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counting rows that date hasn't yet passed

I am trying to count the number of rows whose date has not yet passed so i can get only the current records I get an error sayng MySQL error #111 Invalid use of group function SELECT COUNT(festivalid) FROM festivals WHERE min(datefrom) > now() ...

MySQL: How can I select only the last update for each user?

Say I have a 'user_log' table with the following field: id user_id status_text timestamp How do I write a query that selects only the last update for all the users in that table? Appreciate your help :) ...

PHP submit problem

I'm trying to check if the username is available and display it for the user to see when they check there account settings, which I have done. BUT when the user tries to fill out another field I get the Your username is unavailable! which should not pop up because its the users username already. I want to know how can I fix this proble...

MySQL Triggers to Disable A User Account

I am trying to create a MySQL Trigger to disable someone's account if they have logged in to the site 3 times. I have tried to create this trigger using the following code, but it is not setting is_active to 0 no matter what times_logged_in is. Any help would be appreciated. CREATE TRIGGER updateTrigger AFTER UPDATE ON users FOR EACH ...

MySQL LEFT JOIN issue with three WHERE statements

I am building a note taking app for myself with tag filtering functions, but am having an issue when trying to grab notes with the tags. The tag filter needs to use AND not IN, because it will help better narrow down what I am looking for. My tables are configured like this: + notes note_id | note_title | note_uid + tags...

Hibernate sending superfluous queries to the database.

I have an odd problem where Hibernate is running more queries than I've asked for, and can't see the need for. Here is my controller: @Autowired UserService users; @RequestMapping("/test") @ResponseBody public String test() { User user = users.findUser(1L); return "Found user: "+user.getEmail(); } Here is the UserService: @...

multi word query in mysql

Hi there , in order to make things easier for users i want to add multiple keyword search to my site. so that in the input the user would do something like : " keyword1 keyword 2" ( similar to google for example. would i need to write a code that would parse that string and do queries based on that or is there something built in mysql th...

mysql index optimization for a table with multiple indexes that index some of the same columns

I have a table that stores some basic data about visitor sessions on third party web sites. This is its structure: id, site_id, unixtime, unixtime_last, ip_address, uid There are four indexes: id, site_id/unixtime, site_id/ip_address, and site_id/uid There are many different types of ways that we query this table, and all of them are...

Why isn't this simple MySQL statement working?

I am trying to match a user inputted search term against two tables: posts and galleries. The problem is the union all clause isn't working. Is there something wrong with my code? $query = mysql_query(" SELECT * FROM posts WHERE title LIKE '%$searchTerm%' OR author LIKE '%$searchTerm%' OR location LIKE '%$searchTerm...

Retrieve sequence of data from different columns.

Let's say I have a table containing following data: | id | t0 | t1 | t2 | ______________________ | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 5 | 14 | 5 | 49 | I want to retrieve all the rows containing 4, 5, 6 (regardless the position of numbers in the tables), so row 1 & row 3 will be s...

How do I modify an attribute across all rows in a table?

Hi folks, My apologies for asking such a novice question but, I need help building a script using either PHP or directly in MySQL that can do the following: Take the values of a column in a table (text) Change them into capitalized words (from "this is a title" to "This Is A Title") Replace the old values (uncapitalized) with the new ...

How to get structed result using nested set in MySQL and PHP?

There is no limitation on the depth. How to get the structed branch or even entire tree? The definition is from here: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/hierarchical-data.html ...

Access 2nd MySQL db in PHP without mysql_select_db()

If I select a db db1 with mysql_select_db() is it possible to access another db db2 in a query? I am looking for something like SELECT * FROMdb2.sometableWHERE 1 ...

Stuck on the logic of creating tags for posts (like SO tags) (PHP)

I am stuck on how to create tags for each post on my site. I am not sure how to add the tags into database. Currently... I have 3 tables: +---------------------+ +--------------------+ +---------------------+ | Tags | | Posting | | PostingTags | +---------------------+ +------------------...

MySQL, undo drop database

Hi guys. I've accidentally dropped a database inside my server . I have no backup of it and binary logs are not enabled (shame on me!) ... Is there any way to restore that db? ...

MySQL get content from web page (or other network resource)

Is it possible to open a curl like object in MySQL? What I would like to do is create procedure which would check to see if a certain value is returned from a specific URL like http://example.com/inschedule?id=200&time=20m. The returned result would be a simple string like 1 or 0. I know it is better to have a script do this by pu...

Using Active Objects and BLOBs

I am in a group of people who are creating a Defect Tracking program as a project. We have been using Active Objects and have run into some issues. Currently maximum file size for the blob is approx. 2Mb but we want to be able to increase it up to 2Gb. We currently have been looking at many sites and have not been able to find out how...

Is it necessary to use mysql_real_escape_string(), when magic_quotes_gpc is on?

To prevent SQL injection, is it necessary to use mysql_real_escape_string(), when magic_quotes_gpc is on? ...

mySQL Query JOIN in same table

Table structure goes something like this: Table: Purchasers Columns: id | organization | city | state Table: Events Columns: id | purchaser_id My query: SELECT purchasers.*, events.id AS event_id FROM purchasers INNER JOIN events ON events.purchaser_id = purchasers.id WHERE purchasers.id = '$id' What I would like to do, is obvio...

inserting date timestamp value to mysql thru php in godaddy hosting site

Hi all, I'm using GoDaddy's Shared Linux hosting. Using php i am inserting or updating the mysql database with create date or modified date using the variables $datestring = "%Y:%m:%d %h:%i:%s"; $time = time(); $createdate= mdate($datestring, $time); In this $createdate will be the variable i use to insert or update t...