Re: old news SQL help needed

Sorry... that should have read: Delete FROM leagues where news_date + interval 7 day <= now(); Sheridan Saint-Michel Website Administrator FoxJet, an ITW Company www.foxjet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheridan Saint-Michel" <webmaster@foxjet.com> To: "Larry Linthicum" <larry@kimshew.com>; <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] old news SQL help needed > Try this instead: > > Delete league_news FROM leagues > where news_date + interval 7 day <= now(); > > Sheridan Saint-Michel > Website Administrator > FoxJet, an ITW Company > www.foxjet.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Linthicum" <larry@kimshew.com> > To: <php-db@lists.php.net> > Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 8:26 PM > Subject: [PHP-DB] old news SQL help needed > > > > I have a MySql table for news on the site > > the date the news is inserted goes in column news_date > > the text of the news itself, goes in column league_news > > > > > > I want to DELETE all news older than 7 days > > I looked in the MySql documentation at the date functions and tried the > > following but it produced an error ...help? > > > > > > Delete league_news > > FROM leagues > > WHERE TO_DAYS(NOW()) - TO_DAYS(news_date) >= 7 > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net