Programmer looking for work

2001-02-24 Thread programmer
Hello 'mysql', I found your address on http://lists.mysql.com. I'm a freelance programmer from British Columbia, Canada, with a college degree (well, almost) in computer science, and four years experience. I'm currently looking for programming contracts that I can fulfill over the Internet.

Re: MySql Install problems

2001-02-24 Thread Verdius
These RPM's tend to set you up to run mysql automatically upon boot. Instead of trying to run mysql, just log into it: % mysql -h localhost -u root -p press enter then it will prompt you for root user password. Enter it and off you go. ~Shilo --- David Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

importing data from excel

2001-02-24 Thread TEXLID_SUPPORT
Hi, Could anyone please let me know how I can transfer data from excel to a mysql database? If it is possible. The data is stored in an excel file on my PC. And I want to transfer the contents (about 500 records with 20 fields) of this excel file to a mysql table on a remote linux server.

Re[2]: More Innobase questions (Was: RE: Innobase)

2001-02-24 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hello Heikki, Friday, February 23, 2001, 6:51:33 PM, you wrote: HT Peter and Sander, HT relevant questions, I will try to answer them. Good questions - I have a few more :) A) why does it seem to use fixed-size storage units. (The files) HT I have copied the concept of a tablespace

Regarding Downloads -very urgent

2001-02-24 Thread RobinJerard
Sir, i Like to work on Mysql, in Windows 95 or Windows Nt, i saw ur site, it is nice, what should i download from the net , because lot of softwares are there and also i like to work in Php - server side on Pws or iis as web server . is there is any dll or api for this . are u

Re: Antwort: Saving pictures in MySql

2001-02-24 Thread Danie Weideman
Hi All Thanks for the info but I need to be able to read a selected file from client host and write this to te db. I use this to get the file from client Picture:input type="file" name="picture_path"br input type="Submit" name="submit" value="Enter information" this gets the path and file

RE: INSERT/REPLACE lock up in 3.23.33

2001-02-24 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Steven Roussey writes: Some clarification. On this table there are a lot of indexes, but there is one unique/primary key, and it is that one that the replace should be checking for. The other indexes have the same fields in different places though. Table key def is something like this:

Re: Silent column changes and Indexes

2001-02-24 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Mark Chalkley writes: According to the MySQL manual (section 7.7.1), CHAR columns defined to be greater than 3 chars in length are converted to type VARCHAR. I understand the space efficiency issues involved here, but when the column is used in an index, doesn't that impose a performance

Table joining/setup advise?

2001-02-24 Thread Website4S
Hi, I`m setting up a email system, the same type of system as Yahoh Groups, Topica etc.. I`m just in need of some advise as to how best to handle my tables. At the moment I have the following tables setup.. Lists - Stores info about the list ListOwners - Stores all List Owners info

Re: MySQL Gui Won't connect

2001-02-24 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Christopher McClan writes: Hello, The staticly compiled mySQL gui, comes up with the following when I start mysqlgui : Can't connect to local mySQL server through socket (111) I'm doing this as root, I have set a password, and managed to create a databse (using mysqladmin),

Random record from a table

2001-02-24 Thread Sheni R. Meledath
Dear MySQL masters, Can I select a random record from a table. After doing a query on a table can i retrieve a record randomly. Is there a way in MySQL to achieve this. If, can you please send me details. thanks Sheni R Meledath [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Update Command

2001-02-24 Thread Marcus Ouimet
Could someone help me out with the following line I think the slashes are causing the problem but I am not sure: - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/

Update Command... Sorry About the the Last Post

2001-02-24 Thread Marcus Ouimet
Can someone help me with the following command? The slashes seem to be causing a problem. It doesn't find /images/covers? update products set products_image='images/covers' where products_image='/images/covers%'; - Before

Re: Building MySQLGUI

2001-02-24 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Hackley, Susan writes: Help I ran into this problem while compiling. root @ fwnau060.usco.com:/root/mysqlgui/fltk-1.0.10 = make === making src === Compiling Fl.o...

Re: FreeBSD

2001-02-24 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Artem Koutchine writes: Hi! I have posted a message about INSERT DELAYED crashing the 3.23.33 server build from tar ball on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE using --felide-constructors --fno-exceptions --fno-rtti to make it work on high loads. However, with or without mentioned compiler

INSERT DELAYED DOES NOT WORK (Sinisa, please, read this carefully)

2001-02-24 Thread Artem Koutchine
Hi! I have posted a message about INSERT DELAYED crashing the 3.23.33 server build from tar ball on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE using --felide-constructors --fno-exceptions --fno-rtti to make it work on high loads. However, with or without mentioned compiler params i could never do any INSERT DELAYED on

RE: Random record from a table

2001-02-24 Thread Cal Evans
Check the archives, we had this discussion a few weeks ago and someone came up with a good solution. Cal http://www.calevans.com -Original Message- From: Sheni R. Meledath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:05 AM To: MySQL Masters Subject: Random record from

?difference between Primary Key, Key, Index, Unique

2001-02-24 Thread Karl Stubsjoen
Hello, I'm trying to understand MySQL indexing but am having trouble understanding the differnences (and when to use each) between Primary Key, Key, Unique, an Index. Can you help? Thank you!

Help with Create Table

2001-02-24 Thread Karl Stubsjoen
Hello, I need some help. Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong here: create table MeetScores ( MeetScoresId default 100 not null auto_increment, meet varchar(5) not null default '', sess varchar(3) not null default '', GymnastNumber integer not null default 0, Gymnast varchar(30) not null

GROUP BY Aggregate Funtion?

2001-02-24 Thread Lee Jenkins
Hi all, I'm trying to get a query to work but am having no luck. It seems so simple, it should work, but obviously, I'm doing something wrong. Table: Employees Fields: FirstName LastName EmployeeID Table: Sales Fields: SubTotal EmployeeID What I want to do is

Re: MySQL GUI

2001-02-24 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Ward, Brian writes: Any idea why the create or edit table don't seem to do anything? I select them and nothing happens? Explanation is simple. One is on TODO and second one is in the works. Regards, Sinisa __ _ _ ___ == MySQL AB /*/\*\/\*\ /*/

Re: Help with Create Table

2001-02-24 Thread Irmund Thum
Karl Stubsjoen schrieb: Hello, I need some help. Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong here: create table MeetScores ( MeetScoresId default 100 not null auto_increment, Thanks! test: create table MeetScores (MeetScoresId DEFAULT '100' not null auto_increment,primary key (MeetScoresId));

Re: Antwort: Saving pictures in MySql

2001-02-24 Thread Irmund Thum
Danie Weideman schrieb: I played around with fread PHP function but with no-luck how about fopen(), or $fp=fsockopen( "$host", 80,); $anfrage="GET $seite HTTP/1.0\r\n"); etc. IrmundThum - Before posting, please check:

problem when trying to connect to MySQL

2001-02-24 Thread Saenz, Edgar R.
Hi, I have Downloaded Binary distribution and when I runned /usr/local/mysql/configure it told me that I did not needed to do that, that is a binary distribution and that it was going to start the mysqld for me along with some initialization tables or data from /usr/local/mysql/data. But when I

Re: Request...

2001-02-24 Thread Brady Orand
Get the New Riders MySQL book. It is a very good tutorial and reference on MySQL. You should also look at the online documentation. The setup and configuration of MySQL is very simple. In addition, my preliminary test show that it is very fast. I have almost 500,000 records stored and

Re: MySql Install problems

2001-02-24 Thread Brady Orand
Did you set up the database with the scripts/mysql_install_db command? Brady... Original Message Follows From: David Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MySql Install problems Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 01:59:56 -0500 Description I have installed MySql version

configure fails

2001-02-24 Thread Syed Muhammad Atif
Dear Mysql, After unpacking Mysql mysql-3.23.33.tar on solaris x86 with gcc 2.95. i run configure with CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -DHAVE_CURSES_H" CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -DHAVE_CURSES_H" ./configure

What index is needed to speed up query?

2001-02-24 Thread Ralph Graulich
Hi folks, after having carefully tuned all statements within a larger web based application rewriting SQL statements and optimizing them by adding indices, there are still two statements left, which are awkward concerning performance. Maybe I am just too blind to see how to get them working

Is there BDB Table version binary for Windows 95-NT ?

2001-02-24 Thread Kenan Buyuk
Is there mysql 's BDB table version download for Windows 95 - NT ? - Regards Yusuf Incekara Avukatpro Limites Sirketi http://www.avukatpro.com for Mysql Visual Basic Samples http://www.avukatpro.com/mysql.html

How fast are BDB tables really??

2001-02-24 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello list I've just installed mysql-3.23.33 with db-3.2.9a (linux on a ppc) and still have dog slow bdb tables with data errors. How fast are bdb tables really, for those where they work? Doing 3 queries/sec is not a real option for me. Note that I had to change the makefile in

skip_counter bug - Does it fixed ?

2001-02-24 Thread llimz
Hi! Does the skip_counter bug is fixed or how to fix it ? Thanks Jimmy Visitez mon site web: http://www.llimzsoft.com/ __ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur,

Strange database-problem: deletion of rows

2001-02-24 Thread Katja Ide
Hi everyone, I've got a problem with my MySQL-Database that I've been dealing with for nearly two weeks now and I don't seem to get a clue of what it's about. My webspace-provider (Schlund Partner in Germany: http://www.schlund.de) doesn't have a solution either, nor have some of my

Re: Stumped

2001-02-24 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
This should be very simple, but for some reason, my query does not return the desired results I have the following two tables: CREATE TABLE Rank ( Rank CHAR(40) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, ReportsTo CHAR(40) NULL ); CREATE TABLE ROSTER ( EntryNumber INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT

load data infile / myisamchk / 3.23.32 bug

2001-02-24 Thread Paul Buder
I posted this problem before and heard nothing, but this time I compiled mysqld to debug and have posted some of the debugging output. The following worked fine under 3.23.8. It fails miserably under 3.23.32 - also 3.23.33 but I used 3.23.32 for the output below. It seems that mysqlimport reads

how to optimize for large databases

2001-02-24 Thread ryc
First let me explain what I am trying to do. I want to archive many many messages into a mysql database. The format is pretty simple... either the message is a parent, or it is a reply. The problem is that some of the queries are taking 5-10 seconds, which is not acceptable for my application.

Replication question.

2001-02-24 Thread
Hi... If slave went down, while master worked and some update made on master. after slave restart, slave could not get update information and slave's data unchanged. What Can I do for this situation? Thank you for advanced answer! ---

Slightly offtopic...

2001-02-24 Thread Peter Skipworth
Sorry for going slightly off-topic...I realise this is more a Perl question , but suspect someone here might know the answer. I'm halfway through writing a module (it's at alpha stage) to cache mysql/DBI query results, either within RAM using shared memory or to disk using Storable. Testing

Searching Multiple Tables

2001-02-24 Thread Sander, Ryan
I doing a newspaper site. My database has a different table for each category (local, sports, etc). All of the columns are the same for each table (Headline, byline, body, etc). Is there any way to search all of the tables at once (since they all have the same columns)? To further

Only changing part of a field...

2001-02-24 Thread Marcus Ouimet
One quick question, I am trying just replace part of the entry ie: change: /image/covers/009.jpg to image/covers/09.jpg I have tried to update products set products_image='image/covers' where products_image like '/images/covers%'; but it seems to replace the whole field and not leave the

Re: Stumped

2001-02-24 Thread Cory Whitesell
Many thanks. Problem is cured - Original Message - From: "Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Cory Whitesell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 4:26 PM Subject: Re: Stumped This should be very simple, but for some reason, my query

Re: Searching Multiple Tables

2001-02-24 Thread Fred van Engen
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:05:19PM -0500, Sander, Ryan wrote: I doing a newspaper site. My database has a different table for each category (local, sports, etc). All of the columns are the same for each table (Headline, byline, body, etc). Is there any way to search all of the tables at

Re: Only changing part of a field...

2001-02-24 Thread Tõnu Samuel
Marcus Ouimet wrote: One quick question, I am trying just replace part of the entry ie: change: /image/covers/009.jpg to image/covers/09.jpg I have tried to update products set 'image/covers' where products_image like '/images/covers%'; but it seems to replace the whole field and not

Re: ?difference between Primary Key, Key, Index, Unique

2001-02-24 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 09:43:45AM -0700, Karl Stubsjoen wrote: I'm trying to understand MySQL indexing but am having trouble understanding the differnences (and when to use each) between Primary Key, Key, Unique, an Index. Can you help? Index and Key are the same. A Primary Key is a

Index Usage weirdness

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Chalkley
I have a question about index usage. I've got a query that's showing up in the -slow log (it's taking less than long_query_time seconds, but I've got --log-long-format set), indicating that it's not using an index, and I don't understand why. Given two tables: CREATE TABLE c1 (id INT(8) NOT

can create, cannot drop...?

2001-02-24 Thread tlr7425
i'm newbie. how come i can create but cannot drop? (errno: 21) i am root. mysqladmin asks if i am sure... i say 'yes' and i get the same (can't rmdir. errno: 21) TIA - Before posting, please check:

Re: Index Usage weirdness

2001-02-24 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:33:40PM -0500, Mark Chalkley wrote: I have a question about index usage. I've got a query that's showing up in the -slow log (it's taking less than long_query_time seconds, but I've got --log-long-format set), indicating that it's not using an index, and I don't

Re: Index Usage weirdness

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Chalkley
At this point, there's only 1 row in companies, and 8 in contacts. table typepossible_keys key key_len ref rowsExtra companies system PRIMARY,comp_id 1 Using filesort contactsALL cont_comp_id_idx

Re:Re: Replication question.

2001-02-24 Thread
It sound like you are using a version of MySQL that had a replication bug in it. I suspect that if you upgrade to 3.23.33 the problem will go away. Jeremy No, Master is 3.23.33, and slave is 3.23.32 The manual says "Shutting down the slave(cleanly) is also safe, as it keeps