: > > > Subqueries in 4.1 are totally broken. They don't use indexes. > > > They're evil. We're

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 08), Jeff Smelser said: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 04:22 pm, Kevin Burton wrote: > > Subqueries in 4.1 are totally broken. They don't use indexes. > > They're evil. We're told we have subqueries but there's no way > > anyone

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-08 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 04:22 pm, Kevin Burton wrote: > Subqueries in 4.1 are totally broken. They don't use indexes. They're > evil. We're told we have subqueries but there's no way anyone on earth > could use them. To make matters worse a lot of developers are

Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?!

2005-06-07 Thread Kevin Burton
DBA wrote: - Original Message - From: "Kevin Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 6:11 PM Subject: Re: Seriously.. When are we going to get subqueries?! Greg Whalin wrote: They do use indexes if you use

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