Re: Is there a way ?
Hello Miles, I'm a little rusty in my SQL statements, and I'm not all that certain that this can be done. IF I have a field with the contents like: http://beta.somedomain.com/url/url/url=2; where 2 is the record ID value. And I need to change the contents of That is rather unfortunate ... better change the design while you still can. Just add a column with a unique ID. In general, EVERY tables should have a primary key in order to identify each record. that field to read: http://www.somedomain.com/url/url/url=2; How would I accomplish this with a native SQL statement ? I was thinking that I'd just export the contents of the table, and do a text manipulation against the field, only to realize that the record id value is embedded in the link of the field. Which means that I can't change the record id value at all. Or turn off the auto increment of the keyfield because it will invalidate the records when its turned back on Any suggestions as to how I might clean this up See above, add a column, create a unique ID for it. With regards, Martijn Tonies Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com Download Database Workbench for Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase SQL Anywhere, MySQL, InterBase, NexusDB and Firebird! Database questions? Check the forum: http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Fulltext query expansion query
Hi, I'm currently working on a project which uses fuulltext searching. The with query expansion feature is useful, but I was wondering if there's any way to obtain the list of terms that the expanded query uses (other than those originally input, of course). Is that possible, and, if so, how? Thanks Mark -- Stuff: http://www.good-stuff.co.uk Blog: http://mark.goodge.co.uk -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Renaming a Database
I know the best way to rename a database is to use mysqldump, extract the database and then reload to the new database. (At least based on what I can find in the 12.1.32. RENAME DATABASE Syntax section of the documentation) That said... Is there anything wrong (dangerous, disasterous, etc) with stopping the MySQL service and renaming the folder in the MySQL data folder? By my logic (if I'm right) this should preserve any permissions on the folder and since the service is stopped it should simply find the new instance. I know in the past I've used a similar method with single tables (stop service, create a folder, drop in backups of tables, start service muck with them) and I've had no problems... but I'm hoping wiser minds will confirm I'll be okay OR that I shouldn't even try. All in all, I'm trying to find a way to minimize OUR development time as well as minimizing down time for the client. This would be a one time thing to bring the database name in line with the new product's newly picked conventions. (After we deployed four customers) If it matters two of the installations are on OSX running a stock MySQL 4.x installation and two are on Windows and I'm not certain the version without checking. Thanks! Matt -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Re: Renaming a Database
On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Matt Neimeyer wrote: I know the best way to rename a database is to use mysqldump, extract the database and then reload to the new database. (At least based on what I can find in the 12.1.32. RENAME DATABASE Syntax section of the documentation) That said... Is there anything wrong (dangerous, disasterous, etc) with stopping the MySQL service and renaming the folder in the MySQL data folder? By my logic (if I'm right) this should preserve any permissions on the folder and since the service is stopped it should simply find the new instance. If you have InnoDB tables, there will be a problem. InnoDB maintains the database name in the shared tablespace, and it will no longer be able to find those tables. -- Paul DuBois Sun Microsystems / MySQL Documentation Team Madison, Wisconsin, USA www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
