I am going to answer my own question because I just found the answer, but thought it still worth posting here.
I am looking for a way to concatenate the strings of a field within a group by query. So for example, I have a table:
ID COMPANY_ID EMPLOYEE
1 1 Anna
2 1 Bill
3 2 Carol
4 2 ...
I have a mysql table with albums. Each album can be a top level album, or a child album of another album. Each album has a foldername which is the name of the folder its pictures are in. Each album also has a field called parent which is the id of the parent album. So, if I have a path to an image like this:
root/album1/album2/image1.jp...
Hey..
I'm trying to concatenate 3 [char(32)] fields:title1title2title3
into one field, but the catch is that I'm using an older version of SQL and it DOES NOT support the CONCAT() subroutine or the + operatorfor example:CONCAT(title1, title2, title3)(title1 + title2 + title3)
DON'T WORK!!!!Is there another way?
...
The SQL...
UPDATE Threads t
SET t.Content = (
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(a.Content ORDER BY a.PageID SEPARATOR '<!-- pagebreak -->')
FROM MSarticlepages a
WHERE a.ArticleID = t.MSthreadID GROUP BY a.ArticleID
)
As you can see it takes all of an article's pages (which are each
stored as longtext in separate rows) and GROUP_CONCA...
Hi guys,
I am using MySQL. I want to insert some records in a table provided that they do not
exist in another table. So I want to perform something like this:
INSERT INTO sales (name, id)
SELECT name, id FROM sales_h
WHERE name AND id NOT IN (SELECT name, id FROM T_sales);
The problem is that MySQL does not allow this kind of synta...
Hi All,
I am trying to create a table though prepare statement but it is giving me syntax error. well if o try to execute the same statement individually then it work fine.
here's my statement -
SET @Stmt1 = Concat('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ',DB,'.`county`;\n'
'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ',DB,'.`County`
(
`CountyID` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL...
I would like to concatenate column names in a way that the first part of the column name is a string and the second part is a number which is the result of another query.
For example:
SELECT CONCAT('column', mytable.mycolumn) FROM table ...
Can this be done in some way. This way it doesn't give me errors but I don't get the expected ...
Hello, I'm trying to format the file name for outfile using row data.
I've tried the following with no success:
SELECT t1.field1
FROM table1 t1
LIMIT 1
INTO OUTFILE CONCAT( '/my_path/', t1.field2, '.txt' );
Can anyone recommend alternatives?
Thanks
...
I don't care about the order of the elements.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.linq.enumerable.union.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb302894.aspx
...
I tried to concatenate 2 MP3 files using the code below. I got a new file which I can play the first half of (complete first file), but the second half is silent. The length of the new file was correct. What do I do wrong?
List<Byte[]> files = new List<byte[]>();
var tempfile = File.ReadAllBytes(Path.Combine(path, "1.mp3"));
files.Add(t...
which is ironic on two counts, 1) because concat(charfield, doublefield) works (it doesn't mind when one of the fields to be concatenated is numeric) and 2) because the mysql reference shows this: CONCAT(str1,str2,...) as the prototype for CONCAT and for FORMAT this: "FORMAT(X,D) Formats the number X to a format like '#,###,###.##', rou...
How can I select and concat every field in a row?
I want to do something similar to this:
SELECT concat(SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(COLUMN_NAME)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE table_name = 'tbl_name')
as single FROM tbl_name
..but obviously the above doesn't work. Any suggestions?
...
Consider this:
[ ["a", "b"], ["c", "d"], ["e"] ]
How can this be tranformed to:
[ "a c e", "a d e", "b c e", "b d e" ]
...
I have a temporary table with a field called Method, thus:
DECLARE @CaseSites TABLE (
BriefID int,
Method varchar(60)
-- other fields
)
Method will be filled from several rows in another table - CaseEventTypeList.
Running
SELECT * FROM CaseEventTypeList WHERE RefID = 1
Gives
RefID TypeID
1 2
1 3
1 6
Turning this into a ...
Or a better way than this?
String concat(String[] strings) {
StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
for(String next: strings) {
out.append(next);
}
return out.toString();
}
No worries if no, I just feel like there should be a built in?
...
How to Concat two column in a select statement sql server 2005?
Here is my statement Select FirstName,secondName from Table...
Now i did try concating secondName with FirstName by using
Select FirstName + ' ' + secondName from Table
But some values are NULL in secondName column for some records.. My select statement
returns NULL i...
I am trying to create an ANT build script which will detect which files were changed during the development (by diff SVN command) and output the list of files which are built from these changed files.
I would like to check all the Concat tasks within the build file and compare the filelists within them with the diff changed files list c...
$contents = "<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<authed>1</authed>
<book>read</book>";
im having a xml string like this
i want to add all the elements inside root tag
like this
$contents = "<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<root>
<authed>1</authed>
<book>read</book>
</root>";
...
As I know that C++ only allows to add 2 strings together, i.e:
s = s1 + s2
But I want to be able to add many strings together like:
s = s1 + s2 + s3 + s4 + .... + sn
How could I solve this problem? Can anybody help?
Thanks.
...
Hello,
I have the following query where I combine two fields from two tables:
<cfquery name="SearchResult" datasource="MyDSN">
SELECT CONCAT(titles.TitleName, ', ', platforms.PlatformAbbreviation) AS Result
FROM
games
Inner Join platforms ON games.PlatformID = platforms.PlatformID
...