Re: newbie - questions about timestamp(14)

2001-10-18 Thread p.whiter
Thanks, the query is now working, butit is not producing the required results. I have now tried many different methods, it does not seem to me to be possible to compare these times!! Thanks anyway Paul - Original Message - From: "Torgil Zechel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Large Memo Type Field

2001-10-18 Thread p.whiter
Make it a text column, this has an allowable length of 0-65535 .. HTH Paul - Original Message - From: "Purcell, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:12 PM Subject: Large Memo Type Field : Hello, : I am working on a school project and

Re: newbie - questions about timestamp(14)

2001-10-18 Thread p.whiter
Thanks for your reply, I have tried using the query as you suggest, see below: SELECT user_ip IF(TIME_TO_SEC(NOW()) - TIME_TO_SEC(log_time) < 300, 'true', 'false') FROM clinic_log But this just gives me an error, ie the query won't run? Does the query seem to be right? Thanks again Paul -

newbie - questions about timestamp(14)

2001-10-18 Thread p.whiter
Hi all I'm having a problem getting a query to work where I want to compare the current_timestamp to the logged timestamp, and return false if less than 300 seconds, can you tell me if it is possible to have the current timestamp returned as part of a query, so as I can then do my calculations in