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MySQL CASE for 4.0

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:59:55 +0000

SELECT `r_mls_number` ,`r_address` ,`r_city` ,`r_area` ,`r_sub_area_community` ,`r_sub_area_community_desc` ,`r_list_price` ,`r_sold_price` ,`r_orig_price` ,`r_type_of_dwelling` ,`r_status` ,`r_list_date` ,`r_sold_date` ,`r_total_bedrooms` ,`r_total_baths` ,`r_floor_area_total_finished` ,`r_floor_area_unfinished` ,`r_last_trans_date` ,`r_street_name` ,`r_street` , `r_record_delete_flag` , CASE WHEN r_street_dir = ‘Northwest’ THEN ‘NW’ WHEN r_street_dir = ‘Northeast’ THEN ‘NE’ WHEN r_street_dir = ‘Southwest’ THEN ‘SW’ WHEN r_street_dir = ‘Southeast’ THEN ‘SE’ ELSE ” END AS street_dir , r_street_typeFROM rea WHERE r_last_trans_date >= DATE_SUB( CURDATE( ) , INTERVAL 1 DAY )

Coffee

admin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:28:34 +0000

Day 8 without coffee. Sigh.

Idiot Savant

admin — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:39:05 +0000

He’s one of those idiot savants, but not the savant part.

– who by

MySQL – LEFT

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:20:27 +0000

I needed a way to trim the three left side characters. I’ll save you the long boring story about why – here’s the how:

SELECT

LEFT( price , CHAR_LENGTH( price ) -3 )
AS price

FROM products

This gave me 150 instead of 150000.

Holiday Rumble

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:00:16 +0000

How about if Rupert Grint took on Alfred E. Newman?

Alfred E Neuman

Rupert Grint

TRIM and MySQL

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:45:04 +0000

Working on a wireless iPhone application right now. With such limited ‘real estate’ for viewing on wireless devices I’ve decided to trim off the 3 zeros.

I want $575,000 to show as 575. At first I didn’t think this would be a big deal. PHP has the nifty little substr() function and I was pretty sure MySQL did as well.

PHP: substr( @string , 0 , -3 )

MySQL: SELECT LEFT( @string , CHAR_LENGTH( @string ) – 3 )