RE: customizable RaiseError behavior

2001-09-28 Thread Sterin, Ilya
Definitelly, we've been talking about this for a while now. Not sure if Tim had something already set up for the next release???, but if not a patch would be great! Ilya From: Matthew Wickline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Would folks be interested in the option of specifying a coderef for

db independent way of detecting duplicates?

2001-09-28 Thread Hardy Merrill
I'm wondering what other people have developed as database independent way(s) of determining if the insert or update being done results in a duplicate key situation. I can think of 2 methods to handle this: 1. before doing the insert or update, for *EACH AND EVERY* unique key defined for

Re: AW: get last field of a MySQL table

2001-09-28 Thread corliss
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, gros wrote: You could include an order by desc into your select and limit the Output only to 1 row LIMIT 1. If you're looking for a value extremity, you can always use the Max() or Min() functions as well, which will return just one row. --Arthur Corliss

Re: db independent way of detecting duplicates?

2001-09-28 Thread M. Simon Cavalletto
On 2001-09-28, Hardy Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can think of 2 methods to handle this: 1. before doing the insert or update, for *EACH AND EVERY* unique key defined for a table, do a select with the where clause looking for equality on all the fields in the unique key -

RE: DBD::Oracle with Oracle client on Redhat Linux 7.1

2001-09-28 Thread Dan Horne
To install Oracle 8.1.7 on RH 7.1, you must first install the RH 6.2 compatibility packages (compat-egcs, compat-glibc and compat-libs) from the 7.1 CDs. Enter the following before running the Oracle installer: export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 . /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/bin/i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh

Exporting Table using dbd::db2

2001-09-28 Thread Mike Boyle
I am trying to export a table using dbd::db2 and failing miserably. I am using DB2 v0.75; DBI v1.19 and perl v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86. And, we are using DB2 5.2. Here is a code snippet and the resulting error message. Any advice/sample code etc would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Mike

get last field of a MySQL table

2001-09-28 Thread Mark Walter
Is there a possibility to get only the last entry of a table ? Sure, I could read the whole content into a loop but this is IMHO not the best solution. my $numFields = $sth-{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'}; while (my $ref = $sth-fetchrow_arrayref) { for (my $i = 0; $i $numFields; $i++) {

AW: get last field of a MySQL table

2001-09-28 Thread gros
You could include an order by desc into your select and limit the Output only to 1 row LIMIT 1. Hope that help?s Guido -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Mark Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Freitag, 28. September 2001 12:40 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: get

Re: AW: get last field of a MySQL table

2001-09-28 Thread Bart Lateur
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:46:52 +0200, gros wrote: You could include an order by desc into your select and limit the Output only to 1 row LIMIT 1. Or just retrieve one record and -finish() if you don't have LIMIT. -- Bart.

Re: db independent way of detecting duplicates?

2001-09-28 Thread Bart Lateur
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:06:17 -0400, Hardy Merrill wrote: I'm wondering what other people have developed as database independent way(s) of determining if the insert or update being done results in a duplicate key situation. I can think of 2 methods to handle this: 2. allow the database to

selector screws do in ODBC 0.28

2001-09-28 Thread Tim Harsch
Hi Jeff, I have a program listed below that shows what I think is a bug. you can call the script with these parameters: -G user_name -D database -r uncomment the line that is a select user_name() and you will get this error: The following actions have been performed: DBD::ODBC::db do failed:

RE: selector screws do in ODBC 0.28

2001-09-28 Thread Steve Howard
If I'm following through this correctly, this is not a bug. ODBC only allows one active statement per connection. You are using the $hDB database handle for this statement: my $sth = $hDB-prepare( SQL ); select o.name from sysobjects o, sysusers u where

Re: get last field of a MySQL table

2001-09-28 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Mark Walter wrote: Is there a possibility to get only the last entry of a table ? You have to define last - rows are returned by a SQL query in no particular order, unless you add an ORDER BY clause. In a table with numbers, SELECT * FROM my_table ORDER BY a_number desc LIMIT 1 will give