From: Dan Nelson Date: November 30 2005 4:26pm Subject: Re: Rewriting subquery for old MySQL List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/192339 Message-Id: <20051130162631.GF54383@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In the last episode (Nov 30), Alex Gemmell said: > I tried splitting up the queries to see if it helped but it didn't > work either: > > [PHP] > $query1 = "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmpSubquery > SELECT * FROM tblactivities > WHERE Assignment_ID='".$row['Assignment_ID']."' > ORDER BY Date DESC LIMIT 10;"; > mysql_query($query1); > > query2 = "SELECT * FROM tmpSubquery ORDER BY Date ASC;"; > $result_activities = mysql_query($query2); > > query3 = "DROP TEMPORARY TABLE tmpSubquery;"; > mysql_query($query3); > [/PHP] How do you know it didn't work? What error message are you getting? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@stripped