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I have to update all UA-fields in the table idrz_kennzahl with primary
key idrz, where the same idrz in the table per_verwaltung with the
field Amt=12 is.

I designed following statement but it doesn't work:

update idrz_kennzahl
set UA=1234
where
idrz_kennzahl.idrz =
(SELECT per_verwaltung.idrz from per_verwaltung where
per_verwaltung.Amt=12

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I have an array of ids formatted like 1,2,3,4,5

I have a table where there is a field that selects maybe a few of those ids, and is formatted like this: 1,3,5

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I am using excel to update an online mysql table. I am having an issue with my update statement and I don't understand why. When I run the statement, I am getting a run time error. In the description of the error, the statement is reading as I would expect it to - but it is not working.

usqlstring = "(UPDATE company set company = '" & ucompany & "' WHERE prospect_id='" & updateid & "')"

Update With If Statement
I'm trying a statement which I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong on. I've tried every combination that I can think of and stared myself blue with no success.

update cdr set Cost=if(mod(BillSec,6)=0,int(BillSec/6),int(BillSec/6)+1)

The idea is to update Cost with a value depending on the result of a formula. It's an empty field which gets a computed value from other fields. cdr is the table.

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here is a update statement I have...

UPDATE support_test
    SET cat_id=42
    WHERE cat_id = 4

It works fine, only thing is I need to update more numbers but I don't want to overwrite the updated numbers.  Example, I want to update 42 to 6 but want to update the original 6's to 12. I have about 30+ numbers that need to be changed, any way to go about this?

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I am currently updating a table and increasing a column value by 1, the problem is that he don't increase 1 but it does increase the double of the value specified.
Why does it performs the update like this? And how can i solve this problem?

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update forum1post p
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I have a litte problem with my sql-database!
I have to update all UA-fields in the table idrz_kennzahl with primary
key idrz, where the same idrz in the table per_verwaltung with the
field Amt=12 is.

I designed following statement but it doesn't work:

update idrz_kennzahl
set UA=1234
where
idrz_kennzahl.idrz =
(SELECT per_verwaltung.idrz from per_verwaltung where
per_verwaltung.Amt=12).

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UPDATE `zipLocations` SET `z_zipCode` = '06001' WHERE `z_zipCode` =6001 LIMIT 1 ;

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z_zipCode int(5) No 0
z_cityName varchar(50) No
s_stateAbbr char(2) No
z_countyName varchar(50) No
z_areaCodes varchar(50) No

I even went through phpmyadmin found the row clicked on the edit button for that row and updated it. and it still doesn't update.. im' thinking it has to do with the data type being INT...

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Affected rows: 0 (Query took 0.0002 sec)

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I can't seem to form the update statement to do this. I can do them one at a time but this won't work because if I change 2,5,6, and 9 to 1 then when I run then update for 1 and 4 it will change them all. Does this make any sense?

I want some way to be able to use a condition...if id=2 or 4 or 6 set it to 1 and if id= 1 or 4 set it to 2.

My failed attempt:

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WHERE (software_id=2 or software_id=5 or software_id=6 or software_id=9)
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. php script would conact it and it would execute
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audio_pid=4896,audio.audio_prgm_num=3,audio.audio_type="MPEGLayer1",audio.audio_
sr=44.1,audio.audio_mode="1_0",audio.audio_bitrate=320,pcr_info.pcr_pid=49 where
pcr_info.pcr_prgm_num=3 and pcr_info.pcr_sid="2501" and audio.audio_pid=4896 an
d pcr_info.pcr_pid=49;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 2 Changed: 0 Warnings: 0

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I have these statements.

$selectdata = "SELECT * FROM imagetrack WHERE fimsid = ".$_GET["fimsid"]." AND name = '".$_GET["service"] . "'";

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data:
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I have a table with a field called 'imagepath', in this table is data represented by the two following path types:
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and
2. 172.21.2.7DIRDIRDIR
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TABLE - abc

ID NAME
___________
1 hello
12 abc

UPDATE `abc` SET `ID`='5' AND `NAME`='hello' WHERE `ID`='1' AND `NAME`='hello'

wherenver I try to update this table using above sql statement, it doesn't work. I just get "Row match:1 Changed:0" message.

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Is it possible to create a SQL update query that will deduct a qty from the stockLevel if there is sufficient stock and if not deduct as much as possible and put the this amount on allocated and the remainder on backOrder?

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SELECT *
FROM staff, staffemails
WHERE staff.users_username='$user'
and staff.staff_id = staffemails.staff_id

thing is I now want to perform an update on the result of this query. Ive tried

UPDATE staffemails
SET is_registered ='0'
WHERE staff.users_username = '$user'
and staffemails.staff_id = staff.staff_id .

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ZIP_CODE:
zip_code
latitude
longitude

customers:
customer_id
...
zip_code
latitude
longitude

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I am running into problems trying to write SQL to update a single position within a field for throusands of records.

Thousands of records on a table have an incorrect number in a field (UIDY) and I am looking for the most simple way to update them all.

If it were only a single record, I would execute the following:
Update MF_VEND_ADDR_DOC set UIDY = '&4027&7608&7607&1609&VC19&VC19000055&&0&999&M' where UIDY = '&4025&7608&7607&1609&VC19&VC19000055&&0&999&M'

The only difference in those two lines is that I want to change the &4025& to &4027&.

Does anyone know of a way to update thousands of similar records by updating the 5th position in the UIDY field, thus eliminating the need to list out each UIDY value?

CASE Statement In Update Command
I'm trying to update one table (tbl_usage) based on information from another table (tbl_subscriptions) joined by the userID. The usage table tracks the number of times a user hits a page, and decrements the count each time. When the user has a zero count, they are redirected to a warning page.

Each week the count is reset depending on what type of license they have (licenseType) and how many of those licenses they've bought (numLicenses). A group license (G) gives them 100 hits, and an individual license (I) gives them 5 hits.

I'm trying to use a case statement to perform this count reset operation, but I can't seem to get it to work. The following case statement works just fine: Code:

Convert A Nested Update Statement
i have a nested update statement in my sql server as follows
UPDATE DIM_EVENT .

SET INVOICE_AMOUNT =
(SELECT SUM(INV.INVOICE_AMOUNT_TOTAL)
FROM INVOICE INV
WHERE INV.INVOICE_REFERENCE_NUMBER = DIM_EVENT.OBJECT_ID
AND INV.INVOICE_AMOUNT_TOTAL IS NOT NULL)
WHERE DIM_EVENT.EVENT_TYPE_CODE IN ('OFULN', 'OAUTH', 'CRDRL');
what is the equivalent in MySQL.

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Convert SELECT Statement To UPDATE
How do I convert the following SELECT statement to UPDATE statement? If I'm not mistaken, UPDATE statement could not involve more than one table.

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I have a field in my database called Subtopic. In this field I have a word LITERATURE in all caps. I need to change the word LITERATURE to LITERATURE followed by a colon then an empty space. Can someone give me the MySql statement I can paste into phpMyAdmin to make this change? Note: The Subtopic field contains the word "literature" but not in all caps because the Subtopic field is part the database that is an encyclopedia. Therefore, I want to change ONLY the word LITERATURE if the word LITERATURE is in all caps.

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Edit: Before anyone leaves this thread, don't be put off by the regular expressions! They are not the problem, so please stay and read.

OK, this query has got my head spinning. I am basically creating a query that goes through each product in a table to update the stock for that particular item with that particular size (i.e. I am talking about shoes - different models and each model has different sizes (uk kids 12 -> uk 11).

With each shoe it does (or is meant to do) the following:
1. The PHP script that runs the query is looping through every size outside of the query
2. So for each of these sizes it checks to see whether the product it is currently on matches the size it is on
3. When it finds the size it is on, it then deducts the correct number of units from the stock table
4. The final WHERE clause makes sure this subquery inside the UPDATE only happens when the StockUpdated field of the Product table equals 0 (in other words, the stock hasn't been counted before)

Basically what I need to do, is first to make sure what I currently have got does the above correctly but also I need the query to UPDATE the StockUpdated field to 1 only when it has been updated successfully. How could I do this? Unfortunately I cannot just add an extra update entry to the end of the query as this would update the StockUpdated field regardless of whether it has been properly counted or not.

Here is the query I have so far (with a little simple PHP around it doing the loop):

PHP

$shoesizes = array(1 => 'ukk12','ukk13','uk1','uk2','uk3','uk4','uk5','uk6','uk7','uk8','uk9','uk10','uk11');
 $numshoesizes = count($shoesizes);

 for($i = 1; $i < $numshoesizes; $i++) {
 $stockupdate = "
 UPDATE heelys_stock,items_ordered SET heelys_stock.size_".$shoesizes[$i]." =
 (SELECT
 CASE
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?( )?(Kids)?( )?( )?(UK)?( )?( )?(Kids)?( )?( )?[^0-9]12( )?(' -- if UK Kids 12
 THEN heelys_stock.size_ukk12 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?( )?(Kids)?( )?( )?(UK)?( )?( )?(Kids)?( )?( )?[^0-9]13( )?(' -- if UK Kids 13
 THEN heelys_stock.size_ukk13 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]1( )?(' -- if UK 1
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk1 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]2( )?(' -- if UK 2
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk2 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]3( )?(' -- if UK 3
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk3 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]4( )?(' -- if UK 4
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk4 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]5( )?(' -- if UK 5
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk5 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]6( )?(' -- if UK 6
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk6 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]7( )?(' -- if UK 7
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk7 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]8( )?(' -- if UK 8
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk8 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]9( )?(' -- if UK 9
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk9 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]10( )?(' -- if UK 10
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk10 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 WHEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',-1) REGEXP '( )?(UK)?( )?[^0-9]11( )?(' -- if UK 11
 THEN heelys_stock.size_uk11 - (items_ordered.Amount/items_ordered.Price)
 FROM items_ordered WHERE items_ordered.StockUpdated = 0)

 WHERE (heelys_stock.id = (SELECT heelys_stock.id FROM heelys_stock,heelys_shoe WHERE SUBSTRING_INDEX(items_ordered.Product,',',1) = heelys_shoe.full_shoe_name))
 , items_ordered.StockUpdated = 1" // at the moment this last update of the items_ordered table happens to every record!!! even if the other part of query fails


 // update stock for size $i
 mysql_query($stockupdate);
 }

Hope someone can see how I can do this? I've been working on this query for 2 or 3 hours now and I've been making reasonable progress but now I am really stumped.

Update Replication, Force Update
Recently an error in the db on my master caused the slave to fail. I noticed this after a few days when I looked at the status and it said "Slave_SQL_Running: No". After looking further I saw what the error was on the master.

What is the best method of re-synching the databases?

Is there a command to force a re-replication or synch of the dbs? Would you delete the slave's db and update over? In this case, is there a command to pull the data down from the master?

Unable To Update - Have Update Priveledge
I've been granded update priveledge to tables in a few databases on our server:

Select_priv ,Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv, Create_priv, Drop_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, and Lock_tables_priv are all set to 'Y' for a selected database.

I can connnect and read the data and data definitions just fine. I cannot insert, update, delete, create, or alter any table in this database.

Our admin worked for a couple of hours yesterday trying to resolve the issue, but no joy. I've googled for this problem and the most relavent posts I've found were problems related with users not being able to connect. I can connect and I can read, I just can't do any of the other priviledges.

ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE - Don't Have A Key But Want To Update
This may seem like more of a PHP question but I will come onto the MySQL part in a minute.

Basically I have a PHP script that lets users upload 2 different CSV files to different tables. The problem I have is that sometimes these CSV files are updated and then need to be reimported into the database through the script. I have made this script totally generic so that when you change the table that is being entered to the rest of the script will alter itself to import the correct CSV to that table. But a problem arises when I have a CSV file that contains each product sold and the shopper who bought the product (so the shopperID may appear in more than 1 row) - however this file does not have a unique id for each row meaning that when I use an INSERT INTO with a ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE... it will just insert more rows instead of updating rows because there is now key in the table.

The format of the table is like this (with some example data to show you more clearly):

+-----------+-------------+---------+------+--------+------+
| ShopperID | Product Code | Product | Price | Amount | Units |
+-----------+-------------+---------+------+--------+------+
546733 1315 prod 1 64.00 64.00 0
546733 1316 prod 2 43.99 43.99 0

OK just ignore the last 2 fields - that is a problem with the old system there was which does not add the units up right.

Anyway basically I might have the same shopper ordering 2 things which will come up on different rows - I have 3 things I cannot do:

1. I can't make the ShopperID field the PRIMARY KEY because I have many times where there are 2 rows with the same shopper
2. And I cannot just do an UPDATE when it gets to a duplicate entry because it will overwrite every time it gets to a shopper that already exists.
3. I don't want to add a unique primary key to the CSV as this will mean that the system I am creating loses its ability of being automatic because the person (an admin) that uploads the file will have to make sure that it has that extra field which is auto incrementing.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get round this?

Here is my PHP function which contains the query:
PHP

// this function for insert data to csv
function makeINSERTS($text, $table, $tablefields, $correctcsv){
 $insert = array(); //make array for hold data insert
 $i = 0;
 $success = true;

 while(list($key, $val) = each($text)){
 // Insert the data
 $insert[$i] = "INSERT INTO ".$table." VALUES('";
 $insert[$i] .= implode("','", $val);
 $insert[$i] .= "') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ";
 foreach($tablefields as $k=>$field){
 $insert[$i] .= "`$field`='{$val[$k]}',";
 }
 $insert[$i] = substr($insert[$i],0,strlen($insert[$i])-1);
 // echo $insert[$i].''
 $result = mysql_query($insert[$i]);
 if(!$result) {
 echo 'FAILURE to insert/update any or all of the database form uploaded CSV! '
 $success = false;
 die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error().' ');
 }
 $i++;
 }
 if($success == true && $correctcsv == true){
 echo 'SUCCESS in uploading the CSV file to the database! '
 }
 else {
 }
return $insert;
}

Update Queries Do Not Always Update
We are running a MySQL database using PHP to create html pages and forms to update and add information to the db. Sometimes the update query works, sometimes it doesn't - or at least, not permanently. A new record may be added, but five minutes later it has sometimes, but not always, mysteriously disappeared.

Where should I look for a solution? Is there a cache that MySQL creates that may be being accessed unwittingly?

We are using the standard php and MySQL versions that come as standard on a Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.7 server. The browser we are using is Firefox 2.0.4.

Help With This SQL Statement.
I have a list of employees with titles and their office locations. What I want to do is to count the number of senior engineers out of the total number of regular and associate engineers at the location. All I can figure out is how to get the total number of engineers per locatoin.
What is the SQL statment that will give me the total number of "Senior Engineers" and "Total Number of Engineers" per "office"?
Here is my attempt which is totally wrong:
SELECT
COUNT ( title = "Senior Engineer" ),
COUNT ( title = "Senior Engineer" + title = "Engineer" + title = "Associate Engineer" ),
office
FROM
employees
WHERE
title = "Associate Engineer"
OR title = "Engineer"
OR title = "Senior Engineer"
GROUP BY
office
I want to the output to be like:
Number Senior Engineers, Total Engineers, Office
4, 20, Oregon
1, 10, Texas

IF Statement
I have read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...statement.html but unable to understand it. Can someone give a simple example?
I tried this but it gives me the error "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check ..... right syntax to use near 'IF 10>5 THEN ...'"
MySQL
IF 10>5 THEN SELECT 'Greater'ELSE SELECT 'Smaller'END IF;
What I am doing wrong?
I am on MySQL 5.0.20, WinXP.

Can This Be Done In One SQL Statement?
My Roster table contains rosterId as the key, userName as the field I want.
My Article table contains articleId as the key, rosterId as a foreign key, synopsis, article and posted as the fields I want
My Comments table contains id as the key, rosterId and articleId as foreign keys and posted as the field I want.

I want only one row returned that
Given the aritcleId
Contains the Roster.userName for the Article, the Article.synopsis, the article.posted (date), the Roster.userName for the Comments and the Comments.posted
where
1) The Comments row contains the latest posted (date) for the rows the Comments.articleId that matches the articleId above
2) uses the Comments.rosterId from the Comments table to extract the Roster.userName (for the Comment) AND
3) uses the articleId to obtain the Article.rosterId (which will be different than the Comments.rosterId) to get the Roster.username (for the article).

All tables use the innodb engine.

I understand how to do this in multiple selects, but suspect it could be done in one.

Yes? No?

SQL Statement
I am using the following statement to pull data from the table for any data older than a certain date but I would also like to immediately delete the data the I just pulled from the table into the dump file from the table. Can anyone help me out? I am new to MySQL.

SELECT * FROM `radacct` WHERE `AcctStartTime` < "2005-06-01 00:00:00" INTO OUTFILE '/usr/backups/radacct_output.txt' fields terminated by '|';

SQL Statement
I would like to ask you what to read to understand this "<> for queries.

SELECT polltext, votecount FROM poll_data WHERE pollid = '$pollid' AND polltext <> ''

What does polltext <> '' do?

IF STATEMENT
I am trying to create a statement that checks a table to see if an entry exists and if it does run one select statement and if the the check comes back with 0 then run another select statement

This is what I have but it doesn't seem to run ? Am I way off ? I can post the exact detailed code but since I am a new to mySQL syntax I am sure it is something basic.

IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table_Y WHERE field_X = 'string') = 1 THEN
SELECT .........
FROM ...........
WHERE ...........
ELSE
SELECT .........
FROM ...........
WHERE ..........
END IF

LIKE Statement?
run this script:

CREATE TABLE test (name varchar(20) NOT NULL) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

// insert "if 'o": [i], [f], [space], [backslash], [single quote], [o]
insert into test values ('if ''o');

// the next doesn't return the row
select * from test where name like '%if ''o%';

Why doesn't MySQL find that just inserted record?

Like Statement
I am trying to do something I am not sure we can do...
In fact, I would like to test that a field is included in a string.

An example could be helpfull :

Instead of doing this :

SELECT ... FROM myTable WHERE field LIKE '%string%'

I would like to do something like this :

SELECT ... FROM myTable WHERE 'string' LIKE "%"+field+"%"

I already tried whith concatenation but it doesn't work.

IF Else Statement
Im having trouble finding out the correct structure of MySQL IF Else control structures because I am so familiar with T-SQL. Can anybody help me with this basic structure converting from T-SQL to MySQL.

This would work in T-SQL
------------------------
if(select a from tableA)=1
Begin
select x as var
end
else
begin
select y as var
end

But whats the MySql equivilent??