[Zope] database functions & zope

[Stephen Nosal]

Bob -

That did it! Thanks for the quick help and explanation.

- Steve

On Tue, 08 August 2000, Bob Tierney wrote:

> 
> 
> One of the requirements of a DA is to return information about the result
> set columns.  Does Sybase give a name to column "count(*)".  Some database
> products do and some don't.  Try giving the column an alias name like so
> 
> select count(*) as total from db_table
> 
> assuming Sybase supports this of course.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
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> On 8 Aug 2000, Stephen Nosal wrote:
> 
> > Folks -
> > 
> > How do I execute SQL statements such as select count(*) from db_table?
> > 
> > I'm running zope 2.2 with the SybaseDA 2.0b2. My connection to the database works fine, ie select * from small_table where amount>1000 produces a valid result set.
> > 
> > Using just the DA connection test, the statement select count(*) from db_table comes up with the error:
> > 
> > Error Type: ValueError
> > Error Value: Empty column name,
> > 
> > Any insight here would be great - I couldn't find anything documented about database functions.
> > 
> > - Steve
> > 
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