No graceful way to stop/shutdown mysqld on OS X

2001-10-20 Thread Chris Handorf
Several posts on other lists are complaining of the same problem I am seeing. The "mysqladmin -u root shutdown" command just hangs on both the 3.23.43 release and 4.0-alpha release for Mac OS X. Yes, I have verified that: 1) The root account in mysql has Shutdown privilege 2) Its not just the

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 to

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 --

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 ke

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 compl

getpwnam (for --user) fails after --chroot in mysqld startup

2001-10-20 Thread wood
>Description: getpwent on FreeBSD requires the file /etc/spwd.db to exist in order for it to be successful. In a chroot'd environment, this file disappears, and mysqld errors out with a "Can't find user" error message, even though the user exists on the system. >How

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 [Pre

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

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. > > Na

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) PH

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

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: 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

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.

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: Recover an overwritten password

2001-10-20 Thread Drops
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drops" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 9:00 PM Subject: Re: Recover an overwritten password > Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either spam or > simply off topic to our filter. To bypass the fi

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. Th

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, i

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: Saturd

Re: Field Naming Standards

2001-10-20 Thread Mike E
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 varchar(60) and on and on. I'd love to hear from som

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 J

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Fw: Disable Beep

2001-10-20 Thread Yiu Wing
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yiu Wing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Disable Beep > Your message cannot be postsed to mysql@ because it > contained an attachment. If you need to make a file publically available > you shoul

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 ide

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 a

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 wrot

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 t

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 union..

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

Re: MYSQL CLIENT

2001-10-20 Thread Michael
Umm you need a common package on each and then the server package on the server and the client package on the client? At least that's how it works on my machines which all run Linux. Some dist's might package it slightly differently though. "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." --Stev

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 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 havi

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 thi

Re: Control Database size

2001-10-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 07:22:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there away to control the max size of each database create by > user. I mean built into MySQL?? There is not. -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-

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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 >

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 03:06:58PM

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

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: 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 s

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. (/mysql/mysqlad

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 ch

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. I

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 terrib

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

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 = tbl_networkpartloc.cCom

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

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 a

mysql@lists.mysql.com

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