Fwd: Re: finding the range of results?

2001-10-20 Thread Kodrik
How do you find what position a value is in a larger query's result? Well, if you put some sorting to your search, you will know the position of your item by the count of the loop you are using to extract the data. You use limit to return a max number of items, and keep a tab of where your

synopsis of the problem (one line)

2001-10-20 Thread root
Description: How-To-Repeat: Fix: Submitter-Id: submitter ID Originator:root Organization: MySQL support: [none | licence | email support | extended email support ] Synopsis: Severity: Priority: Category: mysql Class: Release:

Re: help with resequencing...

2001-10-20 Thread Carl Troein
shetie dog writes: Hi. This may be a obvious problem but... I want to re sequence a auto increment column called p_key starting with 1001. Hmm... sounds like bad database design to me, but OK. I found some information on this the Paul DuBois book MySql: I tried dropping the column and

Change character set for client

2001-10-20 Thread Jindo Soul
Hi, How do I use a characeter set different from the server default? Server is configured to use latin1 as default character set. But for some occasions, I'd like to switch to big5 characeter set. I tried to edit ~/.my.cnf and added [mysql] default-character-set=big5 But show variables still

Urgent : - Select Query

2001-10-20 Thread Manish Mehta
Hello , Please help me (Urgent) i have two tables 1. tbl_employeeinfo 2. tbl_networkpartloc In these table i have common field called cCompany_ID. 1. select count(tbl_employeeinfo.cCompany_ID) from tbl_employeeinfo,tbl_networkpartloc where tbl_employeeinfo.cCompany_ID =

Re: Possible bug in self-join order optimization

2001-10-20 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:03:02 -0500 Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, answering my own email, what I thought was a bug is not one at all. I was mistaken in thinking that MySQL paid any attention to the WHERE conditions when optimizing the join order beyond determining which keys are used

Re: Possible bug in self-join order optimization

2001-10-20 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Eric writes: Well, answering my own email, what I thought was a bug is not one at all. I was mistaken in thinking that MySQL paid any attention to the WHERE conditions when optimizing the join order beyond determining which keys are used for the join, correct? This is really terrible

Re: MYSQL 4.0 bug with fulltext (case change) updates

2001-10-20 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Oct 19, Mark Maunder wrote: Hi, I think this is a bug. The script to recreate the problem is included below. This problem appears consistently as long as there's a fulltext index and a regular index on the same field and you do an update to change the case of a single char. It is

escape character question

2001-10-20 Thread Michael Dupey
i, I need to know how to put email addresses into the mysql database without encountering the escape character. All of the email addresses that contain an underscore are receiving a backslash before the underscore. For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] turns into mike\[EMAIL PROTECTED] This escape

Utilizing the Database Server's Cache

2001-10-20 Thread Scott Alexander
Hi, I've been reading a document at http://www.saturn5.com/~jwb/dbi-performance.html by Jeffrey William Baker. And I have changed my perl code in one script to use placeholders and bound parameters. On my test server 500 mhz rh 7.1 128 MB I haven't noticed any speed differences.

Re: Utilizing the Database Server's Cache

2001-10-20 Thread Mark Maunder
Scott Alexander wrote: I've been reading a document at http://www.saturn5.com/~jwb/dbi-performance.html by Jeffrey William Baker. And I have changed my perl code in one script to use placeholders and bound parameters. On my test server 500 mhz rh 7.1 128 MB I haven't noticed any speed

Field Naming Standards

2001-10-20 Thread Mike E
Howdy, I've been developing in MySQL for some time now, but as I go along I've noticed that my naming conventions have changed dramatically, and I was wondering if there is like a set of guidelines or something I could take a look at. A set of standards, if you will, for naming conventions of

Re: Possible bug in self-join order optimization

2001-10-20 Thread Eric
I have no problem using STRAIGHT_JOIN, etc. My problem is really just figuring out the optimal join order. Is doing a SELECT COUNT on each of the tables I'm going to join the way to do it? Isn't there potential for the count to take as long as the full query processing would take (especially

Re: Possible bug in self-join order optimization

2001-10-20 Thread Eric
The information I require is the number of rows that will come from a SELECT which places a certain range restriction on an unindexed attribute...and I need this to not take much time relative to actually executing the query (constant time would be best). eric. On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at

Re: Possible bug in self-join order optimization

2001-10-20 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Eric writes: I have no problem using STRAIGHT_JOIN, etc. My problem is really just figuring out the optimal join order. Is doing a SELECT COUNT on each of the tables I'm going to join the way to do it? Isn't there potential for the count to take as long as the full query processing would

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Re: Control Database size

2001-10-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
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Re: Possible bug in self-join order optimization

2001-10-20 Thread Eric
Well, I would definitely have to do the count for each query; not because my table sizes are changing (although they are at a fairly rapid rate), but because the number of rows I want to select is vastly different between queries. This is actually a self-join (refer to first emails from me to

Re: Utilizing the Database Server's Cache

2001-10-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:02:22PM +0100, Mark Maunder wrote: The only time you'll see a real performance increase is where you're repeadedly calling execute() on the same statement handle with different values for the placeholders - usually this occurs in a loop. This will save you having

MYSQL CLIENT

2001-10-20 Thread june
How can i connect mysql client to the mysql server? Does mysql need to be installed on the client as well? - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/

Re: Utilizing the Database Server's Cache

2001-10-20 Thread Mark Maunder
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:02:22PM +0100, Mark Maunder wrote: The only time you'll see a real performance increase is where you're repeadedly calling execute() on the same statement handle with different values for the placeholders - usually this occurs in a

intersections, unions, and differences

2001-10-20 Thread Michael
I have two lists of queries. One returns the intersection of all the queries within itself.. the actual intersection being done by an external function (which I'd like to change if I can learn how), the other the union of all queries within itself.. again using an external function for the

I am getting crazy!!!

2001-10-20 Thread Martin Heijkenskjöld
I have been trying to connect to mySQL for a couple of days now with no result! I try to log in via telnet..to my remote server..I get in the system but when I try to log in to the database, nothing!! I use this: mysql -h localhost -u futureenter -p it then asks for a password, I put it in and

Re: how to get the correct result -- Thrid Time --

2001-10-20 Thread Clyde Jones
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Adrian D'Costa wrote: | Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:04:53 +0530 (IST) | From: Adrian D'Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: Clyde Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: how to get the correct result -- Thrid Time -- | | On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Clyde Jones wrote:

I am getting crazy!!!

2001-10-20 Thread Future Enterprise Webdesign
I have been trying to connect to mySQL for a couple of days now with no result! I try to log in via telnet..to my remote server..I get in the system but when I try to log in to the database, nothing!! I use this: mysql -h localhost -u futureenter -p it then asks for a password, I put it in

Re: Field Naming Standards

2001-10-20 Thread ryc
I am not aware of any document that describes naming conventions, but through my use of databases and design I have found a scheme that works for me. I follow these rules: 1. The autoincrement field (or unique id) for a table is named tablename ++ id. So if the table is books the unique

Fw: Disable Beep

2001-10-20 Thread Yiu Wing
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Re: Utilizing the Database Server's Cache

2001-10-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 07:40:18PM +0100, Mark Maunder wrote: Jeremy Zawodny wrote: so the database server can reuse the old execution plan. Let me know if you want a example. That's true for some database servers but not MySQL (yet). I wasn't aware of that - thanks Jeremy. Any

Re: Control Database size

2001-10-20 Thread Barbara Ferrell
i am totally new at this and trying to learn mysql. i just got on the list but i cannot figure out what address to send a question to. how are you doing it please? - Original Message - From: Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday,

Problem with myisamchk -- what am I missing?

2001-10-20 Thread Robert Alexander
Hi all, I'm in the process of writing a searchable mailing list archive in Perl MySQL. I'm using Monty's old mail_to_db.pl script (which I got from the MySQL site long ago) to load emails from their mailbox into MySQL. Runs just fine, BTW. However, when I run myisamchk on the mail table,

Disable beep

2001-10-20 Thread Yiu Wing
Hello, Sorry about the previous message, I made a silly mistake. Now here's the real one ;-) Each time when there's something wrong with my statement, I can hear a beep, which is quite annoying for me . How do I disable the beep sound in the mySQL prompt. By the way, this is in a Linux box.

Re: Recover an overwritten password

2001-10-20 Thread Drops
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Preferences Table

2001-10-20 Thread Mike E
I've been having this debate in my mind and alternated my method on the past few projects I've worked on, and now I ask you, the MySQL community. What is the best way to have a preferences table? Here's what I've been doing: Table preferences basepath varchar(255) adminemail varchar(255) and

Re:MySQL 4.0 alpha source build with pgcc

2001-10-20 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Jindo, there seems to be a compiler bug in pgcc. I was able to get it working by adding some dummy code in function dict_hdr_get_new_id in file mysql/innobase/include/dict0boot.ic Below is a new body for the function. I added a dummy if in the middle of the the body and then it started to work.

Re: Field Naming Standards

2001-10-20 Thread Don Read
On 20-Oct-2001 Mike E wrote: That seems to follow how I've been doing it as well. For example, consider this database set up: Table: news Fields: newsid int(10) userid int(10) dateposted datetime subject varchar(255) content text Table: users Fields: userid int(10) name

Index spindle??

2001-10-20 Thread tony . icuc
Would anyone know of a method to create/fake/move/configure and index on an alternate disk than the base table? I hail from a platform that allows specific disk specification for partition, index and alternate key files. Naturally, I referenced Paul DuBois' amazing book, to no avail. Just

Re: I am getting crazy!!!

2001-10-20 Thread Carl Troein
Martin Heijkenskjöld writes: I have been trying to connect to mySQL for a couple of days now with no result! I try to log in via telnet..to my remote server..I get in the system but when I try to log in to the database, nothing!! You can't connect to the server via telnet. This is in the

Re: Mysql 4.0.0-alpha and php-4.0.6 and Apache

2001-10-20 Thread Fournier Jocelyn [Presence-PC]
Hi, I have the solution for this problem. Before compiling php, edit the /ext/mysql/php_mysql.c file in the php distribution. Then remove all the reference to mysql_connect, mysql_create_db and mysql_drop_db : function_entry mysql_functions[] = { //PHP_FE(mysql_connect, NULL)

Re: Index spindle??

2001-10-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:54:28PM -0400, tony.icuc wrote: Would anyone know of a method to create/fake/move/configure and index on an alternate disk than the base table? I hail from a platform that allows specific disk specification for partition, index and alternate key files.

UPDATE problem

2001-10-20 Thread amit
Hi, I am encountering a problem while I am updating records of a table. Basically its a problem of updation of records using pattern matching. I want all the recods that end with letter s be updated to record without the letter s at the end. For eg, I want a record things to be converted to

Re: Mysql 4.0.0-alpha and php-4.0.6 and Apache

2001-10-20 Thread Fournier Jocelyn [Presence-PC]
Oups sorry, bad news :( In fact it still doesn't works, I compiled PHP with the option --with-mysql, so PHP used his internal mysql client :( BTW how can I compile mysql-4.0 with the USE_OLD_FUNCTIONS option ? Thank you, Jocelyn Fournier - Original Message - From: Fournier Jocelyn

Length limit of 500 on primary keys?

2001-10-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Why is there a limit of 500 bytes on the primary key? (MySQL-Max-3.23.43 on WinNT). Is there a way to raise this limit? We have some tables with columns that are VARCHAR(200), and need to make a primary key based on combinations of these columns (in some cases, upto 4 columns), and MySQL

RE: Length limit of 500 on primary keys?

2001-10-20 Thread Chris Bolt
Is there a way to raise this limit? We have some tables with columns that are VARCHAR(200), and need to make a primary key based on combinations of these columns (in some cases, upto 4 columns), and MySQL complains for all of these table definitions that Specified key was too long. Max key

delete doble quotes from entries?

2001-10-20 Thread Dexter Coelho
Hi Mysqlers, Does anyone know how to delete double quotes from my entries ''. I thing you can use regular expressions. Dexter _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Date/time advice and stuff

2001-10-20 Thread Conrado Vardanega
Hi there. I need advice on which is better to store date/time information on a database and retrieve data between two given dates. It appears to be pretty simple to use timestamp, which value is always bigger as time goes on, and I could compare using logical operators in a SQL query. Is this