Problem with max() on select

2001-08-16 Thread Jim Lynn
I have a database of bids on auctions that I keep separate from the auction information. The problem comes when I attempt to generate a list of auctions with highest bid information. I set the database for bids like this: ANum, varchar(20), the auction number Bidders, int(4), number of bidder

Unicode

2001-08-16 Thread Vasan S
Hi all, Iam doing a bilingual site in english and other in Arabic. I know that MySQL doesn't support unicode..and in which format i have to store into the database... can any one explain Vasan S __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls

Accessing MySql database using Bash shell Script

2001-08-16 Thread Munish Malhotra
Dear Sir, Can you please tell me how to access data from a MySql database using a Bash Shell Script i.e. how to connect to a MySql database and retrive records and to disconnect from database. I shall be very thankful to you. Yours Truly,

Re: Problems starting the MySQL server.

2001-08-16 Thread Grigory Bakunov
Date |Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:57:15 -0400 >From |Paul Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello! PC> Greetings Grigory, PC> Thanks for your fast response. PC> I tried both: PC> service mysqld start, and PC> /etc/init.d mysql start (mysqld is not a directory) No. As i say /etc/init.d/mysql start or /etc/ini

RE: NuSphere final speaks out

2001-08-16 Thread Tonu Samuel
On 15 Aug 2001 14:07:08 -0700, Philippe Paravicini wrote: > Dear Philippe: > > mySQL.org is a not for profit organization dedicated to promoting > and further enhancing the mySQL database engine. Like all open > source projects we welcome community input to help enhance the > product. FYI htt

Connection Pooling(closing)

2001-08-16 Thread gaurav
Hi, I'm using JDBC/MySQL and the MM.MySQL driver to build JSP pages.the application is deployed in tomcat.I am using connection pooling package in my application.i am able to create a pool when the first user logs in.kindly advice how i can close or destroy the connections when the server

Re: Dates: To Slash or to Hyphen. That is the question

2001-08-16 Thread tj marlin
if you don't want the user to input trash, don't give him the opportunity. on your form, put three two character input fields. label the fields month, day and year, or what ever is the most common order that your user will input a date. put '-' or whatever, between the fields - just to make th

Re: MySQL Error: 1036 (Table 'tblHSBOYArticle_basic' is read only)

2001-08-16 Thread Irmund Thum
> MySQL Error: 1036 (Table 'tblHSBOYArticle_basic' is read only) > Session halted. go to the mysql monitor and: use database; describe blHSBOYArticle_basic; - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (t

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Please, define "supply". You want to hire me at some wildly outrageous rate, or ... =[8]-) On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:29:31PM -0400, jay downs wrote: > we at IOWNA Software Company would be happy to supply those outrageous fees if > anyone is interested. > > Jay Downs > Owner > IOWNA So

Re: Errcode: 2 when running LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE on server

2001-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Post a couple of lines from your data file. Does .csv insist on all values single quoted? On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:03:36PM -0700, Yeong CN wrote: > Hi. > This is the script I write to upload a .csv file into my online mysql database : > > $sql_query="LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '$textfile' INTO

Re: Error in installing mysql

2001-08-16 Thread s. keeling
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 10:51:17AM +0800, Denny wrote: > > I am new to linux and i currently trying to install mysql on my redhat 7.1. > I always got this error message at the end of the make "Internal error: > Segmentation fault.". > > I wonder if anyone would tell me what's going on? > > My m

Re: How does MySQL generate it's web based documentation

2001-08-16 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:47:30AM +0100, David Herring wrote: > > Good morning, > > Does anyone have any details on the how the MySQL searchable > documentation is produced. Is the content held in MySQL with PHP to > produce the frontend pages - and is this something that can be > applied gener

MySQL Error: 1036 (Table 'tblHSBOYArticle_basic' is read only)

2001-08-16 Thread ÇóÊdz±
Hi. I'm a student from China. I have a problem of MYSQL under Linux. I just installed mysql under RedHat Linux 7.0 and I copyed the files of a database created by mysql under win2000 to /var/lib/mysql/database_name. But when I use the database through PHP, I found the tables are re

Errcode: 2 when running LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE on server

2001-08-16 Thread Yeong CN
Hi. This is the script I write to upload a .csv file into my online mysql database : $sql_query="LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '$textfile' INTO TABLE purchase FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' (purchase_order,job_no,username,model,quantity,due_date,sent_date,courier_service,remark)"; $sql_query=($sql_query);

Replication problem

2001-08-16 Thread Lists Servers Email
Does any know how to fix this database replication problem. Last Lines from Err File 010815 21:38:55 Slave thread exiting, replication stopped in log 'salem-bin.013' at position 6867 010815 21:38:55 Error running query, slave aborted. Fix the problem, and re-start the slave thread with

Re: NuSphere final speaks out

2001-08-16 Thread Mike Wexler
Marten Mickos wrote: > > Our customers have asked us to comment on the writing by Lorne Cooper > in NuSphere's latest newsletter. I will respond to the three primary > issues raised in the newsletter: (1) The June 2000 agreement between > Progress and MySQL AB; (2) the mysql.org website; and (

Re: Got and mirrored it... (Re: MySQL-MAX 3.23.41 download link is dead... (need a download))

2001-08-16 Thread Matt Wagner
Jeremy Zawodny writes: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:00:16PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > > Does anyone have the latest 3.23.41 I could grab a copy of? > > I managed to fetch it from ftp.mysql.com. A copy is now available here > as well: > > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mysql-max-3.23

Error in installing mysql

2001-08-16 Thread Denny
Hi, I am new to linux and i currently trying to install mysql on my redhat 7.1. I always got this error message at the end of the make "Internal error: Segmentation fault.". I wonder if anyone would tell me what's going on? My machine is running on cyrix P133 with 32MB ram. Thanks, Denny ---

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread jay downs
we at IOWNA Software Company would be happy to supply those outrageous fees if anyone is interested. Jay Downs Owner IOWNA Software Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In my previous job supporting MSSQL at hospitals all across North America, > > Europe and Australia, Critical Incident sup

Re: MySQL-MAX 3.23.41 download link is dead... (need a download)

2001-08-16 Thread Fournier Jocelyn [Presence-PC]
Hi, Try : http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/unix/databases/relational/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-Max- 3.23/ http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/unix/databases/relational/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-Max- 3.23/mysql-max-3.23.41-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz Jocelyn Fournier Presence-PC - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Za

Got and mirrored it... (Re: MySQL-MAX 3.23.41 download link is dead... (need a download))

2001-08-16 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:00:16PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > Does anyone have the latest 3.23.41 I could grab a copy of? I managed to fetch it from ftp.mysql.com. A copy is now available here as well: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mysql-max-3.23.41-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz Thanks,

MySQL-MAX 3.23.41 download link is dead... (need a download)

2001-08-16 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
The link here: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-max-3.23.html points here: http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-Max-3.23/mysql-max-3.23.41-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz But that URL 404s. Does anyone have the latest 3.23.41 I could grab a copy of? Thanks, Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <

Fw: Reportwriters for mySQL

2001-08-16 Thread Garrick S. Louie
- Original Message - From: Garrick S. Louie To: MySQL List Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:30 PM Subject: Reportwriters for mySQL I was wondering what GUI reportwriters worked with mySQL. I wanted to use a windows-based software for reporting and I know that Reportsmith and Crys

Re: DBI bug, InnoDB bug, MySQL bug, or I'm just plain missing something.

2001-08-16 Thread mickalo
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:43:22 -0700 (PDT), "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>The interesting part is, if I run the program with autocommit on, it >>works fine. Unfortunately, transactions are essential. I found that the >>program works if I turn autocommit on but wrap the criti

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Tyrone Mills
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough... MSSQL is a reference to Microsoft SQL Server, NOT MySQL. MySQL support is far superior to M$'s offerings... And I've only had experience with free MySQL support as compared to Pay Per Incident M$ Support... I'm sure the paid MySQL support is an order of magnitude b

DBI bug, InnoDB bug, MySQL bug, or I'm just plain missing something.

2001-08-16 Thread Eric J. Schwertfeger
I've got a part of a complex system that isn't behaving as expected. I've got one perl program running with autocommit off that creates entries in a table and commits the changes. At some point, the rows have their state field changed from 'active' to 'closed', and these changes are then commit

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread hooker
> > In my previous job supporting MSSQL at hospitals all across North America, > Europe and Australia, Critical Incident support from M$, ranged from 36 > hours to 4 days for a resolution. Often we solved it ourselves long before > we had an answer from M$... Sad really... MySQL support is far su

Configuring MySQL Korean language

2001-08-16 Thread Kim, Jonathan
Dear Colleagues, I am very new in MySQL and I just started a project of creating our church member database on Sun server with MySQL. Would someone please help me configuring MySQL for Korean language ? I also would like to get some detail information of how to interface client PCs to the serve

mysqladmin wasn't installed

2001-08-16 Thread Joe Mahma
Hi all, I installed the port of mysql3.23.36 on a FreeBSD machine I have done it before and it worked just fine, however this time everything was installed fine but the mysqladmin executable is no where on the system! Can I just get it out of the tar file and move it into /usr/local/bin? I will

Re: NuSphere final speaks out

2001-08-16 Thread Marten Mickos
Our customers have asked us to comment on the writing by Lorne Cooper in NuSphere's latest newsletter. I will respond to the three primary issues raised in the newsletter: (1) The June 2000 agreement between Progress and MySQL AB; (2) the mysql.org website; and (3) Gemini. For those of you in

Re: Proper Case NOT lower case

2001-08-16 Thread Gerald Jensen
Keith: You want to RENAME tables where applicable, and ALTER the respective columns to the desired case. Both are done through queries. The MySQL Manual has detailed info on using these commands. Gerald Jensen - Original Message - From: "Keith Spiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Php-db" <

Re: SQL underscore character question

2001-08-16 Thread Werner Stuerenburg
In case you are with php: Maybe you have magic quotes on, which puts slashes to critical characters automatically. Check the manual and find out. You just strip them off when retrieving the data. There is no fix, as this is a feature. You'll have to care for slashes yourself otherwise. There are

Re: html

2001-08-16 Thread Philip Mak
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Theo Richel wrote: > Is it possible to store html in Mysql-fields? Where can I find more > info in this? Did you need MySQL to treat the HTML in some special way? I'm confused as to why you're asking this question. I would think that you can just use the TEXT data type to s

Re: html

2001-08-16 Thread Gerald Jensen
Theo: Yes ... MySQL doesn't really care much what the data is you are storing. The best source for info is the MySQL manual (link below) ... you probably want top look at storing data in either TEXT or BLOB fields. Gerald Jensen - Original Message - From: "Theo Richel" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [MySQL] Inserting images into a MySQL DB

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:11:59 -0500, Tim Thorburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Hi, > >I'm attempting to store jpg images into a MySQL DB using PHP. I've >found a >few sample scripts that should do this for me, however, they don't >seem to >be working. Could someone take a look at this and see if y

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Jason McKnight
To the original poster: Is this a loaded question just to see what kind of response you might get? The application that requires a database server was not mentioned as far as I can tell, but that will influence your decision on what backend to choose. If you need every feature set under the sun

Re: -fno-exceptions and BSDI 4.0.1/gcc 2.7.2.1

2001-08-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 16), Tuc said: > Having an issue trying to get the latest MYSQLs to compile on > BSDI 4.0.1, with the default 2.7.2.1 GCC compiler. It appears there > is an "-fno-exceptions" in the Makefile, that the version of GCC that > ships with BSDI 4.0.1 doesn't grok. We are

Re: [PHP-DB] Opps: Proper Case NOT lower case

2001-08-16 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
Buy a good book (PHP 4 Bible)!! read some tutorials!! And CHECK the manual.. found at www.php.net what else did you think people created if for.. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php gives you all string manipulation fun stuff you want. ucfirst() is the solution. And last but not leas

SQL underscore character question

2001-08-16 Thread Dupey, Michael (CICG, PME)
> Why does [EMAIL PROTECTED] get changed to fname\[EMAIL PROTECTED] when storing >the data into a database column formated as a VARCHAR? I'm not sure why a back slash >gets added to the data. > Also, how would I fix this issue? > Please send responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for your he

Re: [PHP-DB] Proper Case Conversion

2001-08-16 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
It's a bad habbit to crosspost!! strtolower() stroupper() sql mysql Bye, B. - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To requ

table level replication

2001-08-16 Thread Brian Burke
All, I'm hitting some stumbling blocks getting replication working, and so I decided to join the list for support. Here is what I'm trying to do: GRANT FILE on dbname.tablename to user@"%" IDENTIFIED BY 'passwd'; Here is the error I get: ERROR 1144: Illegal GRANT/REVOKE command. Please consult

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
> http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html"; > > This article is a year and a half old, quite a lot of its points, > while valid at the time , simply are not relevant anymore. I'd like to point out that one of the authors of that paper E-mailed me saying that they recognise there have b

Opps: Proper Case NOT lower case

2001-08-16 Thread Keith Spiller
-Opps: I meant to say I would like to convert to Proper Case, rather than lower case or UPPER CASE. I'm reading data from a mysql table that is entirely in uppercase letters. I'd very much like to convert them to Proper Case. After searching a while, I found that there is are php commands to

html

2001-08-16 Thread Theo Richel
Is it possible to store html in Mysql-fields? Where can I find more info in this? Thanks Theo Richel - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the li

Re: ENCRYPT() issues (basic support#732)

2001-08-16 Thread Sasha Pachev
On Thursday 16 August 2001 12:42, Martin Bassie wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --part3b7c1428c5479 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > > We're working on system where credit card numbers need to be stored in

[MySQL] Inserting images into a MySQL DB

2001-08-16 Thread Tim Thorburn
Hi, I'm attempting to store jpg images into a MySQL DB using PHP. I've found a few sample scripts that should do this for me, however, they don't seem to be working. Could someone take a look at this and see if you notice any problems? Thanks -Tim This file has the following Database ID: $

Re: auto_increment vs. heap tables

2001-08-16 Thread Eduardo J. Vega Arguedas
At 12:56 PM 8/16/2001, Andrew Schmidt wrote: >Actually if you have a unique key on 'id' selecting max(id) is extremely >fast. mysql uses the unique key to find the answer. > >I had a table with 137 million records each record ~ 156 bytes (including >size of keys). > >there was a unique key on ses

ENCRYPT() issues (basic support#732)

2001-08-16 Thread Martin Bassie
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part3b7c1428c5479"

Proper Case Conversion

2001-08-16 Thread Keith Spiller
Hello, I'm reading data from a mysql table that is entirely in uppercase letters. I'd very much like to convert them to lowercase. After searching a while, I found that there is are php commands to convert text strings between upper and lower case, but I was unable to find anything that can c

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Tyrone Mills
In my previous job supporting MSSQL at hospitals all across North America, Europe and Australia, Critical Incident support from M$, ranged from 36 hours to 4 days for a resolution. Often we solved it ourselves long before we had an answer from M$... Sad really... MySQL support is far superior, but

Re: @HOSTNAME@ ?

2001-08-16 Thread Gerald Clark
When doing what? mysql wrote: > Hi ! > > I get: > > "@HOSTNAME@: command not found" > > Does anyone know how to solve that ? I didn't find anything on the net or on the >mysql.com homepage. > > Thanks. > Jan-Hendrik > > -

lower_case_table_name has no effect on Linux

2001-08-16 Thread Geist Roland
Hi I am using mysql 3.23.30 under SuSE Linux 7.1. I tried to make my table names case insensitive by setting lower_case_table_names=1 but this had no effect. Even if the variable is set and a database as well as all tables are created new in lower case a select with an upper case name for a ta

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread William R. Mussatto
Don't forget to include the intermediate software to cache connections since it takes so long to make an oracle connection. On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Robinson, Mike wrote: > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:03:21 -0400 > From: Robinson, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Boget, Chris'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >

-fno-exceptions and BSDI 4.0.1/gcc 2.7.2.1

2001-08-16 Thread Tuc
Hi, Having an issue trying to get the latest MYSQLs to compile on BSDI 4.0.1, with the default 2.7.2.1 GCC compiler. It appears there is an "-fno-exceptions" in the Makefile, that the version of GCC that ships with BSDI 4.0.1 doesn't grok. We are only building clients for 8 4.0.1 syste

ColdFusion, talking to a mySQL database, on Solaris 7

2001-08-16 Thread Alex Cook
Hey all, I'm fighting to get ColdFusion 4.5.1 SP2 to talk to a mySQL DB on Solaris 7 using unixODBC/myODBC. anyone here tried this? I've gotten to the point where I can see the myODBC mySQL Driver in the CFIDE/adminstrator ODBC screen. I've added various entries to the CFHOME/odbc/odbc.ini, CFHO

optimize on winnt

2001-08-16 Thread Heitzso
trying to setup an optimized system to comparison test MS SQL Server and mySQL. Database has a single 350M table with about a dozen columns. Initial comparison between the two engines is being done w/o index help. OS is WinNT, hardware is 1ghz processor and single hd with 512M RAM. We just happe

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread David Turner
No offense but I've seen people on the list throwing replication around like MySQL has replication end of story. There's alot more to replication than just a master and a slave. What MySQL has is simple unidirectional replication. If you want advanced or bidirectional replication you'll have to b

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread sean . odonnell
whoops, right you are, but if the average reader is like me, they'll read the main article , a comment or two , and bug out. The article itself is quite definately dated -Original Message- From: Ravi Raman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 August 2001 10:08 To: Sean O'Donnell; [EMAIL

Re: auto_increment vs. heap tables

2001-08-16 Thread Andrew Schmidt
good point. the only real way to duplicate auto increment logic is to create a new table with 1 row and 1 field. and lock, select, and update that row. thanks, -- Andrew - Original Message - From: "Johnny Withers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Andrew Schmidt'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Ravi Raman
hi. scroll down a bit. the _comments_, to which i was referring, go all the way up to July 2001, which seems fairly relevant to me. and while the article is definitely dated, transaction support in mysql is still not-quite-stable, it still lacks subqueries, stored procedures, triggers and foreig

Replication problem

2001-08-16 Thread Lists Servers Email
Does any know how to fix this database replication problem. Last Lines from Err File 010815 21:38:55 Slave thread exiting, replication stopped in log 'salem-bin.013' at position 6867 010815 21:38:55 Error running query, slave aborted. Fix the problem, and re-start the slave thread with "mysqlad

Re: auto_increment vs. heap tables

2001-08-16 Thread Andrew Schmidt
Actually if you have a unique key on 'id' selecting max(id) is extremely fast. mysql uses the unique key to find the answer. I had a table with 137 million records each record ~ 156 bytes (including size of keys). there was a unique key on sess_id and took about 0.05 seconds to select the max(s

Re: auto_increment vs. heap tables

2001-08-16 Thread Leos Bitto
Uh oh... Please NO. I want the standard _FAST_ auto_increment, not this. "select max(id) from table x" is terribly inefficient. And the table is locked during this operation... That's just not acceptable for me. Anyway, thanks for the response. It was the second one. Leos On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, An

[MySQL Replication failing]

2001-08-16 Thread bryan
>Description: When trying to set up database replication servers I get the following errors in the error log : 010816 16:09:12 Slave: Failed reading log event, reconnecting to retry, log 'FIRST' position 0 010816 16:09:12 Slave: reconnected to master '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3306',replicat

Re: @HOSTNAME@ ?

2001-08-16 Thread Philip Mak
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, mysql wrote: > "@HOSTNAME@: command not found" > > Does anyone know how to solve that ? I didn't find anything on the net > or on the mysql.com homepage. You're getting that from support-files/mysql.server, yes? I've gotten that message too and was puzzled by it. I just rep

Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread nigel wood
> The mySQL > security model is also not sufficiently developed for any system that > involves money. " FUD. My company stores everything including encripted credit card details & authorisation codes in a MyISAM database. while some careful work is required to get table locking right & your

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread sean . odonnell
"a page with _a lot_ of interesting comments from both sides of the commercial-RDBMS vs. mysql-postgres is here: http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html"; This article is a year and a half old, quite a lot of its points, while valid at the time , simply are not relevant anymore. The i

MySQL.org's position

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Widenius
Hi! Thanks Philippe for forwarding this to us: > "P" == Philippe Paravicini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: P> mySql.org's position (whomever they are) P> *** P> Dear Philippe: P> mySQL.org is a not for profit organization dedicated to promoting P> and further enhancing the mySQL database eng

RE: aggressive dolphin?

2001-08-16 Thread Jay Fesco
...I am somewhat disappointed that you chose the dolphin for your logo because of the good nature of this animal. ...dolphins seem to have murderous urges unrelated to the need for food’. Theo, are you still irritated that the rest of us got our 'So Long and Thanks For All The Fish' fishbowls a

Re: Developing addons for MySQL

2001-08-16 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Mike Westmacott writes: > Hi, > > I'm a researcher at the University of Southampton, and at some point I will > need to develop a multidimensional database. Initially I was just going to > write a very simple SQL server, and then I thought that it might be worth > trying to write something for My

Table corruption at MySQL 4.0.0 shutdown ?

2001-08-16 Thread Fournier Jocelyn [Presence-PC]
Hi, I noticed an annoying behaviour with MySQL 4.0.0. I have 11 tables with a lot of rows (about 1 Million and more) which are constantly updated by a php script. It seems after a shutdown of mysql (mysqladmin -uroot -p shutdown) and a restart, some tables are corrupted (and not the same, it ra

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Steve Edberg
Urgh...I've been fortunate enough to avoid things like this myself until recently, when some of my PHP/MySQL/Apache stuff is getting tossed out in favor of Cold Fusion/MS-SQL Server/MS-IIS. Anyway, my 2c: At 8:35 AM -0500 8/16/01, Boget, Chris wrote: >Good morning. >Recently, we presented MyS

even weirder case issues

2001-08-16 Thread Alex Pukinskis
My case sensitivity problem seems to have become even stranger. Basically, one case for the table ("Employee") works to return data for certain rows, and the other ("employee") works for other rows. This is unfortunately now breaking my program. Probably the easiest way to explain this is to sh

Re: BDB and InnoDB in windows nt versions

2001-08-16 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Sinisa, there is no separate Windows distribution of -Max :). From the -Max page: Note: The MySQL 3.23.38 (and newer) distribution for Windows includes both the normal MySQL and MySQL-Max binaries. Regards, Heikki Sinisa writes: . Bruce Scharlau writes: > Hi all, > > I'm t

Problems installing mysql3.23.41 source version

2001-08-16 Thread sachin shetty
Hello I get the following error message when i complie the source version of mysql3.23.41. checking character sets... configure: error: No number was found in ./sql/share/charsets/Index for the latin1 character set. This is a bug in the MySQL distribution. Please report this message to [EMAIL P

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Cross
Chris Boget wrote: >MySQL - as I said at our meeting, we would not be comfortable with this >as an enterprise strength solution. MySQL is unsupported freeware No it isn't, both MySQL AB (and NuSphere?) provide "commercial-grade" support. Given that the top level of MySQL AB support involves dire

Re: BDB and InnoDB in windows nt versions

2001-08-16 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Bruce Scharlau writes: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to work out which distribution of mysql supports BDB or InnoDB > tables. > I've downloaded 3.23.40 and checked 'show variables' asnd it says these > tables are not supported. > I know the docs say they should be available in the distro, but it see

SMALL MYSQL Problem

2001-08-16 Thread O'SULLIVAN JOHN
Hi I am just starting to write my first client with MYSQL 3.23.39 under RH Linux 7.1 and I had the following code. The code compiles fine but the call to mysql_query( ) fails with following error I used the exact same query at the MYSQL prompt and it worked fine Could anyone please tell me whe

Re: auto_increment vs. heap tables

2001-08-16 Thread Andrew Schmidt
auto increment is really just a nice way of doing the following (really nice way actually): lock table x select max(id) + 1 from table x insert into table x values (newid) unlock table x this is under the assumption table x as 1 field called id which has a primary key on it. and newid is the id

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Bacarella
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 08:35:40AM -0500, Boget, Chris wrote: > Recently, we presented MySQL as a database option for a website that > we might be working on. We've used it as our database in the past and > we plan on using it in the future as possible. > With that said, I confess I don't have as

@HOSTNAME@ ?

2001-08-16 Thread mysql
Hi ! I get: "@HOSTNAME@: command not found" Does anyone know how to solve that ? I didn't find anything on the net or on the mysql.com homepage. Thanks. Jan-Hendrik - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/man

Re: MYSQL Connection Problems

2001-08-16 Thread Gerald Clark
Look at the source for the mysql client, and see how they do it. O'SULLIVAN JOHN wrote: > > Hi all, > I am very new to MYSQL and I am running 3.23 on RedHat Linux 7.1. > I have just set up a simple database. > I was not prompted for a password,and was just allowed to set it > up and access it.I

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Robinson, Mike
I suppose there will always be that facet out there that think spending $46zillion dollars on Oracle is ok because saying 'we use Oracle' is just plain sexy and the option includes, you know, a free t-shirt and hat. Im sure there are specific valid reasons for not using MySQL. None of them were e

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Ravi Raman
lol. how "industrial strength" does this website need to be? if it's anything less than an online banking/creditcard processing site, you'll probably be okay. i know go2net, xoom, and realnetworks (among other large sites) all use mysql. admittedly, they also use oracle or db2 in the mix as well,

[50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]Still no var directory under /usr/local/mysql/

2001-08-16 Thread Claudia Castaneda
I have followed the installation instructions in your manual and the var directory is not being created where it says it should. I found it under /var/lib/mysql. >How-To-Repeat: This is the history of the steps I have followed: 158 rm -r -f mysql/ 159 rm -r -f mysql-3.23.41/ ;; I ha

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Jay Fesco
MySQL is unsupported freeware and lacks enterprise management functionality. It has a small limited feature set compared to ORACLE, DB/2 and is lacking the functionality... Chris, The guy who wrote this has pointy hair, doesn't he? Tell him that MySQL is 'freeware' just as Linux is 'freeware'.

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Frank Fisher
Boget, Chris wrote: > --Begin Quote-- > > MySQL - as I said at our meeting, we would not be comfortable with this > as an enterprise strength solution. MySQL is unsupported freeware and > lacks enterprise management functionality. It has a small limited feature > set compared to ORACLE, DB/2

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Sander Pilon
> > MySQL - as I said at our meeting, we would not be comfortable > with this > as an enterprise strength solution. MySQL is unsupported freeware and > lacks enterprise management functionality. True, if you ask me. > It has a small limited feature > set compared to ORACLE, DB/2 True. No

Developing addons for MySQL

2001-08-16 Thread Mike Westmacott
Hi, I'm a researcher at the University of Southampton, and at some point I will need to develop a multidimensional database. Initially I was just going to write a very simple SQL server, and then I thought that it might be worth trying to write something for MySQL. Sadly due to our Draconian IPR

Re:BDB and InnoDB in windows nt versions

2001-08-16 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Oops, I forgot the 'd': it is mysqld-max.exe or mysqld-max-nt.exe Heikki -Original Message- From: Heikki Tuuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:35 PM Subject: Re:BDB and InnoDB in windows nt versions >Hi! >You should run

Re: sql query problem

2001-08-16 Thread Ian Barwick
On Thursday 16 August 2001 10:52, Fabian Groene wrote: (snip) > My problem is quite simple indeed and only refers to the SQL query: > > > There is a table with quite a lot of columns. But only two of them are > really important for my query: One field is a date field and the other one > is a gro

Re:BDB and InnoDB in windows nt versions

2001-08-16 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! You should run mysql-max.exe or mysql-max-nt.exe. Those contain BDB and InnoDB. Regards, Heikki http://www.innodb.com .. Hi all, I'm trying to work out which distribution of mysql supports BDB or InnoDB tables. I've downloaded 3.23.40 and checked 'show variables' asnd it says these

Re: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Boget, Chris writes: > Good morning. > Recently, we presented MySQL as a database option for a website that > we might be working on. We've used it as our database in the past and > we plan on using it in the future as possible. > With that said, I confess I don't have as intimate a knowledge of

BDB and InnoDB in windows nt versions

2001-08-16 Thread Bruce Scharlau
Hi all, I'm trying to work out which distribution of mysql supports BDB or InnoDB tables. I've downloaded 3.23.40 and checked 'show variables' asnd it says these tables are not supported. I know the docs say they should be available in the distro, but it seems not in this version. So, who can

RE: synchronisation (replication)

2001-08-16 Thread Robinson, Mike
It seems certainly possible to automate 2 mysql servers in circular replication, each being master/slave to the other, provided your code is written in such a way to circumvent the auto_increment issue. Generating unique ids on a machine basis and using those values instead of an autoincrement wou

hello

2001-08-16 Thread Brian Johnson Jaber
Dear Sirs Hello, i have questions on mysql i create a table and i create an index key in it i want to know how can i know in mysql if the date that i import it into the table are fully indexd. please reply. best regards. nabil jaber. _

Re: I'd like to use MySQL but actually I'm not sure ...

2001-08-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
> > Consider sending queries to your middleware and having it respond in > > XML for a great way to do better-than-SQL responses in some cases > > (such as making 'group by' return every result, grouped into XML > > sub-sections by the relevant field). > > Unless you care about performance. We'v

Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Boget, Chris
Good morning. Recently, we presented MySQL as a database option for a website that we might be working on. We've used it as our database in the past and we plan on using it in the future as possible. With that said, I confess I don't have as intimate a knowledge of mySQL to address some of the th

RE: synchronisation (replication)

2001-08-16 Thread Simon Green
Hi Neal All that replication douse is use the master database logs to update an identical database (slave). All you should need to do is make shore both databases are the same. Make changes to both the my.cnf file and restart the mysqld... Hope this helps Simon -Original Message- From:

locking question

2001-08-16 Thread Ken Guest
hi, I'm new to this list, but not so new to using MySQL and have a question about locking. (This is my first foray into datalocking with MySQL.) I'd like to lock a table (a row in that table would be better) for read and write access to prevent mishaps from occurring during data manipulation. A

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