How do I write the following in MYSQL? SELECT SUBSTRING(value - (1 TRAILING CHARACTER)) FROM table; Basically substring(value, 2) trims the first letters. But I need to trim the last letters. I can't use substring(value, -4, 3) because I don't know the length of the value. Here's another example: SELECT * FROM table WHERE SUBSTRING(va...
Hey all i am in need of a little help with figuring out how to get a range of days for my select query. Here is the code i am trying out: select id, idNumber, theDateStart, theDateEnd from clients WHERE idNumber = '010203' AND theDateStart >= '2010-04-09' AND theDateEnd <= '2010-04-09'; This is what the data in the table looks li...
Hey guys I have been thinking about form security a lot lately. I have been told time and time again to check if form input is a number if you are expecting a number or escape it in case (unless you use proper mysqli formatting) to avoid injection. 1.After the safety checks are done, should I do additional logic checks? For example, if ...
I want to write a Mysql statement that selects all from a table(posting) where title is like $title except for the title of $title. Basically I want to display all related posting of a certain posting. I want the query to select all the postings in the table that has the title name in the title OR detail. But I don't want the posting to ...
Please explain me Joins in simple language? please do not post the weblink as i need how a developer gets it not how the author.. pls understand :) ...
I created some tables using MySQL Workbench, and then did forward ‘forward engineer’ to create scripts to create these tables. BUT, the scripts lead me to a number of problems. One of which involves the foreign keys. So I tried creating separate foreign key additions using alter table and I am still getting problems. The code is below (t...
Hello, $sql_where = ''; $exclude = '30,35,36,122,123,124,125'; if($exclude != '') { $exclude_forums = explode(',', $exclude); foreach ($exclude_forums as $id) { if ($id > 0) { $sql_where = ' AND forum_id <> ' . trim($id); } } } $sql = 'SELECT topic_title, forum_id, top...
Hello I am trying to setup a Padrino project using DataMapper and MySQL on my Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I have the necessary gems: dm-core data_objects do_mysql mysql (linked to my original Mac OSX installation) But when I try to start the padrino with PADRINO START from the console, I get the following error: /Users/ivolution/.bundle/rub...
Hi Guys, My insert and update pages (through my admin forlder) into mysql stopped working. When I try to insert/update details it stays on the same page without adding or updating anything into the database table. I really don't know what happened and don't know where start looking. I didn't make any change to the pages whatsoever. Is...
My query string is like: SELECT ... FROM maintable LEFT JOIN table1 on (maintable.id = table1.idx) LEFT JOIN table2 on (table1.idy = table2.idy) LEFT JOIN table3 on (table2.idz = table3.idz) WHERE (condition1 OR condition2 OR condition3) AND maintable.status = static //condition1 & condition2 & condition3 are kind of table3.idz = 101, ...
Hi, I am working on a project involving insertion a lot of data in to the database. I am wondering if anybody knows how to fill 2 or 3 tables in the database at the same time.An example or psueodecode would be helpful. Thanks ...
How do I automatically interrupting long queries in the mysql, if it possible? I'm understand, that I need optimize queries instead of. But now I have access on database server only. ...
I've spent a whole day on this already without figuring it out. I'm hoping somebody can help me translate the following MySQL query to work for SQL Server 2005: SELECT MAX ( messages.date ) AS maxdate, topics.id AS topicid, topics.*, users.* FROM messages, topics, users WHERE messages.topic_id = topics.id AND topics.user_id = user...
Hi, Once I have successfully connected to the database, i have a line that must insert values. mysqli_query($edb, "INSERT INTO elvis_table (name,email) VALUES ('$name','$email')" ) or die('Error querying database.'); It works fine on my computer ( xampp ), but once I upload it onto a server, it starts giving an error. Yes, I have a d...
I have been given the task of devising a custom forms manager that has a mysql backend. The problem I have now encountered after setting up all the front end, is how to process a form that is dynamic. For E.G Form one could contain 6 fields all with different name attributes in the input tag. Form two could contain 20 fields all with ...
I want to copy all the tables, fields, and data from my local server mysql to my hosting sites mysql. Is there a way to copy all the data? (It's only 26kb, very small) ...
Most of my experience with Django thus far has been with MySQL and mysqldb. For a new app I'm writing, I'm dipping my toe in the PostgreSQL water, now that I have seen the light. While writing a data import script, I stumbled upon an issue with the default autocommit behavior. I would guess there are other "gotchas" that might crop up...
Is there a way to use the HAVING clause in some other way without using group by. I am using rails and following is a sample sccenario of the problem that i am facing. In rails you can use the Model.find(:all,:select,conditions,:group) function to get data. In this query i can specify a having clause in the :group param. But what if i d...
Hey guys quick question, I currently have an insert statement $query= "INSERT into new_mail VALUES ('$to1', '0')"; where fields are username, and message_number Currently what I would do to check if the entry exists, is do a select query then check the number of rows with mysql_num_rows (php). If rows==1 then I get the current message_nu...