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Many thanks guys! certainly helped :)

your right but this data is later processed up by a program further down the chain which requires it to be in a consecutive order hence the question. Thanks

ok apologies .. i ll rephrase I basically want to reorder the id field so it goes like: 220 221 222 223 .... as apposed to what it is right now (see above). I am not sure how I can use an update or an alter command for this operation? Hope that clears it?

I have a table with 4 rows.. id..xx..yy..zz.. now out of the 4000 rows, some data has been taken out in the middle..eg: 220 shares money casino 221 shares2 penny dollar 225 stock hello moto 229 sucks help me 230 etc eg iou I am slightly confused as to how I would go about sorting the...

Hi guys . apologies for the delay in response: command: textfile /opt/bin/emacs Result: textfile: Command not found command: ldd /opt/bin/emacs Result: ldd: /opt/bin/emacs: unsupported or unknown file type command: ls -l /opt/bin/*emacs* Result: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 5...

select * from config where 1 = 0 That did it cheers!

As a newbie to sql, this question may be very basic but I have a view called 'config' and I would like to see which fields it is pulling out without running it (i.e Select * from config) Additionally I don't know where the .sql files are stored for this view. Lastly, i have tried sp_help...

yes indeed. still the same error

This is what I get /opt/bin/emacs Any ideas guys / girls?

nop nop no worries finally figured it out cheers anyway :)

Hi a newbie user to unix and have tried to load emacs using emm 'emacs' command I get this error and have no idea what it means Any ideas? Error msg: Error: 0EXEC cannot find executable for 'emacs' version '20.3.0.0' thanks in advance

i don't actually have the rights to declare a perm. table hence I was using the # syntax to indicate a temp table. Thanks for the code simonchristieis but the first bit doesnt work for me :( chrissie1 Do you you mean alphabetical order?

Hi - The cursor below is suppose to copy data from a perm. table into a temp. table then make changes to the data and copy it back into the perm. table Once in this temp table, I am trying to get the cursor to fill all gaps of column points as this column must be consecutive numbers. Currently...

yes I agree id is a poor choice of name. Anyway thanks for that Simon but on running that all of the ids have the same number from where the deletion takes place so if i deleted id = 2 where type = type 1 then the rest of ids are turned into 3. Any ideas? :-s

thanks for all your input guys / girls Something I should have mentioned before is that id field is not used to identify unique numbers, which is why I was asking what syntax could I use to delete and update to go through all the rows and update the ids field??? so to expand..there is a...