a gadfly SQL question --- table creation

Andy Todd andy_todd at spam.free.yahoo.com
Thu Jul 5 09:07:55 EDT 2001


Joe Potter <jm7potter at hotmail.com> wrote in
<luf8kt4t8e5urfata61qfu9c90otqi9puv at 4ax.com>: 

>On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 05:26:39 GMT, andy_todd at spam.free.yahoo.com (Andy
>Todd) wrote: 
>
>>Joe Potter <jm7potter at hotmail.com> wrote in
>><qlk7kto6lcqqsm2dslsmvrp5eeu3bhpdf7 at 4ax.com>: 
>>
>>>On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 00:55:36 GMT, andy_todd at spam.free.yahoo.com (Andy
>>>Todd) wrote: 
>>>
>>>>Joe Potter <jm7potter at hotmail.com> wrote in
>>>><n237ktc10fithjhm8vj4pfkmrq7k4fjop8 at 4ax.com>: 
>>>>
[major snippage]
>>
>
>I am reading a book on SQL that covers MySQL. 
>
>But, in this one post you covered my main problem. I could not find
>where the magic words like "cursor.fetchall()" were coming from. I was
>reduced to looking at the Gadfly code and making a list of magic code.
>
>But, with DB-API spec I see where they are coming from.

Smashing. One final point. MySQL doesn't currently include transactions 
(unless you are running it on GNU/Linux with the BSDDB extensions) so 
beware of multi user commits and rollbacks. They can come in useful and yet 
frustrate you endlessly.

>
>All praise to Andy on this fine morning.
>
>Thanks ever so much.
>
[more snipping]
>
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Regards, Joe
>

Always a pleasure, never a chore.

Regards,
Andy

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