I am not familiar with the PRINT command so I don't know what it does. I
played with MS SQL Server once for a couple of days a few years back and
that is the only contact I've ever had with SQL Server.
If you can tell me what PRINT does, in detail, maybe I can suggest another
alternative.
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Rhino
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Cook" <sclists@stripped>
To: "Rhino" <rhino1@stripped>
Cc: "MySQL List" <mysql@stripped>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: PRINT statement?
> I've started using the SELECT with no other clauses but I am still curious
> about a PRINT-like command. It is for SQL scripts.
>
> Rhino wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Cook" <sclists@stripped>
>> To: "MySQL List" <mysql@stripped>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:53 AM
>> Subject: PRINT statement?
>>
>>
>>> Is there a statement similar to PRINT in T-SQL (MicroSoft SQL Server)?
>>>
>>> It would be handy to debug some scripts.
>>>
>> If you're talking about a script that is running SQL, you can simply use
>> the SELECT statement without any FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY or
>> HAVING clauses. For example:
>>
>> select "Creating Foo table" as "Action";
>>
>> will produce the following output:
>>
>> +----------------------+
>> | Action |
>> +----------------------+
>> | Creating Foo table |
>> +----------------------+
>> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>>
>> If you're talking about an OS script, you can use OS commands to display
>> things. For example, I have some BASH scripts on our Linux server so I
>> can use the BASH echo command, like this:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> report_date=`/bin/date`
>> echo "Report Date:" $report_date;
>>
>> to produce this output:
>>
>> Report Date: Sun May 7 09:42:57 EDT 2006
>>
>>
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>> Rhino
>>
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