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2001-12-16 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:

mysql++ api for linux

2001-12-16 Thread David Sheeks
Is this where I would get some help using the mysql++ api for linux c++? dave -- --Powered By Linux-- - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the

Re: [PHP] mysql_query() problem

2001-12-16 Thread Brian Rue
Thanks... mysql_error() said "No database selected". Oops... forgot to define $db_name as a global. - Original Message - From: "Girish Nath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Brian Rue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] mysql_query()

re: Selecting unknown columns

2001-12-16 Thread Greg Sheffield
How about this: update table set answer = concat_ws("," , if(left(columnA,1)="*",substring(columnA,2),""), if(left(columnB,1)="*",substring(columnB,2),""), if(left(columnC,1)="*",substring(columnC,2),"") ) Greg > I've got a 700-question multiple choice quiz th

Re: UNIQUE in InnoDB

2001-12-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:33:06PM +0200, Heikki Tuuri wrote: > I will change InnoDB so that it allows several NULL values in secondary > indexes even if that index would have been declared UNIQUE. Oracle has a > similar convention. > > In the case of foreign keys, I advise against using NULL val

RE: Unix-Timestamp() in myODBC 02.50

2001-12-16 Thread Bart Goormans
(answer to myself & anyone interested ;0) After setting my date to "Unix_Timestamp" mode, I convert it to a 10-base number: - >> CONV(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(U.lastTime),10,10) - Then, I perform the substraction: -

Re: [PHP] mysql_query() problem

2001-12-16 Thread Girish Nath
Hi Try the following to find out what's happening : $result = mysql_query($query,$conn) or die (mysql_error()); Or try echo'ing $result to see what it contains. It should contain something like this if everything is working fine : Resource id #2 Regards Girish - Original Message -

Re: Locked out

2001-12-16 Thread David VanHorn
At 08:58 PM 12/16/01 -0700, Doug Thompson wrote: >This should help: > >A.4.2 How to Reset a Forgotten Password >http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Resetting_permissions.html Works ok up through step 2. mysql -h localhost mysql gives me error 1045 again. Can't get in with mysqladmin either. -- Dave'

Re: Locked out

2001-12-16 Thread Doug Thompson
This should help: A.4.2 How to Reset a Forgotten Password http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Resetting_permissions.html Good luck. Doug On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:43:39 -0500, David VanHorn wrote: > >I'm root on a small server. >My co-sysop has managed to lock us out of mysql. >I can't get in with -u

Locked out

2001-12-16 Thread David VanHorn
I'm root on a small server. My co-sysop has managed to lock us out of mysql. I can't get in with -u root and the root password, or anything else I can think of. Error 1045: Access denied for user" 'root@localhost' So how do I slip a key under the door, without nuking the databases? -- Dave's E

Selecting unknown columns

2001-12-16 Thread Alex Kirk
I've got a 700-question multiple choice quiz that I've got imported into MySQL, with one small problem: the answers to the quiz are not a separate column. I have three columns for each of the possible answers; the correct answer is denoted by a "*" in the appropriate field. For example, if I ha

Compilation problem on Slackware 8

2001-12-16 Thread Daniel Kasak
Hello all. I'm trying to compile MySQL-4.0.0 on Slackware 8. Here's what I've done... export CFLAGS="-O3" CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="-O3 -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" ./configure --enable-thread-safe-client --with-openssl --enable-assembler make Then after a little compiling, I get: g

ODBC on OSX

2001-12-16 Thread Peter Harvey
I have made binary distributions of; - unixODBC - PostgreSQL Driver - MySQL Driver availible to the public at http://www.codebydesign.com/DataArchitect. These binary distributions are based upon Open Source code which was configured and built on the Mac OSX. All distributions use the standar

Fetching from two tables without using a join

2001-12-16 Thread Chris
I have two tables that are exactly alike. What I want to do is fetch the rows from each into one sortable result set. Example: Table1 -- | Column1 | Column2 | Column 3 | -- | 1| 2| 3| --

mysql++ installation

2001-12-16 Thread David Phoon
Hi I am trying to install mysql++-1.7.9 on linux. I followed the README by typing automake in the mysql++-1.7.9 directory but get the following messages: automake: Makefile.am: required file `./INSTALL' not found automake: Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found automake: Makefile.am: req

mysqlgui, ?var? and quotes

2001-12-16 Thread Jean.Maupertuis
I try to use the ?var?'s to create a menu for inserting new rows in a table. for example: insert into personnel(first_name, last_name) values(?first_name?, ?last_name?) if i type jean in first_name and maupertuis in last_name the result is "unknow column 'jean' in 'field list' "because it's tr

RE: string column types

2001-12-16 Thread Roger Baklund
* florian > but except for that text can store more than 255 chars is there > any difference between varchar and text/blob? >From the manual: "In most respects, you can regard a `TEXT' column as a `VARCHAR' column that can be as big as you like. Similarly, you can regard a `BLOB' column as a `

RE: root cant control mysqld

2001-12-16 Thread Carsten H. Pedersen
> Some how I don't have control over mysqld as root. It starts on > boot, but I > am unable to stop it to reset root password. How can I correct this? http://www.bitbybit.dk/mysqlfaq/faq.html#ch7_2_0 / Carsten -- Carsten H. Pedersen keeper and maintainer of the bitbybit.dk MySQL FAQ http://www.

Re: Coredump when running scripts/mysql_install_db

2001-12-16 Thread Michael Widenius
Hi! > "Michael" == Michael Stassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Of course, you are right. As I said, I took this code from Michael> set_maximum_open_files in mysqld.cc: simply turning the 1st Michael> sql_print_error line into the printf lines. I should have looked more Michael>

Re: UNIQUE in InnoDB

2001-12-16 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! I will change InnoDB so that it allows several NULL values in secondary indexes even if that index would have been declared UNIQUE. Oracle has a similar convention. In the case of foreign keys, I advise against using NULL values, because in SQL NULL really means 'an unknown value'. Actually

root cant control mysqld

2001-12-16 Thread Raymond Norton
Some how I don't have control over mysqld as root. It starts on boot, but I am unable to stop it to reset root password. How can I correct this? Raymond - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the

Re: Error 139

2001-12-16 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! >I received a table handler error 139 on several occasions while trying >to convert a table to type InnoDB (alter table data type=InnoDB). I >ran a check table and optimize table on it, and converted it from >MyISAM to BDB successfully. Today, when I tried it again to get the >exact err

Re: Load srtatement

2001-12-16 Thread Amer Neely
> Hi, > I am having problems loading data into a table and have 2 questions. > > 1) > I want to load some data from a text file in to a table by using the > following line: > LOAD DATA LOCAL INTO "st.txt" INTO TABLE studio; > > this keeps giving me : File "st.txt" not found (ErrorCode: 2) > >

Re: Problem with some characters in tablename

2001-12-16 Thread Jason Wong
On Monday 17 December 2001 02:02, Didier Brisebourg wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody help me ? > > In MySQL documentation, it is said that table name can use any character > allowed in filename except '/' and '.'. > > On my Linux, i can create a file with this name "'w4-1". > > But, i can't create the

string column types

2001-12-16 Thread florian
hi! i have a question concerning string column types of a mysql database: char is better for small sized strings (because of the fixed row size, and for long strings it would blow the db up too much) but how about varchar vs text or blob.. which one is suited for which need the best? blob is ca

Error 139

2001-12-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
I received a table handler error 139 on several occasions while trying to convert a table to type InnoDB (alter table data type=InnoDB). I ran a check table and optimize table on it, and converted it from MyISAM to BDB successfully. Today, when I tried it again to get the exact error message

Problem with some characters in tablename

2001-12-16 Thread Didier Brisebourg
Hi, Can anybody help me ? In MySQL documentation, it is said that table name can use any character allowed in filename except '/' and '.'. On my Linux, i can create a file with this name "'w4-1". But, i can't create the table with this name. The request is rejected. Has anybody an explanation

Max use of 'in'

2001-12-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Is there an upper bound on how many items may be listed in an 'IN' clause? SELECT a,b,c from d where a in (1,2,3,4,5,6 ... 1123,1124); ...?? Thanks -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ -

RE: Proper use of indexes / keys

2001-12-16 Thread Roger Baklund
* Sebastian Bergmann > Roger Baklund wrote: > > You can almost always improve the performance of queries by adding an > > index. The trick is to add the right index... :) If you for instance > > often did a "SELECT * FROM pot_accesslog WHERE client_id=$id AND > > timestamp > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HO

Re: Proper use of indexes / keys

2001-12-16 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Roger Baklund wrote: > However, if the behaviour with no restrictions on duplicates is > correct, you may be better of without a primary key in this case. Okay, that's what I need here. > Also, the second create statement defines indexes on all fields, making > almost any query reasonably fas

CPU problem

2001-12-16 Thread Almar van Pel
Hello, On our server we currently have, what I think, is a problem. We run mysql for some time now, but every time a query is loaded the mysqld uses more then 50 % of the CPU. In some cases it even uses 99,9 % of the cpu for a second or 2. I find this very strange myself. The table that's used

mySQL++/General Question

2001-12-16 Thread Mike Gleason Jr Couturier
Hello all ! I've got 2 questions : Can we insert ASCII characters in an INSERT statement... like INSERT INTO guy(name) VALUES('ascii codes here'); so that the ascii code of a ';' will display a ';' in the database... understand !? And is there a place on the net that we can browse all errors no

RE: Proper use of indexes / keys

2001-12-16 Thread Roger Baklund
* Sebastian Bergmann > I am currently trying to optimize the indexes / keys for the MySQL > schema of phpOpenTracker. I don't know phpOpenTracker, but I have a few comments. > I'm wondering if multiple keys, like > > CREATE TABLE pot_accesslog ( > accesslog_id int(10) unsigned NO

Re: Location of text file for loading data in to table

2001-12-16 Thread Todd Williamsen
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "location of text file" INTO TABLE [tablename] - Original Message - From: "Inderpal Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:12 AM Subject: Location of text file for loading data in to table > Hi, > When using the command

Re: Location of text file for loading data in to table

2001-12-16 Thread Carl Troein
Inderpal Singh writes: > When using the command: > LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "xxx.txt" INTO TABLE [TABLE NAME]; > > where should the txt file be located? That's up to you to decide, but as _always_ when you do something to a file, you must give some sort of valid path (absolute or relative or wha

Re: Fw: timestamp additional info

2001-12-16 Thread Joseph Bueno
Hi, I have run the small test below: mysql> create table test ( -> f1 int, -> ts timestamp); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.40 sec) mysql> insert into test values (10); ERROR 1136: Column count doesn't match value count at row 1 mysql> insert into test (f1) values (10); Query OK, 1 row af

Re: How Huge of your mySQL database or table in your former Instance

2001-12-16 Thread Philip Molter
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 02:00:58AM -0800, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: : On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:25:07PM +0800, Ares Liu wrote: : > : > So, could you give me some advice that if it is feasible ? Or show : > me your successful cases of using mySQL which is supporting very : > large DB or tables with d

RE: Fw: timestamp additional info

2001-12-16 Thread *Himerus*
My timestamp is doing the same thing... with inserting 0's ... but if I leave it out of the insert query, it wont update, because the field is missing... I have the insert and also a mail() function that lets me know every time an entry has been made, and when I first tried the timestamp, it just

Re: Question on mySQL replication

2001-12-16 Thread Scott Vanderweyst
Actually, we've been runnning mySQL replication for ~4 months now We've never had a problem with the slaved machines losing their position in the log, nor do we ever run a reset slave... Try the following script instead out of cron... #!/bin/sh FIRST_LOG=`echo 'SHOW MASTER LOGS ;' | mysql|head -

Re: Query cache and InnoDB tables?

2001-12-16 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Dec 16, Magnus Enbom wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying out the new query cache features in mysql4. > Are the cache supposed to work with innodb tables? It's not according to the > output of show status, works fine with myisam tables. > I'm ran a 'bk pull -l' this morning and compiled with Suns

Query cache and InnoDB tables?

2001-12-16 Thread Magnus Enbom
Hi, I'm trying out the new query cache features in mysql4. Are the cache supposed to work with innodb tables? It's not according to the output of show status, works fine with myisam tables. I'm ran a 'bk pull -l' this morning and compiled with Suns cc on a Solaris-x86 box. It looks like this:

Location of text file for loading data in to table

2001-12-16 Thread Inderpal Singh
Hi, When using the command: LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "xxx.txt" INTO TABLE [TABLE NAME]; where should the txt file be located? Thanks _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ---

Location of text file for loading data in to table

2001-12-16 Thread Inderpal Singh
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UPDATE table1 FROM table2

2001-12-16 Thread Michael Widenius
Hi! I just happend to notice this old email... > "Moshe" == Moshe Gurvich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Moshe> In MySQL 3.23, how to update one table using information from another table. Moshe> update table1 set value1=t2.value2 Moshe> from table1 as t inner join table2 as t1 using(pk_key)

Re: Embedding MySQL in an application

2001-12-16 Thread Michael Widenius
Hi! > "Brian" == Brian P Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> You need to download the MySQL-4.0 source and compile for Brian> embedded-server. This is a library that you link your programs to. Brian> It is used for small devices, like what we are doing here. Brian> I haven't found a

Re: test

2001-12-16 Thread Sergi Asensio i Albà
sql mysql test - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: alter table add primary key error.

2001-12-16 Thread Craig Vincent
> user drop primary key;". Work fine. But "alter table user add primary key > (userName)" didn't work. It print "ERROR 1062: Duplicate entry 'a' for key > 1". What's wrong? Help me. This means that you have more than one record with the same value under the userName column... try this SELECT us

Re: MySQL Glitch?

2001-12-16 Thread Craig Vincent
> Hi all, > Ive recently been made aware of a glitch in MySQL > regarding locked at the table level (instead of row) > when a record is being updated. > > Is this still a problem in Version 3.23.46? > > Has it been fixed in 4.0.0? And if so, when is a > stable version of 4.0 likely to be released?

MySQL Glitch?

2001-12-16 Thread Shannon Kendrick
Hi all, Ive recently been made aware of a glitch in MySQL regarding locked at the table level (instead of row) when a record is being updated. Is this still a problem in Version 3.23.46? Has it been fixed in 4.0.0? And if so, when is a stable version of 4.0 likely to be released? Many thanks,

Re: Question on mySQL replication

2001-12-16 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:36:19PM -0500, Peter M. Perchansky wrote: > Greetings everyone: > > RE: http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Replication.html > > How frequently does each slave get data from the master? The slaves have a thread running (the "slave thread") which is always connected to the m

Re: Question on mySQL replication

2001-12-16 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 12:55:28PM +1100, Tim Wood wrote: > Hi Peter > > We use the mysql replication stuff here. Its very reliable, and the > synchronization between master & slave is pretty much instant. > > There does seem to be one problem when the master rotates its > transaction logs, the

Re: How Huge of your mySQL database or table in your former Instance

2001-12-16 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:25:07PM +0800, Ares Liu wrote: > > So, could you give me some advice that if it is feasible ? Or show > me your successful cases of using mySQL which is supporting very > large DB or tables with details ? How about a table with 260 million rows? We've got one that is

Learning how to write good WHERE clauses

2001-12-16 Thread Kevin Campbell
I’m new to MySQL and it seems that a big part of this is knowing how to write the right conditional clause to get the results you want. Anybody know where some good articles are on learning how to write good WHERE CLAUSES, I always know what I want to get but I’m still not sure how to map that in

Unable to install ODBC 2.50.39 on XP

2001-12-16 Thread zlab
Hi, I've download the latest version of ODBC for window NT/XP to install on my XP machne, during the installation. It response with: Cannot find file D:|software\Mysql|ODBC\WinNT\SETUP.EXE [or one of its components]. Check to ensure the path and filename are correct abd that all required li

Unix-Timestamp() in myODBC 02.50

2001-12-16 Thread Bart Goormans
There seems to be a flaw in the myODBC driver 02.50 when working with the Unix-Timestamp() function. Apparently, the driver doesn't know which data-type to use... When I send the sql statement: -- Select ( UNIX_TIMESTAMP(U.lastTime) - UN