dear all,

I have a table called "distributor" having "distributor_id" as a PK
and taking an integer data type as well as "distributor_parent_id"
which also takes an integer data type but can accept null values;

I tried to make this simple function that returns the parent_id by
taking a parameter representing the distributor id; still it fails, I
assume due to the delimiters.

I appreciate any assistance to this regard.

DELIMITER $$

CREATE FUNCTION last_inserted_parent_id ( inserted_id INT )
RETURNS INT
BEGIN
DECLARE parent_id INT$$
SET parent_id = (
SELECT distributor_parent_id
FROM distributor
WHERE distributor_id = inserted_id
)
RETURN parent_id$$
END$$

DELIMITER ;

On 8 Nov, 07:47, coosa <coos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a table called "distributor" having "distributor_id" as a PK
> and taking an integer data type as well as "distributor_parent_id"
> which also takes an integer data type but can accept null values;
>
> I tried to make this simple function that returns the parent_id by
> taking a parameter representing the distributor id; still it fails, I
> assume due to the delimiters.
>
> I appreciate any assistance to this regard.
>
> DELIMITER $$
>

Hi Coosa,

Welcome to comp.lang.php where all things PHP get discussed. But we
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Try this list for more suitable places to post your query:

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C.

coosa wrote:
> dear all,
>
> I have a table called "distributor" having "distributor_id" as a PK
> and taking an integer data type as well as "distributor_parent_id"
> which also takes an integer data type but can accept null values;
>
> I tried to make this simple function that returns the parent_id by
> taking a parameter representing the distributor id; still it fails, I
> assume due to the delimiters.
>
> I appreciate any assistance to this regard.
>
> DELIMITER $$
>
> CREATE FUNCTION last_inserted_parent_id ( inserted_id INT )
> RETURNS INT
> BEGIN
> DECLARE parent_id INT$$
> SET parent_id = (
> SELECT distributor_parent_id
> FROM distributor
> WHERE distributor_id = inserted_id
> )
> RETURN parent_id$$
> END$$
>
> DELIMITER ;
>
>

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