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Posted by Jack Jackson on 06/06/05 05:30
Forgive me if this comes twice: my ISP had a service blackout for three
hours and I don't know what went:
If my last post read (and I see that it did) that I was defending myself
as opposed to falling ALL OVER my sword, I apologize: allow me to be clear:
No, you're all correct and M. Sokolewicz doubly so: I had
unintentionally selected fields from the wrong table for no reason other
than lack of sleep coupled with lack of experience and a desperation to
try to understand
The problem was that I was pulling data in a manner both useless and
complex from a thoroughly unnecessary table (I could tell you all why
but you'll all just laugh at me more)
I am grateful for all the help everyone has offered up to now and hope I
did not offend - I was trying in my last post to indicate that I was
an idiot, and it appears I've come off as arrogant. I promise it was not
my intent!
[Then I wrote::]
Ah. I just remembered one reason I had done it involving the art_id field:
I have more publishers in the db than are currently associated with
artworks. I don't want a publisher to appear unless there is at least
one image associated with it. So I did this to avoid having people see a
link to the Sneezy Acres Tribune only to arrive at the next page and
see, "There are no images associated with this publisher."
Jochem Maas wrote:
> Jack Jackson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> M. Sokolewicz wrote:
>>
>>> Jack Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the replies. Jochem, thank you for this code, which
>>>> will take me all night to understand (though I bet it works). I also
>>>> note that SELECT DISTINCT worked here, too
>>>>
>>>> Also as many of you noticed before me, the art_id was in there as a
>>>> fly in the ointment.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> by that statement I ment the exact same thing Jochem ment in his 2nd
>>> part; I have NO idea why you're selecting *ANYTHING* from the arts
>>> table... it's *useless* if you don't need the data...
>>
>>
>>
>> Er, yes, that was what I meant: I had unintentionally included that
>> bit.Thank you for your help.
>>
>
> Er, Jack - your original query was:
>
> SELECT art.art_id,art.publisher_id,publisher.publisher_name,
> FROM art
> LEFT JOIN publisher
> ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id
>
> which is a selection on the art table... ( with a typo)
> if you did:
>
> SELECT art.publisher_id,publisher.publisher_name
> FROM art
> LEFT JOIN publisher
> ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id
>
> nothing would change. and if you did:
>
> SELECT publisher.publisher_id,publisher.publisher_name
> publisher
>
> i.e. not 'unintentionally' selecting from the arts table.
> then you would not have had a problem in the first place?!
>
> I think I'm missing something ;-)
>
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