Re: Problem with 'OR' statement

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Fuller
Jess, You should use an AND () instead of the OR. You result is everything, correct? When the query is doing the machinename != 'FIND_ME', the record(s) with machinename = 'OPEN' are being returned. Likewise, when the machinename != 'OPEN' is being performed, the records(s) with machinename =

Re: When does using multiple databases make sense?

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Fuller
Sorry Robert, didn't mean to send to only you. We're developing a management program that can manage several jobs that a construction company is working on. We have a separate database for each job that is installed in the program. This eliminates the need to keep an extra field in each table

Re: Problem while installing MySQL, etc.

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Fuller
Sharma and Terry, I believe MySQL only supplies setup.exe files with the versions that have production status. However, if you download the appropriate .zip file from the website, then that will contain all the files that you need. Simply extract it to the default location (C:\mysql in Windows

Re: IDENTITY column

2003-12-23 Thread Matt Fuller
Hi, I think what you need is an auto increment (primary key) column. When a record is inserted, it will automatically generate the next number in the sequence. Being a primary key, the column must be unique (i.e no two rows can be the same), so you can identify a specify record in the table.