And even without the subquery, the "like" keyword expects a wildcard
character or two, for example:
LIKE '$month%' "
> mysql doesn't support sub-queries unfortunately =(
>
>
>
>
> At 10:22 PM 3/8/01 -0500, Michael Gerholdt wrote:
> >Hi, folks,
> >
> >Can someone insight me regarding this?
> >
> >I have a datetime field in mySQL (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss) called event_time
> >
> >I want to pull records hitting against this field with the idea:
> >
> >where the abbreviated month from this field LIKE '$month'
> >
> >and here's the SQL string I've been playing with. It works when I comment
> >out the line that tries to do the above with a subquery.
> >
> >$strSQL = "SELECT DATE_FORMAT(event_time, '%M %e %Y, %l:%i %p'), bandname,
> >image ";
> >$strSQL .= "FROM doings, styles ";
> >$strSQL .= "WHERE style = musicstyle ";
> >$strSQL .= "AND bandname LIKE '$artist' ";
> >$strSQL .= "AND style LIKE '$style' ";
> >$strSQL .= "AND (SELECT DATE_FORMAT(event_time, '%b') FROM doings) LIKE
> >;
> >$strSQL .= "ORDER BY event_time";
> >echo "$strSQL<BR>";
> >
> >$month will be carrying the three-character short version of the alpha month
> >name.
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