Re: Regional Concept

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:19:01 GMT
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"Furious George" <bugme_69@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Oliver Wong wrote:

"morc" <questionmarc420@msn.com> wrote in message
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Hi, i was wondering if anybody had any idea how to go about writing
code that would take someones adress and determine the names an
adresses of their neighjbours?

Is this possible??


    For starters, to do this, you would need access to a database of
everyone's name and address. If you can't get access to this, might as
well
scrap the project right now. =P


It's much easier than you are suggesting. Assuming access to an
appropriately set up database, the proper query would be:

SELECT p.name , p.address FROM people AS p , people AS q WHERE
p.neighborhood=q.neighborhood AND p.address<>q.address AND q.address=?


    The hard part isn't constructing the SQL query. The hard part is getting
the database. Where are you going to get a database containing the names and
addresses of everybody?

    - Oliver

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