Re: MySQL and PHP4

2001-05-25 Thread Andrey Kotrekhov
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Scott Baker wrote: I don't agree. If mysql install in other directory then /usr/local you need use --with-mysql=mysqldir and sometimes --with-mysql-include and --with-mysql-lib options. Do you need to specify a directory? I just did --with-mysql At 01:14 PM 5/24/2001

SQL question (timestamps, backups)

2001-05-25 Thread Chris Petersen
Am I posting to the right list? I'm new to this thing. Anyway, I have an interesting, though I think not unusual predicament.. I'm maintaining a number of different tables that contain timestamp fields that keep track of the last time a record was modified. My problem is that if I want to

Re: MySQL front end tool

2001-05-25 Thread mySQLDAC
Hello Alice, Friday, May 25, 2001, 7:14:23 AM, you wrote: A Hi, i am a win2k professional user, A and i would like to get a mySQL front end tools which can make A mySQL to be work more user friendly. A currently i am using MySQL-Front, for those who had tried out others this kind of tools,

mysql.sock

2001-05-25 Thread Raymund D. Nones
hello, when i rebooted the system, an error occured : Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock I've already check var/lib/mysql directory and mysql.sock does exist.. how do i connect this ? why is it everytime i reboot the system it produces an error

Re: MySQL and PHP4

2001-05-25 Thread Sommai Fongnamthip
Dear, easy way to install another application with mysql is specify mysql dir and mysql data dir at installation. use this parameter while install mysql ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql \ -- this will install all mysql

Re: How many queries per second do you get?

2001-05-25 Thread Rafael Martinez
---Reply to mail from Nathanial Hendler about How many queries per second do you get? Hello, I was just looking at my MySQL databse using mytop and saw that I was getting over 60 queries per second. Can people give me an idea of how many queries per second they get? Hello I have a

synchronize database structure

2001-05-25 Thread Dorthe Luebbert
Hi, I am looking for an easy way to synchronize two mysql-databases (only the sql-structure). I want to compare two structure dumps, find out the differences and get alter table statements as result. CU Dorthe - Before

backup .db table

2001-05-25 Thread hatim
hy i m using mysql-3.23.38.tar.gz in redhat6.2 i have .db tables 1-how can i bakup them ? when i use mysqldump or a simple copy , it s failed : when i remove table to another mysql server : the server dont read the .db files even if their size are he same then the original i can t export .db

Re: missing libcrypt_i.so.1 file

2001-05-25 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Stelian Anton writes: Hello All, When I check to running the mysql_install_db I have the error: root@gem:/usr/local/mysqlscripts/mysql_install_db ld.so.1: ./bin/my_print_defaults: fatal: libcrypt_i.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory Environment: System: SunOS

Install MySQL on windows 98

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Castiglione
Hello all I have try several time to install MySQL on my windows 98 machine with no luck I have look thur the readme file. It seems to load but will not start. Any help will be welcome Paul

Database accepts only 127 records

2001-05-25 Thread Jari Mäkelä
Hi, got a problem as mysql does not allow writing but 127 entries to a database, any idea how to correct this abnormality? Jari Mäkelä - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)

Re: Database accepts only 127 records

2001-05-25 Thread Jason Brooke
Hi, got a problem as mysql does not allow writing but 127 entries to a database, any idea how to correct this abnormality? Jari Mäkelä You probably created an auto-increment field of type tinyint - check the data specification for tiny int in the online manual to see whay it's happening

RE: Database accepts only 127 records

2001-05-25 Thread Jon Haworth
Define your tables so you're not using TINYINT as your primary key - it has a maximum size of 127. If you use INTEGER you should be fine. HTH Jon -Original Message- From: Jari Mäkelä [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 May 2001 12:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database accepts

BDB read lock / Transaction isolation

2001-05-25 Thread Julien Revel
I have a very annoying problem in a big program, that I reduced toa small and reproductible java program (see code excerpt below).The problem is as follows :I have 2 separate connexions on the same BDB table, and I try to do: Connexion1: Set autocommit (false)Connexion1 : INSERT INTO

another question to continue

2001-05-25 Thread Jari Mäkelä
hi again, am not quite sure of this as Mysql is too new thing to me but apostrophes like plain 'and é in text being written in has to be dealt with somehow, is the say 0'keefe solution the proper way to do that. meaning that O\'keefe works? Jari Mäkelä

RE: MySQL front end tool

2001-05-25 Thread Crercio Osmaildo da Silva
Hi, Try DBTools ( http://dbtools.vila.bol.com.br http://dbtools.vila.bol.com.br ). It's a Win32 client for mySQL, free, and has lot of features, including an Import/Export Wizard to help you convert other sources to mySQL. []'s Crercio O. Silva -Original Message- From: Alice

RE: another question to continue

2001-05-25 Thread Jon Haworth
Yes, you have to escape special characters. Not sure about accents etc, but a search on the list archives (lists.mysql.com) should turn up something, this gets discussed pretty regularly. HTH Jon -Original Message- From: Jari Mäkelä [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 May 2001 13:03

filter again Re: Re: SELECT and (ordered) ENUMs

2001-05-25 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either spam or simply off topic to our filter. To bypass the filter you must include one of the following words in your message: database,sql,query This is very silly. I am subscribed to the list and I used

Re: Foreign keys just for table metadata?

2001-05-25 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Rolf Hopkins writes: You can still use foreign keys, just that it has no effect in mysql. Yes, I know. I just would like to provide the information in the CREATE TABLE definition and be able to retrieve it later. Nothing more. The manual says: In the near future we will extend the

LAST_INSERT_ID Issues

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Carter
This does not return any results SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() FROM tablename; there is an indexed, auto-incrementing field in the table, but it refuses to show any results. I don't understand the manual's text, so any help would be appreciated. Dave Carter Chief Web Architect Accelerated

RE: LAST_INSERT_ID Issues

2001-05-25 Thread Proulx, Ghislain
Hello Dave, If your auto-incrementing field in your table are Account_ID for exemple, try : Select Account_ID From tablename Where Account_ID = LAST_INSERT_ID(); This work fine for me Bye Ghislain Proulx Web Programmer Groupe Ordimax http://www.ordimax.com http://www.infoteck.qc.ca

RE: MySQL front end tool

2001-05-25 Thread Bruce Stewart
Also http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/Contrib/MyTool-DLL_for_VB_and_MySQL.zip -Original Message- From: Crercio Osmaildo da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MySQL front end tool Hi, Try DBTools (

RE: LAST_INSERT_ID Issues

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Carter
So in my insert into select, I would just add another Select Like this: INSERT INTO tablename (field1,field2,field3) SELECT table2.field1, table2.field2, table2.field3 FROM table2 SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID(); Dave Carter Chief Web Architect Accelerated Business Technologies, Inc.

Indexing problem with large database

2001-05-25 Thread Mike W. Baranski
Folks, I am with Security Managment Consulting, and we have a liscensed copy of mysql. I don't have the lisc. # on hand. We have a very large database in mysql, and one of the tables (call it badge_history) has about 4,000,000 records, with the potiental to get much bigger... Now, we are

Re: Symbolic Links under Windows (Resolved!)

2001-05-25 Thread Tom Bates
The problem has been resolved. There is apparently an undocumented option (at least it's not documented in the HTML manual for 3.23.38) required in the my.cnf file - use-symbolic-links. I was using all default values, so I wasn't even using a my.cnf or a my.ini file. Here's how I made it work

Re: Symbolic Links under Windows (Resolved!)

2001-05-25 Thread Tom Bates
The problem has been resolved. There is apparently an undocumented option (at least it's not documented in the HTML manual for 3.23.38) required in the my.cnf file - use-symbolic-links. I was using all default values, so I wasn't even using a my.cnf or a my.ini file. Here's how I made it work

What can I do ?

2001-05-25 Thread Bruno Faé
Hello, I´m Brazilian and a new subscriber of this list. (sorry my english) I´m working with MySql and with a 100.000 rows table, this table is growing 300 rows in each day. How can I arrange this information to get a good performance of my queries (my SELECT´s) ? We intend to do this: Work with

Re: What can I do ?

2001-05-25 Thread Colin Faber
I'm sorry, but we need a little more information, Such as the query you're using, the machine type, ram etc., the table structure. With out those its very hard to help you optimize anything. Bruno Faé wrote: Hello, I´m Brazilian and a new subscriber of this list. (sorry my english) I´m

Re: What can I do ?

2001-05-25 Thread Eric Fitzgerald
It's all about index's. My current big table is a table which currently has ~500,000 rows. We add around 4000-5000 rows a day. This is simply a table storing session data for visitors. Because of the large amounts of inserts, we keep the index's low, have 1 primary and 2 non unique index's

Compilation problems.

2001-05-25 Thread Nicu Popovici
Hello Gurus, I am trying to write a C client for a mysql server and I compile the example with the following line gcc -g Bug_Report.c -o test.o -I/usr/include/mysql -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lnsl -lsocket but I get the following linking errors /home/nicu/QA/Bug_Report.c:7: undefined

update a column

2001-05-25 Thread Tiago Mota
Hi, I have a book explanning mysql and the commands, and I was here searching for some kind of a command that do waht I want. But I didn't find anything I have a table named as mytable and two columns (id, name). Like this id name 1 blue dot 2 blue pencil 3 blue pen . And I want to alter

How many records can MySql handle?

2001-05-25 Thread Zhu George-CZZ010
If each record is about 1K byte, how many records can MySql handle? Does anyone have any estimation or hands-on experience? Thank you very much in advance. Regards, George - Before posting, please check:

Re: Compilation problems.

2001-05-25 Thread Eric Fitzgerald
Does your Bug_Report.c have an #include line for the mysql headers? - Original Message - From: Nicu Popovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:54 AM Subject: Compilation problems. Hello Gurus, I am trying to write a C client for a mysql server

Re: update a column

2001-05-25 Thread Eric Fitzgerald
UPDATE table SET name = REPLACE(name,'blue',''); - Original Message - From: Tiago Mota [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:43 AM Subject: update a column Hi, I have a book explanning mysql and the commands, and I was here searching for some kind of

Re: How many records can MySql handle?

2001-05-25 Thread Eric Fitzgerald
Depends on OS, memory, disk space. Theoretically there is no limit. If your using linux, and don't have support for large files built in, then your table size limit is 4GB. Putting a table with 1k rows at a max size of around 4 million records. If you have large file support in, and have the

Re: Indexing problem with large database

2001-05-25 Thread ryc
With the correct indexes this query should run in less than a second. Basically what you should do is make an index for every column that is used in the where clause. For instance, if you had a query ... WHERE A=X AND B=Y AND C=Z (A,B,and C are in the same table) you would create an index (A,B,C)

Re: How many records can MySql handle?

2001-05-25 Thread Colin Faber
it all depends on your hardware, technically the MyISAM table type can handle up to 8 terabytes of data. Zhu George-CZZ010 wrote: If each record is about 1K byte, how many records can MySql handle? Does anyone have any estimation or hands-on experience? Thank you very much in advance.

Version 3.23.38 and show databases

2001-05-25 Thread Marc Delisle
Hi, (Sorry about my previous post: wrong list) In 3.23.32, I can do a show databases, no problem, it shows my 18 database names. But with 3.23.38, with the same user, I only get 36 empty rows for a show databases. Same problem with show tables. However, my applications work ok under

Socks error connecting to mysql on localhost

2001-05-25 Thread frank_dmuchowski
Hi, Using linux redhat 6.2, apache1.3.20 (compiled fresh), php4.0.5 (compiled fresh with msql support), mysql 3.23.38 (rpm install for server and client). I run the following php4 test script in query.php from a browser: snip-- ?php $hostname=localhost; $username=; $password=;

REPOST: mysql hangs on shutdown

2001-05-25 Thread tammy
Hi, I recently installed in MySql from binary distribution mysql- max-3.23.38-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz. The install worked fine, the database runs and performs fine but it refuses to shutdown short of a 'kill -9'. This is not so good:( I have tried 'mysqladmin shutdown' and killing the

Re: How many records can MySql handle?

2001-05-25 Thread Michael Bacarella
Depends on OS, memory, disk space. Theoretically there is no limit. If your using linux, and don't have support for large files built in, then your table size limit is 4GB. Putting a table with 1k rows at a max size of around 4 million records. If you have large file support in, and

mysql - getting it to start and stay running.

2001-05-25 Thread Tom Walker
I am trying to start mysqld on a RH7.1 box. The mysql server was installed by the initial RH install routine. I ran the install script to setup the initial databases. I can run either the msql.server or mysqld commands and while the process starts with the /var/lib/mysql database, it just

mysql hangs on shutdown

2001-05-25 Thread tammy
Hi, I recently installed in MySql from binary distribution mysql- max-3.23.38-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz. The install worked fine, the database runs and performs fine but it refuses to shutdown short of a 'kill -9'. This is not so good:( I have tried 'mysqladmin shutdown' and killing the

Re: mysql - getting it to start and stay running.

2001-05-25 Thread Eric Fitzgerald
1) Don't use the Redhat RPM's, download the RPM's from mysql.com 2) Check /var/lib/mysql/hostname.err for error reasons 3) Check your config 4) Don't use the Redhat RPM's. - Original Message - From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:37 AM

RE: Socks error connecting to mysql on localhost

2001-05-25 Thread Ravi Raman
hi. quick fix: if it's really in /var/lib/mysql/, just make a symlink in /tmp... ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock not-so-quick fix: or, recompile php w/ the path to mysql and it should figure it out. -ravi. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

setting an index

2001-05-25 Thread Webmaster
I'm not sure if an index would help me or not in this case.. and not sure how to set one at creation. So I'll explain it all My main select is select * from on_db where time$t_tim ORDER BY place DESC I also run the query select * from on_db where time$t_tim AND place='thisplace' $t_tim is the

Another index question

2001-05-25 Thread Mike Baranski
For the following select: SELECT DISTINCT badge_history.xact_date AS xact_date, badge_history.xact_time AS xact_time, badge_history.last_name AS last_name, badge_history.bid AS bid, badgests.cond_desc AS status, department.description AS department, badge_history.reader_desc AS reader_desc,

Re: Another index question

2001-05-25 Thread Marc Delisle
Did you try EXPLAIN before SELECT? http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Reference.html#EXPLAIN Mike Baranski a écrit : For the following select: SELECT DISTINCT badge_history.xact_date AS xact_date, (...) -- Marc Delisle Service de

Left Join Not Right

2001-05-25 Thread Roger Karnouk
I am trying to do a left join query to retrieve all the rows in Table T1 and a value from server01_history. There are 100 rows in T1 and I expect some NULL values for b.total returned from server01_history. Does anyone have any Idea why I only get back 93 rows with no nulls

$dbh-tables, SHOW tables, etc.

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel
Has there been any resolution the show tables; show databases; my @tablenames = $dbh-tables; etc... not working on RedHat 7.X machines? -- Daniel Bohling NewsFactor Network - Before posting, please check:

Re: $dbh-tables, SHOW tables, etc.

2001-05-25 Thread Colin Faber
A few people have said that they've fixed it by recompiling mysql with gcc 2.96 Daniel wrote: Has there been any resolution the show tables; show databases; my @tablenames = $dbh-tables; etc... not working on RedHat 7.X machines? -- Daniel Bohling NewsFactor Network

Re: LAST_INSERT_ID Issues

2001-05-25 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:48 AM -0400 5/25/01, Dave Carter wrote: This does not return any results SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() FROM tablename; It doesn't return *any* results? Or do you mean it returns 0? FROM tablename is superfluous here; the most recent AUTO_INCREMENT value is maintained on a per-connection basis.

RE: LAST_INSERT_ID Issues

2001-05-25 Thread Paul DuBois
At 10:39 AM -0400 5/25/01, Dave Carter wrote: So in my insert into select, I would just add another Select Like this: INSERT INTO tablename (field1,field2,field3) SELECT table2.field1, table2.field2, table2.field3 FROM table2 SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID(); Uh, no. Perhaps you should tell us

RE: LAST_INSERT_ID Issues

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Carter
No results not even a zero. So what I did was something like this: INSERT INTO table1 (field1,field2,field3) SELECT table2.field1, table2.field2, table2.field2 FROM table2 WHERE table2.UID = SomeVariable; SELECT MAX(table1.UID) FROM table1; --- Now this assumes that

Re: $dbh-tables, SHOW tables, etc.

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel
I'm up to 3.23.37-1 (compiled with gcc 2.96-69). Haven't had one work properly starting with 3.23.32. Gulp...It's been months now. Thanks for the reply though, -- Daniel Bohling NewsFactor Network Colin Faber wrote: A few people have said that they've fixed it by recompiling mysql with

Re: time and date

2001-05-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach chris am Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 08:26:01PM -0500: ^ You're quite ahead of me, timewise *G* Is there a way to store the time and date that a record was added within MySQL? I want to show the time and date on some of my records and can't seem Add a

Re: $dbh-tables, SHOW tables, etc.

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel
Scratch that, normally egcs and gcc are the same, at least on older redhat distros. Redhat 7.0 gives you compat-egcs package which isn't the same as your gcc. I symlinked (on a 7.1 redhat box) egcs to gcc (2.96-69) and --rebuild 3.23.38 from the .src.rpm. Both show tables, show databases now

Case question on inserting data

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Carter
Is there a way inside of mysql to force the case of data being inserted into the database??? Dave Carter Chief Web Architect Accelerated Business Technologies, Inc. http://www.abti.cc 717.464.2970 - Before posting, please

Re: Memory/CPU usage of various JOIN types?

2001-05-25 Thread Chris Petersen
I've been using LEFT JOIN and NATURAL LEFT JOIN for awhile on queries to medium-sized tables (2500-50,000 items) that aren't TOO large by ane means, but have seemingly been having some issues with this. Can anyone here explain to me the memory usage between doing things like: SELECT

Re: Case question on inserting data

2001-05-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Dave Carter am Fri, May 25, 2001 at 06:21:08PM -0400: Is there a way inside of mysql to force the case of data being inserted into the database??? - http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/t/String_functions.html LOWER() / LCASE() and UPPER() / UCASE() Alexander Skwar -- How to quote:

ERROR 2002:

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Pace
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' Can anyone tell me what to do about this error. I installed mysql on Redhat 7.0 with the RPM on the Redhat Cd - Before posting, please check:

RE: ERROR 2002:

2001-05-25 Thread Mike
Scratch the Red Hat RPM and get the latest build from www.mysql.com This is a FAQ here. Cheers Mike -Original Message- From: Jeff Pace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through

Updating one table off of another?

2001-05-25 Thread Chris Petersen
I know this is a fairly common question, but I thought I'd ask it anyway. I want to do something like: UPDATE tab1 SET tab1.val=tab2.val WHERE tab1.id=tab2.id; Is there any way to do a query like this? Thanks, Chris -

a question of which function of mysql to use

2001-05-25 Thread Nikki
Hi, i am unsure what to put in this line, currectly i have the following line $RS=mysql_fetch_array($RS_query); but i get the following error message supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource. so that statement most be total wrong. i am trying to get a result from a row when

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DBI access from CGI script

2001-05-25 Thread Simon Chan
Hey all, Using a CGI script, I want to access a database from A DIFFERENT server than the mysql database is hosted. What is the proper syntax to access the mysql database on a different server? They're 2 levels of secruity: 1. Log into Telnet shell 2. Log into database This is what I have

Re: DBI access from CGI script

2001-05-25 Thread Chris Petersen
This is what I have derived from O'Reilly books, though they make the assumption that you are running the script from the same server as the database: $dbh = DBI-connect(dbi:mysql:table1, $host, $user, $password) or die Unable to connect; # table1 is the name of database. I believe it's

RE: DBI access from CGI script

2001-05-25 Thread Andy Sharp
The syntax for connecting to a mysql database from perl/DBI is my $dbh = DBI-connect('dbi:drivername:database:host','username','passwor d'); If host is ommitted, it presumes localhost. Eg: $dbh = DBI-connect('dbi:mysql:testDB:dbserv','$username','$password'); There are more options see

Re: DBI access from CGI script

2001-05-25 Thread Colin Faber
This is well outlined in the DBI perldoc btw ;-) Andy Sharp wrote: The syntax for connecting to a mysql database from perl/DBI is my $dbh = DBI-connect('dbi:drivername:database:host','username','passwor d'); If host is ommitted, it presumes localhost. Eg: $dbh =

Re: Mysql and Windows ME?

2001-05-25 Thread Paul DuBois
At 5:13 AM + 5/26/01, tu tuande wrote: Hello, Does Mysql run on Windows ME? I have tried to start mysql, version 3.23.38, by mysqld but I got the error message: Can´t initalize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set. How could I solve this problem? Thank Frank Tu