Re: match a fulltext search with a - dash, can't match if - exist

2004-10-18 Thread Bertrand Gac
mysql select * from fullsearch where match (title,body) against ('018-E'); Empty set (0.00 sec) it returns an empty set, is it possible to also search with - dash? chars? I'm not an expert but others will correct me : In a fulltext search, the search string must be at least 4 characters

Re: Copy table?

2004-10-18 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
John Mistler wrote: Is there a way to make an exact copy of a table and give the copy a new name? Thanks, John From the doc : As of MySQL 3.23, you can create one table from another by adding a SELECT statement at the end of the CREATE TABLE statement: CREATE TABLE new_tbl SELECT * FROM

Re: is 'start' a keyword?

2004-10-18 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: rik onckelinx [EMAIL PROTECTED] where FULLTEXT was causing the error. My workaround was renaming (in the sql create table scirpt) fulltext - ful_text option - optio_ The easiest solution to preventing these errors from popping up from time to time is to put backticks (`) around names

Which Filesystem to choose?

2004-10-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm trying to set up a new Opteron-Based MySQL-Server. The only thing I'm unsure about is which filesystem to choose.. ext3? ReiserFS? XFS? What's your experience? Thanks chris -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Varchar and InnoDB

2004-10-18 Thread Filip Rachunek
Hello, I have a big table in my InnoDB database (more than 10 million rows) and it contains a column of varchar(40) type. For some reason I need to extend this column to varchar(160) but I don't expect to use the whole capacity of this column, except for several rare cases. My question is, after I

Re: Unable to Start MySQL on FreeBSD4.10 box

2004-10-18 Thread Mikael Fridh
Lynette Tillner wrote: I'm setting up a development box with FreeBSD 4.10 and installed MySQL 4.0.12 on it. Everything in the install appeared to work smoothly. However, when I go to start MySQL I get an error that says: database list could not be retrieved So, how do I fix this? I've been

ANN: Database Workbench 2.5.5 released

2004-10-18 Thread Martijn Tonies
Features and fixes: http://www.upscene.com/news/20041018.htm Database Workbench supports: - Borland InterBase ( v4.x - v7.x ) - Firebird ( v1.x ) - MS SQL Server/MSDE ( v6.5, 7, 2000, MSDE 1 2 ) - MySQL 4, 4.1 If you experience any problems with this new version, don't hestitate and either go

Re: COUNT Problem

2004-10-18 Thread Frederic Wenzel
A subselect may help: [...] Don't know ATM if it can be done more easily, but a query like this should probably work. It can be done without a sub-query: [...] That *should* work, barring any typos or ommisions I may have made. I used LEFT JOIN because of personal preference, it can be

monthly average for last 12 months?

2004-10-18 Thread Marco Fioretti
Greetings, I have a table with these columns: Item_Description (varchar) date_purchased (-mm-dd) amount (float) I have managed to get the total amount for each month, formatted in this way: 2001-011000 2001-02 540 2001-031288 and so on... I need to add a third

Transfering data from postgresql to MySQL

2004-10-18 Thread Patrick Hsieh()
Hello list, I am planing to transfer data from postgresql to mysql. Is there any useful tools, scripts or utilities to achieve this? Any infomation is highly appreciated! --- Patrick Hsieh() [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ: 97133580 Skype: pahud_at_pahud.net | YIM: pahudnet

Re: Transfering data from postgresql to MySQL

2004-10-18 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:08:24 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: I am planing to transfer data from postgresql to mysql. Is there any useful tools, scripts or utilities to achieve this? pg_dump First dump the schema, edit that until you have something MySQL understands. Then dump the data using

commit or rollback?

2004-10-18 Thread Colm G. Connolly
Hi all, I'm working with tables stored by the InnoDB engine and would like to be able to commit only if there are no errors generated by a group of statements like this. /* -*- sql -*- */ SET AUTOCOMMIT=0; use db1; begin work; sql statement 1; sql statement 2; . . . sql statement n; At this

Re: commit or rollback?

2004-10-18 Thread Stuart Felenstein
I'm relatively new to all of this but just about finished setting up a transaction myself. I'm doing something like this: this is in php:( i also have functions set up for begin, rollback and committ. You should also set autocommitt to 0 . Hope this helps! Stuart function run_query($sql) {

just testing, sorry.

2004-10-18 Thread tibyke
pls delete it regards, tibyke -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: commit or rollback?

2004-10-18 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
Colm G. Connolly wrote: Hi all, I'm working with tables stored by the InnoDB engine and would like to be able to commit only if there are no errors generated by a group of statements like this. /* -*- sql -*- */ SET AUTOCOMMIT=0; use db1; begin work; If you specify Begin or Start Transaction, set

Re: commit or rollback?

2004-10-18 Thread Paul DuBois
At 11:42 +0100 10/18/04, Colm G. Connolly wrote: Hi all, I'm working with tables stored by the InnoDB engine and would like to be able to commit only if there are no errors generated by a group of statements like this. /* -*- sql -*- */ SET AUTOCOMMIT=0; use db1; begin work; sql statement 1; sql

Date as Primary ID

2004-10-18 Thread Scott Hamm
How do I create table that uses timestamp in -dd-mm format as primary id (no duplicates)? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: **[SPAM]** Date as Primary ID

2004-10-18 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] How do I create table that uses timestamp in -dd-mm format as primary id (no duplicates)? [/snip] CREATE TABLE `tblFoo` ( `timeID` timestamp(14) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`timeID`), ) TYPE=MyISAM; -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Slow query?

2004-10-18 Thread Richard Reina
Anyone know why this query takes so long? SELECT SUM(l.cost+l.fscc) FROM orders o, acctg.invoice i LEFT JOIN acctg.payable p ON (o.ORD_NO=p.ORD_NO) WHERE p.ORD_NO IS NULL AND i.ORD_NO=o.ORD_NO; Is there something I can do to speed it up? Thanks, Richard -- MySQL General Mailing List For

Re: Date as Primary ID

2004-10-18 Thread gerald_clark
Scott Hamm wrote: How do I create table that uses timestamp in -dd-mm format as primary id (no duplicates)? You can't. Timstamps are only unique down to 1 second. It is quite possible to insert hundreds, if not thousands of records in that length of time. -- MySQL General Mailing List For

MySQL TMPDIR.

2004-10-18 Thread RV Tec
Folks, A couple of months ago I asked this question, and there was no answer, since then I couldn't find a reasonable answer or a way to find it myself. What happens if MySQL runs out of space at TMPDIR? I guess I could use the performance improvement of redirecting that to a MFS DIR. The only

Re: Slow query?

2004-10-18 Thread gerald_clark
What indices do you have? What does explain say? Richard Reina wrote: Anyone know why this query takes so long? SELECT SUM(l.cost+l.fscc) FROM orders o, acctg.invoice i LEFT JOIN acctg.payable p ON (o.ORD_NO=p.ORD_NO) WHERE p.ORD_NO IS NULL AND i.ORD_NO=o.ORD_NO; Is there something I can do to

Re: MySQL TMPDIR.

2004-10-18 Thread gerald_clark
RV Tec wrote: Folks, A couple of months ago I asked this question, and there was no answer, since then I couldn't find a reasonable answer or a way to find it myself. What happens if MySQL runs out of space at TMPDIR? I guess I could use the performance improvement of redirecting that to a MFS

Re: MySQL TMPDIR.

2004-10-18 Thread RV Tec
Clark, MySQL will stop processing the current query until space becomes available. It will then continue. Stop processing the current query means locking it all, and everything else has to wait for this query to be completed?! Thanks for your reply! Best regards, RV Tec -- MySQL General

RE: Date as Primary ID

2004-10-18 Thread Scott Hamm
Ok, so that means what Jay Blanchard just now said recently wasn't possible? I'm trying to figure out a way to ensure that date is not duplicated i.e.: create performance ( `DateID` whatever, `Projected_Num` int(7), `Actual_Num` int(7), primary key [something to

tree structure

2004-10-18 Thread Melanie
Hi, Does anybody has a simple idea to store a tree structure under mySQL 4.1.5? I have one table with id, familyType,superFamily,family, for example: +-+---++ | id | familyId | accession | +-+---++ | 287 |22 | . | | 288 |

Re: Date as Primary ID

2004-10-18 Thread Ferhat BINGOL
Hi Scoot, I do my table structure like that CREATE TABLE `test_table` ( `timestamp` date NOT NULL default '-00-00', `data` varchar(5) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`timestamp`), KEY `timestamp` (`timestamp`) ) TYPE=MyISAM; Than I send a query as below INSERT INTO `test_table` (

MySQL 4.1.6-gamma with Jetspeed 1.5 problem

2004-10-18 Thread Yayati Kasralikar
Hi all, I have successfully used MySQL 4.1.1-alpha and MySQL 5.0.0a-alpha with jetspeed 1.5. When I try to use MySQL 4.1.6-gamma with jetspeed 1.5 I get following exception when I try to login (The first page (anon user) is showing up correctly): java.sql.SQLException: There were 7 rows updated

Re: tree structure

2004-10-18 Thread Ian Gibbons
On 18 Oct 2004 at 15:27, Melanie wrote: Hi, Does anybody has a simple idea to store a tree structure under mySQL 4.1.5? I have one table with id, familyType,superFamily,family, for example: Hi, This tutorial (PHP + MySQL) shows a few different methods:

Re: Date as Primary ID

2004-10-18 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: Scott Hamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Mysql ' (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:11 AM Subject: RE: Date as Primary ID Ok, so that means what Jay Blanchard just now said recently wasn't possible? I'm trying to figure out a way to

RE: Date as Primary ID

2004-10-18 Thread Scott Hamm
My objective is to set up the projected estimate for day by day basis in ahead of time, then fill in the actual value when time comes. If today is Jan 3rd, and we know yesterday's values, then, Month Day ProjActual Eff Jan 1

Re: tree structure

2004-10-18 Thread Melanie
Thank you very much, I made my search with too few words... :-) the modified pre-order tree transversal seems interesting, but if I want to modify one element I have to go through the whole table to re-index everythingand I would like to avoid to use recursive methods.. I'm currently using a

MySQL/InnoDB-4.1.6 has been released

2004-10-18 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! InnoDB is a MySQL table type which supports FOREIGN KEY constraints, row-level locking, Oracle-style consistent, non-locking SELECTs, multiple tablespaces, and a non-free online hot backup tool. Release 4.1.6 is mainly a bugfix release. We do not yet declare MySQL/InnoDB-4.1 stable, because

Re: Transfering data from postgresql to MySQL

2004-10-18 Thread Karam Chand
Hello, You can use SQLyog's ODBC Import Tool to import data from PgSQL to MySQL using PgSQL's ODBC driver. More information about SQLyog can be found at http://www.webyog.com Karam --- Jochem van Dieten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:08:24 +0800, 謝洪恩 Patrick Hsieh wrote:

Re: Adding DSN into Coldfusion Admin?

2004-10-18 Thread SGreen
Just the fact that you GOT the gibberish meant that the server was running and that you were able to connect. What you saw was a Hello packet. It's one of the first stages to authenticating a MySQL client to a MySQL server. It's not meant for humans. Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin

Re: MySQL TMPDIR.

2004-10-18 Thread gerald_clark
Yes. RV Tec wrote: Clark, MySQL will stop processing the current query until space becomes available. It will then continue. Stop processing the current query means locking it all, and everything else has to wait for this query to be completed?! Thanks for your reply! Best regards, RV

Re: Date as Primary ID

2004-10-18 Thread Rhino
Okay, but you are measuring the projected number of units of *something*, right? The number of widgets made, the number of gadgets sold, the number of x-rays taken or whatever. I think you need that *something* as a column in the table. Hmm. On second thought, if you are only making or selling a

Unable to start chrooted 5.0 server.

2004-10-18 Thread Gustavo Castro Puig
Hi everyone! I'm trying to start a jailed mysql-max (snapshot 5.0) inside a chrooted environment, and is not working. I'm not using the --chroot parameter, because I want to get this implementation fully isolated to run another (stable) version in the same server, without getting in trouble.

Blob question

2004-10-18 Thread Steve Grosz
I'm just getting into the whole MySql (was using access). Is it better to create a Blob type and insert a image into it, or to create a char file type and have a directory structure to the specific file? How big of files to the different Blob's hold? And if I'm using Coldfusion, will that

how to optimize multiple many-to-many relationship related query

2004-10-18 Thread Elim Qiu
I have, to make it clear, 2 many-to-many relationships for table person: PersonPerson_Club ClubPerson_Creditcard CreditCard ----- - -

many fields or many tables? (Understanding DB design)

2004-10-18 Thread Timothy Luoma
I have been tinkering with MySQL long enough to suit what modest needs I have had, but now I need to setup a new DB that is going to have more information in it, and I want to make sure that I am doing it the most efficient way for the long term. Surprisingly, I have not been able to find a

Re: many fields or many tables? (Understanding DB design)

2004-10-18 Thread SGreen
There are numerous advantages to going with the multiple table database you described. That is what we call a normalized data structure. Try searching again for terms like normalized, normalizing, and normal form for additional background. Add the terms tutorial, or overview to find web sites

Re: Table name aliases in FULLTEXT and table locking

2004-10-18 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Oct 05, Ville Mattila wrote: Hi there, I have noticed a few things that cause problems when using table aliases (SELECT ... FROM table1 t1, table2 t2): 1) Fulltext index queries don't work. I tried to complete a following query: a) SELECT p.*, c.name AS categoryname FROM

Re: INSERT on duplicate UPDATE?

2004-10-18 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Sep 14, Yves Goergen wrote: Hi, I can vaguely remember there was something like INSERT... on duplicate key UPDATE... in MySQL, but the documentation search is almost as useful as I'm used to - it cannot tell me anything about this. Can you please? How does this work, what's the

Guest login permissions

2004-10-18 Thread Bartis, Robert M (Bob)
I have been working to configure MS Access 2000 as a front-end to an application running MySQL 4.0.20-standard. Our thinking was to have a guest login with minimal privileges (Select only) setup as the default on each users PC. This would allow anyone on the team to access the DB using the

Re: many fields or many tables? (Understanding DB design)

2004-10-18 Thread Brian
Timothy, Definately follow the advice that Shawn gave you. Doing it this way will make it easy to have any number of emails per person without have to know how many beforehand . Here's an example below: Table USERS: userid=15 fname='Timothy' lname='Luoma' Table EMAILS: userid=15

Re: many fields or many tables? (Understanding DB design)

2004-10-18 Thread Timothy Luoma
Ok, this makes a lot of sense now. (As usual, what seems like more work initially pays off in the end.) Here's a specific question. The parent project is called TiM. We will, at times, want to pull out information for *everyone*. But more often we will want to pull out information just from

Complex update query

2004-10-18 Thread Mauricio Pellegrini
Hi, I don't know if this is possible ( my experience with SQL is very short) but I need to update table A from table B but saving the Old values from certain columns into table C. In other words I have 3 tables A,B,C. Table A is going to be updated with values from table B, but I have to keep

Re: Which Filesystem to choose?

2004-10-18 Thread Daniel Kasak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a new Opteron-Based MySQL-Server. The only thing I'm unsure about is which filesystem to choose.. ext3? ReiserFS? XFS? What's your experience? Thanks chris I've found XFS to be painfully slow. I haven't tried ext3. I have used reiser3 on our

Preserving backslashes in DML

2004-10-18 Thread Tom Kirkman
What are the options available for inserting\updating a MySQL table VARCHAR with a string containing backslash characters so that the backslash characters are preserved as is? For example, the UNC string '\\MyServer\MyDir file:///\\MyServer\MyDir ' would be changed on the way in to the VARCHAR to

Is it possible to export column headings with data?

2004-10-18 Thread Damon Card
I am using SELECT statements to write some files via INTO OUTFILE. This has been working fine, but now I have the need to export the column headings from the MySQL tables along with the column contents. Is this possible? If so, how? Ex. SELECT stock, vin, color, mileage, price, cylinders,

Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Rhino
Can anyone tell me how to make a scriptcontaining MySQL commands also execute an OS command? For instance, given this script, called Load.sql: -- use SFL; #Load the data from the export file that was exported from QA as a standard#ASCII file.load data infile

RE: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Hi Rhino, This works, however I can't remember how to suppress the column heading. If you can do that, you can put anything you like in. [EMAIL PROTECTED] loganda]$ echo set @thing='here we go';select @thing| mysql -u root -p outfile Enter password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] loganda]$ cat outfile

Table Lock Delays and Connection Pooling

2004-10-18 Thread Aaron
Hi all , I have a quick question regarding table locking. This is a snippet referring to when table locking is disadvantageous: Another client issues another SELECT statement on the same table. Because UPDATE has higher priority than SELECT, this SELECT will wait for the UPDATE to finish. It

RE: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
After re-reading your email in not so quite a rush 8-) Further to that, you can use the system command to run an OS command eg. system echo thing; mysql system echo thing; thing mysql Regards David Logan Database Administrator HP Managed Services 148 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000

Re: many fields or many tables? (Understanding DB design)

2004-10-18 Thread Brian
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:49:22 -0400, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, this makes a lot of sense now. (As usual, what seems like more work initially pays off in the end.) Here's a specific question. The parent project is called TiM. We will, at times, want to pull out

Re: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Rhino
Sorry, you still haven't got it;-) I want the echo command to be in the *script*, not to be supplied at the command line. Is there some way to put a mix of MySQL commands and OS commands into a script and have both executed successfully via: mysql -u myid -pmypass Load.sql Load.out Rhino

Fatal Error on db

2004-10-18 Thread John
I am using php/mysql for a program and everything installed fine but when I try to open it up I get this error: Fatal Error : Couldn't find local config file. File Name : /program/admin/index.php Error Code : err01 Time :18 Oct 2004, 07:19:44 pm PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function:

RE: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
The only way to mix and match with an .sql script would be to use the system command. The example I showed below would echo the text required and that would be diverted to Load.out file eg. -- use SFL; system echo 'my choice of text'; system cat /etc/passwd; system cat

Re: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Victor Pendleton
If you are on an *nix system you can try \! echo Hello test.txt Rhino wrote: Sorry, you still haven't got it;-) I want the echo command to be in the *script*, not to be supplied at the command line. Is there some way to put a mix of MySQL commands and OS commands into a script and have both

Re: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Rhino
I thought you'd nailed it when I read your note but I found that your suggestion didn't work. When I tried executing the script with this added to it: system echo 'hi there'; I got this on the command line: sh: line 1: echo 'hi there': command not found I tried doing a man system and got an

Re: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Brian
try: system echo hi there; without the single quotes :) On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:04:19 -0400, Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought you'd nailed it when I read your note but I found that your suggestion didn't work. When I tried executing the script with this added to it: system echo

Re: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Rhino
I got basically the same error: sh: line 1: echo Hi there: command not found I know that echo works; I can do: echo Hello or echo 'Hello' on the command line and the result is Hello. However, when I do this on a command line: system I get: -bash: system: command not found The problem

RE: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Sweet, Charles E
Brian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try: system echo hi there; without the single quotes :) On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:04:19 -0400, Rhino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought you'd nailed it when I read your note but I found that your suggestion didn't work. When I tried executing the

Re: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Brian
No, the system command is part of the mysql interpreter, do a \h and see if it's listed, if it isn't then there is only one other way to do it. Split your sql script up into several pieces and have a shell script call it like this: mysql script1.sql echo here's some output mysql script2.sql echo

first day of week/month

2004-10-18 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, I know this might be a little silly, but can anyone give me a example on how to get the date of the first day of a week and month? -- Chris. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Table Lock Delays and Connection Pooling

2004-10-18 Thread Eric Bergen
Every new connection is considered a client. It's a bad idea to try to do your own scheduling client side to try to defeat table locks because MySQL can proceed with other clients as soon as the locks are freed vs your application waiting for a complete result set to return before proceeding with

How to remove an index

2004-10-18 Thread leegold
I want to remove the index I made below. I intend to then redo it because I forgot to add a third field. How do I remove this index? Alter...? Thanks. mysql ALTER TABLE page - ADD FULLTEXT (title), - ADD FULLTEXT (descrip), - ADD FULLTEXT (title, descrip); Query OK, 1 row

Re: Script question

2004-10-18 Thread Rhino
Thanks, Charles! Your suggestion about removing the quotes and apostrophes altogether did the trick! Rhino - Original Message - From: Sweet, Charles E [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:22 PM Subject: RE: Script question Brian mailto:[EMAIL

Re: How to remove an index

2004-10-18 Thread Aman Raheja
alter table tabble-name drop index index-name For details http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/ALTER_TABLE.html Aman Raheja leegold wrote: I want to remove the index I made below. I intend to then redo it because I forgot to add a third field. How do I remove this index? Alter...? Thanks. mysql ALTER

how to use mysql client source filename command through DBI/DBD

2004-10-18 Thread Sanjeev Sagar
Hello All, I am trying to create a perl DBI/DBD script for creating a database initial build. My input is a extract file, which is a mysqldump result file with --opt and -B option. I am using DBIx::DWIW. I am able to open a successful database handler. I am having code like my