RE: [PHP] Selecting between using letters

2003-12-29 Thread Vail, Warren
ngs up or not. Warren Vail -Original Message- From: Lowell Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 2:25 PM To: PHP Subject: Re: [PHP] Selecting between using letters > How would I create a select statement in MySQL that would return a range of > records from t

Re: [PHP] Selecting between using letters

2003-12-29 Thread Thorsten Schmidt
Doug Parker wrote: How would I create a select statement in MySQL that would return a range of records from the LastName field where the value starts with a designated letter - for example, returning the range where the first letter of LastName is between A and E... Any help would be greatly appre

RE: [PHP] Selecting between using letters

2003-12-29 Thread Vail, Warren
How about the following; SELECT DISTINCT left( name, 1 ) AS idx, count( * ) FROM users GROUP BY idx produces a count of the names found for each letter, then you can make decisions about your range of letters, like a max of 250 between letters, or some such number. Warren Vail -Original M

Re: [PHP] Selecting between using letters

2003-12-29 Thread Lowell Allen
> How would I create a select statement in MySQL that would return a range of > records from the LastName field where the value starts with a designated > letter - for example, returning the range where the first letter of LastName > is between A and E... > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.