MYSQL :: Shuffle And Display Top X Rows

Randomly Shuffle MySQL Records
I have a table in MySQL and I want shuffle its records into a random order once and keep the database that way. I don't want to pull off the records every time a query is made and then display them in some kind of random order.

All I want is to shuffle the existing order of records within the table to random and for the db itself to stay that way. I use MySQLAdmin, but I do not see a button there to do something like that.

Query To Display The Rows As Colums Is Not Working!!
I want a select query to get two columns. but i need to get these columns one below the other that is consider that i have a table student in that i have 2 columns name mark.
Now i want the result as

Name Raj Rina Tina
Marks 80 90 70

I tried the --vertical option of mysql and G option in the query.

for example when i tried

select *from studentsG

it displayed

*********** 1. row ***********
name: Raj
marks : 80
********** 2. row ************
name: Rina
marks : 90
********** 3. row ************
name: Tina
marks : 70

but i want to display

Name Raj Rina Tina
Marks 80 90 70

Display Particular ID First
I have a products table with a primary "id" field. One of my products id=27 needs to be displayed first then ORDER BY name DESC.

Is there a way to do this via the query - I know how to do it with PHP but would like to find a simple mysql alternative.

Display
SELECT t1.*
FROM tbl_data AS t1
INNER JOIN (
SELECT t2.lastname, t2.firstname, COUNT(*) AS cnt
FROM tbl_data AS t2
GROUP BY t2.lastname, t2.firstname
HAVING cnt > 1 ) AS t2 ON ( t2.lastname = t1.lastname AND t2.firstname = t1.firstname)

This is my recordset that displays all my database records. How can I change it so it only displays lastname that starts with the letter A. That is, I want only the rows that contain last names like Adams, Anderson, Appison, etc.

Display FOREIGN KEY?
I want to know the structure of the table. I want to see the FOREIGN KEY, if it has index?, primary key? etc.

Display X Out Of Y Entries
I have a MySQL DB with ~1100 entries, 13 Fields per entry.

I have a search feature on the page, but when someone searches, they get all of the matches at one shot. What I would like to do is display, say 5 matches, at a time. Then have a next and previous at the bottom of the page along with page numbers.

Display All Databases
I am accessing MySQL databases using Visual Basic 6 running on windows

It is possible to display all the available databases in the Data
directory? Is there a function/command that I can call to return all the
databases. This is similar to how MySQL Administrator displays a list of
databases in Catalog.

Display Related Value
I'm displaying personnel actions data in a details page based on the ID of the personnel action record, but would like to display a value (Employee Name) from a related table (tblemployees) based on a payroll_num field in the details page. These two fields are related, payroll_num and payrollID(primary in tblemployees). How do I add both tables in my query or is this the right way to get this accomplished?

How Display Records With Zero Value?
i have a list of students and their test scores ... some have zero or null for their test score (e.g they may have been absent and not yet taken the test)....

if I do the usual SELECT * from studentlist only students with a score greater than zero are listed.

How do I get a complete class list which shows me what every student scored, including those who scored zero?

Display Date
i have used prepared statement to insert date values in database..it is inserting..but the prob.. is that it cannot display date in dd-MON-yy format.i.e 26-jan-04

my query is like that:

java.util.Date dt1 = sdf.parse(request.getParameter("chq_date"));//inserts in database

pstmt.setDate(1, new java.sql.Date(dt1.getTime()));

<td><input value="<%= rs.getDate("chq_date") %>" name="chq_date"></td>//displays date

Display A Particular Column
how to display a particular column from a row in PHP.

Like this.
<table>
<tr>
<td>column 1</td>
<td>column 2</td>
</tr>
</table>

Display FOREIGN KEY
here are the codes below
<?php
include "opendb.php";

$query = "SHOW CREATE TABLE cclp_teams";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

echo "<br>";
echo $result;
echo "<br>";

?>

But my codes has problem.
It says --> Resource id #3

What is wrong with my codes? what function do i need to display the structure of the tables?

DISPLAY NUMBERS
HOW CAN I DISPLAY NUMBERS LIKE 123,456.00 IN MYSQL?

Actually in phpmyadmin.

when i choose decimal or double i can get two zeros ( like anynumber.00)

what i wan to see is ###,###.00

Display More Than One Result From DB
why this:

mysql_select_db($database_MARTIN, $MARTIN);
$query_CallsAssignedCount = "SELECT StaffID, count(CallID) FROM callinfo WHERE callinfo.StaffID = '$row_Leader1[StaffID]' GROUP BY StaffID ORDER BY CallID ASC";
$CallsAssignedCount = mysql_query($query_CallsAssignedCount, $MARTIN) or die(mysql_error());
$row_CallsAssignedCount = mysql_fetch_assoc($CallsAssignedCount);
$totalRows_CallsAssignedCount = mysql_num_rows($CallsAssignedCount);

only displays one result and not all StaffIDs? Its meant to list all StaffIDs and the number of calls closed by that staff member. '$row_Leader1[StaffID]' is the coloumn that lists all the client IDs on another form. This lists all StaffIDs fine, however, this SQL command (above)only displays ONE StaffIDs result.

Display Orders
I'm trying to display orders from the past 60 days,

This is the query that I'm using:
SELECT DISTINCT o.order_id, o.invoice_id, o.fullname, o.suburb, o.qty, o.processed, o.del_process, o.date_ordered, s.paid_total FROM orders AS o LEFT OUTER JOIN stratapay AS s ON o.invoice_id = s.invoice_id WHERE DATE_SUB(CURDATE(),INTERVAL 60 DAY) <= o.date_ordered ORDER BY o.invoice_id DESC

Strange thing is that the results being displayed are all the orders from days 20 through 31 for all months over the past 2 years.

Display Column
i'm a beginer to PHP and MySql and I was woundering if I could display all of the different values in a table column without show dupelicates. One examle of what im try to achieve is

ID | ARTIST_NAME | ALBUM_NAME | TRACK_NAME

now lets assume that I have registered 10 albums into my database each with 10 tracks. If I try to display the different album names, I would get one album name followed by 9 dupes. Is there a way of just showing 1?
(note in the real database not all album have 10 tracks so a script that takes away 9 would not work!)

Display Orders
I would like to display the sum of all orders by week for a 3 month interval. How can I go about this. I started the below query and need some help..

SELECT WEEK( fixture ) AS 'allweek', COUNT( * ) as'total'
FROM orders
BETWEEN DATE_SUB( CURRENT_DATE( ) , INTERVAL 7
DAY ) AND DATE_ADD( CURRENT_DATE( ) , INTERVAL 3
MONTH )
GROUP BY MONTH ( fixture )

Display Mysql
I'm trying to display a mysql varchar field that include address. Address is in multiple line. But I don't know how I can display this field exactly as entered(ie, in multiple lines). Whenever I'm trying to display the address, it's displaying in a single line..

Display Records
i just want to know if for example i have a database with a table and some records in it, can i display those records in the database using xml without using php

Maximum Display
What is the benefit of specifying a maximum display width after a int, tinyint, bigint etc.
For example if I specify a column as int(10), the column will still take 4 bytes of storage data. So what is the use of specifying (10), the Maximum Display Width.

Display ERD Diagrams
I am way to used to microsoft's enterprise manager and the erd diagrams that it allows a person to view. I have been looking for a program that will allow for the same functionality in mysql. In other posts I have found one that is supposed to do what I want (DBDesigner), but for some reason it always says that my login is incorrect, which is the same one that I use for mysql-admin, so I dropped that one after a number of attempts.
Is there any other programs out there that provides what I want? Obviously if it is free that is good, but if there is a program that is around a $100 and provides a demo version to let me preview what I am to pay for, that is ok as well.

Not Display Last Record
How do I display all the records but not the last inserted one?
Is there a MySQL statement I need to do this

Display Components
I am having a little trouble with a group by query:
Code:

SELECT Names.name, SUM(cost)
FROM Names, Costs
WHERE Names.nameID = Costs.nameID
GROUP BY Names.name

This gives me the cost totalled by name, what i would actually like to show is every individual cost item by name, and the totalled amount for that name at the end. Obviously to just return all individual costs per name the query would be:

Code:

SELECT Names.name, Costs.cost
FROM Names, Costs
WHERE Names.nameID = Costs.nameID

I can not successfully draw the required results in one query.I am using mysql 3.23.54.

How Do I Get PhpMyadmin To Display Images?!
I'm trying to get phpmyadmin to display images but all I get are URLs to the image instead of an actual image. How do I make phpmyadmin display the image I have told it to display?

The field I want to use to display images, on a webpage, is called "preview" and is set up like this:

Field = preview
Type = text (not sure what else to choose)
Collation = latin1_swedish_ci
Attributes = (none selected)
Null = NO
Default = (none selected)
Extra = (none selected)
Action = Fulltext

I have entered the following into the "preview" field:
http://www.tmdesigns.org/images/test.jpg

However, all that is displayed is:
http://www.tmdesigns.org/images/test.jpg

How can I make phpmyadmin display the image at that URL location??!

I Want To Display Three Join Tables?
I want to display three joined tables how?

Let say they have connected all with $id as FOREIGN KEY.

Could you show me the right syntax for this to display their contents.
Using SELECT.

Display Results From A Column In A Row
I am using php/MySQL 4.0 .. tried using GROUP_CONCAT, but it would not work ... perhaps not supported in MySQL 4.0?

If I had a table consisting of:

player l code l amount
-------------------------------------
playerA l 1 l 5
playerA l 2 l 6
playerA l 3 l 4
playerB l 5 l 10
playerC l 3 l 4
playerC l 4 l 3

SELECT player, code, SUM(amount) as amt FROM table GROUP BY player

How would I get the result below?

playerA 1,2,3 15
playerB 5 10
playerC 3,4 7

Display Grouped Field Only Once??
If I use

Select citycode,monthname, count(member) from members group by citycode,monthname

I am getting following results

Citycodemonthnamecount
dlJan5
dlFeb10
dlMar15
muJan5
muFeb10
muMar15

is there any way so that I can get the result like this:

Citycodemonthnamecount
dlJan5
Feb10
Mar15
muJan5
Feb10
Mar15

How Can I Display A Stored Procedure
Once a stored procedure has been created, how can I display its contents. I know how to run it and the show procedure status shows which procedures are defined, but the actual code for the procedure is not shown.

How To Display A Topic Randomly After One Day
i have a table named essays and i have many essays in that table. what i wanna do is to write a query "which takes a different essay at every other day randomly". essay cud repeat also.

Display 8000 Records
I have 8000 records that I want to display, before I used to place the data in a table. But I found-out that i takes time to load all 8000 records to display.

Ive tried to display the 8000 records without a table and it displays really fast for about 4-5 seconds to display it all, but Its hard to arrange the data because of the allignments. I want to know if there is another way of displaying my 8000 data in about 4-5 seconds without using tables.

Looping Through Results - Different Display For The First 3?
I have a simple news database table (id,title,body,date)

There is a page I've created which should show the first 3 recent articles in full and then only links to the others.

what is the neatest way to do this ? (php/mysql)

Unable To Display More Than 25 Records
I'm using PHP 4.3.10, and MySQL 4.0.26, and cannot seem to get my script to return/display more than 25 records:

<?php
$query = "SELECT company_name, company_phone FROM tbl_company
ORDER BY company_name LIMIT 40 ;";
$result = mysql_query($query, $db); //note $db connection already
established
for ($i=0; $i < $totalRows; $i++)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
echo "...";// show info here etc.
} ?>

When I use PHPMyAdmin and run the above SQL statement direct, it returns all 40 records. However when running on the host server, my script is generating and displaying only the first 25 records on my website.

Display Month As April Instead Of 4
I am trying to return the current month, by the month's actual name rather than the number of month.

SELECT MONTH(CURRENT_DATE);

I want to see April instead of 4. I was thinking I need to add DATE_FORMAT but I'm not sure what the syntax should be.

MySQL Display Problem
I have 3 tables

1) Episodes
EpisodeGK
EpisodeName
SeriesGK
CategoryGK

2)Series
SeriesGK
CategoryGK
SeriesName

3)Category
CategoryGK
CategoryName

Table 1 will record the contents of a Category and Series.

The Series is always a part of a category.

What I am trying to do is list out a tree like output so it shows:
Category1
>Series1
>Series2
>Episode
>Episode
>Series3
>Episode
Category2
>Series4
>Episode

I can't seem to get it to display in PHP correctly.

Tree Display Of Categories
I have a question which has been puzzling me for quite some time now, and
my SQL skills are not good enough to come up with a proper solution.

I have a product catalogue which should be able to display anything with a certain letter (A,B,C)
in it on a page. So it should display Categories and their products on that one page like so:

(All starting with say the letter 'C')

Category 1
- Product 1
- Product 2

Category 2
- Product 3
- Product 4

the page it should display this information on will also need
to have pagination (ie. back, [1][2][3], next). How on earth can I get 1 recordset that would contain that information so it can be paginated properly ?

I'm using PHP and MySQL 3.23.x (upgrading not possible at the moment).
If the above is not possible I might be able to settle for the option below.

(All starting with say the letter 'C')

Category 1
Category 2
- Product 1
- Product 2
- Product 3
- Product 4

Display Number Of Queries
I would like to display the number of MySQL queries executed during a php script at the footer of my page. How can I do this?

Extracting Date Display
My current date format display from MySQL database extraction is dd/mm
i.e. 18/8, 20/8, 23/8, 3/9, 8/9, 3/10, 9/10, ....

I am wondering if I can change the date format display to be as:

Aug 18, 20, 23
Sept 3, 8
Oct 3, 9

.

Display A Text In A SELECT
I want to do the following query, or something like that:

SELECT id, "string"+id as text FROM ...

and the result should be:

id text
1 string1
2 string2
3 string3
... . ... for each id returned by the query

It looks stupid but I can't figure which operator (I tried '+', '.',
'|', '&') I can use for this purpose.

Display Numberic Value As Currency
I'm using MySQL 5.0, and phpMyAdmin for a company project database. One of the fields in my database is "Project Value" and I would like to have the value of this field be displayed as $20,000,000.00 instead of 20000000 and still be able to perform aggregate functions. Is this possible? What data type should this field be set to?

Display Newest Db Entry
i have tried the following and it comes up with this error: Queryproblem: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'BY date DESC' at line 1
---------------------
SELECT top1 FROM `cds` SORT BY date DESC
---------------------
i need to display the newest entry in the mysql database.

Display Result As Column
Say I have a table with column (A B C) with C a direct mapping to B
I want to group column A as UserID and display the result of B as the column name itself with column C as the result of these Columns.
Something like
UserID | B.result1 | B.result2 | etc
1 | c.1 | c.2

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this ?

Display Amount/No Duplicates
How do you select only the first #(10, 20 ,30... just some set number) rows in a table. Then if you want to continue, how can you select the next ten. I already know how to set them to display in desc order... but I don't know if adding this code will change it. In case you want to know, I am trying to make a news table and have it display on my web page, but I only want 10 headlines to display at a time, then click a link and the next ten will display.

The other question is: How do you test to see if someone has already entered the data you are about to enter. An example would be, if someone entered the data(aa,bb,cc,dd) then tried to enter that exact same data again, it would not allow it.

MySQL To Display Another Language
This may or may be a stupid question. I tried googling it but my question is too vague to find a answer. I have a mysql database I have been populating with content for about 2 years. Right now my MySQL server is using English as its character set and everything stored inside is english.

Now if I wanted my site to helpful Spanish speaking users, is there anyway I can have MySQL trasnalate the database into Spanish? So it'll be stored in English but when you retreive any data, it comes out spanish? Is this possible? If MySQL can not do this, does anyone have any suggestions on how I go about this? Do I find a language translater etc? I definetly dont want to be inputting English / Spanish for everything I enter into the database...that will be too time consuming and will involve me needing a spanish translator.

Unicode Character Display
i've converted by tables to unicode and I added a japanese word in japanese script (using phpMyadmin), it displays correctly on the page, although in the database it displays as:

&#24195 ; &#21578 ;& #26989; (I added spaces before the ; in this posting so that it displays the code and not the japanese symbol)

this is the way it should be? Or is it possible to read the japanese script in the database as well?

Display Data Per Page
I have a search form which displays data depending on the user input. User can perform search based on certain ocupation and certain gender.
After performing the appropiate 'select' statement, if, for example, you know there are 100 rows retrieved. How would you display these data over 10 different pages? eg: clicking on the search button will display the first 10 rows of data, then clicking on the 'Next Page' button will display the next 10 and so on