Re: PRINT statement?
, as Value UNION select minimum_education_years=, @minimum_education_years UNION select birthdate_of_youngest_legal_worker=, @birthdate_of_youngest_legal_worker; The first SELECT produces only a blank line in the result set. Naturally, this is not important and you can delete the first SELECT and the UNION keyword that follows it if you want to remove the blank line. However, the first SELECT combines two other functions: it controls the column headings for the result set, via the AS clauses, AND, most importantly, it sets the width of the columns in the table, via the long blank-filled strings in the SELECT clause, e.g. . Therefore, if you drop the first SELECT (and its UNION), you will find that the column names of the result set are the values from the (new) first SELECT, i.e. minimum_education_years= and @minimum_education_years, and, more importantly, that the width of the columns is too narrow and some of the information is truncated. For example the value shown for the second variable name is shown as birthdate_of_youngest_le and the VALUE of that variable is shown only as 1990, NOT the correct value, which is 1990-05-11. The danger is that it is not obvious that the value of the variable has been truncated. When I first encountered this, I thought I'd written the date_sub() function incorrectly and messed around with it for awhile before I discovered the truncation problem. Therefore, my technique is to always use the first SELECT to set the column names for the result set AND to control the width of the result set columns. -- Okay then, aside from the issue of string expressions, which I'm not sure about yet, I think we can see that SELECT can do everything else that the PRINT command supports. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Quentin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:59 PM Subject: RE: PRINT statement? From Transact-SQL Help file: PRINT Returns a user-defined message to the client. Syntax PRINT 'any ASCII text' | @local_variable | @@FUNCTION | string_expr Arguments 'any ASCII text' Is a string of text. @local_variable Is a variable of any valid character data type. @local_variable must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. @@FUNCTION Is a function that returns string results. @@FUNCTION must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. string_expr Is an expression that returns a string. Can include concatenated literal values and variables. The message string can be up to 8,000 characters long; any characters after 8,000 are truncated. -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 3:51 p.m. To: Stephen Cook Cc: MySQL List Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I am not familiar with the PRINT command so I don't know what it does. I played with MS SQL Server once for a couple of days a few years back and that is the only contact I've ever had with SQL Server. If you can tell me what PRINT does, in detail, maybe I can suggest another alternative. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PRINT statement?
in the table, via the long blank-filled strings in the SELECT clause, e.g. . Therefore, if you drop the first SELECT (and its UNION), you will find that the column names of the result set are the values from the (new) first SELECT, i.e. minimum_education_years= and @minimum_education_years, and, more importantly, that the width of the columns is too narrow and some of the information is truncated. For example the value shown for the second variable name is shown as birthdate_of_youngest_le and the VALUE of that variable is shown only as 1990, NOT the correct value, which is 1990-05-11. The danger is that it is not obvious that the value of the variable has been truncated. When I first encountered this, I thought I'd written the date_sub() function incorrectly and messed around with it for awhile before I discovered the truncation problem. Therefore, my technique is to always use the first SELECT to set the column names for the result set AND to control the width of the result set columns. -- Okay then, aside from the issue of string expressions, which I'm not sure about yet, I think we can see that SELECT can do everything else that the PRINT command supports. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Quentin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:59 PM Subject: RE: PRINT statement? From Transact-SQL Help file: PRINT Returns a user-defined message to the client. Syntax PRINT 'any ASCII text' | @local_variable | @@FUNCTION | string_expr Arguments 'any ASCII text' Is a string of text. @local_variable Is a variable of any valid character data type. @local_variable must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. @@FUNCTION Is a function that returns string results. @@FUNCTION must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. string_expr Is an expression that returns a string. Can include concatenated literal values and variables. The message string can be up to 8,000 characters long; any characters after 8,000 are truncated. -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 3:51 p.m. To: Stephen Cook Cc: MySQL List Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I am not familiar with the PRINT command so I don't know what it does. I played with MS SQL Server once for a couple of days a few years back and that is the only contact I've ever had with SQL Server. If you can tell me what PRINT does, in detail, maybe I can suggest another alternative. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PRINT statement?
Stephen Cook wrote: There are such things as extensions to the standard, and many languages besides BASIC that have the ability to output a character string. No need to be snippy. I will look into the --silent option, thanks! I also tend to use -BN with these kind of scripts: mysql -u user -BN dbname file.sql mysql -u root -BN -e SHOW DATABASES etc. Regards Mark -- Mark Leith, Support Engineer MySQL AB, Worcester, England, www.mysql.com Are you MySQL certified? www.mysql.com/certification -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PRINT statement?
headings for the result set, via the AS clauses, AND, most importantly, it sets the width of the columns in the table, via the long blank-filled strings in the SELECT clause, e.g. . Therefore, if you drop the first SELECT (and its UNION), you will find that the column names of the result set are the values from the (new) first SELECT, i.e. minimum_education_years= and @minimum_education_years, and, more importantly, that the width of the columns is too narrow and some of the information is truncated. For example the value shown for the second variable name is shown as birthdate_of_youngest_le and the VALUE of that variable is shown only as 1990, NOT the correct value, which is 1990-05-11. The danger is that it is not obvious that the value of the variable has been truncated. When I first encountered this, I thought I'd written the date_sub() function incorrectly and messed around with it for awhile before I discovered the truncation problem. Therefore, my technique is to always use the first SELECT to set the column names for the result set AND to control the width of the result set columns. -- Okay then, aside from the issue of string expressions, which I'm not sure about yet, I think we can see that SELECT can do everything else that the PRINT command supports. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Quentin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:59 PM Subject: RE: PRINT statement? From Transact-SQL Help file: PRINT Returns a user-defined message to the client. Syntax PRINT 'any ASCII text' | @local_variable | @@FUNCTION | string_expr Arguments 'any ASCII text' Is a string of text. @local_variable Is a variable of any valid character data type. @local_variable must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. @@FUNCTION Is a function that returns string results. @@FUNCTION must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. string_expr Is an expression that returns a string. Can include concatenated literal values and variables. The message string can be up to 8,000 characters long; any characters after 8,000 are truncated. -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 3:51 p.m. To: Stephen Cook Cc: MySQL List Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I am not familiar with the PRINT command so I don't know what it does. I played with MS SQL Server once for a couple of days a few years back and that is the only contact I've ever had with SQL Server. If you can tell me what PRINT does, in detail, maybe I can suggest another alternative. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/336 - Release Date: 5/10/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PRINT statement?
is to always use the first SELECT to set the column names for the result set AND to control the width of the result set columns. -- Okay then, aside from the issue of string expressions, which I'm not sure about yet, I think we can see that SELECT can do everything else that the PRINT command supports. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Quentin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:59 PM Subject: RE: PRINT statement? From Transact-SQL Help file: PRINT Returns a user-defined message to the client. Syntax PRINT 'any ASCII text' | @local_variable | @@FUNCTION | string_expr Arguments 'any ASCII text' Is a string of text. @local_variable Is a variable of any valid character data type. @local_variable must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. @@FUNCTION Is a function that returns string results. @@FUNCTION must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. string_expr Is an expression that returns a string. Can include concatenated literal values and variables. The message string can be up to 8,000 characters long; any characters after 8,000 are truncated. -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 3:51 p.m. To: Stephen Cook Cc: MySQL List Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I am not familiar with the PRINT command so I don't know what it does. I played with MS SQL Server once for a couple of days a few years back and that is the only contact I've ever had with SQL Server. If you can tell me what PRINT does, in detail, maybe I can suggest another alternative. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents. If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/336 - Release Date: 10/05/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/336 - Release Date: 10/05/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PRINT statement?
the value shown for the second variable name is shown as birthdate_of_youngest_le and the VALUE of that variable is shown only as 1990, NOT the correct value, which is 1990-05-11. The danger is that it is not obvious that the value of the variable has been truncated. When I first encountered this, I thought I'd written the date_sub() function incorrectly and messed around with it for awhile before I discovered the truncation problem. Therefore, my technique is to always use the first SELECT to set the column names for the result set AND to control the width of the result set columns. -- Okay then, aside from the issue of string expressions, which I'm not sure about yet, I think we can see that SELECT can do everything else that the PRINT command supports. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Quentin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:59 PM Subject: RE: PRINT statement? From Transact-SQL Help file: PRINT Returns a user-defined message to the client. Syntax PRINT 'any ASCII text' | @local_variable | @@FUNCTION | string_expr Arguments 'any ASCII text' Is a string of text. @local_variable Is a variable of any valid character data type. @local_variable must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. @@FUNCTION Is a function that returns string results. @@FUNCTION must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. string_expr Is an expression that returns a string. Can include concatenated literal values and variables. The message string can be up to 8,000 characters long; any characters after 8,000 are truncated. -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 3:51 p.m. To: Stephen Cook Cc: MySQL List Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I am not familiar with the PRINT command so I don't know what it does. I played with MS SQL Server once for a couple of days a few years back and that is the only contact I've ever had with SQL Server. If you can tell me what PRINT does, in detail, maybe I can suggest another alternative. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PRINT statement?
the (new) first SELECT, i.e. minimum_education_years= and @minimum_education_years, and, more importantly, that the width of the columns is too narrow and some of the information is truncated. For example the value shown for the second variable name is shown as birthdate_of_youngest_le and the VALUE of that variable is shown only as 1990, NOT the correct value, which is 1990-05-11. The danger is that it is not obvious that the value of the variable has been truncated. When I first encountered this, I thought I'd written the date_sub() function incorrectly and messed around with it for awhile before I discovered the truncation problem. Therefore, my technique is to always use the first SELECT to set the column names for the result set AND to control the width of the result set columns. -- Okay then, aside from the issue of string expressions, which I'm not sure about yet, I think we can see that SELECT can do everything else that the PRINT command supports. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Quentin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:59 PM Subject: RE: PRINT statement? From Transact-SQL Help file: PRINT Returns a user-defined message to the client. Syntax PRINT 'any ASCII text' | @local_variable | @@FUNCTION | string_expr Arguments 'any ASCII text' Is a string of text. @local_variable Is a variable of any valid character data type. @local_variable must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. @@FUNCTION Is a function that returns string results. @@FUNCTION must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. string_expr Is an expression that returns a string. Can include concatenated literal values and variables. The message string can be up to 8,000 characters long; any characters after 8,000 are truncated. -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 3:51 p.m. To: Stephen Cook Cc: MySQL List Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I am not familiar with the PRINT command so I don't know what it does. I played with MS SQL Server once for a couple of days a few years back and that is the only contact I've ever had with SQL Server. If you can tell me what PRINT does, in detail, maybe I can suggest another alternative. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/336 - Release Date: 5/10/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PRINT statement?
I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PRINT statement?
I am not familiar with the PRINT command so I don't know what it does. I played with MS SQL Server once for a couple of days a few years back and that is the only contact I've ever had with SQL Server. If you can tell me what PRINT does, in detail, maybe I can suggest another alternative. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: PRINT statement?
From Transact-SQL Help file: PRINT Returns a user-defined message to the client. Syntax PRINT 'any ASCII text' | @local_variable | @@FUNCTION | string_expr Arguments 'any ASCII text' Is a string of text. @local_variable Is a variable of any valid character data type. @local_variable must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. @@FUNCTION Is a function that returns string results. @@FUNCTION must be char or varchar, or be able to be implicitly converted to those data types. string_expr Is an expression that returns a string. Can include concatenated literal values and variables. The message string can be up to 8,000 characters long; any characters after 8,000 are truncated. -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 3:51 p.m. To: Stephen Cook Cc: MySQL List Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I am not familiar with the PRINT command so I don't know what it does. I played with MS SQL Server once for a couple of days a few years back and that is the only contact I've ever had with SQL Server. If you can tell me what PRINT does, in detail, maybe I can suggest another alternative. -- Rhino - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: Re: PRINT statement? I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts. Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents. If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PRINT statement?
- Original Message - From: Stephen Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM Subject: PRINT statement? Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)? It would be handy to debug some scripts. If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or HAVING clauses. For example: select Creating Foo table as Action; will produce the following output: +--+ | Action | +--+ | Creating Foo table | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I can use the BASH echo command, like this: #!/bin/bash report_date=`/bin/date` echo Report Date: $report_date; to produce this output: Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006 -- Rhino -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/333 - Release Date: 05/05/2006 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
