Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL Query doing my head in!

2008-12-24 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
A virtual beer to the man in the corner - worked a treat. Nice touch - a happy customer right before Christmas!!! Thanks Rudy, M. Quoting r937 : >> Basically the query is sound ... > > sorry, no, not quite > > here's what i saw... > >> WHERE icons.iconId = resourceTypes.resourceTypeIconId >>

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL Query doing my head in!

2008-12-24 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Looks great Rudy, I'll try it as soon as I can. Happy Christmas Everyone! M. Quoting r937 : >> Basically the query is sound ... > > sorry, no, not quite > > here's what i saw... > >> WHERE icons.iconId = resourceTypes.resourceTypeIconId >> AND resources.resourceTypeId = resourceTypes.resourceTy

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL Query doing my head in!

2008-12-24 Thread r937
Basically the query is sound ... sorry, no, not quite here's what i saw... WHERE icons.iconId = resourceTypes.resourceTypeIconId AND resources.resourceTypeId = resourceTypes.resourceTypeId AND categories.categoryId = resource2category.categoryId AND resources.resourceId = resource2category.r

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL Query doing my head in!

2008-12-23 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting r937 : > matt, did you ever get this resolved? the answer is real easy In a manner of speaking. Basically the query is sound (although if there's a better way of doing it, please let me know!) and there was an issue with the PHP loops behind printing the results. > > sorry i did no

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL Query doing my head in!

2008-12-23 Thread r937
matt, did you ever get this resolved? the answer is real easy sorry i did not reply sooner, but for some reason wdvltalk mail often ends up in my spam bucket, and i only go in there once a week (or less) just to double-check the false positives if you ever have sql problems, please feel free

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL Query doing my head in!

2008-12-18 Thread Cheryl Hewitt
I normally work in MS SQL and not MySQL so I could be wrong, but it seems that you should have some joins happening between the tables instead of having this in the Where clause: icons.iconId = resourceTypes.resourceTypeIconId AND resources.resourceTypeId = resourceTypes.resourceTypeId AND categ

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL Query doing my head in!

2008-12-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Riva Portman : > Can you post a list of the results? Not the exact results, no because it's client-confidential, however the above query effectively generates the following format: 1) Article 1 - published on 18/12/2008 by Me This article deals with waste and the legal issues that

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL Query doing my head in!

2008-12-18 Thread Riva Portman
Can you post a list of the results? Riva On 12/18/2008 8:10 AM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi All, Can someone please explain why the following query returns a number of search results for each article instead of a single copy of each article that matches? SELECT DISTINCT resources.r

[wdvltalk] MySQL Query doing my head in!

2008-12-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Hi All, Can someone please explain why the following query returns a number of search results for each article instead of a single copy of each article that matches? SELECT DISTINCT resources.resourceId, resourceTitle, extract, iconPath, iconName, resourceTypes.resourceTypeId, resources.res

Re: [wdvltalk] mysql query help needed

2008-07-15 Thread David Precious
Slow response (just got back from holiday) but might still be relevant... steve miller wrote: The problem I am having is when I try to search for a user with a string that has a ' or a " in it, because the sql throws an error. The id inserted into the query, so I end up with something like: s

[wdvltalk] mysql query help needed

2008-07-08 Thread steve miller
I am working with an existing database table that holds user information identified by strange id strings. The id strings are created by another application, so I can not change them, but I need to be able to query the table using them as reference. Each ID is a 3 character string like:

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL query takes 24 seconds!! help me! :-(

2006-10-20 Thread Tris
I shoudl really learn myself.. let me paly, and if still can;'t get it, I'll be back on Monday.. with more info... Cheers for your help though!!! On 20/10/06, r937 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried that, but it caused an error... then you added it in the wrong place, and unfortunately my

Re: [wdvltalk] MySQL query takes 24 seconds!! help me! :-(

2006-10-20 Thread Tris
how can I add a 'WHERE product.ethical = '1'? by adding it after the FROM clause, just before the ORDER BY clause I tried that, but it caused an error... Here's my query: SELECT distinct products.id, try it without DISTINCT Cause duplicated galore! inner join categories as child o

[wdvltalk] MySQL query takes 24 seconds!! help me! :-(

2006-10-20 Thread Tris
Finally... How can I filter on products... (there's a 1/0 field in the products table, that flags if the product is ethically made.) how can I add a 'WHERE product.ethical = '1'? I tried just before the first inner join, but I got an error... Here's my query: SELECT distinct pro

Re: [wdvltalk] Mysql Query help!

2006-10-10 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting r937 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm building a shop for a client. this would be a good time to change the table design;o) never put a comma-delimited string of ids into a single field you need another table, ProductCategories, to contain two columns, productid and categoryid the reaso

Re: [wdvltalk] Mysql Query help!

2006-10-10 Thread r937
I'm building a shop for a client. this would be a good time to change the table design;o) never put a comma-delimited string of ids into a single field you need another table, ProductCategories, to contain two columns, productid and categoryid the reason? because sql like this... W

[wdvltalk] Mysql Query help!

2006-10-10 Thread Tris
Hi all... I've not been here for AGES... but I hope many of you trusted clever people are still out there... I need help! ;-p I'm building a shop for a client. I've got 3 tables I'm trying to talk to. products stock categories - Each product can be flagged with any numebr of cateogories using

[wdvltalk] mysql query

2004-04-07 Thread Anitha Paruchuri
Hi, I am trying to get records from a database within a date range something like 1834-1835. I have written a simple query like "Select * from db where date between 1834 and 1835;" But, the problem is that the date field is not consistent in the database, the records have dates like April 5, 18