Navicat users - any way to create a variable at the top of a New Query and process on the page?

I am essentially trying to create a pHp pdo parameter binding equivalent without the use of php at all.

I use Navicat for my sql queries and building and as such am able to do some more interesting things than say just phpmyadmin.

I have one query in particular which takes a date value and applies it to (literally) 14 if, where, and group by statements. I would like to essentially create a variable at the top of the page, say:

:date

then within the query, apply the variable say:

WHERE date_inserted > :date

I believe this could be done in a stored procedure but I'd like to just keep as a query (within query editor)

edit - example:

In php, you can create a prepared sql query using pdo like the following:

$stmt = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE field1 = :field1 AND datefield <= :date1 AND datefield2 >= :date1 AND datefield3 > :date1");

$stmt->bindParam(':field1', $somevariable);
$stmt->bindParam(':date1', $somedate);
$stmt->execute();

I want to do the exact same thing with sql o开发者_如何转开发nly (using navicat)

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After looking further into my own question, found you can set variables within a sql call using:

SET @variablename = [value]

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/user-variables.html

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This is another answer since you don't want to use join

SET @@session.var = 'some_value'; 
select * from table where field = @@session.var

Have not tested but I read from here

http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?61,127011,127796#msg-127796

I think the variable will be preserved until the connection is closed and recreated.

Edit: OP found the rest of the answer. Editing in as requested.

You can set variables within an SQL call using:

SET @variablename = [value]

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/user-variables.html

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Can you provide the whole query? I think a derived table might work if it is a SELECT statement.

A simple example would be to start with this

select * from table where field = 'somedate'

Change it to this

select table.* from (select 'somedate' q)q, table where field = q.q

So q is your derived table of a single row and single field and q.q is your field.

I really don't know anything more helpful without seeing more of the statement.

By the way, I know nothing about PHP, phpmyadmin, Navicat or stored procedure. Only self taught MySQL.