how do I abort a slow command?

2001-12-21 Thread Bennett Haselton
If I type something at the MySQL prompt and it's taking too long to run, how do I abort it? I'm using a Windows telnet app to telnet to a Linux machine, and running MySQL from the command line. But if I type "ctrl-c" (which I'm in the habit of doing, to kill slow UNIX and DOS programs), that

Function in index

2001-12-21 Thread Kittiphum Worachat
Hi. Is it possible to use function such as year() in index key (like use subpart for string field that it work) I try this ALTER TABLE XXX ADD INDEX YYY (Year(DoBirth)); ---> error syntax error ALTER TABLE XXX ADD INDEX YYY (DoBirth(4)); ---> error used key part isn't string Thanks. Kittiphum

Re: Help with join

2001-12-21 Thread Kittiphum Worachat
- Original Message - From: "John Mayson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 10:11 AM Subject: Help with join > I'm still in the learning mode with mySQL. > > I have two tables (frequencies and agencies), both contain a column called

RE: High load problem with 3.23.45

2001-12-21 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Are the other servers all using the same kernel version (2.4.4)? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > m] On Behalf Of Arndt Jenssen > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: High load problem with 3.23.45 > >

Help with join

2001-12-21 Thread John Mayson
I'm still in the learning mode with mySQL. I have two tables (frequencies and agencies), both contain a column called "uid". I wish to join these two tables. When I run this... USE radio; SELECT f.freq1, f.ctcss1, f.callsign, a.agency FROMfrequencies as f JOINagencies as a ON f.uid

Re: How to see progress on long index ops

2001-12-21 Thread Steve Rapaport
Thanks, that works! (By the way, my current index has another day and a half to go!) steve Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Dec 22), Steve Rapaport said: > >>I've got a "Alter table DROP INDEX" that's been running for over 48 >>hours now. I'm hoping to load a bunch of tables in a new

Re: How to see progress on long index ops

2001-12-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 22), Steve Rapaport said: > I've got a "Alter table DROP INDEX" that's been running for over 48 > hours now. I'm hoping to load a bunch of tables in a new database > with 22 million records, and then create the indexes afterwards, but > if this creation takes days, I reall

MyODBC, Access 2000 & MySQL

2001-12-21 Thread Kevin J . Maynard
I downloaded and installed the latest MyODBC drivers for Win2000 and got everything installed and configured. My question is this, when I run an append query, Access pops-up a message box saying something like: You are about to append 737 records, are you sure you wish to continue? Regardless

How to see progress on long index ops

2001-12-21 Thread Steve Rapaport
I've got a "Alter table DROP INDEX" that's been running for over 48 hours now. I'm hoping to load a bunch of tables in a new database with 22 million records, and then create the indexes afterwards, but if this creation takes days, I really want to know if it is working or not, and how far it h

[log.cc error in function stops mysqld on every connection!!]

2001-12-21 Thread angel
>Description: >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Submitter-Id: >Originator:angelos Vasdaris >Organization: >MySQL support: [none] >Synopsis: >Severity: >Priority: >Category: mysql >Class: >Release: mysql-3.23.46-max (Source distribution)

deleting from an InnoDB table with a composite PK > 500 chars crashes mysqld

2001-12-21 Thread skehlet
>Description: It is possible to create an InnoDB table that has a composite primary key longer than 500 characters. Trying to delete from this table specifying all fields of the PK causes mysqld to crash. >How-To-Repeat: mysql> create table chump (

Re: letter 'O' with umlaut not equivalent to regular 'O'?

2001-12-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Shannon Kendrick« am 2001-12-21 um 14:24:31 -0800 : > Try setting the column to binary, that what worked for > me. Uhm, isn't that another bug in this case? I'm too lazy to check the manual right now, but I think it says that the only difference between a BINARY VARCHAR and a VARCHAR

Re: letter 'O' with umlaut not equivalent to regular 'O'?

2001-12-21 Thread Shannon Kendrick
Try setting the column to binary, that what worked for me. Shannon --- awk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Description: > Somehow the letter 'O' is not equivalent to the > letter 'Ö' (O with > umlaut), in string matching. > > >How-To-Repeat: > I tried the following query in MyS

letter 'O' with umlaut not equivalent to regular 'O'?

2001-12-21 Thread awk
>Description: Somehow the letter 'O' is not equivalent to the letter 'Ö' (O with umlaut), in string matching. >How-To-Repeat: I tried the following query in MySQL: SELECT 'e'='ë', 'o'='ö'; (ie, select 'e' = e-with-umlaut, 'o' = o-with-umlaut)

Re: Table Locking...

2001-12-21 Thread Philip Molter
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:45:16PM -0800, Shannon Kendrick wrote: : Whats the drawback of using InnoDB instead of MySAM : tables? Tables aren't kept in separate files, disk space preallocated, little less mature (but no less stable, I've found). For most people, those aren't drawbacks, just diff

Re: Table Locking...

2001-12-21 Thread Shannon Kendrick
Whats the drawback of using InnoDB instead of MySAM tables? --- Carl Troein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shannon Kendrick writes: > > > Does anyone know of a way to lock at the row level > > instead of table level using MySQL 3.23.46 > > Yep, use InnoDB instead of MyISAM tables. > > //C - p

Re: Table Locking...

2001-12-21 Thread Shannon Kendrick
Whats the drawback of using InnoDB instead of MySAM tables? --- Carl Troein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shannon Kendrick writes: > > > Does anyone know of a way to lock at the row level > > instead of table level using MySQL 3.23.46 > > Yep, use InnoDB instead of MyISAM tables. > > //C - p

Re: Table Locking...

2001-12-21 Thread Carl Troein
Shannon Kendrick writes: > Does anyone know of a way to lock at the row level > instead of table level using MySQL 3.23.46 Yep, use InnoDB instead of MyISAM tables. //C - person of few words. But surprisingly seldom. -- Carl Troein - Círdan / Istari-PixelMagic - UIN 16353280 [EMAIL PROTECT

Table Locking...

2001-12-21 Thread Shannon Kendrick
Does anyone know of a way to lock at the row level instead of table level using MySQL 3.23.46 Thanks Shannon __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com --

Re: UNIX_TIMESTAMP() & INT unsigned problems

2001-12-21 Thread Colin Faber
Michael Widenius wrote: > > Hi! > > > "Colin" == Colin Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Description: > > Colin> When attempting to select a result set by subtracting the value > Colin> of an unsigned INT column against UNIX_TIMESTAMP() the result set > Colin> is invalid. > >

RE: Help! Languages and Characters....

2001-12-21 Thread Carsten H. Pedersen
> The problem is that I dont want it case sensitive, but > I do want it to distinguish special characters, any > more ideas? You can't do this without a recompilation of MySQL. The manual sec. 4.6.3 - "Adding a New Character Set" gives a thorough explanation on how to go about it. / Carsten --

Need to mask out data

2001-12-21 Thread Eric Mayers
The following is a boiled down version of what I want to provide. I'd appreciate any ideas. I believe views would be idea, but as mysql doesn't have views I'm looking for a work-around. I have a table that consists of an id and a text field like so: ID TEXT 2 sample

Re: Help! Languages and Characters....

2001-12-21 Thread Shannon Kendrick
The problem is that I dont want it case sensitive, but I do want it to distinguish special characters, any more ideas? Thanks Shannon --- Michael Brunson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:07:27 -0800 (PST), Shannon > Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | I have a mysql tab

RE: JOIN in SQL Query

2001-12-21 Thread Roger Baklund
* Mats Lindblad > I can't get this JOIN to work in my SQL-QUERY as it is supposed to! > Could someone check the syntax to se if I missed something? > > SELECT students.pnr, students.firstname, students.lastname, > students.email,= > =20 > students.grupp, students.info, students.lastmod AS lastmod,

Re: Help! Languages and Characters....

2001-12-21 Thread Michael Brunson
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:07:27 -0800 (PST), Shannon Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a mysql table (MySAM), a field in there is set | to unique, however the field does not seem to | recognise the difference between certain ascii | characters, for example it things that | | multimedia

Help! Languages and Characters....

2001-12-21 Thread Shannon Kendrick
I have a mysql table (MySAM), a field in there is set to unique, however the field does not seem to recognise the difference between certain ascii characters, for example it things that multimedia and multimèdia are the same (I hope it is shown correctly) but basically it dos not recognise chara

Webdata Pro, an easy web interface for MySQL

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Young
This may be of interest to newbies that would like a point-and-click method of building their web database tables, queries, forms, and reports in MySQL. http://webdatapro.com Description: "Easily create relational database solutions online, requires no programming or SQL knowledge. Provides the

Re: Is this possible with MySQL?

2001-12-21 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
You may try this and see if it works (didn't test it, just jotted it down here): select t1.textid, t1.textid, t1.textvalue from texts as t1, texts as t2 where (t1.languageid='$Primlanguage' and t1.textid=t2.textid) or (t1.textid=t2.textid and t2.languageid='$Seclanguage' and t2.lan

Is this possible with MySQL?

2001-12-21 Thread Stig Nørgaard Jepsen
I have this table: CREATE TABLE texts ( textid mediumint(9) NOT NULL auto_increment, languageid char(2) NOT NULL default 'da', textkey varchar(32) NOT NULL default '', textvalue text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (textid), ) It could contain these data: (textid,languageid,textkey,textvalue) 1

Re: Getting Possible Values of an Enum Field

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Alexander
Thanks very much for sharing this, Paul. I got a couple other ideas from it, too. :> Regards, /Rob At 09:40 -0600 2001/12/21, Paul DuBois wrote: >Here's an example in Perl. >It actually gets more than the list of values, and it works for >SET columns, too. > ># Take a database connection, a

RE: Getting Possible Values of an Enum Field

2001-12-21 Thread Carsten H. Pedersen
> Am 21 Dec 2001 15:57:13 +0100 schrieb Carsten H. Pedersen: > > > > > I would like to know if there is a possibility to get all allowed > values > > > of an enum field out of the database. > > > > > > I know there are methods to get the field type and those give me back > > > something like "enu

Re: Getting Possible Values of an Enum Field

2001-12-21 Thread Paul DuBois
At 3:35 PM +0100 12/21/01, Henning Sprang wrote: >Hy there, >I would like to know if there is a possibility to get all allowed values >of an enum field out of the database. > >I know there are methods to get the field type and those give me back >something like "enum('value1', 'value2', 'value3')"

Re: Getting Possible Values of an Enum Field

2001-12-21 Thread Dibo Chen
Henning Sprang wrote: > > Am 21 Dec 2001 15:57:13 +0100 schrieb Carsten H. Pedersen: > > > > > I would like to know if there is a possibility to get all allowed > values > > > of an enum field out of the database. > > > > > > I know there are methods to get the field type and those give me back >

RE: Getting Possible Values of an Enum Field

2001-12-21 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 21 Dec 2001, at 15:57, Carsten H. Pedersen wrote: > SELECT DISTINCT enum_col FROM tablename WHERE enum_col<256; But that's only if you have at least one record representing each possible value, right? It wouldn't work on an empty table, for example. By the way, what's the purpose of the W

RE: Getting Possible Values of an Enum Field

2001-12-21 Thread Henning Sprang
Am 21 Dec 2001 15:57:13 +0100 schrieb Carsten H. Pedersen: > > > I would like to know if there is a possibility to get all allowed values > > of an enum field out of the database. > > > > I know there are methods to get the field type and those give me back > > something like "enum('value1', 'val

IN/BETWEEN operators and ENUM column troubles

2001-12-21 Thread Carsten H. Pedersen
Using the IN or BETWEEN operator and index values on an ENUM column fails: CREATE TABLE test (c enum ('one', 'two')); INSERT INTO test VALUES (1), (2); SELECT * FROM test WHERE c='one' OR c='two'; -- works, returns both rows SELECT * FROM test WHERE c=1 OR c=2; -- works, returns both rows

RE: Getting Possible Values of an Enum Field

2001-12-21 Thread Carsten H. Pedersen
> Hy there, > I would like to know if there is a possibility to get all allowed values > of an enum field out of the database. > > I know there are methods to get the field type and those give me back > something like "enum('value1', 'value2', 'value3')", and I can parse my > possible values out

Getting Possible Values of an Enum Field

2001-12-21 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy there, I would like to know if there is a possibility to get all allowed values of an enum field out of the database. I know there are methods to get the field type and those give me back something like "enum('value1', 'value2', 'value3')", and I can parse my possible values out of this with r

UNIX_TIMESTAMP() & INT unsigned problems

2001-12-21 Thread Michael Widenius
Hi! > "Colin" == Colin Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Description: Colin> When attempting to select a result set by subtracting the value Colin> of an unsigned INT column against UNIX_TIMESTAMP() the result set Colin> is invalid. >> How-To-Repeat: Colin> Test case: mysql> creat

problem with start of safe_mysqld

2001-12-21 Thread Teresa Rózga
hi, my platform is red hat 6.2. the rpm packages of mysql are: mysqlclent9-3.23.22-4 php-mysql-4.0.4pl1-9 mysql-3.23.36-1 mysql-devel-3.23.36-1 mysql-server-3.23.36-1 I can start mysql_install_db. But I can not start safe_mysqld. The message is, that the file " mysql.sock" is not fond. And that

Re: UNIX_TIMESTAMP() & INT unsigned problems

2001-12-21 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Colin Faber writes: > >Description: > When attempting to select a result set by subtracting the value > of an unsigned INT column against UNIX_TIMESTAMP() the result set > is invalid. > > >How-To-Repeat: > Test case: > [skip] Thank you for your bug report. I have been

Re: mysqldump - basic question

2001-12-21 Thread Mikel King
Rory, Take a look at the shell scripts for mysqlbackup here http://www.ocsny.com/main/index.ocs?url=mysqlbackup It will explain things quite nicely. Cheers, m! ROry O'Connor wrote: >this is an absolute newbie question - but when i try to run mysqldump with a cron >(like with a shell scr

Re: Very Urgent (sic)

2001-12-21 Thread Carl Troein
Im's sending this to the list, since I got it in a private mail and I don't see myself as a substitute for the combined wisdom, knowledge, and willingness to help that is the MySQL mailing list. SHAM SUNDAR writes: > I won't do sql operations using JDBC like insert,delete,select and update.When

Re: Executing a \. or source function from an API

2001-12-21 Thread Christian Andersson
> ./mysql -uuser -ppassword database To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:56 AM Subject: Executing a \. or source function from an API > I have a big file full of ANSI SQL and a I want a script to be able to > tell Mysql to read this ANSI SQL file every few days because it

JOIN in SQL Query

2001-12-21 Thread Mats Lindblad
I can't get this JOIN to work in my SQL-QUERY as it is supposed to! Could someone check the syntax to se if I missed something? SELECT students.pnr, students.firstname, students.lastname, students.email,= =20 students.grupp, students.info, students.lastmod AS lastmod,=20 grupper.courseID, grupper

Executing a \. or source function from an API

2001-12-21 Thread Curtis Spencer
I have a big file full of ANSI SQL and a I want a script to be able to tell Mysql to read this ANSI SQL file every few days because it updates from a third party in ANSI SQL. I wish to avoid running a little parser that just passes the SQL to the Perl-DBI module query methods, if I could just sim

RE: Nested Queries.

2001-12-21 Thread Richard Morton
Hi, In alot of cases you can use the following query structure (extract from MySQL 4.0.0alpha manual)to negotiate the need for Sub-Selects. I hope this helps. -Rich 1.4.4.1 Sub-selects MySQL currently only supports sub selects of the form INSERT ... SELECT ... and REPLACE ... SELECT

Function in index

2001-12-21 Thread Kittiphum Worachat
Hi all. How to build index with some function like year() instead of use the whole column type date. because I don't need to use the whole lenght (10 bytes) for index but I want to tuo use only year (first 4 bytes) for index key when I try ALTER TABLE xxx ADD INDEX yyy (year(BDATE)) > error

Re: Very Urgent

2001-12-21 Thread Carl Troein
SHAM SUNDAR writes: >When i cannect from my java program i use to get > error General Error: 22.Can u pls help in this.My > mysql version is 3.23.46 perror 22 will tell you that error 22 is 'Invalid argument', but since you don't state what you're trying to do that is of little help. Maybe

Re: Can't connect to SERVER MYSQL localhost

2001-12-21 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Daniel, see the online manual at http://www.innodb.com It contains a list of Windows and Linux operating system error codes. Error 3 in Windows means 3 The system cannot find the path specified. ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND Check that the directory path c:\mysql\data\ibdata exists. Regards, Heikk