simple subquery syntax not working!

2004-12-22 Thread Renee Henderson
I have read through quite a bit of the MySQL manual concerning subqueries and cannot seem to get even the simplist of queries to work! I have a table called PersonRole which is the many-to-many joint table between two upper tables, Person and Role. I have tested the two pieces of the query

Re: simple subquery syntax not working!

2004-12-22 Thread Homam S.A.
Make sure the subquery returns a scalar value. Either the roleDBNum column has to be unique or you need to apply an aggregate function to reduce to a single value. If the the subquery returns many values, use the IN operator instead of =. Disclaimier: I'm still new to MySQL, but I'm assuming it

RE: simple subquery syntax not working!

2004-12-22 Thread Harish
Hi Renee, Check the version of your MySQL. The subqueries feature is available from MySQL 4.1 Hope this helps you. - Harish -Original Message- From: Renee Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 6:17 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: simple subquery