[SQL]

2002-07-08 Thread jack
Hi, Regarding temp tables in the same connection session. If there is SQL procedure creating temp tables, process temp tables and drop all the temp tables finally. This SQL procedure can't run twice in the same session. Because all the temp tables are referred to the first physical temp tables. I

[SQL] Double quotes?

2002-07-08 Thread Archibald Zimonyi
Hi everyone, I have a column with type text and am trying to pump in a larger amount of text that has double quotes and also commas in between. I got an error when I tried to do a simple INSERT. I then tried to escape the double quote with a backslash but that didn't work. The manual for the 7.1

Re: [SQL] Double quotes?

2002-07-08 Thread Christoph Haller
The information you gave is not very helpful. An INSERT command, which caused the error, would help. Anyway, did you enclose the text by single quotes? AFAIK, you do not have to escape double quotes. Regards, Christoph > > Hi everyone, > > I have a column with type text and am trying to pu

Re: [SQL] Double quotes?

2002-07-08 Thread Archibald Zimonyi
> The information you gave is not very helpful. > An INSERT command, which caused the error, would help. > Anyway, did you enclose the text by single quotes? > AFAIK, you do not have to escape double quotes. > Found the problem. Yes I enclosed the text in single quotes, and the text also i

Re: [SQL] INSERT only under certain conditions (SELECT)

2002-07-08 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah.
create an uniq index on the columns, # create unique index index_name on table (col1,col2,col3,...) hope it helps. regds mallah On Monday 08 July 2002 06:48, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi, > > I want to insert a row only under condition that there isn't already > another row with similar va

Re: [SQL] INSERT only under certain conditions (SELECT)

2002-07-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:18:33 +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to insert a row only under condition that there isn't already > another row with similar values -- something like a INSERT INTO > ... WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT ...)? You can do something like t

Re: [SQL] Boolean to int

2002-07-08 Thread Arjen van der Meijden|Moderator P&W / Serverbeheer
Perhaps the 'create rule' is in the way, you could try something like: CASE WHEN document_online THEN 1 ELSE 0 END, CASE WHEN document_valid 1 ELSE 0 END But if that doesn’t work, I'm out of options aswel. You could try the "instead query" separately to test whether the query itself is corre

[SQL] manipulating the database in plsql

2002-07-08 Thread teknokrat
Is there any way to work with tables etc, in plsql? Can i get a get a database handle to the local database? If not, is there any chance for this to be implemented in the near future? thanks ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lis

[SQL] Problem on PostgreSQL (error code, store procedures)

2002-07-08 Thread Carmen Wai
Hello, I would like to know if there are any global variables storing the error code or the number of rows affected after each execution of the SQL statement. Also, for Postgresql function, I have checked that I can only call the function by: select function(parms) or by EXECUTE PROCEDURE functi

[SQL] newbie question

2002-07-08 Thread Mirco D'Angelo
Hi I am going to learn MySql 'cause I have to, but would it be better, or let's say, more interesting, to learn postgressql? Is it newer, more common, etc.? greets mirco ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? htt

Re: [SQL] newbie question

2002-07-08 Thread Roberto Mello
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 11:59:51PM +0200, Mirco D'Angelo wrote: > Hi > > I am going to learn MySql 'cause I have to, but would it be better, or let's > say, more interesting, to learn postgressql? Is it newer, more common, etc.? PostgreSQL is certainly more interesting, more useful, more feature

Re: [SQL] Bad SUM result

2002-07-08 Thread Jean-Luc Lachance
That is because your query is generating a cartesian product. Try: SELECT ( SELECT SUM(totalprice) FROM invoices WHERE custnumber = '1' ) - ( SELECT SUM(paymentamount) FROM payments WHERE custnumber = '1' ) Roy Souther wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1

Re: [SQL] newbie question

2002-07-08 Thread Richard Huxton
On Sunday 07 Jul 2002 10:59 pm, Mirco D'Angelo wrote: > Hi > > I am going to learn MySql 'cause I have to, but would it be better, or > let's say, more interesting, to learn postgressql? Is it newer, more > common, etc.? Mysql is more common on web-hosting platforms, but you can find PostgreSQL i

Re: [SQL] manipulating the database in plsql

2002-07-08 Thread Roberto Mello
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 11:40:19AM -0700, teknokrat wrote: > Is there any way to work with tables etc, in plsql? Can i get a get a Yes. > database handle to the local database? If not, is there any chance for > this to be implemented in the near future? I don't know what you mean. A PL/pgSQL f

Re: [SQL] INSERT only under certain conditions (SELECT)

2002-07-08 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Maybe I should explain my problem a little bit: simplified, I have two tables, L and T, (which values references to L): L: art|kvvnr|semester ---+-+ 7.0| 4151| 2002ws 7.0| 4326| 2002ws 6.1| 4200| 2002ws 7.0| 4151| 2001ws (combination of kvvnr and semester is unique) T: id

Re: [SQL] bit field changes in 7.2.1

2002-07-08 Thread Kevin Brannen
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Kevin Brannen writes: > > >>EXCEPT that now fails in 7.2.1 (I just upgraded this afternoon). It >>forces me to use "b'00'" instead of "b'0'::bit(6)". > > > Which is a problem why? Because in the real system, it will be b'0'::bit(64) or b'001::bit(64) or etc. A

[SQL] Rule WHERE condition problem

2002-07-08 Thread Kristian Eide
I have a table with a reference constraint and an ON DELETE SET NULL action. When this action triggers, I also want to update another field in the table, actually a timestamp which should be set to NOW(). After reading some documentation it would seem a rule is the easiest way to accomplish this.

Re: [SQL] manipulating the database in plsql

2002-07-08 Thread Janning Vygen
Am Sonntag, 7. Juli 2002 20:40 schrieb teknokrat: > Is there any way to work with tables etc, in plsql? Can i get a get > a database handle to the local database? If not, is there any > chance for this to be implemented in the near future? I guess you mean plpgsql. you dont need a database hand

Re: [SQL] newbie question

2002-07-08 Thread Ignacio Coloma
Transactions (well, recently mysql allows them but using propietary extensions), foreign key relationships, subqueries, stored procedures/triggers. MySQL lacks all of these. On the other side, postgres is only ported on *nix platforms, but you can put cygwin/cygipc on Windows, if that is the c