Re: [SQL] DELETE with JOIN

2008-08-07 Thread felix
. Thanks for the helpful responses. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Ferma

Re: [SQL] DELETE with JOIN

2008-08-07 Thread felix
to do this on several databases and am trying to avoid custom SQL for each one. I would much rather this were postgresql only, but it's not. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SQL] DELETE with JOIN

2008-08-07 Thread felix
orked on some cases, but others with "too much" data died with the complaint after thinking about it for a minute or so. Since the test data will only grow in size, I was hoping for some other way. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch:

Re: [SQL] DELETE with JOIN

2008-08-07 Thread felix
by using bogus country names, but that's only indirect. To add a column to every concerned table would be a pain for other reasons. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG

Re: [SQL] DELETE with JOIN

2008-08-07 Thread felix
e same limitation as DELETE. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [SQL] DELETE with JOIN

2008-08-07 Thread felix
s to not be a universally recognized operator. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I

Re: [SQL] DELETE with JOIN

2008-08-07 Thread felix
it will help here. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem

[SQL] DELETE with JOIN

2008-08-07 Thread felix
starting over again. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I se

Re: [SQL] Delete with foreign keys

2008-02-22 Thread felix
nk too :-) -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I&

[SQL] Delete with foreign keys

2008-02-22 Thread felix
. I also wonder about getting fancy and ending up with SQL specific to a database; I don't have any plans to migrate, but I try to avoid branding my SQL. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [E

Re: [SQL] [NOVICE] [GENERAL] How to split a table?

2006-10-17 Thread Felix Zhang
to do some statistics analysis. 2006/10/17, Andreas Kretschmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Felix Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi,>> I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60% records> which are randomly selected from the source table.> How to

[SQL] Any documatation about porting from Oracle to PostgreSQL

2006-10-17 Thread Felix Zhang
Hi all,   I'm a newbie of PostgreSQL. I'm searching materials about porting from Oracle to PostgreSQL. Anyone can share with me some good documatations?   Thanks and regards, Felix

[SQL] How to split a table?

2006-10-17 Thread Felix Zhang
Hi,   I want to split a table to 2 small tables. The 1st one contains 60% records which are randomly selected from the source table. How to do it?   Regards, Felix

Re: [SQL] Turning column into *sorted* array?

2005-05-18 Thread Felix E. Klee
ray also has a function for sorting integer arrays... No, unfortunately I'm using strings in "real-life" (my example is perhaps a bit over-simplified). Let me make my original question a bit more precise: How do I best transform a column of varchars int

[SQL] Turning column into *sorted* array?

2005-05-18 Thread Felix E. Klee
s "come in" from the rows. But that'd probably take me some time to get right. -- Felix E. Klee ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]