Re: [vox-tech] PPP problems; need help over phone or housecall (Sacramento)

2004-07-20 Thread Dave Margolis
Bill, If I remember correctly from some other thread, Margo lives across the street from where I work (CSUS). If she's got a laptop, she can run over and see me - and at an actual helpdesk! I wouldn't be able to leave anytime soon or help her after work tonight, but if she can come over here

[vox-tech] SQL help - unions

2004-07-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Total newbie here. I know less about SQL than I do about xkb. ;-) I have two tables, with the same structure. Call them [Fall 2003] and [Spring 2004]. They each hold data about enrolled students. One of the fields of these tables is SSN (social security number). I can get an unduplicated

Re: [vox-tech] SQL help - unions

2004-07-20 Thread David Hummel
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:44:47PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: I can get an unduplicated headcount for the academic year with: SELECT SSN from [Fall 2003] UNION SELECT SSN from [Spring 2004]; There's also a field called race. If the race field is 0, the student is African

Re: [vox-tech] SQL help - unions

2004-07-20 Thread Rod Roark
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 05:03 pm, Henry House wrote: ... A subquery is an easy and fairly intuitive way to do this. SELECT * from ( SELECT SSN from [Fall 2003] UNION SELECT SSN from [Spring 2004] ) WHERE race = 1; Or to just get the

Re: [vox-tech] SQL help - unions

2004-07-20 Thread Michael J Wenk
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:44:47PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Total newbie here. I know less about SQL than I do about xkb. ;-) I have two tables, with the same structure. Call them [Fall 2003] and [Spring 2004]. They each hold data about enrolled students. One of the fields of

Re: [vox-tech] SQL help - unions

2004-07-20 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Total newbie here. I know less about SQL than I do about xkb. ;-) I have two tables, with the same structure. Call them [Fall 2003] and [Spring 2004]. They each hold data about enrolled students. One of the fields of these tables is SSN

Re: [vox-tech] SQL help - unions

2004-07-20 Thread David Hummel
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:20:06PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: The existence of separate tables with identical structures and disjoint data in your schema is a red flag to me. I highly recommend putting all the data into one table with a Season column to distinguish the rows... it