Re: how to solve NOT problem?

2001-09-15 Thread Lezz Giles
I think your confusion stems from the fact that a AND b NOT c is not a valid boolean expression. You probably mean to say a AND b AND NOT c Lezz Giles - Original Message - From: "Libor Matyáš" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday

Re: surely an easy quick one

2001-09-14 Thread Lezz Giles
r hand, I think if you have a recent MySQL (I don't, so I can't test this) you can say... SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT name) FROM table... HTH Lezz Giles - Original Message - From: "Jamie Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lezz Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: surely an easy quick one

2001-09-14 Thread Lezz Giles
I haven't tested this; I'm not an SQL guru. I just like a challenge :-) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table WHERE team = "support" GROUP BY name; Lezz Giles - Original Message - From: "Jamie Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: MySQL and Perl

2001-09-11 Thread Lezz Giles
t PHP only supports a limited number of database engines. Lezz Giles - Original Message - From: "Nilesh Parmar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:13 PM Subject: MySQL and Perl > Hi > I just wanted to know how well

Re: weird error that I have not encountered in 2 years

2001-08-31 Thread Lezz Giles
is a text file, use an editor to look at the contents of the file. You'll almost certainly find that it contains SQL commands instead of being the executable image that it should be. HTH Lezz Giles - Original Message - From: "christopher sagayam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Borland MySQL client

2001-08-06 Thread Lezz Giles
read up as much as you can on EXPLAIN, and you should use EXPLAIN on any SELECT that might end up being really big. HTH, Lezz Giles "Frederick L. Steinkopf" wrote: > I can't comment on whatever Borland client you're talking about but MySQL > supports multiple table joi

Cannot change column type from varchar(32) to char(32)

2001-08-01 Thread Lezz Giles
ybody shed any light on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Lezz Giles -- Leslie Giles Software Release Manager Avici Systems Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 978.964.2030 Fax: 978.964.2100