Fw: [SQL] and [index] mystery solved

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texte = For a variety of reasons (CORRUPTION!!) we're migrating many of our dbs to SQL. Our trusty sys admin, Nick, has figured out a way to do a summary report in the sql context founditems.Any general feedback on migrating to sql would be greatly appreciated.----- Original Message ----- From: Nick To: Bob McPeak Cc: Marla Ferrency ; Celeste Paul Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:48 AM Subject: [SQL] and [index] mystery solved > Ok, the [SQL] context DOES support [index], and I figured out why it wasn't > working in my particular case. Yet another thing we need to take note of, > is that SQL doesn't do summaries on searches like webcatalog does. to make > up for this, I had to simulate it with some [showif]s. This makes [index] > unusable, since [index] will count how many times the [founditems] has looped, > and not how many times our summarized variable was unique. > > Here's our example: > > [text show=F]minskusumm=[/text] > [SQL dsn=gmp&username=root&password=&statement=SELECT * FROM price_search WHERE sku=[something] ORDER BY minsku] > [founditems] > [showif [minskusumm]![minsku]] > > Code goes here. Because we're faking summary support with the [showif] up > above, SQL will return results that we don't use. Each time that happens, > [index] will get a new value. So where the original webcat search would > return index values like 1, 2, 3, 4, etc, our code inside the [showif] here > might see index values like 1, 5, 8, 15, 24, etc. > > [/showif] > [text show=F]minskusumm=[minsku][/text] > [/founditems] > > Hope that explains it. Bob, could you forward this to the talklist? maybe other > people have had this problem too. on summarized variables and SQL>. ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Fw: [SQL] and [index] mystery solved (Bob McPeak 2001)
  2. Re: Fw: [SQL] and [index] mystery solved (John Peacock 2001)
  3. Fw: [SQL] and [index] mystery solved (Bob McPeak 2001)
For a variety of reasons (CORRUPTION!!) we're migrating many of our dbs to SQL. Our trusty sys admin, Nick, has figured out a way to do a summary report in the sql context founditems.Any general feedback on migrating to sql would be greatly appreciated.----- Original Message ----- From: Nick To: Bob McPeak Cc: Marla Ferrency ; Celeste Paul Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:48 AM Subject: [SQL] and [index] mystery solved > Ok, the [SQL] context DOES support [index], and I figured out why it wasn't > working in my particular case. Yet another thing we need to take note of, > is that SQL doesn't do summaries on searches like webcatalog does. to make > up for this, I had to simulate it with some [showif]s. This makes [index] > unusable, since [index] will count how many times the [founditems] has looped, > and not how many times our summarized variable was unique. > > Here's our example: > > [text show=F]minskusumm=[/text] > [SQL dsn=gmp&username=root&password=&statement=SELECT * FROM price_search WHERE sku=[something] ORDER BY minsku] > [founditems] > [showif [minskusumm]![minsku]] > > Code goes here. Because we're faking summary support with the [showif] up > above, SQL will return results that we don't use. Each time that happens, > [index] will get a new value. So where the original webcat search would > return index values like 1, 2, 3, 4, etc, our code inside the [showif] here > might see index values like 1, 5, 8, 15, 24, etc. > > [/showif] > [text show=F]minskusumm=[minsku][/text] > [/founditems] > > Hope that explains it. Bob, could you forward this to the talklist? maybe other > people have had this problem too. on summarized variables and SQL>. ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Bob McPeak

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