[Gvsig_english] Sql language in the shapefile filter

[Marcus C. England]

Thanks... that worked.

-Marcus


Fran wrote:
> Hi, Marcus.
>
> I've found the problem. We are translatin the where clause to upper 
> case ALWAYS :-(.
>
> We should mark this as a bug, and maybe you can test (as a workarround):
>
> WHERE Upper(country) LIKE 'LOS ANGELES COUNTY'
>
> Sorry for the inconveniences.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Fran.
>
> Marcus C. England escribió:
>> I was just now able to get it to work by using the "fips" code and no 
>> quotes around the attribute I want to select. Apparently you can't 
>> have quotes in your SQL syntax, but without the quotes I would get an 
>> error because of spaces between Los, Angeles and County.
>>
>> In summation:
>>
>> WHERE fips = 6037          WORKS
>>
>> WHERE county = Los Angeles County           GETS AN ERROR THROWN BACK
>>
>> Quotes do not work either.
>>
>> Does anyone know a work-around that would allow the second one to work?
>>
>> -Marcus
>>
>>
>> Francisco José Peñarrubia wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> If you mean sql where clause when you open a Postgis layer, the 
>>> sentence should be "Postgress compliant". I don't know if you can 
>>> use county = 'Los Angeles County' but I think you can try county 
>>> like 'Los Angeles County'.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> Fran.
>>>
>>> Marcus C. England escribió:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a similar question... I can not get sql restriction to work. 
>>>> For example, I have a postgis database layer called 
>>>> "california_counties". This layer has an attribute column called 
>>>> "county" with the county names. In other programs I can load Los 
>>>> Angeles County only by using the sql statement:
>>>>
>>>> county = 'Los Angeles County'
>>>>
>>>> This does not work in gvSIG however. I always get a box that says:
>>>>
>>>> "syntax error at or near "=""
>>>>
>>>> I can't figure out what the problem is and I am hoping someone can 
>>>> help.
>>>>
>>>> -Marcus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> silvio grosso wrote:
>>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>> I am wondering if is it possible to write some simple query in the 
>>>>> filter using the SQL language?
>>>>>
>>>>> I read gvSIG's manual but I didn't find any example about that.
>>>>> At present , to select an area I should write: TOPONIMO = 'ASTI' 
>>>>> in order to get the selection.
>>>>> Nevertheless, in some cases SQL language is faster.
>>>>> For example, when I want to select  two areas in a shapefileI am 
>>>>> obliged to write two times the word TOPONIMO (e.g TOPONIMO = 
>>>>> 'ASTI' or TOPONIMO =  'Aglie'). When I want to select four or more 
>>>>> TOPONIMOS in the filter it becomes complicated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Silvio
>>>>>
>>>>>
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