Re: Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 07:28:04PM +0200, savaidis wrote: > Instead of "binary" it sould be better to use a "case conversion" flag with > reverse function - NOT set by default. "Binary" doesn't make sence to me. > As for LIKE I think most WHERE commands use it so it is obvious it should be > ther

Mysql dies with Signal 11

2002-02-23 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, I seem to be getting intermittant crashes of mysql. The error log prints the following, mysqld got signal 11; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary or one of the libraries it was linked against is corrupt, improperly built, or misconfigured. This error

Re: can i use mysql functions to sort an alpha-numeric description alphabetically?

2002-02-23 Thread DL Neil
Nicole, RTFM: 6.3 Functions for Use in SELECT and WHERE Clauses in particular the String Functions If the first space (in every row) can be taken as the 'marker' of what to remove (including the space itself), then take a look at the following: SELECT catval, RIGHT( strcatdescr, POSITION( '

Re: 3.23.49 Linux binary issues

2002-02-23 Thread Sasha Pachev
I've now tracked down the problem with signal 4 - glibc was configured for i686 architecture. I have now fixed this and am currently building the binaries. As I said earlier, if you would like to volunteer for a pre-release test, send me a mail. -- MySQL Development Team For technical suppo

RE: off-line development tool?

2002-02-23 Thread Marco Bleeker
If I rember well MySQLdump is a utility. I can run that at my local machine, but how to do the reverse thing at the remote machine. I can't run much more than HTML and PHP scripts there. Is there a tool that can convert the MySQLdump export file into something that looks like a PHP script and t

Re: mysql under FreeBSD 4.5

2002-02-23 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:10:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just recently installed FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and cvsup'd to latest > 4-STABLE. Updated ports tree and did a make install in > /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server and received the following on the > mysql_install_db part: I have

C API, MySql ver 3.23.49 and Apache ver 1.3.23

2002-02-23 Thread Matthew Scarrow
I've got this problem that now since I updated mysql to ver 3.23.49 and recompiled some of my working cgi scripts Apache is complaining about a server error. Premature end of header scripts. If I use the cgi that I compiled before the upgrade everything is fine. It's the exact same code. I've

Re: can i use mysql functions to sort an alpha-numeric description alphabetically?

2002-02-23 Thread Nicole Lallande
Sorry Dan, I had actually replied to Steve who had asked the same question but I forgot to reply to the list with this: here is the query: select catval,catdescr from embiteccat where catzid=$zid and catlid=$lid and catunder=$cat order by catdescr; Here is a some data: 36,1,1,,0,0,2

Re: can i use mysql functions to sort an alpha-numeric description alphabetically?

2002-02-23 Thread DL Neil
Hi Nicole, Perhaps it's me, but I'm having trouble following you - as I did with the question I've just finished responding to... > I have looked at the online documentation and the mysql books that I > have but can find no answer. I have a field that looks like this: > > (8+2) Landscape I tak

Connection from java

2002-02-23 Thread peng yahui
I am using mysql 4.0 on linux and mm.mysql 2.0.11, however I can't access mysql from java application. try { Class.forName( "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" ).newInstance(); Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test?user=xxx&password=yyy" )

Re: Query Help

2002-02-23 Thread DL Neil
Hi Pinkesh, > I've got item table as follwoing: > > itemno|item_name > 1 item one > 2 item two > 3 item three > 4 item four > 2 item two > 3 item three > > > I want to right a query so I get three rows of each item I specify in WHERE > > f

RE: Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread Paul DuBois
At 19:54 +0200 2/23/02, savaidis wrote: >I say "by default" means to do nothing, not to do the upercase conversion as >I suppose it does to the fields. As it happens, the standard SQL behavior for LIKE is to not be case sensitive. Which is roughly equivalent to doing an uppercase conversion. You

Doc Bug: Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread Steve Rapaport
Um, hello? I wasn't trying to turn this into a general bitch session on the manual, and I really don't think that's appropriate. Worse, it obscures and devalues the value of the bug report. I'm just trying to draw attention to a possible software malfunction in the "commentary" section of the o

RE: Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread savaidis
I say "by default" means to do nothing, not to do the upercase conversion as I suppose it does to the fields. I haven't met since now the "binary" as an alternative to "case sensitive" and I'm quite old in programming and age believe me :) Also if I knew SQL already, then I didn't have to read the

benchmarks?

2002-02-23 Thread savaidis
I'm using still a very small MySQL database -just testing yet- but I read many people talking about some Gigas of data. I wonder where can I find some benchmarks about MySQL with various O.S. I work with MySQLFront and: Is there a way not to loose data when I change a field i.e from INT to FLOAT

RE: Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread Paul DuBois
At 19:28 +0200 2/23/02, savaidis wrote: >Instead of "binary" it sould be better to use a "case conversion" flag with >reverse function - NOT set by default. You have to have *something* on by default. I guess I don't understand what you're getting at. I'd say BINARY is reasonably concise. Perh

[re-post] MySQL on OpenBSD/sparc64?

2002-02-23 Thread John Morrissey
[I didn't get a response from openbsd-sparc, so I'm trying here. Any help would be appreciated!] I'm trying to get a MySQL server running under a recent OpenBSD 3.0 snapshot on an Ultra 5, but I'm not having much luck. I tried installing the binary mysql-server package (from 3.0/packages/sparc6

RE: MyODBC 3.51 build for Mac OSX

2002-02-23 Thread Venu
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: Brian Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 9:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MyODBC 3.51 build for Mac OSX > > > Sorry, I’m new here and I’m sure this has been discussed ad naseum, but > does anyone have information

RE: Naming a Provider?

2002-02-23 Thread Venu
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: D Nyberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 9:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Naming a Provider? > > > Guys, I'm very new to ODBC, so please bear with, okay? > > I'm looking at example code in a particular windows

Query Help

2002-02-23 Thread PinkeshP
Hi, I've got item table as follwoing: itemno|item_name 1 item one 2 item two 3 item three 4 item four 2 item two 3 item three I want to right a query so I get three rows of each item I specify in WHERE for example SELECT itemname from i

RE: Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread savaidis
Instead of "binary" it sould be better to use a "case conversion" flag with reverse function - NOT set by default. "Binary" doesn't make sence to me. As for LIKE I think most WHERE commands use it so it is obvious it should be there. Makis > -Original Message- > From: Paul DuBois [mai

Alter Table with InnoDB table type having foreign keys

2002-02-23 Thread Bob McLaughlin
A humble suggestion for the development team I went through and looked at some of the postings regarding using ALTER TABLE with InnoDB tables and the resulting loss of foreign key constrains. I was disappointed to learn about the need to use the create/drop workaround. The main reason I con

Signal 4 crashes on some x86 Linux machines

2002-02-23 Thread Sasha Pachev
Simon and others: Signal 4 means "illegal instruction". This happens when the binary users an instruction that is not compatible with your architecture. In theory, this should not happen - to our knowledge, the binary should work just fine on any architecture. However, if it does not, this mea

MyODBC 3.51 build for Mac OSX

2002-02-23 Thread Brian Reed
Sorry, I’m new here and I’m sure this has been discussed ad naseum, but does anyone have information on where to get an installer for the Mac OSX version of the MyODBC drivers? The latest build I could find on the web is 2.5. (mySQL, sql, query, etc.)   TIA Brian   -

Re: mysql 3.23.49-1 rpm fails with redhat 7 thu 7.2

2002-02-23 Thread Doug Thompson
This matter was addressed this morning by Sasha Pachev in "3.23.49 Linux binary issues" To paraphrase Yogi Berra, you can learn an awful lot just by reading; in this case postings to the list in general from the development team. det On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:22:15 -0500, S. William Schulz wrot

Naming a Provider?

2002-02-23 Thread D Nyberg
Guys, I'm very new to ODBC, so please bear with, okay? I'm looking at example code in a particular windows binding package, and see the following: ... -- Open Database Open (DB_Control.Database, "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; " & "Data Source=..\..\tutorials\adotest.md

can i use mysql functions to sort an alpha-numeric description alphabetically?

2002-02-23 Thread Nicole Lallande
Hi, I have looked at the online documentation and the mysql books that I have but can find no answer. I have a field that looks like this: (8+2) Landscape I want to sort on the alphabetic characters. My mysql query does an order by this field and that returns a numeric order (which for me i

RE: Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread Todd Williamsen
I don't think the manual is very amateur like. I find it very large, somewhat imformative. I find it like hell to understand if you are a novice -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 10:29 AM To: savaidis; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

RE: Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:01 +0200 2/23/02, savaidis wrote: >Also there is not LIKE at all at SELECT command on MySQL manual! http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/t/String_comparison_functions.html http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/a/Pattern_matching.html >I found manual very-very amateur work. >I was trying about half hour to use

Couple of Performance tweaking questions.

2002-02-23 Thread Lloyd Duhon
hi everyone, I've got a mysql server, a quad xeon 700MHz, with 8 gigs of ram, and a raid 50 disk array running as two 50 GB partitions, shared over 8 15,000 RPM disks, on a hardware raid card, with 128Mb Cache. Running RedHat Linux 7.2, with Ext3 FS, and Kernel 2.4.9-21 Enterprise (SMP) I'm try

RE: Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread savaidis
Also there is not LIKE at all at SELECT command on MySQL manual! I found manual very-very amateur work. I was trying about half hour to use Also "binary" at field creation or WHERE should be ON by default. And WHERE works erroneously with Greek chars (without the "binary" option). I think it is

Comments in Documentation

2002-02-23 Thread Steve Rapaport
Has anyone noticed that the comments in the Mysql on-line docs are almost entirely always off-topic? Compare, for example, to the PHP docs www.php.net What's strange is not the number of moronic posts (minimal), but the number of useful and often insightful posts that appear to have been entered

Re: mysql 3.23.49-1 rpm fails with redhat 7 thu 7.2

2002-02-23 Thread S. William Schulz
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:32:11PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > The latest rpms for mysql 3.23.49 produce a signal 4 error when > attempting to run the installed mysql server. > on all our servers running redhat 7 thru 7.2. > > Obviously this can't be a kernel 2.2.x issue, sinc

Re: Script (Linux 7.1)

2002-02-23 Thread Doug Thompson
One way is to include it in your mysql start command: mysql -u user -ppassword hi, >I have written a script for database creation and table creation. Now I >want to run this script from the MySQL prompt. How can I do this..? >Please , anybody know about this , so that I can create my database by

Re: mysql 3.23.49 porting problem on POSIX 1003.1-2001 hosts

2002-02-23 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Paul Eggert writes: > >Description: > The new POSIX standard is now official (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001), > and it has removed support for some obsolete utility options > that mysql uses in a few places. Basically, the new POSIX > has removed digit-string options (e.g., "tail -

Help needed in configuring the server

2002-02-23 Thread vijay khanna
Hello every one... We are going into making the final changes to our production MySQL server. production server configuration is Free BSD PIII dual processor 800 mhz, 750 MB RAM. back_log = 20 DEFAULT back_log = 200 CHANGED flush_time = 1800 sec DEFAULT flush_time = 3600 sec CHANGED key_buffe

Re: Is there a limit on the email size for this list?

2002-02-23 Thread Egor Egorov
George, Saturday, February 23, 2002, 12:58:11 PM, you wrote: GL> I created them according to the INSTALL-BINARY file included in the package GL> downloadable from www.mysql.com GL> I qoute this from the file: GL> //

Re: Is there a limit on the email size for this list?

2002-02-23 Thread George Labuschagne
Hi Egor, I created them according to the INSTALL-BINARY file included in the package downloadable from www.mysql.com I qoute this from the file: // "1. Pick the directory under which you want to unpack the

Re: Is there a limit on the email size for this list?

2002-02-23 Thread Egor Egorov
George, Saturday, February 23, 2002, 1:07:38 AM, you wrote: GL> Yip somebody pointed me towards the address from the returned mail ;-p. Now GL> for the answers to your questions: GL> 1. I did create a user and a group for mysql by using: GL> shell> chown -R root /usr/local/mysql GL>

Hello! Is there a way to find out bad queries? Also a way for verifing tables? Tnank you

2002-02-23 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Konstantin, Saturday, February 23, 2002, 11:49:35 AM, you wrote: KY> Hello! KY> Is there a way to find out bad query? You can read info about EXPLAIN statement (give you info about each table used in SELECT statement): http://www.mysql.com/doc/E/X/EXPLAIN.html Please, read about how MySQ

RE: multiple character sets in one database

2002-02-23 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Chris, Friday, February 22, 2002, 5:40:18 PM, you wrote: CG> Thank you for your very detailed reply. This was my understanding of it too. CG> I guess I was hoping that I had missed something! CG> Do you know when will this happen? (I hate to ask but since I know I will be CG> asked this, I feel

mysql upgrade problem

2002-02-23 Thread Egor Egorov
Marek, Friday, February 22, 2002, 7:11:06 PM, you wrote: MW> Hello all. MW> I'm using Debian 2.4.x MW> I was trying to upgrade mysql.3.22 to 23 by removing default packages and MW> after debianizeing rpm's with alien I installed them with dpkg. MW> After I did upgrade (as I assume ;-))) somewh

off-line development tool?

2002-02-23 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Marco, Saturday, February 23, 2002, 3:59:20 AM, you wrote: MB> Hello, I am a beginning MySQL and PHP user. I will run a MySQL database on a MB> remote hosting server, and I have only limited access to the database at MB> that server. I want to populate my database off-line at my home machine, a

Connecting via ODBC to a MySQL database

2002-02-23 Thread Egor Egorov
Douglass, Saturday, February 23, 2002, 9:02:05 AM, you wrote: DP> I am brand new to MySQL, and trying to get up to speed as fast as possible. DP> I have successfully installed both MySQL 3.23.47 and MyODBC 2.50.39. I am DP> using VB6 and ADO in combination with MyODBC to connect to a databas

Hello! Is there a way to find out bad queries? Also a way for verifing tables? Tnank you

2002-02-23 Thread Konstantin Yotov
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