Il mar, 2002-12-31 alle 12:53, David T-G ha scritto:
> Well, yeah, but I want to try to write portable code; just because I like
> mysql doesn't meant that my customer (or some future contract employer)
> will...
Hi,
I am reading a bit late, but let me suggest you Metabase. Metabase does
a very
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Hi again.
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> Hmmm... so it's a mysql thing and not a SQL thing. Well, I'd like to
> avoid that, even t
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Thanks for all of the help and info. Lots to learn and read :-)
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> % If you choose to go the SQL route, have a look at TEMPORARY TABLES,
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> You mean a CREATE TABLE command that ha
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% > What's the best way to change your database schema around if you have
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Hi, all --
What's the best way to change your database schema around if you have
data in it? How do you know when to simply ALTER TABLE and when to dump
the whole thing (perhaps doing specific SELECTs to spit out the data
you'd like to have in the en
