COLLATION equivalents

2004-02-27 Thread Scott Turnbull
I am running MySQL server 4.0.16 with MyISAM tables an a UTF-8 Default character encoding in the tables. Is it possible to make it so when a user enters a query using American English characters that they will equate to similar European (and other characters). So if they were to type a 'u' fo

WHERE with CASE colums?

2003-12-04 Thread Scott Turnbull
I have a table called 'Journal_Info' containing titles of various journals When searching and listing them I want to remove any preceeding 'The ', 'An ', or 'A ' that occurs in the title and I also want to be able to search it. The case statement as follows seems to work fine: SELECT CASE WH

Faster Query Method?

2003-10-22 Thread Scott Turnbull
I'm having tremendous problems with a query and I was hoping someone could point out where (if) I'm going wrong. Using MySQL 4.0.15 on a LINUX box. Basically I have a database that lists a large number of web links cataloged by subject. The first table (records) contains all the link informat