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Posted by Shelly on 10/07/07 11:58
Whatever.
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Shelly wrote:
>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>> news:du2dnUdgBowD2JXanZ2dnUVZ_oLinZ2d@comcast.com...
>>> Shelly wrote:
>>>> "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:op.tzsyi5zq5bnjuv@metallium.lan...
>>>>> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:20:12 +0200, Shelly
>>>>> <sheldonlg@asap-consult.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:QI6dnSmjxJezY5ranZ2dnUVZ_v_inZ2d@comcast.com...
>>>>>>> Colleen wrote:
>>>>>>>> I'm trying to find out if there's a query/function similar to the
>>>>>>>> RANK
>>>>>>>> function in Excel.
>>>>>>>> What I want to be able to do is take a list of dates from a
>>>>>>>> particular
>>>>>>>> table field, and be able to rank each record in the order within
>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>> in falls in those range of dates, because records are not always
>>>>>>>> entered in chronological order.
>>>>>>>> So, from this "ranking" query (that would generate the result
>>>>>>>> $rank),
>>>>>>>> I want to be able to say:
>>>>>>>> echo "$casualtyID is the number $rank casualty to die in the
>>>>>>>> current
>>>>>>> Next time, please post your SQL questions to a MySQL newsgroup.
>>>>>> This was actually both an SQL and a php question.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Euhm, how is PHP involved again?
>>>>> --
>>>>> Rik Wasmus
>>>> After getting the results, the looping through each record in order to
>>>> output the results.
>>> Bullshit. You can't rationalize your way out of this one, Shelly.
>>
>> Temper, temper. Easy now. No need to let your blood boil over what
>> amounts to trivialities.
>>
>>> The question was a SQL question, and the answer was a SQL answer.
>>>
>>> Or, please tell me how "ORDER BY by deathdate" has ANYTHING to do with
>>> PHP.
>>
>> Nothing. That line is pure SQL.
>>
>>> Or, where you had ANY PHP code in your answer.
>>
>> Look above. You get a resource from executing the query. If you don't
>> agree that the reading the fields from each row of the result resource
>> obtained from the query, or the continuous looping through that set till
>> exhausted, or the output of each of these rows as html, is php, then we
>> will simply have to agree to disagree.
>>
>> Shelly
>
> I repeat. Where in "ORDER BY deathdate" has anything to do with PHP? I
> don't see ANY sql in the PHP manual, for instance.
>
> And where is the PHP code in your answer?
>
> Or can't you tell the difference between SQL and PHP?
>
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