Re: Simple Question: MySQL and Shell Scripts

2003-06-24 Thread Fred Whipple
Joseph Bueno wrote: Zach wrote: I am writing a shell script using Born Shell. I am trying to get the result of a SQL statement into a variable. For example: /usr/bin/mysql -uroot -prootpass BOB << EOF SELECT * FROM Bobstable WHERE Name=1 EOF How do I get the result into a variable? But this is mor

Re: again with SELECT

2003-06-12 Thread Fred Whipple
Ah, I see what you mean, I misunderstood before. In this case, I would tend to reevaluate my table structure since you're inherently giving a key (colorID) more than one possible value (1 or 2) at the same time. There could be something you could do with DISTINCT but I can't think exactly how

Re: again with SELECT

2003-06-12 Thread Fred Whipple
danchik wrote: coming back to my earlier question but much more simplified portion of it :) I the following table : theTable --- ID | int (key) colorID | int itemID | int --- how do I select all itemIDs that have colorID = 1