Speed of mysql

2001-02-10 Thread chchen
hi,all i have a strange question. I use FreeBSD4.2-RELEASE + mysql-3.23.32 Dual PIII667+ 768MB RAM I have a table like this CREATE TABLE ABC ( A int(10) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL, B int(10) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL, C0 bigint(20) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL, C1 bigint(20)

Newbi: mysqlgui wont connect

2001-02-10 Thread Kevin H
I have mysql working, but I can't get mysqlgui to connect. I've tried the 'bin/mysqladmin version' test and that works ok, it's just that mysqlgui doesnt connect for some reason. A test doing 'telnet localhost 3306' connects (but later disconnects, some msg about foreign host...), I just

Re: Speed of mysql

2001-02-10 Thread chchen
oh. no.i am not talking about of the speed of SELECT. my problem is the speed of INSERT and UPDATE. evenmore indexes only slow down the speend of insert,update. i ruduce the index to only i need. - What sort of queries are you doing on this large table? I notice you only have

mysqlbug

2001-02-10 Thread Roopa Rannorey
Sir, Iam Roopa mailing you from linux learning centre. I have a slight problem regarding mysql-3.23.22-6 I have installed this for the first time using rpm packages.after installation when i run mysql_install_db , but when i try to start mysql daemon using safe_mysqld am encountering an error

error 104

2001-02-10 Thread Adam Ward
Trying to setup mysql on a cobolt raq4 however i keep getting an error 1064 does anyone know what could be causing this. Regards Adam Ward - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)

RE: Conect MySql to ODBC

2001-02-10 Thread Roger Retamoza
Alexander. Thank you for the interest. I wait for to understand my unfortunate groins. My problem is that when I am going to conect to MySql throuhgt ODBC is very slow in the begining, I want to use another method, if you know another one that is not ODBC I will thank you. I use Visual Foxpro

Re: Mysql Stability

2001-02-10 Thread Gerald R. Jensen
We have one (WinNT) installation with a database that has grown to +250mb. This particular database was ported to MySQL from MSSQL7. Our experience has been that if you supply adequate resources for the server (RAM, CPU and Virtual Memory) the size of the database only becomes an issue during

Hi,

2001-02-10 Thread Murat YESILDAL
Hi, I have a problem i was using mysql and it was very well but yesterday it didn't work then i removed it and reinstalled it , it worked 2 times and then again it doesn't work, when i run mysqld it doesn't run in the background of windows, and in the error file it says 13:05:14

Re: Newbie Questions

2001-02-10 Thread Lad . Gaal
You're correct in that /var/lib/mysql/mysql/* was not owned by mysql. I did a chown mysql.mysql and then did a chmod 775 on the directory. So I still get basically the same thing. I enter: mysqladmin -u root -p password meg123 Enter password:(I leave it blank and CR) mysqladmin: unable to

AW: Hi,

2001-02-10 Thread Dingfelder Andy
Hello Murrat, is it possible, that someone deletes your mysql-database or the host table? Maybe yourself? The server needs this table for the "authorization rules", and a deletion should be avoided! Hope that helps. Regards Andy -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Murat YESILDAL

Re: HELP!!!

2001-02-10 Thread Mailing List Address
Yes I tried that too... Same stupid stuff happening clay bond writes: On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Mailing List Address wrote: Help! [ ... ] 6 rows in set (0.00 sec) (The output should be mysql and test.) Looks to me like you didn't run mysql_install_db -- /"\ \ / ASCII

Re: HELP!!!

2001-02-10 Thread Mailing List Address
I did.. I tried everything... [root@cents /usr/local/mysql]# chmod -R 0777 var [root@cents /usr/local/mysql]# llm total 2.1M drwxr-sr-x 12 mysqlmysql1.0k Feb 10 00:12 . drwxr-sr-x 26 root root 1.0k Jan 28 00:59 .. drwxr-sr-x 2 mysqlmysql1.0k Feb 9 23:48

RE: GUI Client Java

2001-02-10 Thread Carsten H. Pedersen
I remember trying out a really nice Java GUI for mysql, had a yellow and gray color scheme if I remember correctly, and was very nicely done. The only thing I can find the the GUI clients page at mysql.com is one so-so client that doesn't do what I need. Anyone maintaining a list of all the

RE: ISAM and MYISAM

2001-02-10 Thread Carsten H. Pedersen
Hi, I've read some people talking about ISAM and MYISAM table. I dont understand what are those tables and can anyone explain to me and the difference of each table. and also which one has better performance? Read The Fine Manual, chapter 8: MySQL table types / Carsten -- Carsten H.

Re: Newbie Questions and a resolution

2001-02-10 Thread Lad . Gaal
Well, I finally got that portion working. After I putzed around for awhile, I said to myself - Self, With all this putzing, I probably need to restart the mysqld server. So I tried that from linuxconf and for some reason it just didn't want to restart! So, I went and did a /etc/rc5.d/S85mysqld

Re: ISAM and MYISAM

2001-02-10 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
I'm new too, but a good starting point would be: http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/a/Table_types.html regards, thalis ---+ You're definitely on their list. The correct question to ask is what list it is. ---+ On Sat, 10 Feb

Installation error Linux RedHat 7.0

2001-02-10 Thread Larry Marshall
On issuing the command: rpm -i MySQL-32.23.32.-1.i386.rpm the following error listed: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13) -- The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format. If you have just upgraded the rpm package you need to convert your

Re: ORDER BY RAND() Too Slow! Alternatives?

2001-02-10 Thread Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse
Could you do something like: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE temptable ( pk INTEGER, rand INTEGER ); INSERT INTO temptable SELECT yourpk,Rand() FROM yourtable; SELECT yourtable.* FROM yourtable,temptable WHERE pk=yourpk ORDER BY rand; DROP TABLE temptable; That might be quicker than your current

Add, modify and delete entries with PHP or Perl

2001-02-10 Thread Nuno Lopes
Hi, I would like to know how to add, modify and delete entries with PHP or Perl, because I want to create a table in mysql and and don't know how. The table look like this: -| time spent on-line | leads | mailling list |e-mail |

Re: a bug during tar .........

2001-02-10 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, 163 wrote: x mysql-3.23.32/sql-bench/Results-linux/big-tables-mysql-Linux_2.0.33_i586-cmp-ms-sql,mysql,sybase, 684 bytes, 2 tape blocks UX:tar: ERROR: Cannot set time on ././@LongLink: No such file or directory UX:tar: ERROR: Directory checksum error what's the wrong

RE: ORDER BY RAND() Too Slow! Alternatives?

2001-02-10 Thread Carsten H. Pedersen
Hi there, In the quest to get a random row from a table, "order by rand()" has proven too inefficient and slow. It's slow because MySQL apparently selects ALL rows into memory, then randomly shuffles ALL of them, then gives you the first one - very inefficient. There are a few other ways

Repair with key cache error?

2001-02-10 Thread Paul Buder
Description: I have this little script (1) that builds a table each night. For quite a while the output shows a normal load data infile (2). Then, it switches to a state of 'Repair with keycache' (3). This just started happening with mysql 3.23.32. Until I upgraded a few days ago it was not a

Re: Different versions causing this?

2001-02-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 02:57:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently asked for some help with join order and it's now fixed, kinda :) On a web server running mySQL version 3.22.32 on a Linux box (cobalt RAQ) I get the following output for this query: EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM

Re: compiling without socket support

2001-02-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. 'localhost' is a special name for MySQL, which implies to connect via mysql.sock. You don't need to recompile, just give the host name (like test.earthlink.net or whatever it is) or IP address of your PC and MySQL will use TCP sockets. Bye, Benjamin. PS: I don't really know

Re: Connection closing problem!

2001-02-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. It looks like you are using persistent connections with SQL server, but not with MySQL (time_wait and close_wait are states of a TCP connection after it was closed by the appliction). I don't know much about PHP, but there is somewhere a option to influence whether you want persistent

Re: Is it a bug???

2001-02-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. '0' (i.e. Zero) has a special meaning for AUTO_INCREMENT, namely the same as NULL, which will choose a automatically a new value for the column. (Btw, are you sure, that you get the error for the row which was '0' and not for the one which was '72' - the latter sounds more probably to me).

Re: Data modeling tool

2001-02-10 Thread Jon Rosenberg
I wish, ERWin is wonderful! - Original Message - From: "Cal Evans" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 6:41 PM Subject: Data modeling tool As much as I love creating models by hand, my databases are growing to the point where I need a tool to

Re: Max query size

2001-02-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:00:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I was wondering if anyone knows how big a qury can be in MySQL 2.23.14??? First 2.23.14 is not a known MySQL release. You probably mean 3.23.14. If so, you are still using an alpha release and should upgrade to

re : Hi

2001-02-10 Thread Murat YESILDAL
Hi Andy, I dont think so to be honest it could be but i removed mysql and reinstalled it several times and each time, it works for a few times and then it collapses... any other idea ??? murat, At 19:13 10.02.2001 +0100, Dingfelder Andy wrote: Hello Murrat, is it possible, that someone

Re: Data modeling tool

2001-02-10 Thread Mark Chalkley
I haven't tried ERWin, but CASE Studio (www.casestudio.com) is extremely good, offers a trial download, and does support MySQL. Mark Chalkleyi - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)

Re: Data modeling tool

2001-02-10 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Cal Evans wrote: As much as I love creating models by hand, my databases are growing to the point where I need a tool to help me "see" them. Does anyone know of a tool like ERWin or ER/Studio that supports MySQL? I have a project called Alzabo (alzabo.sourceforge.net)

Exporting data

2001-02-10 Thread Mike Yuen
How do I dump all the contents of a table called "clients" into a .txt file (or anyother kind of file for that matter). Thanks for your help. Mike - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the

Re: Exporting data

2001-02-10 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
Hello, if you want to have a file with just the bare data contents of the table, you simply do: mysql SELECT * FROM table_name INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/lala.txt'; otherwise if you want your data represented in SQL, so that you can reconstruct the table by importing at a later time (a backup form):

Re: Exporting data

2001-02-10 Thread Gerald R. Jensen
Despite the temptation to suggest RTFM ... mysqldump database table(s)textfile.txt ~ or ~ mysqldump -uUserID -pPassword database table(s)textfile.txt If you type mysqldump|more at the command prompt, the syntax for this command is fully documented. You will also find the MySQL Manual to be

Password problems

2001-02-10 Thread Eddie Rhodes
Hi all, The resolution to my problem is probably simple for many of you. However, I'm new to MySQL and php and am having difficulties. However, I'm ignorant, not stupid, and can follow directions. My setup is as follow: I had My SQL, php4 (with Zend) and phpMyAdmin installed on my Red Hat

RE: Password problems

2001-02-10 Thread Daniel Von Fange
It looks like MySQL is working fine, phpMyAdmin just needs to know your new password so that it can connect to the database. Just edit the "config.inc.php" file in the phpMyAdmin directory. Find the lines: $cfgServers[1]['user'] = 'root';// MySQL user (only needed with basic

Re: Password problems

2001-02-10 Thread Rolf Hopkins
Just to add to that, suggest you create another user, other than root, and use that instead. Look up Grant in chapter 7 of the manual on how to create users. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Von Fange" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Eddie Rhodes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Trouble creating user

2001-02-10 Thread Rolf Hopkins
Firstly, have you flushed privileges? Secondly, I think you want "mysql -p -uuser samp_db". You have already created the database, right? - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 6:41 Subject: Trouble creating

Re: Persistant Connection

2001-02-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:53:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning: We have a system of databases (in the plural) which number in the hundreds on individual servers. I want to open a persistant connection on the server and switch databases without closing the handle in

Re: Database size estimations

2001-02-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. First, there is somewhere a chapter about disk usage in the manual (too lazy to look it up). On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:51:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if someone could help advise me on calculating database size estimations. Assume the following table: Field

Re: Update: Status of MySQL 4.0/Innobase/transactions row level locks

2001-02-10 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:34:38PM +0200, you wrote [...] 5. Add a timeout to lock waiting: Innobase can detect and resolve deadlocks within its own lock table, but if a user uses also MySQL LOCK TABLES... or BDB locks, a deadlock can occur where Innobase does not know of all the locks:

look forward to contacting Wenhong Liu

2001-02-10 Thread Hong Niu
Excuse me ,I am looking for Wenhong Liu, Ph.D. Tulance University 1995, BS Naikai University 1990. Would you please give her contacting information,or forward my information to her. Thanks for your help! Niu Hong Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone:(617)

thread_cache_size on linux

2001-02-10 Thread Byron Albert
I am trying to tune mysql on linux for a web based application. Reading throw the docs I found thread_cache_size I checked what it was set to by default and found that it was 0. In the docs it says That it doesn't make much difference if you have a good thread implementation. So my major

RE: Data modeling tool

2001-02-10 Thread Michael Lépine
I asked a similar question recently and as a result of my searching, I found a moderately priced, $99 (I think), data modeling tool from XTG (download here): http://www.xtgsystems.com/download.php3 I downloaded it and set up a few tables (only 4 are allowed with eval), then generated the sequel

Re: DELETING CACHE

2001-02-10 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 03:24:42PM +0533, Jaya Thakar(ASI 2001) wrote: Can anybody tell me ,how to remove all the visited pages from the cache after logout that is after invalidating the session in java servlets and mysql, so that pressing the back button of the browser doesn't displays

Re: Mysql Stability

2001-02-10 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 11:32:25AM +, guru prasad wrote: I have a site with the database of size 90 MB on Mysql-3.22.25. It is performing quite well right now, Please let us know the maximum limit of the database size that Mysql can handle efficiently. It really depends on the

RE: ORDER BY RAND() Too Slow! Alternatives?

2001-02-10 Thread Robert Barrington
?php $query = "SELECT col1, col2 FROM the_table ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1"; $result = mysql_query($query) or die("could not query"); $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); print $row[col1]; print "P"; print $row[col2]; ? Robert B. Barrington GetMart Commercial Ecom: Web Administrator

first day glitch

2001-02-10 Thread RAJARSHI ADHIKARY
I am the first day user. Do I need to type the commands all over again if it is wrong?

~/.mysql_history

2001-02-10 Thread Thomas DeMartini
I've been looking for a way to disable logging to mysql_history on a global basis. Does anyone know of a way to do this? If so, please e-mail me at this address (I don't check the list). If not, can someone tell me how to submit a feature request? My current work-around is to create the

Configure script fails trying to get size of char type in Solaris 8

2001-02-10 Thread Super-User
Description: running ./configure with no options works fine until the test program to determine the size of the char data type is compiled and run. I've compiled and run the sample program manually, and added a printf() statement to show the result that's placed

Date???

2001-02-10 Thread Website4S
Hi, I`m selecting information from my MySQL as follows... Select * FROM Features WHERE Platform='pc' and Public='Y' Order by DateTime ASC LIMIT 0,3 I am storing the field DateTime as a date when selected it looks like this 2001-05-05 but I want to change it so it looks like May 5th 2001,

Re: ORDER BY RAND() Too Slow! Alternatives?

2001-02-10 Thread Stephen Waits
"Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" wrote: SELECT @lines:=COUNT(id) FROM table; SET @rand=CEILING(RAND()*@lines); SELECT * FROM table WHERE (@rand:=@rand-1)+id=id; Never mind on the "it doesn't work on my system" more like it didn't work on my brain :) Works fine. And now that I ponder it a bit