On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:35:04PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeremy, > > Reading through the TOC, it sounds like a book I'd definitely buy!
Great! > At 15:58 2002-01-10, you wrote: > >2. How to cover "common problems" in a way that folks can find them > > without reading the whole book? Maybe this is just an indexing > > issue. An item that Monty brought up is MySQL's non-graceful way > > of handles running out of disk space. That'll come up somewhere, > > but where would someone expect to find it? Should there be a list > > of things that every MySQL DBA needs to know? Maybe a short list > > that says "read chapter XX to learn more about this topic" and > > "read chapter YY to learn more about that topic"? > > You mention treating my.cnf, MySQL's Configuration File in chapter > 1. But a common problem is the role of my.ini on Windows and where > MySQL on Windows finds what (I think my.cnf is completely ignored, > but I'm not quite sure; and the location of my.ini is frequently > wrong (installer bug). Some of that is maybe more beginners stuff, > but I'm suggesting you do at least treat both files. It's covered in Chapter 1 now. Thanks for the input. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 22 days, processed 513,719,517 queries (266/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
