Hello, I need to embed the following query in a script that creates a view in the listed database. Here is the query:
use MyDatabase
SELECT a.CustomerID, a.OrderID, c.CompanyName
FROM Orders a INNER JOIN
Customers c ON c.CustomerID = a.CustomerID
WHERE EXISTS
( SELECT b.CustomerID
FROM [Overdue Accounts] b
WHERE b.OrderID = a.OrderID AND b.PaidInFull = 1
)
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1. When you say script, are you talking about a web - scripting language, like PHP?
2. When you say a "view", are you saying that you want to see the results of the query, or that you need to create a database view which is accessible to other queries
3. In MySQL, you use backticks, not brackets to enclose multiple word identifiers, so [Overdue Accounts] would be replaced with ` Overdue Accounts`
Business Accounts
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by: Raynard7Posted on 2007-02-13 at 19:20:27ID: 18528355
Hi,
the use has to be a separate statement.
I'm not sure how you are doing this however I would run a series of statements.
ie
CREATE VIEW `MyDatabase`.`viewName` AS
SELECT a.CustomerID, a.OrderID, c.CompanyName
FROM MyDatabase.Orders a INNER JOIN
MyDatabase.Customers c ON c.CustomerID = a.CustomerID
WHERE EXISTS
( SELECT b.CustomerID
FROM MyDatabase.`Overdue Accounts` b
WHERE b.OrderID = a.OrderID AND b.PaidInFull = 1
)
noting that your square brackets are not mysql syntax but rather microsoft sql server - so I replaced them with `