Re: [SQL] Replace function ...

2004-05-17 Thread Yasir Malik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I need to write a function which has to replace a character with two or three other > characters > You can use the replace function as specified below: replace(string text, from text, to text) text Replace all occurrences in @string of substr

Re: [SQL] [JDBC] problem with spanish characters

2004-05-17 Thread nahum castro
--- Freddy Villalba Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hello everybody, > > > > I'm not sure if this is a bug on the upper/lower > command or anywhere else. > > > > This is the problem: > > > > > > I have a DB that uses 'UNICODE' encoding. PostgreSQL > version is 7.4.2. > > >

[SQL] Replace function ...

2004-05-17 Thread Kornelije
Hi,   I need to write a function which has to replace a character with two or three other characters   I have some data in the DB and when I retrieve this data, I have sorting problems because I use specific Croatian characters I know that the DB is not setup properly, but I cannot

Re: [SQL] Max Columns in a SQL Select

2004-05-17 Thread Richard Huxton
PS PS wrote: SQL Guru's, Does anyone know what is the Column Limit in a SQL Query in Oracle RDB version 7.1? I've about 200 columns in my SQL query. Each column is a computed column -- Case when a = b Then c Else 0 End. You'll probably want an Oracle mailing list - this is for PostgreSQL. --

Re: [SQL] view running query

2004-05-17 Thread Andrew Hammond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are two ways to do it. The server-side approach is to increase logging levels in the config file and then "pg_ctl reload". See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/runtime-config.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING for the stuff involved. The ot

Re: [SQL] Unique Constraint with foreign Key

2004-05-17 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> > or Can i have varchar types of size 50 as primary keys in Postgres. > Yes. But unless the 50 character limit comes from a business rule, you > might want to use the type 'text'. And if that limit does come from a business rule you might want to think twice whether using columns constrained by

[SQL] Max Columns in a SQL Select

2004-05-17 Thread PS PS
SQL Guru's, Does anyone know what is the Column Limit in a SQL Query in Oracle RDB version 7.1? I've about 200 columns in my SQL query. Each column is a computed column -- Case when a = b Then c Else 0 End. It gives me a runtime error -- abnormal program termination -- upon execution. Than

Re: [SQL] a wierd query

2004-05-17 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Stijn Vanroye wrote: > Are you sure about that Edmund? > > I have the following query: > select distinct on (task_id, date) task_id, workhour_id, date from > ( > select task_id, workhour_id, begindate as date from workhour > UNION > select task_id, w

Re: [SQL] Unique Constraint with foreign Key

2004-05-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:03:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all i am using postgres and torque > I have a column x in Table A of type varchar and NOT NULL. I want to > impose a unique key constraint on that table and column y is the primary > key. > I have another Table B with column x.

Re: [SQL] a wierd query

2004-05-17 Thread Stijn Vanroye
First of all, I don't select distinct on 1 value, but on 2. Meaning I want each unique combination of task_id (or employee_id in this example) and date. That way both fields still have meaning. the workhour_id field is indeed redundant, but was still there from some pevious testing work. (It is

[SQL] problem with spanish characters

2004-05-17 Thread Freddy Villalba Arias
Hello everybody,   I’m not sure if this is a bug on the upper/lower command or anywhere else.   This is the problem:     I have a DB that uses ‘UNICODE’ encoding. PostgreSQL version is 7.4.2.     I have a field that holds characters, including characters like ‘Ñ’ (lowercase versio

Re: [SQL] a wierd query

2004-05-17 Thread sad
> I forgot one situation: > > if I run the query like so: > select distinct on (task_id, begindate) task_id, workhour_id, > begindate as date from workhour UNION > select distinct on (task_id, enddate) task_id, workhour_id, enddate > as date from workhour I get yet another value: 2961 r

Re: [SQL] a wierd query

2004-05-17 Thread Stijn Vanroye
Are you sure about that Edmund? I have the following query: select distinct on (task_id, date) task_id, workhour_id, date from ( select task_id, workhour_id, begindate as date from workhour UNION select task_id, workhour_id, enddate as date from workhour )as dist1 whi

Re: [SQL] a wierd query

2004-05-17 Thread Stijn Vanroye
Sorry, I forgot one situation: if I run the query like so: select distinct on (task_id, begindate) task_id, workhour_id, begindate as date from workhour UNION select distinct on (task_id, enddate) task_id, workhour_id, enddate as date from workhour I get yet another value: 29