Re: Naming columns dynamically

2004-11-16 Thread Mauricio Pellegrini
about it. (I'd be interested too, just for curiousity's sake.) > > Rhino > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Gleb Paharenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >

Re: Naming columns dynamically

2004-11-16 Thread Rhino
he would love to hear about it. (I'd be interested too, just for curiousity's sake.) Rhino - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Gleb Paharenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MySql List"

Re: Naming columns dynamically

2004-11-16 Thread SGreen
If what you are looking for is a way to say: SET @columnName='mycolumn'; SELECT @columnName FROM mytable; and have it be interpreted as the same query as: SELECT mycolumn FROM mytable; Then you are out of luck. However, nothing says you can't build a SQL statement in your application dynamica

Re: Naming columns dynamically

2004-11-16 Thread Mauricio Pellegrini
Thanks Gleb, but I cant use that because the query is run directly from within an aplication. Of course there're should other ways to do that but I want to know if it is posible from within MySql 4.1 gamma. If someone does know the answer to this question please let me know Just in case someone

Re: Naming columns dynamically

2004-11-16 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello, Mauricio. I've found something in comments at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Problems_with_alias.html But I don't know if that will help you. Here it is: "Posted by Ravi Kumar on November 10 2004 9:21am The above tip can be extended to have variables in column names.

Naming columns dynamically

2004-11-15 Thread Mauricio Pellegrini
Hi , I need to do the following: Given a certain variable for example @var I want to include the contents of that variable as part of the name of a result column. I'll try to explain myself a bit more with this example Set @var = 'October_' ; Select Tot as 'Total