Re: bulk_insert_buffer_size and InnoDB

2005-05-10 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On May 10, Jan Pieter Kunst wrote: Dear all, I read the following on this page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html: bulk_insert_buffer_size MyISAM uses a special tree-like cache to make bulk inserts faster for INSERT ... SELECT, INSERT ... VALUES

Re: missing file ( msyql.sock)

2005-05-10 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. You may create my.cnf from the examples which're shipped with MySQL distribution. MySQL will create the socket file if it doesn't exists. It's location could be specified in configuration file or in command line options. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/program-options.html

Re: memory errors / crashes

2005-05-10 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/crashing.html Chris Knipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We will try our best to scrape up some info that will hopefully help diagnose the problem, but since we have already crashed, something is definitely wrong and this may fail.

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, your need is: select * from temp LIMIT 3,4; -- 3 because you have to take the fourth and 4 because dist=3+1 This does not make sense. A SELECT without an ORDER BY returns the rows in some undefined order. If you use LIMIT 3,4

inserting special characters

2005-05-10 Thread Javier Ballesteros Correa
Hi, everybody! I have a problem working with MySQL and C++ Builder 6. I canĀ“t find the solution and I hope that maybe somebody can help me. I use the ZEOS components (6.1.5) to connect the MySQL database (version 4.1.11) with C++ Builder. The fact is that everything goes rigth except when I try to

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Marco Neves
oix ppl, now I have a question. I thougth that when you make a SELECT without an ORDER BY, the rows were returned in natural order, that would be some specific order (insertion order, presence in file, I don't know, but the order would be always the same). Is this

RE: DATA TYPE QUESTIONS?

2005-05-10 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] IF I use the following statement: SELECT * FROM `items` WHERE `item` = 10902 HAVING `venturi_type` = 'universal' OR `venturi_type` = 'special'; I get a complete and full data dump. IF I change the statement by inserting a 'letter' in this case 'S' instead of a 'number' in this case

Re: inserting special characters

2005-05-10 Thread Dusan Pavlica
Hi, Javier! I don't know Zeos components but I use C++ Builder 6 and ODBC to connect to MySQL and I had similar problem. My databases had character set set to latin2 and problem was my client's (C++ Builder and ODBC) character set. Try to issue command SET NAMES 'your_WIN_codepage' (main was

Re: inserting special characters

2005-05-10 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. What output do these statements produce: show variables like '%char%'; show variables like '%coll%'; Include the results of SHOW CREATE TABLE executed on your tables as well. Javier Ballesteros Correa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everybody! I have a problem working with

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Rhino
You should never assume that an SQL query will return data in any specific order *unless* you use an ORDER BY to force the sequence of rows in the result set. Data returned by a query will sometimes appear to come out in a particular order but you should always view this as a lucky coincidence,

Site search using MySQL fulltext index

2005-05-10 Thread Zooman Jee
Hi, I've implemented my site search using MySQL db fulltext index. I understand that fulltext index currently doesn't support stemming of words. However I want to implement my search such that a query containing words in singular tense matches records of words in plural tense and vice versa. Is

Re: Underline or minus sign ?

2005-05-10 Thread Gabriel PREDA
No one ? Please help me with this. Gabriel - Original Message - From: Gabriel PREDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:36 PM Subject: Underline or minus sign ? I'm going to start the InnoDB engine... and I want to know if the syntax for the CNF file unified at last ?

backup a database

2005-05-10 Thread Rafael Diaz Valdes
Hi, I 'm using mysqldump to backup my database, I wrote in my backup.sh the following string: $MYSQL/bin/mysqldump --opt databasename -user=root --password=rootpassword backup/mysql/databasename.sql I include backup.sh in my cron weekly (/etc/cron.weekly) but when it is executed

Re: Underline or minus sign ?

2005-05-10 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
Gabriel PREDA wrote: I'm going to start the InnoDB engine... and I want to know if the syntax for the CNF file unified at last ? Can I use: innodb-file-per-table no instead of innodb_file_per_table ? this one (at least for 4.1.11) [This is just an example] Can I use only minus sign in the

Strange Error in MySQL

2005-05-10 Thread Asad Habib
Hello. I am receiving the following error when trying to insert into a field of type text: #1030 - Got error 139 from storage engine The data to be inserted should fit easily into a text field. In fact, this error only occurs for a particular record and other records with much larger data sets

Re: backup a database

2005-05-10 Thread David Logan
Rafael Diaz Valdes wrote: Hi, I 'm using mysqldump to backup my database, I wrote in my backup.sh the following string: $MYSQL/bin/mysqldump --opt databasename -user=root --password=rootpassword backup/mysql/databasename.sql I include backup.sh in my cron weekly (/etc/cron.weekly) but when it

Re: backup a database

2005-05-10 Thread gerald_clark
Rafael Diaz Valdes wrote: Hi, I 'm using mysqldump to backup my database, I wrote in my backup.sh the following string: $MYSQL/bin/mysqldump --opt databasename -user=root --password=rootpassword backup/mysql/databasename.sql I include backup.sh in my cron weekly (/etc/cron.weekly) but when it

RE: Strange Error in MySQL

2005-05-10 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Hello. I am receiving the following error when trying to insert into a field of type text: #1030 - Got error 139 from storage engine The data to be inserted should fit easily into a text field. In fact, this error only occurs for a particular record and other records with much larger data

Re: backup a database

2005-05-10 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
Rafael Diaz Valdes wrote: Hi, I 'm using mysqldump to backup my database, I wrote in my backup.sh the following string: $MYSQL/bin/mysqldump --opt databasename -user=root --password=rootpassword backup/mysql/databasename.sql I include backup.sh in my cron weekly (/etc/cron.weekly) but

Re: Strange Error in MySQL

2005-05-10 Thread Jigal van Hemert
#1030 - Got error 139 from storage engine The data to be inserted should fit easily into a text field. In fact, this error only occurs for a particular record and other records with much larger data sets are not throwing the same error. Has anyone experienced something similar? I checked via

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread mfatene
Hi, Have you forgotten what's a primary key ? Using order by will sort data, and if it's already sorted, it will be sorted again. Time, memory and maybe disk io. Using the marco example, i gaved a solution considering iy's what he wants. Till now i don't know if it's ok or not. if so, just add

RE: Strange Error in MySQL

2005-05-10 Thread Asad Habib
Hello. Yes, there are. In fact, other records have more data for this field in them and inserts for those records never threw an error. - Asad On Tue, 10 May 2005, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Hello. I am receiving the following error when trying to insert into a field of type text: #1030

RE: Strange Error in MySQL

2005-05-10 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Hello. Yes, there are. In fact, other records have more data for this field in them and inserts for those records never threw an error. [/snip] Is the data for the other fields larger than usual? This field may be smaller, but the cumulative row length (the combined size of every field) is

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Have you forgotten what's a primary key ? Using order by will sort data, and if it's already sorted, it will be sorted again. Time, memory and maybe disk io. If MySQL really does that, I'd consider this a bug. Using the marco

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Alec . Cawley
news [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/05/2005 15:13:49: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Have you forgotten what's a primary key ? Using order by will sort data, and if it's already sorted, it willbe sorted again. Time, memory and maybe disk io. If MySQL

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tbl1 ( id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, val INT UNSIGNED, PRIMARY KEY (id), UNIQUE KEY (val) ); INSERT INTO tbl1 (id, val) VALUES (1, 1); INSERT INTO tbl1 (id, val) VALUES (2, 2); INSERT INTO tbl1 (id, val) VALUES

Re: inserting special characters

2005-05-10 Thread Javier Ballesteros Correa
Hi, Mr. Paharenko, Here are the results: character_set_client | latin1 character_set_connection | latin1 character_set_database | latin1 character_set_results| latin1 character_set_server | latin1 character_set_system | utf8 character_sets_dir | C:\Archivos de

Re: Problem compiling mysql 4.1.11 on AIX 5.1

2005-05-10 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi Jon, all! Jon Earle wrote: Joerg Bruehe said: Still, this seems to be a problem with the header files supplied / used by gcc. Are you sure you used the fixincludes script? Hi Joerg, I tried your suggestion as per: cd /opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/3.3.2/ mv include inc cd

Re: missing library

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Bergen
you need to install your distro's ncurses and ncurses-devel packages. -Eric ganesan malairaja wrote: ok i found the source file .. tarball mysql-4.1.11.tar.gz after executing the ./configure command i does some checking the it gives this error checking for termcap functions library ... configure :

Re: missing file ( msyql.sock)

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Bergen
Keep in mind that this file will only exist when mysqld is running. Gleb Paharenko wrote: Hello. You may create my.cnf from the examples which're shipped with MySQL distribution. MySQL will create the socket file if it doesn't exists. It's location could be specified in configuration file or in

Re: MySQL on AIX 5.1

2005-05-10 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi Jon (again), all! Jon Earle wrote: Hi folks, I need to get a version of MySQL running on AIX 5.1, but I see that the only versions available are for v5.2 and v4.3.3. Yes, currently we have build machines for these two only. There are proposals to upgrade them to run AIX 5.1 and 5.3,

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Bergen
Here, off the top of my head are situations in mysql where you can trust that the data is ordered in some fasion. 1. Using an order by clause on a query. 2. Using a group by the data will come out in ascending order of the column that was grouped on. 3. alter table order by has been performed

Re: Underline or minus sign ?

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Bergen
Back in the day '_' and '-' meant different things. In recent versions of mysql they are interchangable. Philippe Poelvoorde wrote: Gabriel PREDA wrote: I'm going to start the InnoDB engine... and I want to know if the syntax for the CNF file unified at last ? Can I use:

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, your need is: select * from temp LIMIT 3,4; -- 3 because you have to take the fourth and 4 because dist=3+1 That can't work as my initial query, because I don't know the location of iTempID: 4 in the query result to find the position 4, the query is : mysql select

Field property question!

2005-05-10 Thread Matt Babineau
Can I setup a table so that no matter how data is entered into it (web form, command line) The data in one of the columns ALWAYS gets converted to uppercase? I remeber MSSQL had this feature of being able to apply a function to a field in its configuration. Thanks! Matt

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Chris
Harald Fuchs wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, your need is: select * from temp LIMIT 3,4; -- 3 because you have to take the fourth and 4 because dist=3+1 This does not make sense. A SELECT without an ORDER BY returns the rows in some undefined order. If

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread SGreen
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/10/2005 12:20:57 PM: Harald Fuchs wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, your need is: select * from temp LIMIT 3,4; -- 3 because you have to take the fourth and 4 because dist=3+1 This does not make sense. A

RE: Field property question!

2005-05-10 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Can I setup a table so that no matter how data is entered into it (web form, command line) The data in one of the columns ALWAYS gets converted to uppercase? I remeber MSSQL had this feature of being able to apply a function to a field in its configuration. [/snip] The manual, it is

Re: SELECT Row Numbers?

2005-05-10 Thread Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/10/2005 12:20:57 PM: Harald Fuchs wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, your need is: select * from temp LIMIT 3,4; -- 3 because you have to take the fourth and 4 because dist=3+1

Solution to slow queries

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Halliday
Hello, I am working on a database that deals with network statistics. I have a program that generates web reports based on this data every ten minutes. The table layout looks something like this: CREATE TABLE traffic ( unix_secs INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, dpkts INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL

Re: Solution to slow queries

2005-05-10 Thread Frank Bax
At 02:22 PM 5/10/05, Paul Halliday wrote: Now, as time progresses the queires are getting slower and slower. I know this is expected, I don't think so. I thought that if the number of rows returned does not change and an index is properly used, then query time should not change significantly

Re: Solution to slow queries

2005-05-10 Thread James Nobis
Don't forget to run an analyze to adjust the statistics for the optimizer/indexes. Also, after any updates (on dynamic tables which yours is) or any deletes run an optimize. Quoting Paul Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I am working on a database that deals with network statistics. I have a

Re: Solution to slow queries

2005-05-10 Thread John McCaskey
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 14:56 -0400, Frank Bax wrote: At 02:22 PM 5/10/05, Paul Halliday wrote: Now, as time progresses the queires are getting slower and slower. I know this is expected, I don't think so. I thought that if the number of rows returned does not change and an index is

RE: Solution to slow queries

2005-05-10 Thread TheRefUmp
I'm somewhat a newbee on this database but some observations: As your table grows (and indexes) INSERTS will definitly slow because of the indexes. Consider MySQL's version of Oracle's partitioning and using MERGE TABLES feature. Just remember that if you change 1 table, all of them have to be

Re: Solution to slow queries

2005-05-10 Thread mfatene
Hi, you have to play with explain to see which index is used in your queries. Since you defined only mono-column indexes, i think they are not used in queries with multi-criteria search. Consider adding indexes with all used columns and eventually drop the not used ones to not slow updates and

Re: Opteron HOWTO?!

2005-05-10 Thread Atle Veka
Excellent, I'll be waiting to see performance numbers, specifically for FreeBSD vs. Linux. Save for a few odd machines, we're pretty much pure FreeBSD and the last releases in the 4 branch are really impressive as far as speed and stability. That being said, the Opteron would have to offer a

Re: Solution to slow queries

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Jensen
We did something similar for our large statistic tables. The older data that no longer changes would get shipped off into a very fast read only table with a cron job and then that is the table we would generate the reports on. Even with millions of entries it is incredibly fast. Eric Jensen

Re: Opteron HOWTO?!

2005-05-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 5/9/05, Kevin Burton wrote: So... it sounds like a lot of people here (Dathan and Greg) have had problems deploying MySQL on Opteron in a production environment. To me it sounds more like a lot of people have had problems running Linux on x86-64 systems. Jochem -- MySQL General Mailing

Comparing to null queries

2005-05-10 Thread Mike Rykowski
Hello, I have a query: select * from table where del != 1; Let's assume that I have a record where del is null (del is a single character field). In version 3.23.22-beta I get the record returned with the above query, in version 4.1.10a I get nothing returned. Did something change between

Re: Comparing to null queries

2005-05-10 Thread mfatene
Hi, 'l' is neither equal to null nor different from null. you can try select ('l'!=NULL) or select ('l'=NULL). in 4.1.x you should write : select * from table where del != l' or del is null; mysql select * from tbl; +--+ | del | +--+ | NULL | | a| | b| | l| | m| | l

Re: Comparing to null queries

2005-05-10 Thread Michael Stassen
Mike Rykowski wrote: Hello, I have a query: select * from table where del != 1; Let's assume that I have a record where del is null (del is a single character field). In version 3.23.22-beta I get the record returned with the above query, in version 4.1.10a I get nothing returned. Did something

Re: Comparing to null queries

2005-05-10 Thread Peter Brawley
Mike, If 3.23.22 gave (NULL != 1) = TRUE, that was a bug, because in SQL, (NULL != 1) is NULL. This 3.23.26 change history item might be your culprit: "Fixed `' to work properly with `NULL'." PB - Mike Rykowski wrote: Hello, I have a query: select * from table where del != "1";

Re: Solution to slow queries

2005-05-10 Thread Roger Baklund
Paul Halliday wrote: srcaddr VARCHAR(15), dstaddr VARCHAR(15), Are these ip-adresses? If they are, consider using UNSIGNED INT columns and the INET_NTOA() and INET_ATON() funtions. It will save you a lot of space, thus increase the amount of data your hw can handle. I have read

Re: Field property question!

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Bergen
I think matt is thinking more automagically like having upper() called on a column on insert for him instead of putting it into every query. You can't do this yet. sorry. -Eric Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Can I setup a table so that no matter how data is entered into it (web form, command line)

RE: Field property question!

2005-05-10 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I think matt is thinking more automagically like having upper() called on a column on insert for him instead of putting it into every query. You can't do this yet. sorry. [/snip] Aha, I see. Needs a trigger or stored procedure. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

Re: Opteron HOWTO?!

2005-05-10 Thread Curtis Maurand
While you're at it, take a look at Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org). I've been having very good luck with it on everything from a Duron 1GHz to Opterons. Very responsive. It compiled a kernel on an opteron in about 5 minutes. Curtis Atle Veka wrote: Excellent, I'll be waiting to see

RE: Opteron HOWTO?!

2005-05-10 Thread Dathan Pattishall
Subject: Re: Opteron HOWTO?! On 5/9/05, Kevin Burton wrote: So... it sounds like a lot of people here (Dathan and Greg) have had problems deploying MySQL on Opteron in a production environment. To me it sounds more like a lot of people have had problems running Linux on x86-64

How to put tables on a different drive???

2005-05-10 Thread mos
I have a big whopping problem.g I have a large database that generates 25gb tables (let's call them GenTable1 to GenTableN). I'd like to put these tables on another drive because I'm running out of disk space. If I need to create another database (let's call it dbGen), so be it. (But it would

Re: Solution to slow queries

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Halliday
On 5/10/05, Roger Baklund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Halliday wrote: srcaddr VARCHAR(15), dstaddr VARCHAR(15), Are these ip-adresses? If they are, consider using UNSIGNED INT columns and the INET_NTOA() and INET_ATON() funtions. It will save you a lot of space, thus

Re: Opteron HOWTO?!

2005-05-10 Thread Greg Whalin
Care to share any secrets? You guys are running Suse w/ 2.4 kernel yes? Any specifics as far as kernel/glibc/gcc versions. Are you running mysql 4.1.*? Are you using NPTL? You using the binary from mysql, or building yourself? Are you running Innodb or Myisam. You mentioned reiserfs

repetition-operator operand invalid

2005-05-10 Thread Scott Klarenbach
I've upgraded from 5.0.2 to 5.0.3 Beta, and now there is a glitch in one of my regular expression queries. The expression works like this: a query for 'search' returns true for a matching 'search' field, but, querying 's$$#e%ar^c)(h' must also return true for a 'search' field. In other words, I

RE: How to put tables on a different drive???

2005-05-10 Thread Partha Dutta
When you create the tables, you can specify the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY clause while creating the table to specify different paths. Not sure if it works on Windows though. Should be a simple enough test -- Partha Dutta, Senior Consultant MySQL Inc, NY, USA, www.mysql.com Are you

RE: Opteron HOWTO?!

2005-05-10 Thread Dathan Pattishall
-Original Message- From: Greg Whalin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:12 PM To: Dathan Pattishall Cc: Jochem van Dieten; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Opteron HOWTO?! Care to share any secrets? You guys are running Suse w/ 2.4 kernel yes? Yes. We

RE: How to put tables on a different drive???

2005-05-10 Thread mfatene
Hi, You can create a symbolic link on windows for one specific database. i sent a thread about this. the doc is here : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/windows-symbolic-links.html Mathias Selon Partha Dutta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When you create the tables, you can specify the DATA DIRECTORY

Re: Opteron HOWTO?!

2005-05-10 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Greg Whalin wrote: Care to share any secrets? You guys are running Suse w/ 2.4 kernel yes? Any specifics as far as kernel/glibc/gcc versions. Are you running mysql 4.1.*? Are you using NPTL? You using the binary from mysql, or building yourself? Are you running Innodb or Myisam. You

1 table or 2?

2005-05-10 Thread Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem
I am trying to set up a chem structures table. column 1 is the key, column 2 is the description, column 3 is the structure which is a blob. In PHP the first 2 columns comes out as text as expected, but the 3rd I am trying to tell PHP please ignore this initially since this is a blob. Should I

mysql random function strangeness

2005-05-10 Thread Graham Anderson
I have an ORDER statement like: ORDER BY playlist.order_id ASC,RAND(playlistItems.playlist_order) I am trying to get a random result very time the query is run ... Unfortunately, this statement gives the SAME random result each time how can I get mysql to randomly jumble the playlist items for a

missing file ( msyql.sock)

2005-05-10 Thread ganesan malairaja
is it possible a firewall is denying mysql to create the mysql.sock file if not where i can get this file i cannot find it in my entire harddrive i am stuck at for days now a clear guideline will help i tried reading at the mysql.com but no help .. i am new to linux.. anyone who had this

Re: missing file ( msyql.sock)

2005-05-10 Thread Paul DuBois
At 2:27 + 5/11/05, ganesan malairaja wrote: is it possible a firewall is denying mysql to create the mysql.sock file if not where i can get this file i cannot find it in my entire harddrive It's created by the server when you start the server. It won't exist until then. i am stuck at for days

Re: missing file ( msyql.sock)

2005-05-10 Thread Curtis Maurand
the socket file is created in the spot specified in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. In my case its: socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock as always ymmv. Curtis ganesan malairaja wrote: is it possible a firewall is denying mysql to create the mysql.sock file if not where i can get this file

possible join

2005-05-10 Thread Scott Haneda
Getting a little stuck on this one: Table defs below: I have two tables, fedex_zones contains zip code to zone data, so for example, zip 94947 is in zone 8 select zone from fedex_zones where zip = '94947' 8 Now, in the defex_rates table is how, based on weight, I can look up how much it will

Re: possible join

2005-05-10 Thread Peter Brawley
Scott, ...In part, my trouble is that I need to take the resuling zone from the first select and use that to determine the field name. I can easily do this in my code in 2 selects, but was hoping to be able to get the price back in just one select, if possible... If you have control over

Re: mysql random function strangeness

2005-05-10 Thread Graham Anderson
got it to work thanks On May 10, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Graham Anderson wrote: I have an ORDER statement like: ORDER BY playlist.order_id ASC,RAND(playlistItems.playlist_order) I am trying to get a random result very time the query is run ... Unfortunately, this statement gives the SAME random

Re: possible join

2005-05-10 Thread Scott Haneda
on 5/10/05 8:29 PM, Peter Brawley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott, ...In part, my trouble is that I need to take the resuling zone from the first select and use that to determine the field name. I can easily do this in my code in 2 selects, but was hoping to be able to get the price