Re: how to prevent inserting duplicate rows?

2001-06-25 Thread Seth Northrop
how do I OVERWRITE the previous entry in the table? ie. is there a SQL command to do like INSERT, but if duplicate found, overwrite with the new value. See REPLACE into tablename http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/E/REPLACE.html Take care, seth

Got timeout reading communication packets

2001-06-25 Thread Seth Northrop
Hi! I posted this last week, but, haven't seen any replies yet, and, generally, there seems to be a lack of replies in the archives on the Got timeout reading communication packets related issues. Here is the issue again: We have started doing some rather large replace intos and inserts

unique and primary constraints

2001-06-25 Thread Aek
hi sql ppls, if i set a field as a primary key, does it automatically make sure its unique or should i declare a UNIQUE constraint as well? or will primary do the job by itself. thanks - Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before

MYSQLDUMP feature request :)

2001-06-25 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hello mysql, Resently MYSQL have introduced transaction support, which at least in INNODB allows to make consistent backup/recovery. The bad thing about this is - MYSQLDUMP does not support anything about this, so I had to done the same things buy hands. The Idea is quite simple -

Re: unique and primary constraints

2001-06-25 Thread Ansgar Becker
if i set a field as a primary key, does it automatically make sure its unique or should i declare a UNIQUE constraint as well? or will primary do the job by itself. a primary key is always unique. No need to give it an extra unique index. Greetings, Ansgar http://www.mysqlfront.de/

Re: Compiling MySQL 3.23.39 on HP-UX 11.00.

2001-06-25 Thread Jack Challen
Michael Widenius wrote: Jack Configure Command: Jack -- Jack CFLAGS=-D_REENTRANT Jack CXXFLAGS=-D_REENTRANT \ Jack ./configure Jack --prefix=/opt/mysql Jack \ Jack --with-pthread Jack --with-named-thread-libs=-lpthread

Re: SQL query problem

2001-06-25 Thread Adrian D'Costa
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Thomas J Keller wrote: select zip, city, county from zipcodes where zip between 68400 and 68500; here is a portion of the garbled output: |68442 | STELLA | RICHARDSON |43 | STERLING | JOHNSON |444 | STRANG | FILLMORE |5 |

last_insert_id() Bug???

2001-06-25 Thread Alexey
i have tables forward and mail with the auto_increment field - mid i have the following sql queryes: insert into mail(mid,gdate,folder,txt,html,email,subj,date,uid,size,attach, attachbefore,

mysql_init

2001-06-25 Thread Stepan Havel
I get the following error, if I run DBI,DBD,mysql .../DBD/mysql/mysql.so: symbol mysql_init: referenced symbol not found! What can I do against this? Stepan - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

Kylix with MySQL

2001-06-25 Thread Bagi kos
Hi Everybody! I want to develop some database application under RedHat 7, with Kylix using MySql. I'm using MySql 3.23.38. It uses libmysql.10, default limbysql.6. Kylix native MySql driver cannot connect to MySql server on the same (neither localhost, nor IP) but MySql is Accessible from

[request] IP Address Functions

2001-06-25 Thread Philip test
Hello, I have a feature request: How about adding a built-in function to convert IP addresses from strings to INT UNSIGNED, and another function to convert vice versa. This makes it easier for e.g. people whose web applications log IP addresses in MySQL; it is more efficient to store IP

Re: Got timeout reading communication packets

2001-06-25 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
You are possibly not escaping binary fields. You should use mysql_escape_string() function on binary objects prior to inserting it in the INSERT command, or use load_file() function. -- Regards, __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Mr. Sinisa Milivojevic [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mysql guis

2001-06-25 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what are peoples recommendations on linux guis for mysql? I've used mysqlfront on windows, but now I finally got linux onto my work laptop, I'm looking for a nice gui for linux, (gnome,kde, whatever, doesnt matter). Thanks ___ Sean

RE: mySQL database running on a CD?

2001-06-25 Thread Simon Green
- Is it possible to use mySQL for this purpose? Yes - Is it possible to set the database to be read-only? If you use the compress command for your data in the database in not only makes the files smaller is also makes them read only.. - We need to transfer the database structure/data to the new

Re: [request] IP Address Functions

2001-06-25 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Philip test [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a feature request: How about adding a built-in function to convert IP addresses from strings to INT UNSIGNED, and another function to convert vice versa. This makes it easier for e.g. people whose web applications log IP addresses in

Re: $sth-{mysql_insertid} not working in 3.23.38?

2001-06-25 Thread Ilya Martynov
x My problem with this is that I have no control over the versioning. I'm x using an ISP who was gracious enough to upgrade one of the servers (hosting x our largest clients) to 3.23 because it was having a BUNCH of other x problems. x So if the {mysql_insertid} thing is an issue, is there a

Re: transactions

2001-06-25 Thread Ilya Martynov
Hello All, I'm current working on project, converting a flatfile system, to use MySQL, which supports transactions w/Innobase tables. My questions is, as I'm sure many have coded using transaction w/Perl and DBI. I understand that there as some draw backs to using transactions when not

What does the max_connect_errors do ?

2001-06-25 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
What does the max_connect_errors do ? Is it : if I have that many connect errors, MySQL will stop ? [database] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/

For relexion - Zur Entspannung (Off topic !!!)

2001-06-25 Thread Jeffrey Homster
Worked the whole day with mysql ? Want some nice relexion ? Den ganzen Tag mit MySQL herumgeschlagen ? Du brauchst etwas schöne Entspannung ? Here is a site which uses MySQL as database too. ;) Hier ist eine Seite die auch MySQL als Datenbank benutzt ;) Register with sexportal.de Registriere

Re: transactions

2001-06-25 Thread Paul DuBois
At 3:40 PM +0400 6/25/01, Ilya Martynov wrote: Hello All, I'm current working on project, converting a flatfile system, to use MySQL, which supports transactions w/Innobase tables. My questions is, as I'm sure many have coded using transaction w/Perl and DBI. I understand that there as

Re: transactions

2001-06-25 Thread MikemickaloBlezien
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 07:42:39 -0500, Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, appreciate the feedback, but my question wasn't in reference to the actual coding and how it's used, this I understand, I was referring to when a transaction is best used, in what type of a scenario. ;) TIA At

RE: [request] IP Address Functions

2001-06-25 Thread Basil Hussain
Hi, I have a feature request: How about adding a built-in function to convert IP addresses from strings to INT UNSIGNED, and another function to convert vice versa. Have you taken a look at INET_ATON and INET_NTOA functions ?? Yes, you might want to take a read of section 7.4.12,

RE: MyODBC through ADO

2001-06-25 Thread Bruce Stewart
The easiest way to work out what your connection string should be is to create a new text file in explorer, rename it Something.UDL, and double click it: You then get the MS Data Link editor dialog. Select the MS OLEDB Provider for ODBC Drivers as the Provider, select your ODBC datasource (I

MySQLGUI

2001-06-25 Thread James Wilkinson
What do we require to use the MySQLGUI with our MYSQL server. We are looking to manage the users and tables over the web from an NT machine. Can you please advise us. I think that you may have a very large market out there is it works in the way that i have been lead to believe. Thanks

Question on select

2001-06-25 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
Hello Guys, I have a char field, and I'd like to have select ordering it by lowercase caracteres, uppercase caracters then special characters. I was reading about sort and this seems to be related to charset of the server, and I dont have access to change this. I was thinking on

Re: Got timeout reading communication packets

2001-06-25 Thread Seth Northrop
You are possibly not escaping binary fields. You should use mysql_escape_string() function on binary objects prior to inserting it in the INSERT command, or use load_file() function. Thanks Sinisa for the reply! There really isn't any binary data.. and, we are calling mysql_escape_string..

can I force SELECT to use a specified INDEX?

2001-06-25 Thread Jaime Teng
Hi, I have a table with several complex indexes: (source,description,timestamp,id) (timestamp,id) as well as individual indexes (id) (timestamp) (type) (source) (description) mysql describe eventlog; +-+--+--+-+-++ | Field |

Re: Got timeout reading communication packets

2001-06-25 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Seth Northrop writes: You are possibly not escaping binary fields. You should use mysql_escape_string() function on binary objects prior to inserting it in the INSERT command, or use load_file() function. Thanks Sinisa for the reply! There really isn't any binary data.. and, we

couldnt select database

2001-06-25 Thread jake williamson 28
hi, new to the list so here goes! i have mysql version 3.23.38 installed on a win98 pc running apache with php 4 installed. i am working through the book and so have created a database called 'test'. i have also put a server, user and password into the mysql database. i have connected to this

Re: MySQLGUI

2001-06-25 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
James Wilkinson writes: What do we require to use the MySQLGUI with our MYSQL server. We are looking to manage the users and tables over the web from an NT machine. Can you please advise us. I think that you may have a very large market out there is it works in the way that i have been

Re: MySQLGUI

2001-06-25 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, James Wilkinson wrote: What do we require to use the MySQLGUI with our MYSQL server. a) myqsl server with a user configured for remote login (assuming mysql is on one machine, GUI is on another). b) GUI client c) Config the client to use the appropriate user and

Re: Got timeout reading communication packets

2001-06-25 Thread Seth Northrop
At a small glance, your code looks OK. Try looking at resulting string sql in gdb or just print it out to stdout. That might catch your bug. Thanks again for the reply. The query looks sane.. As I mentioned, I spit it out to a file and piped it directly to mysql (after inspecting it). At

Re: Got timeout reading communication packets

2001-06-25 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Seth Northrop writes: 010624 19:44:23 Aborted connection 231 to db: 'unconnected' user: 'root' host: `localhost' (Got timeout reading communication packets) The above only implies that your program exited without calling mysql_close(). Nothing to do with your problem. But, as I told

MySQLGUI Issue

2001-06-25 Thread Marty Bell
I am new to MySQL and this may be more of a training issue on my part than a problem. I can not seem to get the 'edit table' or 'create table' function to work. Not sure if I don't know the sequence of things to do or what. Please advise. Regards Marty Bell

Re: $sth-{mysql_insertid} not working in 3.23.38?

2001-06-25 Thread Kyle Hayes
As of a couple of months ago, there is a bug with DBI's implementation of $dbh-{'mysql_insert'}. It didn't handle 64-bit IDs correctly. We converted everything to use SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID(). It works. MySQL is fine, the problem was in DBI. Don't use SELECT MAX(ID) ... as that will not

What's wrong with my GRANT example?

2001-06-25 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, I am sorry for asking stupid questions, but I am at the end of my trials. I simply want to setup a user who can connect from anywhere and write some table and read from another one. Here's what I do: GRANT INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT ON sessiondb.SESSION TO dataexport@localhost

Re: transactions

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Åkerud
The first that springs to mind is: pricture 2 tables. Pocket and Store. (Where pocket as in i have got money in my pocket, and store as in Let's go buy some shoes in the store!. Pocket ( money integer ) ; Store ( money integer ); Now, suppose you are supposed to TRANSFER 10 dollars

Re: conflicts with new version

2001-06-25 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Richard Kurth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to reinstall mysql on a cobalt server I removed the first version but when I go to install the new version I get this message below saying it conflicts with another version could you tell me how I can correct this. I have looked through

problems with MySQL GUI

2001-06-25 Thread Arnie Miles
Hi: I’m using Windows 2000, and I’m having problems with MySQL GUI. It works intermittently. Sometimes it just closes out for no apparent reason. Sometimes it will not let a known good user log in. Sometimes it will let a known good user log in, but then will not let that user create a

Re: Got timeout reading communication packets

2001-06-25 Thread Mark Widdowson
Sorry to suggest this but is it just possible that the 'data' object you are doing a strlen on is not null terminated or in fact contains earlier null characters which are terminating your effort. I have made this mistake several times when using mysql_escape_string. Now to avoid it I just use

Recovery Problem

2001-06-25 Thread Paul Kelly
Hi All, I'm trying to recover data from a table after all rows in the table were accidentally deleted. I have looked at the .MYD file and all of the information still seems to be there, albeit, flagged as deleted (I assume). Is there any way to recover this information, and undelete

Recovery Problem

2001-06-25 Thread Paul Kelly
Hi All, sorry if this is duplicated... I'm trying to recover data from a table after all rows in the table were accidentally deleted. I have looked at the .MYD file and all of the information still seems to be there, albeit, flagged as deleted (I assume). Is there any way to recover

DISTINCT AND NON DISTINCT

2001-06-25 Thread anna soobrattee
Hi All, I've been reading up on how to do joins on the mysql site. Is there not an inverse function for DISTINCT, so that I can pull out duplicate data as opposed to DISTINCT data...or will I have to get this information by using joins? Thanks very much for your help. Anna

RE: Recovery Problem

2001-06-25 Thread Simon Green
I have been told that once deleted you can not get the data back (can some one correct me)... Have you got all your update logs or binary logs? If you have you should be able to run the sql quires form there and so just recreate your data! This mite be stating the obvious but like any data base

Re: MySQLGUI Issue

2001-06-25 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Marty Bell writes: I am new to MySQL and this may be more of a training issue on my part than a problem. I can not seem to get the 'edit table' or 'create table' function to work. Not sure if I don't know the sequence of things to do or what. Please advise. Regards Marty Bell

Re: problems with MySQL GUI

2001-06-25 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Arnie Miles writes: Hi: I’m using Windows 2000, and I’m having problems with MySQL GUI. It works intermittently. Sometimes it just closes out for no apparent reason. Sometimes it will not let a known good user log in. Sometimes it will let a known good user log in, but then will not

Re: DISTINCT AND NON DISTINCT

2001-06-25 Thread Hannes Niedner
On 6/25/01 9:10 AM, anna soobrattee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've been reading up on how to do joins on the mysql site. Is there not an inverse function for DISTINCT, so that I can pull out duplicate data as opposed to DISTINCT data...or will I have to get this information by

mysql

2001-06-25 Thread Edward Lartey
I have downloaded the source file mysql-3.23.39.tar.gz But when I do gunzipmysql-3.23.39.tar.gz tar -xvf mysql-3.23.39.tar I get this eror message tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors after the tar is done Then I cd mysql-3.23.39 ./configure --prefix=/usr

Re: mysql

2001-06-25 Thread Greg Donald
I have downloaded the source file mysql-3.23.39.tar.gz But when I do gunzipmysql-3.23.39.tar.gz tar -xvf mysql-3.23.39.tar I get this eror message tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors after the tar is done Then I cd mysql-3.23.39 ./configure --prefix=/usr

Re: Perl DBI Error 19 -solved

2001-06-25 Thread Hannes Niedner
Just if somebody is interested: I solved the mystery with Error 19. All I needed to do was introducing a second statement handle for the update query. (BTW, the script runs probably faster using '$sth = $dbh-do' instead of '$sth = $dbh-prepare', followed by '$sth = $dbh-execute'). Hannes On

FLOAT bug

2001-06-25 Thread Tom Krehbiel (rna020)
In doc '21.19 Solving Problems with No Matching Rows' item 5 states. 5.If you are comparing FLOAT or DOUBLE columns with numbers that have decimals, you can't use =! This problem is common in most computer languages because floating-point values are not exact values: mysql SELECT

Triggers or calculations in the future for MySQL?

2001-06-25 Thread Mika Sjöman
Hi... The only cause that I´m on this list is because Blueworld is makeing Lasso Professional 5 with built in MySQL database server. Because I am a Mac person I´m used to the powers of text string calculation in Filemaker pro. The information I have got, tells me that MySQL does not have

Couldn't select database

2001-06-25 Thread R Talbot
Hi Jake, Your problem appears similar to a problem I had but... you aren't providing quite enough information.. Are you working as a user on the same local host or are connecting across a network? To eliminate a MySQL problem ( so you can concentrate your efforts on PHP code) try to connect

Error 46

2001-06-25 Thread Lakshmi Marellapudy
To install MySQL :: I downloaded mysql-3.23.39-hp-hpux11.00-hppa2.0w.tar.gz. I did unzip, I have changed $MYSQL path from mysql-3.23.39-hp-hpux11.00-hppa2.0w/bin/mysqlaccess file. I ran scripts/mysql_install_db command I started database using bin/safe_mysqld Then I got the below output :

MySQL Presentation Peer Review?

2001-06-25 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
MySQL folks, I'm going to be giving a MySQL Server and Application Performance Tuning presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in July. http://conferences.ora.com/oscon/ If anyone has the time and interest, I'd appreciate it if you could look over the slides I've prepared and see

Lat/Long storage?

2001-06-25 Thread Nelson Goforth
I need to store latitude and longitude in a MySQL table. It needs to allow human entry. Do you have a preferred storage technique for these numbers? Nelson Goforth -- - Before posting, please check:

RE: Lat/Long storage?

2001-06-25 Thread Johnny Withers
mysql desc zipcodes; +---+--+--+-+-++ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +---+--+--+-+-++ | id| int(10) unsigned | | PRI | NULL|

general user Q

2001-06-25 Thread Klein, Tracy ISTA:EX
Hi, I'm a user of MySQL and I'm wondering if there's a page somewhere that lists and describes the general basic commands in SQL. I'm particularly interested in finding out if there's a copy command so I don't have to use the insert command to create large records (with about 25 fields...).

SQL Commands - DJW

2001-06-25 Thread Danie Weideman
HI Everyone I am looking for a summary/examples of the syntaxes and operators one may use in standard sql statements For example select name from epm_tble where name like 'abc%' select x, count(*) from table_where_x_is_in group by x having count(*)1; Regards Danie Weideman

I Think I Need ' H E L P' on table's privileges

2001-06-25 Thread Rodrigo Morteo Ortiz
HI: I need some help on table's privileges, I've read the manual but still don't get it working. Background: I'm working on a windows program which needs to connect to a MySQL database on a linux server using MyODBC32. I've installed and configured MyODBC and MySql as follows: Supposing my

Modifiying values in table_a with values from table_b

2001-06-25 Thread --==[bMan]==--
What I want to do is not overly complicated (and it works the way I did it) but I want to find out if it can be done easily using MySQL only. Table_a: col1, col2, col3 Table_b: col1, col2, col3 Currently, to replace values in col1 in Table_a with values of col2 in Table_b, I do the following:

RE: SQL Commands - DJW

2001-06-25 Thread Chris Bolt
http://www.mysql.com/doc/ HI Everyone I am looking for a summary/examples of the syntaxes and operators one may use in standard sql statements For example select name from epm_tble where name like 'abc%' select x, count(*) from table_where_x_is_in group by x having count(*)1;

Re: Got timeout reading communication packets

2001-06-25 Thread hooker
Seth Northrop writes: 010624 19:44:23 Aborted connection 231 to db: 'unconnected' user: 'root' host: `localhost' (Got timeout reading communication packets) The above only implies that your program exited without calling mysql_close(). Nothing to do with your problem.

Sub-selects in a insert statement - is it possible to rewrite?

2001-06-25 Thread Andreas D. Landmark
As I've understood it mysql doesn't support sub-selects inside for example insert statements (apart from inset ... select). Background-stuff: What I'm working on is parsing logfiles and inserting them into a mysql database through the C API, to minimize traffic and to maximize time, I was

Connect to remote mySQL server

2001-06-25 Thread ST Ooi
How can I connect to remote mySQL through ODBC using internet? I notice that ODBC ask for IP address or host name, can I use my IP address of my remote host and connect through internet? Thanks ST Ooi Malaysia - Before

RE: Sub-selects in a insert statement - is it possible to rewrite?

2001-06-25 Thread Chris Bolt
This is how I'd like the query to work: insert into host (host_id, host_IP) values ((select from mail mail_id where mail_addr = [EMAIL PROTECTED]), '127.0.0.1') Try: insert into host (host_id, host_IP) select mail_id, '127.0.0.1' from mail where mail_addr = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';

runnning my sql with windows98 and pws

2001-06-25 Thread lipp maimone
is someone abble to tell me how can i do for running an sql database with windows98 without crashing my systeme? Also, using asp ( activex server page ), is it possible with mysql version3,23?

Question about mysql.sock.

2001-06-25 Thread eagle
database,sql,query,table,mysql The error message is : Connection failed Connection error 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) my program is : #include stdlib.h #include stdio.h #include mysql.h int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { MYSQL

Data Entry Forms

2001-06-25 Thread Stephen Reynolds
I've created a MySQL database and linked the tables to a MS Access front end so that I could build the data entry forms using MS Access. Is there a better way to create the data entry forms in a Windows environment without using Microsoft or proprietary solutions? What is are the most widely

RE: Kylix with MySQL

2001-06-25 Thread Kevin McBrearty
The problem is that Kylix does not yet support libmysqlclient.so.10, only libmysqlclient.so.6. You only have to replace the client libs. I used the ones from 3.22.32 and they work fine. Kevin McBrearty ATG Automation Technologies Group Ltd. -Original Message- From: Bagi kos

Re: Data Entry Forms for MySql

2001-06-25 Thread WCBaker
Hello I often use an html editor to create forms, use PHP4 as a cgi and enter the data directly into MySql. This does not necessitate Microsoft, and has worked very well for me. -warren - Original Message - From: Stephen Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: Data Entry Forms

2001-06-25 Thread j.urban
You have several options, a few of the more common solutions include: C, C++, Delphi, Perl, PHP, HTML, CGI, etc... Simple data entry forms can often be easily implemented using a web-based solution (which also simplifies deployment)... On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Stephen Reynolds wrote: I've

HP-UX 10.20 and MySQL

2001-06-25 Thread Varvarigos Harry
Is there some kind soul out there that can email me a tarball og the MySQL module for an HP-UX machine? I've tried to compile the module - but it says that I have to compile MySQL with +z or +Z, gcc doesn't have a +z or +Z ( and mysql should be compiled with gcc ) but it does have an -fPIC and