simple (I thought) delete question

2002-12-31 Thread Richard Forgo
Hi folks, I hope that dumb questions are allowed in here ... I have two MySQL tables and I would like to delete records from one based on associated values in another. For example, using the example tables below, how would I delete all the records in the TIDS table that had an associative value

case expression

2003-02-24 Thread Richard Forgo
Hello all ... be gentle, I'm new at this: I've got a simple case query. One works (the top one), but when I try to add additional columns to the query it fails. I reckon it's a pretty simple mistake I'm making, but I don't know what. Any help is appreciated. ---

RE: case expression

2003-02-24 Thread Richard Forgo
e- > From: Jon Wagoner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:34 PM > To: Richard Forgo; MySQL Mailing List > Subject: RE: case expression > > Put the other fields after the CASE statement: > > SELECT > CASE > WHEN CHARACTER_LENGT

RE: case expression

2003-02-24 Thread Richard Forgo
1 PM > To: Richard Forgo; MySQL Mailing List > Subject: RE: case expression > > Consider the CASE statement to be a function, that can only return values. > Aliases would go outside the CASE STATEMENT, as follows: > > SELECT > CASE > WHEN CHARACTER_LENGTH(system)

RE: Impact of Free ORACLE

2002-03-25 Thread Richard Forgo
Did Big Larry go open source? This is news to me. If you have more details, please provide the list a link to share that info. Rik Forgo JIST3 Army Test & Training Investment Conference (ATTIC) Diverse Technologies Corp. (c) 410.852.7420 (h) 410.859.8474 -Original Message- From: MadProf

RE: a newserver would be better than this mailing list

2002-07-30 Thread Richard Forgo
I'll try not to extend this thread any more than it needs (it's gone pretty far now). If you want to view the list via Usenet newsgroup, just do it. It's been available on my service provider for several months at mailing.database.mysql. If you prefer via email, fine. Rik Forgo JIST3 Army Test

Newbie: Intersecting entities

2002-11-06 Thread Richard Forgo
I'm trying to find some documentation on creating intersecting entities in MySQL, but haven't been able to track any info down on the MySQL site or on the web. At least we called them intersecting entities while I was in Oracle training (which was some time ago). I think I remember how to set the

RE: Newbie: Intersecting entities

2002-11-06 Thread Richard Forgo
JIST3 Army Test, Training and Technology Integration Office (T3I) Diverse Technologies Corp. (c) 443.463.8571 (h) 410.859.8474 > -Original Message- > From: John Ragan [mailto:jragan@;arkansas.net] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Richard Forgo &g

RE: Newbie: Intersecting entities

2002-11-07 Thread Richard Forgo
Corp. (c) 443.463.8571 (h) 410.859.8474 > -Original Message- > From: John Ragan [mailto:jragan@;arkansas.net] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Richard Forgo > Subject: RE: Newbie: Intersecting entities > > > aha! sure. you w