Re: Request for help on (My)SQL Statement

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That would be the way to do it except that MySQL doesn't support sub-selects 
until version 4.1, which is in alpha still. 

-Micah

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 04:05 pm, Swan, Nicole wrote:
> Have you tried a nested query?  I think your problem is that you're really
> using information from two different tables.
>
> Maybe:
>
> UPDATE ngc_polling SET lastrundate = (SELECT max(post_time) FROM
> nuke_phpbb_posts);
>
>
> --Nicole
> ---------------------------
> Nicole Swan
> Web Programming Specialist
> Carroll College CCIT
> Helena, Montana
> (406)447-4310
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John.Bedard@xxxxxxx [mailto:John.Bedard@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:52 PM
> To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Request for help on (My)SQL Statement
>
> :::Novice Alert:::
>
> I've done simple select and insert statements, so I suppose this is the
> most complicated thing I've tried to do. but seems to me it should be
> pretty easy. But I'm a designer by background, not a developer or
> programmer. I've got everything else I'm trying to do working.
>
> I'm trying to take the largest value out of one table and update another
> table. The former is a PHPBB table and the latter is a table I created just
> to store the value of the date of the most recent post for use in something
> else.
>
> UPDATE ngc_polling SET lastrundate = max(nuke_phpbb_posts.post_time)
>
> It returns "Invalid use of group function."
>
> I've been looking at the documentation on MySQL.com to no avail. I'm
> testing my query in phpMyAdmin before I try to implement it elsewhere. This
> is what I'm trying to do, any help besides "RTFM" (been doing that) would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
> John Bedard | Interaction Designer (SWEIII) | Northrop Grumman Mission
> Systems | Helena, Montana, U.S.A. | john.bedard@xxxxxxx | 406.443.8630 |
> Fax 406.443.8601 |

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