on 1/2/04 12:40 PM, Jeremy March wrote:
> What language are you using? It's not clear from your example what language
> you're using (no "$"s, but you also forgot to increment your array so?), so
> I'll give you an example in PHP:
You can still do better than that. IN will be more readable tha
It wasn't code, just an example to get my question across clearly...
I will try the IN, however the manual says "Returns 1 if expr is any of
the values in the IN list" I want to do it for every value. So I'm
trying to accomplish this in one query:
UPDATE users SET status = no WHERE name = bob;
UP
What language are you using? It's not clear from your example what language
you're using (no "$"s, but you also forgot to increment your array so?), so
I'll give you an example in PHP:
$query_string = implode(" OR name = ", $yourarray);
mysql_query("UPDATE users SET status = no WHERE name = $qu
You probably want the IN comparison operator
(http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Comparison_Operators.html)
For example:
UPDATE users SET status=no WHERE name IN ('Joe', 'Wally', 'Bob', 'Cynthia');
Of course, you can create this statement from the list of names by
joining all of the names with commas
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jonathan Villa wrote:
> I have a loop which is similar to the following:
>
> while(array contains elements) {
> UPDATE users SET status = no WHERE name = array[i]
> }
> great, it works but the query runs many times. I want to make only one
> call to the database and have all th
Try forming the query with only the first array element, then iteratring
through the rest concatinating OR clauses onto the end of the query. And
then after the loop sending the query to the db. See my below pseudo code.
String query = "UPDATE users SET status = no WHERE name = array[0]"
While(a
