Re: [MI-L] SQL Querying

2006-09-19 Thread Andy Harfoot
Hi Andrew, The SQL Select syntax is: select table1.IDcol , table2.IDcol , areaoverlap(table1.obj,table2.obj) from table1,table2 where table1.obj intersects table2.obj Note that the area returned will be in Mapinfo's current area units, so you might want to set these by running the 'Set Area

RE: [MI-L] SQL Querying

2006-09-18 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Andrew, This should do it: Select TABLE1.NAME , CartesianArea(Overlap( TABLE1.OBJ, TABLE2.OBJ), sq m) AREA_SQM FromTABLE1, TABLE2 Where TABLE1.OBJ Intersects TABLE2.OBJ Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer, MTM Geographical Information IT COWI

RE: [MI-L] SQL Querying

2006-08-15 Thread Spencer Simpson
Select areaname, sum(int(mycode=code1))Code1, sum(int(mycode=code2))Code2, ... From mybigtab Group by areaname Hope this helps Spencer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Tracey Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:51 AM To:

RE: [MI-L] sql

2006-06-09 Thread Ben A Greenberg
You need to separate the criteria in the WHERE clause Select * from table1, table2 WHERE table1.obj within table2.obj and table1.id = [some value here] and table2.id = [some value here] Ben Greenberg GIS Coordinator NAI MLG Commercial 262-797-9400 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [MI-L] SQL Querying

2006-05-02 Thread Nabors, Steve
Andrew, There is probably a procedural/manual way of doing this via a series of manual selections using geographic functions in your selections. A better was is via mapbasic. Here is some mapbasic to get you started if mapbasic is an option for you. Disclaimer:I just typed it out and have not run

RE: [MI-L] sql select

2006-04-17 Thread Llewellyn, David
- From: Robert DeRubeis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 April 2006 1:43 AM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: Re: [MI-L] sql select That's what the problem was. Table A was not mappable and Table B was mappable. I made Table A mappable and ran the same query and it selected

Re: [MI-L] sql select

2006-04-13 Thread Robert DeRubeis
That's what the problem was. Table A was not mappable and Table B was mappable. I made Table A mappable and ran the same query and it selected the records from Table A. Thanks for the help. -Bob Mike Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 9:46 AM -0700 wrote: Are the

Re: [MI-L] SQL QUERY

2006-03-09 Thread Flavio Hendry
Hi Peter - add the new column as float - run table / update column and specifiy colxx-771.49 Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards Flavio Hendry TYDAC NEWS http://www.tydac.ch/german/index.php?menu=News_actual

RE: [MI-L] SQL Server MapInfo

2006-01-17 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Andrew, I would recommend either building a MapBasic application or just using a Workspace to perform this task. You only need to know three MapBasic commands to perform this: Open Table path and name of table Server Refresh name of table Close Table name of table This can very easy by put

RE: [MI-L] SQL Queries

2006-01-17 Thread Terry McDonnell
Andrew lnRandNum = round( rnd(1) * 79000, 1) will give you a random no. 1 - 79000 Fetch record lnRandNum will get that record for you . I don't know about every 100 or every 1000 records because I don't know what that means. Do you mean every 100th ... (after a random record number) ... or a

Re: [MI-L] SQL Queries

2006-01-17 Thread Info at Spatial Decisions
Hi Andrew You've probably had a number of replies already but here goes To select every nth record from a table using SQL, type rowid mod(n)=0 ... into the Where Condition area of the dialog. Hope this makes sense and is of some assistance. Regards Tony Maber - Certified

RE: [MI-L] SQL Queries

2006-01-17 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Hi, This will select every 100th record: Select * From MYTABLE Where ROWID Mod 100 = 0 This will select every 1000th record: Select * From MYTABLE Where ROWID Mod 1000 = 0 You can also change the 0 to any value between 0 and 100 or 1000. Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer, MTM Geographical

Re: [MI-L] SQL Queries

2006-01-17 Thread Ian Robertson
Andrew, There's 2 options both requiring the addition of a new column (as float) to your table that is then updated. Version 1 is to update the new column with the rowid number thus: Update Mytable Set Mycol = rowid and then Select * from Mytable where Mycol mod N into

RE: [MI-L] SQL Select

2005-12-03 Thread Lawley, Russell S
andy you dont say if you just want a query to do this or an update (answers so far have been update based.. which is ok if you have a column ready to fill..if noy then you have teh hassle of altering teh table structure etc etc.. I tend to do this kinda stuff as a query so setup the QL

RE: [MI-L] SQL Select

2005-11-28 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Andrew, - Goto Table Update Column - Select the table you want to update - Select the column to update - In the value field you enter this: COLUMNNAME1 * COLUMNNAME2 where COLUMNNAME1 is the name of the first column and COLUMNNAME2 is the name of the second table Peter Horsbøll Møller

RE: [MI-L] SQL Select

2005-11-28 Thread Jakob Lanstorp
Update MYTABLE SET MYCOLPRODUCT = MYCOL1 * MYCOL2 If you have a large dataset you might first what to run the following line in the mapbasic window: Set Table MYTABLE FastEdit On Undo Off HTH, Jakob Lanstorp Software Consultant Geographical Information IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense

Re: MI-L SQL Server Tables

2005-10-17 Thread Lars V. Nielsen (GisPro)
Hi Andrew, Refreshing is only needed to update a local copy of the table on MS/SQL. The local copy is in MapInfo TAB format, and unless you can utilize MITAB to extract the data, you need MapInfo Pro. Best regards/Med venlig hilsen Lars V. Nielsen GisPro, Denmark http://www.gispro.dk/ -

Re: MI-L SQL

2005-10-16 Thread Info at Spatial Decisions
Hi Bill You can use the syntax in the Where Condition: SUBURB = Any (Alpha,Tango,Charlie,Whisky, ) . If your list is not too long then this way should work. Should you have a lengthy list ... it might be worth typing the names into an Excel spreadsheet and then importing it into MI and

SUM: RE: MI-L SQL WITHIN operator question

2005-10-12 Thread David Reid
Thanks to Hugh, Peter and Jose for the help, looks like a matter of having all your ducks in a row :) -Original Message- Objects in one table = text objects some line objects Objects in second table = region/polyg objects Attempting to select objects in one table that are Not Within

RE: MI-L SQL Querying

2005-10-10 Thread Terry McDonnell
Andrew Select Postcode from Table 1 where PostCode not in ( select Postcode from Table2) HTH Terry McDonnell -Original Message- From: Andrew Tracey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2005 15:01 To: Terry McDonnell Subject: MI-L SQL Querying Dear All Does anyone know

RE: MI-L SQL WITHIN operator question

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Hi David, Sure, it is doable. It's just a question of putting the words in the right order ;-) And I also think that you need to use a subselect for this query: Select * From ONETABLE Where Not OBJ Within Any (Select Obj From SECONDTABLE) Note that I have placed the Not in front of the

RE: MI-L SQL selects

2005-08-30 Thread Mike Tonge
Yep that got it working. Thanks Mike Terry McDonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike I haven't done this myself yet but does the below work? HTH Terry Select * from Table2 where table2.obj within Buffer( table1.Obj, 1, 100, m) -Original Message- From: Mike Tonge [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: MI-L SQL Server - Spatialware - UDF

2005-08-30 Thread Ian Tidy
Hendrik, 1. There isn't a HG_SpericalBuffer or ST_Buffer UDF. See the following notes. HG_SphericalBuffer generates a buffer region around a geometry in a longitude/latitude coordinate system. Note: This function is available within sp_spatial_query, but not available as a UDF, because SQL

RE: MI-L SQL selects

2005-08-30 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
PM To: Terry McDonnell; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: MI-L SQL selects Yep that got it working. Thanks Mike Terry McDonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike I haven't done this myself yet but does the below work? HTH Terry Select * from Table2 where table2.obj within Buffer

Re: MI-L SQL question

2005-08-17 Thread Lars V. Nielsen (GisPro)
Hi David, Sum() is an aggregate function that sums exactly one column. Try using: ( sum(a)+sum(b)+sum(c) ) / sum(d) Best regards/Med venlig hilsen Lars V. Nielsen GisPro, Denmark http://www.gispro.dk/ - Original Message - From: Dewen Hou [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mapinfo-L

RE: MI-L SQL question

2005-08-17 Thread Ronning, Christine
Hi Group, Thanks to all those who replied about the Universal Translator. I am going to wait and try to use MapInfo 7.8 on my other workstation, where the files were originally created, instead of the 7.0 verion which is what I've been trying to translate with. Hopefully it works! My next

RE: MI-L SQL question

2005-08-17 Thread Milo van der Linden
: woensdag 17 augustus 2005 23:50 To: Lars V. Nielsen (GisPro); Dewen Hou Cc: Mapinfo-L Subject: RE: MI-L SQL question Hi Group, Thanks to all those who replied about the Universal Translator. I am going to wait and try to use MapInfo 7.8 on my other workstation, where the files were originally created

Re: MI-L SQL Server and Spatialware

2005-05-27 Thread Lars V. Nielsen \(HVM\)
Hi Roger, We've run SpatialWare (4.5) on MS/SQL 2000 from both MIPro and MapXtreme 3.0 (MapX 5.0) without too many problems. And we're definitely not using sa to access MS/SQL from MXT either. It may be a security/privilege problem you're dealing with. If the tables are owned by dbo, sa will

RE: MI-L SQL help? - Shield Nodes

2005-03-16 Thread Terry McDonnell
Philip If your Shield nodes are identified numbered sequentially, e.g. ShieldNo, beginning at 1, then you could probably do: Select * from ShieldLayer where ShieldLayer.ShieldNo MOD 5 = 0 That should get every 5th shield, so every 5 miles. HTH Terry McDonnell -Original Message-

RE: MI-L SQL queries

2005-02-01 Thread Fletcher James
Someone who knows more than I about SQL might have a way of specifying * from one table only. Absent that, I have a workaround for you. I'm assuming that you're using two tables because of the need to use one of them to help select records -- e.g. selecting records where the FIPS code in Table1

RE: MI-L SQL Server - Spatialware - UDF

2005-01-13 Thread SCISOFT
Sorry, for UDFs that seems to be 2 single quotes - see the manual, Chapter 6 (page 31). Ian Thomas GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2005 8:54 PM To: MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com Subject:

RE: MI-L SQL question

2005-01-11 Thread Woody Woodruff
/ctuzoning/index.htm -Original Message- From: Will Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: RE: MI-L SQL question You can reverse the order of the tables in the SQL dialog, should return

RE: MI-L SQL question

2005-01-10 Thread Will Mitchell
You can reverse the order of the tables in the SQL dialog, should return the first table's geography/polygon... Will Mitchell Mitchell Geographics, Inc. 496 Congress St Portland, ME 04101 ph 207.879.7769 fx 207.253.5756 www.mitchellgeo.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MI-L SQL Querying

2004-11-30 Thread Tim Smith
This is the query you need Mid$(Column_name,10, 1) = 2 Or Mid$(Column_name,10, 1) = 3 Syntax: Mid$( str, num1, num2 ) Returns a portion of the string str starting at character position num1 and extending for num2 characters. Hope it works Cheers Tim -Original Message- From:

RE: MI-L SQL Querying

2004-11-30 Thread OSullivan. Jerry (IT Solutions)
Andrew, Try something like: 'Select * from Untitled where Mid$(ID,10,1) = 2 or Mid$(ID,10,1) = 3 into Selection' For Chars 'Select * from Untitled where Mid$(Str$(ID),10,1) = 2 or Mid$(Str$(ID),10,1) = 3 into Selection' For Decimals Enjoy, Jerry Jerry O'Sullivan GIS

Re: MI-L SQL help

2004-10-22 Thread Flavio Hendry
hi willie table / update column, use rowid as value. Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards Flavio Hendry TYDAC NEWS http://www.tydac.ch/german/index.php?menu=News_actual

RE: MI-L SQL Querying

2004-10-20 Thread Nielsen, Erik R
Andrew, Use the SQL query form then GROUP BY PropType, PropSit ORDER BY PropType, PRopSit This will give you A,D,123 A,E,456 .. B,D,101 Etc. Un less you really need the matrix form I reckon this is the best way to do it. Else I'll suggest Mapbasic. Cheers Erik -Original Message- From:

RE: MI-L sql query on query tables

2004-07-20 Thread Terry McDonnell
Sergi Select blah from blah where blah into selection (or into csrMyQuery) Select blah from selection (or from csrMyQuery) where ... Terry -Original Message- From: Gamiz Ribelles, Sergi (Regsa) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2004 14:55 To: Mapinfo-list (E-mail) Subject: MI-L

RE: MI-L sql select problem

2004-07-19 Thread Dominic Lowe
The Mod keyword might be what you need. i.e. SELECT * FROM ContourTable WHERE ElevationColumn MOD 5 = 0 This will return all values of Elevation that can be divided exactly by 5. Hope that helps, Dominic -Original Message- From: Véronique De Laet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17

RE: MI-L sql select problem

2004-07-19 Thread Dominic Lowe
Sorry, missed Bill's answer! -Original Message- From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2004 22:18 To: Véronique De Laet Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI-L sql select problem On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Véronique De Laet wrote: We have a database with elevation values

Re: MI-L sql select problem

2004-07-17 Thread Bill Thoen
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Véronique De Laet wrote: We have a database with elevation values of contourlines with an aquidistance of 1m. Now we want to select lines with an interval of 5m. If you want to select contour lines with elevation values that are even multiples of 5m, you can do so

RE: MI-L SQL books

2004-06-02 Thread Sam Shelley
Hi Nick One book I use a lot - which is not GIS oriented is Oracle9i: SQL, with an Introduction to PL/SGL. It is obviously Oracle oriented; however, it is very comprehensive. Here is a link to some info on the book = http://www.course.com/catalog/product.cfm?isbn=0-619-06475-7 I hope it

RE: MI-L SQL books

2004-06-02 Thread Upinder Mutti
SQL in a nutshell (O'Rielly) is a good starter. ISBN:1-56592-744-3 Cheers Upinder -Original Message- From: Nick Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2004 8:02 PM To: MapInfo-L Subject: MI-L SQL books anybody know any good SQL books (both GIS and non-GIS would be

RE: MI-L SQL Select Error

2004-03-19 Thread Woody Woodruff
I find myself adding this AND clause to just about any spatial query I use- Region may also be Line, Pline, etc, however, region is most common way to use it. The table it needs to reference is the one with the objects you are using to select with, not needed for the objects of the target table.

RE: MI-L SQL Select Error

2004-03-16 Thread Spencer Simpson
str$(obj) for a polyline returns Polyline, not Pline. In addition, there is a line object type for which str$(obj) returns line. You can use either of the two expressions below to search for rows that are neither lines nor polylines: not (str$(obj)=any (line, polyline)) instr(1,str$(obj),line)

RE: MI-L SQL selection

2004-02-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Soren, You've fallen into a common trap when learning SQL! Sometimes AND's and OR's are the opposite to what one would express in spoken language. In this case, I assume you want to select records from any of the three cities. In this case you need to use OR instead of AND. What's happening

Re: MI-L SQL selection

2004-02-20 Thread Norman Mabunda
Hi Soren Map Info does not want And if you are selecting from one field, but it rather wants Or. So simple run the same query and put Or instead of And. Regards, Norman Mabunda Manager: GIS and Databases [EMAIL PROTECTED] +27 12 312 0843 (Tel) +27 12 312 0642 (fax) +27 73 265 9279

RE: MI-L SQL query, where on 2 columns SUM

2004-02-18 Thread Warwick Bishop
Thanks to those who answered my simple query. Answer is you can't do this directly in the update command. Just perform the required selection and update from that!, as from Martin Higham: Select * from table where colA = num1 and col2 = num2 Update selection set colC = num3 -Original

Re: MI-L SQL Help

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Hodder
Hi Robin, first you need to do a bit of SQL to get the counts of crime types POSTCODETABLE = Postcode boundary table name CRIMETYPETABLE = Crime type table name Select POSTCODETABLE.POSTCODE, CRIMETYPETABLE.CRIMETYPE, Count(*) From POSTCODETABLE, CRIMETYPETABLE Group by 1,2 Order by 1,2 You

Re: MI-L SQL Query

2004-01-15 Thread Norman Mabunda
I have a table that I wanted to do a similiar thing to what Andrew Tracey wanted to do. Please see the attachment to see what I did: Select Columns: Province, Type, Count(Sub_Type) 5 From Tables:National_Health_Facility_List_ Where Condition: Group By Columns: Sub_Type

RE: MI-L SQL Query

2004-01-15 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
, 5260 Odense S. Please note our new telephone, direct and telefax numbers. -Original Message- From: Norman Mabunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI-L SQL Query I have

RE: MI-L SQL Query

2004-01-15 Thread Norman Mabunda
. Please note our new telephone, direct and telefax numbers. -Original Message- From: Norman Mabunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI-L SQL Query I have a table that I

Re: MI-L SQL Query

2004-01-15 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
To do that, you will have to add a field called ID, update it to contain rowid (i.e. 1, 2, 3,) and then include a where clause in your SQL: where rowid=20 or where rowid=20 and rowid=100 If you want to see only the top 20 records in the output (i.e. after the group by), then the answer is

RE: MI-L SQL Query

2004-01-15 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI-L SQL Query Thanx Peter Another question: Is't possible 1000 records count to see only a certail number of records. For instance, of the 100 records count, to see the 1st 20 records, or to see only 20 records of the 100 records. If yes, how? Regards

Re: MI-L SQL Query

2004-01-15 Thread Norman Mabunda
Very much answered. Thanks a mil. Uffe Kousgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15/04 09:59AM To do that, you will have to add a field called ID, update it to contain rowid (i.e. 1, 2, 3,) and then include a where clause in your SQL: where rowid=20 or where rowid=20 and rowid=100 If you want to see

RE: MI-L SQL Query

2004-01-15 Thread Norman Mabunda
:45 AM To: Peter Horsbøll Møller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI-L SQL Query Thanx Peter Another question: Is't possible 1000 records count to see only a certail number of records. For instance, of the 100 records count, to see the 1st 20 records, or to see only 20 records

RE: MI-L SQL Queries

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
Try this: Select * From MYTABLE Where MYCOLUMN Like %Richard% or Select * From MYTABLE Where InStr(1, MYCOLUMN, Richard) 0 Replace: MYTABLE with the name of your table MYCOLUMN with the name of the Company Name column I'm not which is fastest, but they should do the same thing. Note that the %

Re: MI-L SQL Query

2004-01-14 Thread Steve Kalmbach
Yes, the query would go something like this: Select WARD_NO, TENURE_TYPE, Count(TENTURE_TYPE) How_Many From MY_TABLE GROUP BY WARD_NO, TENURE_TYPE ORDER BY WARD_NO, TENURE_TYPE Into RESULTS_TABLE If you are using the SQL select dialog, the first line above is the 'Select Columns', the second

RE: MI-L SQL Query

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI-L SQL Query Yes, the query would go something like this: Select WARD_NO, TENURE_TYPE, Count(TENTURE_TYPE) How_Many From MY_TABLE GROUP BY WARD_NO, TENURE_TYPE ORDER BY WARD_NO, TENURE_TYPE Into RESULTS_TABLE If you are using

RE: MI-L SQL statements when accessing Oracle Spatial from MI 7.5

2004-01-14 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
I was wandering what MI (7.5) does to Oracle (9.2) when querying a table in the direct mode. Do you perform this query using the SQL Select or do you send the query to Oracle using the DBMS expert ? If you send the query to Oracle you can use the power of Oracle to get a much better

RE: MI-L SQL Help

2003-12-08 Thread Will Mitchell
Hi Carolyn, There's surely a way to do this using the / as a separator, but in my limited ways I use the Left$() function. Trick is you have to have the same number of places each time, so if your numbers grow you'll have to do it multiple times on fixed width subsets. You can update your other

Re: MI-L SQL Help

2003-12-08 Thread Matt Bolton
Carolyn, Use the Instr function in combination with the Left$ function Instr(1,123/456,/) returns 4, which is the chanacter position of the / So, Update TableName Set FirstPart = left$(Data,InStr(1,Data,/)-1) will update the column FirstPart in table Tablename with everything before the first

Fwd: Re: MI-L SQL Help

2003-12-08 Thread Robert Crossley
Carolyn, Use the table Update Column menu item and set it up so that you use this expression to update your new field. Left$(OldField,Instr(1,/,OldField)-1) r On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:31:15 +1100, Carolyn Bergin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys I have a dataset that contains a field with

RE: MI-L SQL Help

2003-12-08 Thread Peter Horsbøll Møller
note our new telephone, direct and telefax numbers. COWI wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. -Original Message- From: Will Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 2:58 AM To: Carolyn Bergin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI-L SQL Help

RE: MI-L SQL Select Join Problem

2003-07-28 Thread Simmonds, Ashley (PTB)
as far as i'm aware a JOIN requires the same fundamental data type, a WHERE statement does not, so long as they're processed as the same data type. confuserating i know, but a JOIN is interpreted slightly differently in SQL, it is more of a hardcoded response where it can take advantage of

RE: MI-L SQL Server MapInfo

2003-06-20 Thread Guy Groves
I can only give a partial answer here... I don't have time too look up the answer on the MapInfo side. SQL Server: nvarchar This and other character data types with an n prefix are UNICODE data types. This causes two things to occur. The length of the data type storage has some restrictions,

Re: MI-L SQL - Joining using Geographic Operators

2003-06-09 Thread Bill Thoen
MapInfo's SQL isn't as robust as we'd like, so I think you'll have to do this in two passes. First select data1,data2 intersections into a table, then the data1, data3 intersections, and combine the results. -- - Bill Thoen GISnet,

RE: MI-L SQL tables

2003-03-05 Thread Kakkar, Ujvala
Hi Don, I have not seen a limit on the number of tables that can be used when joining tables but I have read about the order in which they have to be joined. This is what I read: The order of the table names (in the From Tables field) is important. If both tables contain map objects, the results

RE: MI-L SQL Queries

2002-12-27 Thread Fonseca, Milton
Wade, Maybe you should take a look at http://www.w3schools.com/sql/. It is not MapInfo specific, but it should help you with SQL grammar a little bit. Hope this helps. Happy Hollidays everyone!! Milton Fonseca Research Analyst I Mineral Resources and Mineral Hazards Mapping Program California

RE: MI-L SQL statement not saved in workspace

2002-11-18 Thread Woody Woodruff
I believe the problem is with base tables verses a named query. Try this SQL which operates on the 2 base tables, USA which contains the state objects and UsCuty_8k for the cities, or use any other city table you want. Select * from Usa, Uscty_8k where Usa.State = WY AND Usa.obj Contains

Re: MI-L SQL - Having Clause

2002-10-11 Thread Lars Nielsen
Hi Seth, No such thing in MapInfo SQL. It's clearly a subset of the full SQL query set. However, as opposed to standard SQL, all your queries in MIPro are permanent - in your session or until you close them - and with some restrictions can be used as basis for further queries. You can name

RE: MI-L SQL parsing error ???

2002-10-02 Thread Martin Higham
Following on from my previous post, the error message that MapInfo could not close a temp table is due to a bug. If you open a shapefile directly using MI Pro v7 and then make a selection from it, you get this message when attempting to close the temp table. Note that this will cause unexpected

RE: MI-L SQL Join error

2002-09-26 Thread Evan MacDougall
The REAL error. Ok, i packed the tables and that didn't help. And my error actually says this Object not inserted. What the heck is THAT and what does it mean? And why is it happenning? More importantly, how can I fix it? I am using MI Pro 6.5/WinXP. -Evan MacDougall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

RE: MI-L SQL

2002-09-19 Thread Tim.Nuteson
Depending on your version of MapInfo, the MapBasic reference guide, which details all of these functions, is included in PDF format on the MapInfo install disk. I have MapInfo 6.5 and the file is here: d:\pdf_docs\mb_ref.pdf Tim Nuteson Target Corporation -Original Message- From:

RE: MI-L SQL

2002-09-18 Thread Fu, Qiaomei
I use this site http://www.w3schools.com/sql/ for reference. Hopefully, it helps. Qiaomei -Original Message- From: Jeff Card [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI-L SQL Can anyone give me an idea where I could find an

RE: RE: MI-L SQL

2002-09-18 Thread PEM
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Re: MI-L SQL delete

2002-09-10 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
It is done in a 2 step process: set table mytable fastedit on select * from mytable where myfield = myvalue into tmp1 noselect delete [object] from tmp1 Perhaps even like this (not tested): set table mytable fastedit on select * from mytable where myfield = myvalue delete [object] from

RE: MI-L SQL

2002-08-01 Thread PEM
Do remember to set the right projection before selecting the records with SQL: 1. Open the MapBasic window 2. Enter this followed by a Enter: Set CoordSys Table name of table name of table is the name of your table with the correct projection 3. Do the SQL select. HTH, Peter

RE: MI-L SQL Querying

2002-07-09 Thread HANNA MICHAEL (TOR1MMH)
Hi Andrew, SELECT MyCol FROM MyTAB WHERE Len(MyCol) 40 Hope this helps, Michael Hanna Industrial Engineering United Parcel Service Canada Ltd. (905) 660-8688 -Original Message- From: Andrew Tracey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI-L SQL Querying

2002-07-09 Thread Dan_Page
I believe it's len(columnname) 40 Dan Andrew Tracey [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/09/2002 09:10:51 AM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:MI-L SQL Querying Dear All Can anybody help I am trying to pick out all records within a column that are more than 40 characters in length. Does

RE: MI-L sql selection

2002-07-09 Thread HANNA MICHAEL (TOR1MMH)
Nick, I believe that the structure you want cannot be achieved using a query. The best result you can get from a query is: Region1 Tile1 Region1 Tile2 Region1 Tile3 Region2 Tile1 Region2 Tile3... You can, however, use this resulting table to generate a

RE: MI-L SQL Select

2002-06-26 Thread jal
Jacques Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt af: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09-03-2001 20:58 Besvar venligst til Jacques Paris Til:Morrier, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Vedr.: RE: MI-L SQL Select I used once in the SQL requester that where condition instr(1,Col_Name

RE: MI-L SQL Query

2002-06-26 Thread Driver, Greg 9434
Andrew, From the Query, SQL Select option type: Select Columns: * from Tables: your_table_name Where: str$(objectinfo(obj,1)) = n with n representing one of the following numbers: 1 - arc 2 - ellipse/circle 3 - line 4 - polyline 5 - point 6 - layout window frame 7 - region 8 -

RE: MI-L SQL Query

2002-06-26 Thread Steve Carlsson
Str$(obj) = text is much simpler -Original Message- From: Driver, Greg 9434 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2002 4:55 PM To: 'Andrew Tracey'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: MI-L SQL Query Andrew, From the Query, SQL Select option type: Select Columns: * from

RE: RE: MI-L SQL query to group data on classifications

2002-04-09 Thread PEM
-04-2002 03:16 Vedr.: RE: MI-L SQL query to group data on classifications

RE: MI-L SQL query to group data on classifications

2002-04-08 Thread DPC
Seems like you have 90% of it figured out. I'll assume your table is called MyTable and the field where you are storing your group sums is MyField [as a Char(4)]. If you take your last expression (where you get TFFF for up to 1,000, TTFF for 1,000 to 5,000, TTTF for 5,000 to 10,000, and

RE: MI-L SQL Query Question

2002-04-02 Thread HANNA MICHAEL (TOR1MMH)
The only way I can think of is to add a column, say GroupPos, populate it, and query where GroupPos = 3. If your table is large you can populate it quickly be writing a short MabBasic application. I'd be glad to help with this if you need. Michael Hanna -Original Message- From: Ron

Re: MI-L SQL Select

2002-03-18 Thread Uffe Kousgaard
Go to Table Update Column and fill in the appropriate fields: If you open a mapbasic window first, the result should look like this: Add Column polygontable (countfield) From pointtable Set To Count(*) Where within Kind regards Uffe Kousgaard www.routeware.dk - Original Message -

RE: MI-L SQL and selecting records...

2002-03-13 Thread jmcquiston
Jeff, The key is the order that you list the tables in the table box of the SQL select. The first table will hold a bunch of selected records. In your case make sure you list the points table first, then the data table. The selected records are the same records that show in the query, but

RE: MI-L SQL Help

2002-02-28 Thread Fast, Tim
Steve, Not to worry, you won't get fired. Remember we are the ones who actually do the work! Here is a method for selecting records in one table that do not match records in another table. Consider a situation where we must find all the records in TableA whose values in FieldA do not match the

RE: MI-L SQL Help

2002-02-28 Thread Morrier, Steve
, 2002 12:13 PM To: 'Morrier, Steve'; MapInfo-L (E-mail) Subject: RE: MI-L SQL Help Steve, Not to worry, you won't get fired. Remember we are the ones who actually do the work! Here is a method for selecting records in one table that do not match records in another table. Consider a situation

RE: MI-L SQL Help

2002-02-28 Thread PEM
: onsmag.com Vedr.: RE: MI-L SQL Help

RE: MI-L SQL

2002-02-27 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
List Subject: RE: MI-L SQL Thanks to everyone else that helped out on this problem. The summary Invert selection does not work after you have made an SQL Query. Select * from points where not obj within any (select obj from polygon) into Selection (Applying this calculation made MI crash out

RE: MI-L SQL

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Arnold
Stephen If you have MiPro 6.5, try selecting all the points within the poly and then using the Inverse Selection Tool to select all other points. Bill Arnold Meridian Geographics www.mgmap.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brooks,

Re: MI-L SQL

2002-02-26 Thread Martin Hodder
Stephen, Lets say you have a table with polygons and a tables with points then the SQL is:- Select * from points where not obj within any (select obj from polygon) into Selection However this runs really sloww on large tables... So you if you are using Version 6.5 you could join the two

RE: MI-L SQL Server table schema accessed from MapBasic?

2002-01-13 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Bill, select COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE from information_schema.columns where TABLE_NAME = YourTable There are lots of other useful field too. Should work like any other table queried via ODBC. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa-tech.com -Original

Re: MI-L SQL join and Info Tool, odd behaviour

2002-01-10 Thread David Andrews
Soren, I have experienced/discovered this too in the past, and have reported it to MapInfo, they say it is due to the way that MI handles one to many relations (sorry cant find the correspondence), but I think its just a bug in the info tool!! or at least a design feature they need to sort out.

Re: MI-L SQL join and Info Tool, odd behaviour

2002-01-10 Thread Simon O'Keefe
Hi Søren, I have experienced this problem too. As mad as I am that this bug has existed for so long, I have just accepted it and used a work-around. Save the new_table, then open it. The correct relationships will be restored. Cheers, Simon

Re: MI-L SQL query using three tables

2001-11-15 Thread Laurence Seeff
Hi, Thought to just comment on the don't know how you'd join all three = tables within a single SQL. Joining 3 tables in a single SQL proves to be powerful, time saving and = does not clutter your disk with unecessary temporary files. The way to = do this requires a syntax rule which I will

RE: MI-L SQL 'Intersects Query ... Line Centroids

2001-07-31 Thread Jacques Paris
Lorne, 1 - If you are sure that the end=start lines exist as lines, then you can add as an extra condition that objectlen(obj,m) be 0 to exclude them 2 - The implementation by MI of the notion of centroid for lines and plines is different from that for regions. One one hand, centroids of

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