dbf2mysql question

2002-03-03 Thread Urban Andersson
Is anyone using the conversion file (-e) feature in Maarten Boekholds dbf2mysql software (contributed)? Exactly what should this file contain (i.e plain characters, ascii/hex codes, mysql char, ??)? Is there an example anywhere? Many thanks for any help on this. Urban A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: documentation about the various databases

2002-03-03 Thread savaidis
I suppose I can't use InnoDB as I work remotly on a Internet Host. But if I can, can you explain me - shortly- the benefits of InnoDB copmaring with default MySQL? I see has the transactions but new MySQL has them too. Or if there is a comparison sheet somewhere. Thanks Makis > -Original M

Perl - mysql

2002-03-03 Thread Horváth Szabolcs
Hello everyone! I would like to use my mysql server via Perl. Does anyone send me links or documents about it? Thanks Szabolcs - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.my

Re: encrypt password

2002-03-03 Thread Carsten Gehling
To examplify this: When you add your user, do it like you do now: insert into a values (password('name')); When the user logs in at a later time, do this: select * from a where pw = password('name'); If no row is selected, no user with that password was found. - Carsten - Original Mess

RE: encrypt password

2002-03-03 Thread Al Caponi
http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/i/Miscellaneous_functions.html Using the PASSWORD function is an irreversible process. Check the above link. A work around is you always deal with the encrypted password on the server side. E.g. When the user will login you encrypt the submitted password and do a SELEC

encrypt password

2002-03-03 Thread Manish Mehta
Hi , I am working in mysql . with the help of password() function I insert the data in some table . for example :- insert into a values (password('name')); when I fire select query . It shows me this -> 23e6065b74 I wants to decrypt the data again in same format as I insert with Select query.

text data cut off at space

2002-03-03 Thread Ben Bargagliott
I am very new at using MySQL, so this may be a stupid question. in my webpage front end, a user logs in, and I pass his username to the form throught a hidden form. The only problem is that the user name are all "FirstName LastName". It passes from the login page to the php page fine, but once

Re: Geo- datatype support

2002-03-03 Thread Matt Wagner
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 21:41, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:46:47PM +1100, Ashley Joyce wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if Mysql supports geo-datatypes similiar to > > PostgreSQL.. I want to use Mysql as the data source for > > Mapserver? > > It doesn't yet, no. > > But I

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2002-03-03 Thread root
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Re: Again regarding MySQL Backup and Recovery

2002-03-03 Thread John Hughes
Please allow me to broaden this thread to include backup for mySQL users who have accounts with ISPs. In my case I have mySQL access on a Web server where I have NO access to the server-level options. What is my best option of making a backup of the database and tables that I use? Also, what i

RE: Again regarding MySQL Backup and Recovery

2002-03-03 Thread Chetan Lavti
Thank you very much !! I have a management screen, where I have two button namely "BACKUP" and "RECOVERY". I am not able to find out, how this will be done(both BACKUP and RECOVERY)?, when I click on the corresponding buttons and while doing this if error occurs, how I will handle them?. Moreover

Re: Again regarding MySQL Backup and Recovery

2002-03-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:05:50AM +0530, Chetan Lavti wrote: > > I am using MySQL 3.23.47 and InnoDB table type on Linux7.1 platform. > Now,for this database backup and recovery procedures are given as : > > 1.Taking 'binary' backup of the database. > 2.Using the mysqldump utility > > I

Again regarding MySQL Backup and Recovery

2002-03-03 Thread Chetan Lavti
hi, I am using MySQL 3.23.47 and InnoDB table type on Linux7.1 platform. Now,for this database backup and recovery procedures are given as : 1. Taking 'binary' backup of the database. 2. Using the mysqldump utility In the first method we do the following things : · Shut down you

Re: Race condition between two update queries request at the same time on the same piece of data in mySQL

2002-03-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:51:36PM -0800, Son Nguyen wrote: > Dear all, > If my site has two users try to update the same piece of data in > mySQL at the same time. > > * I wonder if I have to create a lock to handle the race condition in > my script or not? > > * Or mySQL already pro

Re: buggy round()

2002-03-03 Thread BD
Roger, You can always write your own Round() function and have it round exactly the way you want. To round up on a decimal digit 5 use: mysql> select truncate(1.235+0.005,2) rounded; +-+ | rounded | +-+ |1.24 | +-+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) To round down

Race condition between two update queries request at the same time on the same piece of data in mySQL

2002-03-03 Thread Son Nguyen
Dear all, If my site has two users try to update the same piece of data in mySQL at the same time. * I wonder if I have to create a lock to handle the race condition in my script or not? * Or mySQL already provided a method, which is when the first user update the data in mySQL, mySQL

Re: Geo- datatype support

2002-03-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:46:47PM +1100, Ashley Joyce wrote: > > Does anyone know if Mysql supports geo-datatypes similiar to > PostgreSQL.. I want to use Mysql as the data source for > Mapserver? It doesn't yet, no. But I've seen hints of that work in version 4.1 -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[E

Geo- datatype support

2002-03-03 Thread Ashley Joyce
Does anyone know if Mysql supports geo-datatypes similiar to PostgreSQL.. I want to use Mysql as the data source for Mapserver? Kind Regards, Ashley Joyce - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

RE: buggy round()

2002-03-03 Thread Sommai Fongnamthip
Hi all, ROUND decimal value is the mis-understood between MySQL internal function and another environment/programming. I found that MySQL-Round is correct within the suitable of itself (you can say it correct in C library or other word it correct in technical term), but it did not use

Installation Glitch

2002-03-03 Thread root
>Description: Upon replacing mysql 3.23.21 with 3.23.49, all mysql functions refuse to work. Apparently, it will not spawn /tmp/mysql.sock. >How-To-Repeat: Replace mysql 3.23.21 with 3.23.49. Shut down all mysql processes. Delete /tmp/mysql.sock. Attempt to restart. >Fix:

Re: Multiple databases

2002-03-03 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Rebecca, On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 05:19, Rebecca Hall wrote: > I was recently assigned to finish a project started by a previous employee. > The objective is to collect data from numerous geographic locations, and > then analyze the data at the central office. The goal is to look for > combi

RE: change column to not null in MySQL

2002-03-03 Thread Al Caponi
Check out the MySQL website for altering table structure: http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/L/ALTER_TABLE.html You could use MODIFY to change the columns definition in your tables. Note that specifying NOT NULL on a column will not affect existing rows where that field already contains a NULL value. R

Re: change column to not null in MySQL

2002-03-03 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:59 -0500 3/3/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is there any way in mysql to change a column that contains data >from null = yes to be not null. Use the ALTER TABLE statement. > >I want to enforce users to enter some value in column_x that was >not a required field until now, by setting the col

Complex Join Using Filesort

2002-03-03 Thread Rob Emerick
Hello, I am running into a problem with MySQL. I just can't figure it out and I have spent several days scouring the Internet for ideas. I have a query that joins 3 tables and I just cannot stop it from using filesort. The three tables are "prop_data2", "prop_data_int", and "prop_data_string".

Re: REGEXP vs LIKE

2002-03-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:42:46PM -0800, destr0 wrote: > filter fodder: mysql, database, sql > > whigh one is faster? > > REGEXP or LIKE? LIKE is generally faster. But LIKE can't do everything that REGEXP can, so that's probably no surprise. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mysql Problems - Peak loads - Two processors

2002-03-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:25:46PM -0800, Dreamtime.net Inc. wrote: > Hi, > > We have mysql 3.23.43 running under FreeBSD 4.2, two-processors and > a Tyan LE S2510 motherboard with 1 gig of ram. After a few peak > loads of the server (load avg. gets higher than 20), mysql starts > eating processo

Re: REGEXP vs LIKE

2002-03-03 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi, On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 08:42, destr0 wrote: > whigh one is faster? > REGEXP or LIKE? LIKE is an SQL language construct, REGEXP is a function. LIKE only uses two simple wildcards (_ and *). Provided your LIKE pattern does not start with a wildcard, the server will be able to use an index for i

Beginner's Win32 "localhost" problem

2002-03-03 Thread Jesse Langdon
This is a definite newbie question. I downloaded the Win32 version of MySQL to my personal pc (windows 98), in order to become familiar with the software. As directed by the section in the online manual 2.6.2.3 "Running MySQL on Windows", I deleted the row in the mysql.user table that holds Host

Re: Database Encryption

2002-03-03 Thread BD
Craig, At 10:02 AM 3/3/2002 , you wrote: >In an effort to encrypt private data in my database (national id numbers, >credit card numbers, passwords) I have had to resort to writing code in my >application using the Blowfish algorithm. Is there any facility for doing >this within MySQL (on Win

change column to not null in MySQL

2002-03-03 Thread shiam
Is there any way in mysql to change a column that contains data from null = yes to be not null. I want to enforce users to enter some value in column_x that was not a required field until now, by setting the column to not accept any record where column_x is null, is there any way to do this w

SQL_BUFFER_RESULT and SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS in same SELECT broken

2002-03-03 Thread mattj
>Description: *** against BK as of set 1.1144 *** It appears that putting SQL_BUFFER_RESULT and SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS in the same SELECT statement is a really bad idea! SELECT FOUND_ROWS() after SELECT SQL_BUFFER_RESULT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS either returns a h

Mysql Problems - Peak loads - Two processors

2002-03-03 Thread Dreamtime.net Inc.
Hi, We have mysql 3.23.43 running under FreeBSD 4.2, two-processors and a Tyan LE S2510 motherboard with 1 gig of ram. After a few peak loads of the server (load avg. gets higher than 20), mysql starts eating processor cycles. Server load gets close to 1.0, mysqld is active all the time, although

REGEXP vs LIKE

2002-03-03 Thread destr0
filter fodder: mysql, database, sql whigh one is faster? REGEXP or LIKE? - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request thi

Re: Re: Searchable archives of this list

2002-03-03 Thread Tony Buckley
> - Original Message - > From: "Kim Hendrikse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 7:04 PM > Subject: Searchable archives of this list > > > > Hi, > > > > For those of you who are not aware of it, we run a searchable archive of > this > > list at th

Re: *.frm, *.MYD, and *.MYI files

2002-03-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:55:24PM +0200, Liivar Paas wrote: > Greetings, > I brought new server and I'd like to copy old database to new server. MySQL > 3.23.41 RH7.2 both machines. > > I copyed /var/lib/mysql to new machine /var/lib/mysql and seems that > MySQL is working I can use databases an

Multiple databases

2002-03-03 Thread Rebecca Hall
Hi, I was recently assigned to finish a project started by a previous employee. The objective is to collect data from numerous geographic locations, and then analyze the data at the central office. The goal is to look for combined corporate trends and present statistical results and selected

Searchable archives of this list

2002-03-03 Thread Kim Hendrikse
Hi, For those of you who are not aware of it, we run a searchable archive of this list at the following location: http://www.nextrieve.com/cgi-bin/mysql We have added a bunch new features due to the release of a new version of our search software. The search engine now interoperates with mh

Searchable archives of this list

2002-03-03 Thread Kim Hendrikse
Hi, For those of you who are not aware of it, we run a searchable archive of this list at the following location: http://www.nextrieve.com/cgi-bin/mysql We have added a bunch new features due to the release of a new version of our search software. The search engine now interoperates with mh

RE: Commands...

2002-03-03 Thread Todd Williamsen
Stephane... What is the process you are trying to do? In order to do commands in dos Go to a command prompt: C:\ Type this: Cd \mysql\bin Now type this: Mysql Now you should see this Mysql> Type this: \u name of your database; Now type in the command: Show tables; Make sure you foll

Re: Commands...

2002-03-03 Thread Stephane Collas
Hi Roger, It was may be a bad way to expressed. I mean, I can't type the commands in DOS window, there are no .exe Actually, would like to type my commands in text mod. Regards Steph - Original Message - From: "Roger Baklund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'mysql'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

RE: Commands...

2002-03-03 Thread Roger Baklund
* Stephane Collas > Have installed: > mysql Ver 11.16 Distrib 3.23.49, for Win95/Win98 (i32) > > I use a Win2K Pro, and downloaded it from http://www.myqsl.com > > The problem is that a lot of commands are missing, like CREATE TABLE, or > even SHOW TABLE What do you mean "commands are missing"..

RE: documentation about the various databases

2002-03-03 Thread Roger Baklund
* savaidis > I took a look at documentation and Paul's book at Safari and I > couldn't fint info about the various types of databases MySQL supports > (Inno, default MySQL ecc). > Where are they? They are called table types... you can combine tables of different types in the same database. http:

Commands...

2002-03-03 Thread Stephane Collas
Hi all, Have installed: mysql Ver 11.16 Distrib 3.23.49, for Win95/Win98 (i32) I use a Win2K Pro, and downloaded it from http://www.myqsl.com The problem is that a lot of commands are missing, like CREATE TABLE, or even SHOW TABLE Any help? Regards Steph -

RE: buggy round()

2002-03-03 Thread Roger Baklund
* Gordon > This round discussion has nothing to do with floating point > approximations. well... > Most round routines are statistically biased on the high side. The MySQL > round is statistically correct. The more accurate rounding rule is As far as I can tell, there is no "MySQL round"... as

documentation about the various databases

2002-03-03 Thread savaidis
I took a look at documentation and Paul's book at Safari and I couldn't fint info about the various types of databases MySQL supports (Inno, default MySQL ecc). Where are they? Thanks Makis - no query - Before posting, please

RE: buggy round()

2002-03-03 Thread Gordon
This round discussion has nothing to do with floating point approximations. Most round routines are statistically biased on the high side. The MySQL round is statistically correct. The more accurate rounding rule is If digit following the column you are rounding is a 5 I

RE: [NEWBIE] Problems with the RESULT Class. Please Help :(

2002-03-03 Thread Kenneth Hylton
Hi Justin - I have run into the same issues and have given up on using MySQL++ interface for that reason, plus it doesn't have the ability to update tables dynamically. That is, if you need to update anything, you have to define the table to a macro at compile time! Change a table, recompile e

Database Encryption

2002-03-03 Thread Scalper
In an effort to encrypt private data in my database (national id numbers, credit card numbers, passwords) I have had to resort to writing code in my application using the Blowfish algorithm. Is there any facility for doing this within MySQL (on Windows)? Any third party tools out there? For

RE: can I take the record's number?

2002-03-03 Thread Roger Baklund
* Nikolas > The problem with LIMIT is that this table is not the same always, the > ordering depends on data that changes. > > I am ordering a table that contains webpages by the number of times they > have been visited. Then, for a specific page of them, I want to say in > which position of po

RE: Inconsistency in the documentation

2002-03-03 Thread Doug Thompson
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:58:33 +0100, Roger Baklund wrote: >* Roger Baklund >> I came across what I think is a serious inconsistency. >> >> http://www.mysql.com/doc/N/u/Numeric_types.html > >> >> This page describes DECIMAL (and NUMERIC) as an exact precission type. >> >> http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/

Re: can I take the record's number?

2002-03-03 Thread Nikolas
The problem with LIMIT is that this table is not the same always, the ordering depends on data that changes. I am ordering a table that contains webpages by the number of times they have been visited. Then, for a specific page of them, I want to say in which position of popularity it is. I thi

Databases are disappearing

2002-03-03 Thread James Housley
Starting about 2 weeks ago I started having problems with my databases disappearing. mysqld is still running and can be shutdown via mysqladmin and such. But "mysql -ppassword -u root mysql" will produce a message similar to "Unable to find database 'mysql'", and this goes for all of the databas

RE: can I take the record's number?

2002-03-03 Thread Roger Baklund
* Nikolas > If I have a table ordered by something, is it possible to select fields > from a record that appears on the table in a specific row number. > And if yes, how can I do it? > > By row number, I mean that if the table has 10 records, I want to select > something from the record that is i

RE: *.frm, *.MYD, and *.MYI files

2002-03-03 Thread Roger Baklund
* Liivar Paas > I brought new server and I'd like to copy old database to new > server. MySQL 3.23.41 RH7.2 both machines. > > I copyed /var/lib/mysql to new machine /var/lib/mysql and seems that MySQL > is working I can use databases and insert values into tables. But is just > copying right thin

can I take the record's number?

2002-03-03 Thread Nikolas
I am novice in SQL so I may ask something very obvious, sorry. If I have a table ordered by something, is it possible to select fields from a record that appears on the table in a specific row number. And if yes, how can I do it? By row number, I mean that if the table has 10 records, I want t

RE: Inconsistency in the documentation

2002-03-03 Thread Roger Baklund
* Roger Baklund > I came across what I think is a serious inconsistency. > > http://www.mysql.com/doc/N/u/Numeric_types.html > > > This page describes DECIMAL (and NUMERIC) as an exact precission type. > > http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/r/Problems_with_float.html > > > This page includes DECIMAL as on

RE: Can somebody help me with "round (columna,columnb) "?

2002-03-03 Thread Roger Baklund
* Michael Widenius > The type of round(x,y) is double(max_double_digits,y) if y is a > constant and double(max_double_digits,4) if y isn't a constant. (The > 4 is just a chosen value, as we didn't think of any better value) mysql> create table testme (number decimal (8,6),digits tinyint(3)); Que

*.frm, *.MYD, and *.MYI files

2002-03-03 Thread Liivar Paas
Greetings, I brought new server and I'd like to copy old database to new server. MySQL 3.23.41 RH7.2 both machines. I copyed /var/lib/mysql to new machine /var/lib/mysql and seems that MySQL is working I can use databases and insert values into tables. But is just copying right thing to do? Is th

Re: InnoDB frightens me...

2002-03-03 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Steve, I added an item to the TODO list at http://www.innodb.com/todo.html .. May, 2002: Make a data file auto-extendible. You can specify the last data file in innodb_data_file_path like this: ibdata1:50Mautoextend It will create a data file whose initial size is 50 MB, and InnoDB will au

Re: Innodb tables lose foreign keys after creating an index...

2002-03-03 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! -Original Message- From: "j.random.programmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Date: Saturday, March 02, 2002 5:21 AM Subject: Re: Innodb tables lose foreign keys after creating an index... > >--- Heikki Tuuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Heikki: > >Is there a

Re: sql innobd ibdata file size?

2002-03-03 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Ron, Ronnie wrote in message ... >--Boundary_(ID_3Wgj3oHvYWg449KlsCktkA) >Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > >Hi everyone, > >SQL > > > Iv'e been on innodb.com trying to find out the largest "ibdata" file size >acceptable to my system "RH Linux 7.2", a

Re: Newbie: Load Data

2002-03-03 Thread John Dean
Hi At 20:27 02/03/2002 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I am new to MySQL and to this list. I am currently going through Paul >Dubois' book, "MySQL." I have set up MySQL on my Win 98 machine and am >able to access and create databases and tables. > >The problem I am having is when I tr

Re: Query structure puzzle

2002-03-03 Thread DL Neil
John, > > > I can see no explanation in the data stored in the table. > > The important thing is what MySQL 'sees'! > > > > You've already started testing your premise << > are > > either "input" or "published">>> One suggestion would be to use the > > MySQL client for investigations, then if you

Re: 2 seperate mysql-servers cooperate???

2002-03-03 Thread John Dean
Hi You could handle this problem in a similar manner to the way we handle it for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. We have a synch module which acts a mediator between both the central db and the db on the PDA. In our case the PDA stores info in a flat file system and the synch module maps data between th

RE: RE: MySQL Backup and Recovery

2002-03-03 Thread Chetan Lavti
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 1:53 PM To: Chetan Lavti Subject: Re: RE: MySQL Backup and Recovery Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either spam or simply off topic to our filter. To bypass the fi