Re: query for room reservations question

2004-07-29 Thread SGreen
When it comes to JOINS, there are 3 flavors in MySQL: LEFT, RIGHT, and INNER. This is an example of how to join two tables a and b: SELECT (some columns) FROM a XXX JOIN b ON (some logical comparison) WHERE (some overall condition) Behind the scenes, the data engine creates a virtual table tha

Re: query for room reservations question

2004-07-29 Thread Giulio
Brilliant ! thank you so much! only one more question: INNER JOIN is not a good choose because it lists only the record with a matching ON clause, and this is the only difference between LEFT and INNER, correct? thanks again, Giulio Il giorno 29/lug/04, alle 16:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scr

Re: query for room reservations question

2004-07-29 Thread SGreen
Assume you want to check the availability of a room between two dates. You only want to get the rooms that are available for the entire time from @startdate to @enddate set @startdate='some_start_date', @enddate='some_end_date' SELECT r.room_number, r.room_type FROM rooms r LEFT JOIN reservatio