How would I create a nested list, I currently have this public function getNav($cat,$subcat){ //gets all sub categories for a specific category if(!$this->checkValue($cat)) return false; //checks data $query = false; if($cat=='NULL'){ $sql = "SELECT itemID, title, parent, url, description, image ...
Hi, I have this sample table: CREATE TABLE `dummy` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `userId` int(11) NOT NULL, `pet` varchar(50) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=7 ; INSERT INTO `dummy` (`id`, `userId`, `pet`) VALUES(1, 1, 'dog'); INSERT INTO `dummy` (`id`, `userId`, `...
I have a query that makes several calls within a SELECT statement to a user-defined function. The function (vfget) returns the value back from key=value pairs contained within a string. Is it possible for the query to just call the function once and store this in a variable so that it can be reused within the same query? Currently my q...
Hi everyone We have an order book and invoicing system and I've been tasked with trying to output monthly rolling totals from these tables. But I don't know really where to start with this. I think there's some SQL syntax that I don't even know about yet. I'm familiar with INNER/LEFT/JOINS and GROUP BY etc but grouping by date is confus...
I have Table: ARTICLES ID | CONTENT --------------- 1 | the quick 2 | brown fox 3 | jumps over 4 | the lazy Table: WRITERS ID | NAME ---------- 1 | paul 2 | mike 3 | andy Table: ARTICLES_TO_WRITERS ARTICLE_ID | WRITER_ID ----------------------- 1 | 1 2 | 2 3 | 3 To summarize, article 4 has no w...
How can i concate this string in mysql desc=desc+$desct what i want is each time i insert a variable from PHP that the string is added to the string which was already in db and seperated with || the field desc should look like this desc 10||30||90||710 say i want to add the value 20 desc 10||30||90||710||20 then the desc fiel...
Right now I am using something like this to delete duplicates in mysql table : delete t2 from my_table1 as t1, my_table1 as t2 where t1.TestCase = t2.TestCase and t2.id > t1.id; say I have a structure like this : ID TestCAse Result 1 T1 PASS 2 T2 FAIL 3 T3 FAIL 4 T3 PASS now, in the above case T3 ...
I'm lead to understand that the following grants all proveleges to all databases that name begin with 'xian_', but mysql complains about a syntax error near ''xian_... GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 'xian_%.*' TO xian@'192.168.1.%'; What is the correct syntax? Am I right in thinking that the _ needs escaping to \_ too as it is also a wildcard...
I need to search on two fields using LIKE function and should match also in reverse order. My table uses InnoDB which dont have Full text search. Consider the following case: I have users table with first_name and last_name column. On it, there is a row with the following value: { first_name: 'Ludwig', last_name: 'van Beethove...
I've heard that mysql queries are very expensive, and that you should avoid at all costs making too many of them. I'm developing a site that will be used by quite a few people, and I'm wondering: How expensive are mysql queries actually? If I have 400,000 people in my database, how expensive is it to query it for one of them? How clos...
Hi, In mysql i m selecting from a table shouts having a foreign key to another table named "roleuser" with the matching column as user_id Now the user_id column in the shouts table for some rows is null (not actually null but with no inserts in mysql) How to show all the rows of the shouts table either with user_id null or not I m ...
I have a query that is looking at a 'page_views' table. And I so far have the ability to get the total views by day. However, I am having an issue with getting unique views by day. The column I am testing against is user_id... Here's the query I have for total views. SELECT site_id, CONCAT( month(created_at) , '-' ...
Hi, I'm Running Mysql on ubuntu 9.10, the process of Mysql is running as root, I'm using root account when logging to Mysql, which I gave all privileges, I'm using my own db(not mysql), I can create a table, but when i try to create Temporary table i get this error: ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can't create table 'tmp' (errno: 13) For this qu...
EDIT: This question is about finding definitive reference to MySQL syntax on SELECT modifying keywords and functions. /EDIT AFAIK SQL defines two uses of DISTINCT keywords - SELECT DISTINCT field... and SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT field) ... However in one of web applications that I administer I've noticed performance issues on queries like ...
I have to create an SQL Query to get all rows starting with a specific character, except if the parameter passed to the (PHP) function is 0, in that case it should get every row that does not start with A - Z (like #0-9.,$ etc). What is the easiest and fastest way to get those rows? DB: MySQL 5.1 Column: title ...
Hi I have multiple columns in a mySQL table. Three of the columns are named i100s, i60s and i25s and what I want to do is get the sum of all three entries . currently I have this code '$query= "SELECT SUM(i100s),SUM(i60s),SUM(i25s) AS tkit FROM event WHERE acc='100' " ; $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); $r...
I am trying to output results of 2 sql queries to one JSON file. The problem is that I would like to order them ascending by distance which is the result of equation that takes homelat and homelon from the users table and lat, lng from locations table.(basically it takes lattitude and longitude of one point and another and computes the d...
I've got MySQL table CREATE TABLE cms_webstat ( ID int NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY, TIMESTAMP_X timestamp DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, # ... some other fields ... ) which contains statistics about site visitors. For getting visits per hour I use SELECT hour(TIMESTAMP_X) as HOUR , count(*) AS HOUR_STAT FROM c...
I'm not sure if this is possible in one mysql query so I might just combine the results via php. I have 2 tables: 'users' and 'billing' I'm trying to group summed activity for every date that is available in these two tables. 'users' is not historical data but 'billing' contains a record for each transaction. In this example I am sho...
Hi I have a field in mySql table called jobnumber which auto increments with each new entry. What I want to do is when a user views my form, get the value of the next 'jobnumber' . But I want to do this before any entry is made to the table. IE so when a user looks at a form it will display something like 'this is job number 6954' I ha...