Here is your original query, reformatted merely so that we humans can read
it better:
SELECT DISTINCT specials.specials_id
, products_to_categories.products_id
, categories.parent_id
, products_description.products_name
, products.products_price
, products.products_tax_class_id
, products.products_image
, specials.specials_new_products_price
, languages.languages_id
FROM languages
INNER JOIN
(
(
(specials INNER JOIN
(products_to_categories
INNER JOIN categories
ON products_to_categories.categories_id =
categories.categories_id
)ON specials.products_id =
products_to_categories.products_id
)
INNER JOIN products
ON specials.products_id = products.products_id
)
INNER JOIN products_description
ON specials.products_id = products_description.products_id
) ON languages.languages_id = products_description.language_id
WHERE
(
(
(categories.parent_id)=285
) AND (
(languages.languages_id)=1
)
)
This query design stinks (reeks) of being autogenerated by M$ Access. The
excessive use of parentheses when they aren't needed and the nested JOINs
just complicate the query unnecessarily.
May I suggest a simplification?
SELECT DISTINCT specials.specials_id
, products_to_categories.products_id
, categories.parent_id
, products_description.products_name
, products.products_price
, products.products_tax_class_id
, products.products_image
, specials.specials_new_products_price
, languages.languages_id
FROM categories
INNER JOIN products_to_categories
ON products_to_categories.categories_id = categories.categories_id
INNER JOIN products
ON products.products_id = products_to_categories.products_id
INNER JOIN specials
ON specials.products_id = products.products_id
INNER JOIN products_description
ON products.products_id = products_description.products_id
INNER JOIN languages
ON products_description.language_id = languages.languages_id
WHERE categories.parent_id=285
AND languages.languages_id=1;
I have also noticed in my Windows command shell that it does not process
extremely long lines in "pastes" from the clipboard well. If you copied
that straight from Access to a MySQL prompt, it would have been just one
long line of information and the DOS command processor would have
eventually stopped taking input mid-query. I suspect that is what caused
your otherwise "acceptable" (and I use that term loosely ;-) ) query to
be invalid. The last third of it never made it into the MySQL CLI.
When I break my queries into shorter lines (human friendly) and paste them
into the MySQL command line interface (CLI), everything works just fine.
Just copy the entire query (line breaks and all) onto the clipboard and
paste it at the MySQL prompt (if that's how you are doing it) and see if
it works now. Notepad is my best friend when working in the CLI. I compose
and format long queries in Notepad then copy-paste into MySQL. I know it's
doing it the "hard way" (yes, I have and do use the GUI tools too) but
it's how I prefer to analyze certain issues.
Shawn Green
Database Administrator
Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine
"Daniel Sousa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/26/2005 06:45:32 AM:
> I have a problem.
>
> 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax near '(((specials INNER
> JOIN (products_to_categories INNER JOIN categories ON products' at line
2
>
> SELECT DISTINCT specials.specials_id, products_to_categories.
> products_id, categories.parent_id, products_description.
> products_name, products.products_price, products.
> products_tax_class_id, products.products_image, specials.
> specials_new_products_price, languages.languages_id FROM languages
> INNER JOIN (((specials INNER JOIN (products_to_categories INNER JOIN
> categories ON products_to_categories.categories_id = categories.
> categories_id) ON specials.products_id = products_to_categories.
> products_id) INNER JOIN products ON specials.products_id = products.
> products_id) INNER JOIN products_description ON specials.products_id
> = products_description.products_id) ON languages.languages_id =
> products_description.language_id WHERE (((categories.parent_id)=285)
> AND ((languages.languages_id)=1))
>
>
>
> i run this query in my computer and work, but in the internet server
don�t.
>
> If anyone can solve this problem answer me.
>
> Daniel Sousa
