Matthew Wilson writes:
[...] >I suspect this is a universal problem. All general advice would be >appreciated. Perhaps a stored procedure is not the way to go. Mysql 5.1 has CREATE EVENT, that somewhat mimics Oracle's jobs. I prefer to run a shell script in a cron job, like this: #!/bin/bash mysql -NB -h... -u... -p... <<EOSQL drop table if exists foo_new; create table foo_new as select...; drop table if exists foo; alter table foo_new rename to foo; EOSQL If it fails, then at least there will be something to work with. Not having the latest data is sometimes better than not having any data at all ;) -- To sto si frustriran, zavidan tko zna na cemu i sto ne vidis dalje od svoje guzice je tuzno. Da onda barem imas toliko samokontrole da sutis umjesto da pravis budalu od sebe... izgleda da si prestar da se promjenis na bolje. - Davor Pasaric, hr.comp.mac -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
