Mike -
In general, you should always be reading the manual first. From the SELECT syntax at
http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/E/SELECT.html
GROUP BY must be indicated before ORDER BY. So reverse the order of those portions.
- Ken
At 10:35 PM 7/11/01 -0400, Mike Gifford wrote:
>It looked good, but it gave me an error.. Sorry
>...
>WLPcountry.countryID ORDER BY WLPbib.title GROUP BY WLPbib.bibID
>
>MySQL Error: 1064 (You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'GROUP BY WLPbib.bibID '
>at line 10)
>Please contact the webmaster and report the exact error message.
>Session halted.
>
>Ken wrote:
>
>>Mike -
>>I'm not certain but it sounds like you might be looking for "GROUP BY". Do GROUP BY
>and then the columns that are identical in your results.
>>- Ken
>>At 09:46 PM 7/11/01 -0400, Mike Gifford wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I posted this to the general list this morning & got a couple of good leads, but
>they weren't able to actually fix the problem, so I'm posting here to the db list.
>>>
>>>I'm making some headway on joining three MySQL tables.
>>>
>>>However, when I run this query:
>>>
>>>mysql_query("SELECT
>>> WLPbib.bibID,
>>> WLPbib.title,
>>> WLPbib.publisher,
>>> WLPbib.publicationDate,
>>> WLPaddress.city,
>>> WLPaddress.state,
>>> WLPprofile.firstName,
>>> WLPprofile.lastName,
>>> WLPprofile.organization,
>>> WLPcountry.languageName
>>>FROM WLPbib
>>> LEFT JOIN WLPprofile ON WLPprofile.profileID = WLPbib.profileID
>>> LEFT JOIN WLPaddress ON WLPaddress.publisherID = WLPbib.publisherID
>>> LEFT JOIN WLPcountry ON WLPcountry.countryID = WLPaddress.countryID");
>>>
>>>I now get results in triplicate. ie. I'm getting three copies of the same title,
>firstName, organization, etc....
>>>
>>>I somehow suspected that this should be the result with LEFT JOIN, but I'm not sure
>how to return a query without duplication.
>>>
>>>This is far better than what I had this morning (which was no response from the
>server).
>>>
>>>Thanks. I'm new to joining tables...
>>>
>>>Someone wrote back suggesting that SELECT DISTINCT could be used to to the job.
>>>
>>>Another person suggested that using UNIQUE(profileID) would make it look nicer. I
>wasn't sure how to use UNIQUE with the last JOIN as it isn't directly linked to
>WLPbib..
>>>
>>>Any suggestions would be useful.
>>>
>>>Mike
>
>
>
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