Re: Splitting a Table

2002-05-09 Thread dev.mysql
Splitting a table is not realy difficult, you could use: Create table user_info select fieldname1,fieldname2,... from large_table_name; But you'll probably want a connection between the new tables. you could add a ID-record first by doing: alter table large_table add ID int unsigned auto_increm

Re: newbie help

2002-05-09 Thread Ryan Hatch
Sorry for the confusion. I have not checked www.MySQL.org in such a long time. I was referring to the period of time when NuSphere (Progress) had owned MySQL.org and appeared to be falsely representing themselves as the MySQL developers. I'm sure you now know what I intended. Regards, -Rya

Re: Help! Error building 4.0.2 under RH Linux 7.2

2002-05-09 Thread Vadim P.
Jurgen-- Strange thing is, I had been able to build MySQL 4.0 - up until 3 days ago - without any problem. All from the same Mysql development tree. At some point, the whole thing just fell apart after a source update. Also, there's no problem building v3.23 on the same box! It actually looks

Can't RESTORE...

2002-05-09 Thread Ritu Singla
Hi!! I used BACKUP TABLE command to take the backup of a table...but when i say RESTORE TABLE, i get the following :: mysql> restore table rs from '/tmp'; +---+-+--+--+ | Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text | +---+-+

Splitting a Table

2002-05-09 Thread Daniel Negron/KBE
Hi All, mysql newbie here, this may be a silly question, but I couldn't figure out how to word it for a google search I want to take a table that someone created, a break it up so that one table is NOT 125 fields large. I want to separate the table into user info, product info and product defin

mysql...category--unlimited sub category level--self join problem...

2002-05-09 Thread open source devel company
hello to all mysql list subscribers , I have a problem which I think can be solved by SELF JOIN but I can't figure out how to do it here is table definition CREATE TABLE first ( firstcolumn int(11) default NULL, secondcolumn int(11) default NULL ) TYPE=MyISAM; INSERT INTO first VALUES (0

Re: Rounding times

2002-05-09 Thread Steve Edberg
Well, assuming the time is in seconds (as in a UNix timestamp), you could use rounding function: select 600 * round(time_in_seconds/600) (600 being # of seconds in 10 minutes). Read the docs for the round() function - http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/a/Mathematical_functions.html -

Re: Creating a table from a query/How to?.....

2002-05-09 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Tim, On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 11:53, Tim Johnson wrote: > I'm not usually this lucky, but it seems that the trick is > to let mysql do more of the work, and I'm happy to go > along with that: > What I needed is > CREATE TABLE EurCount SELECT DISTINCT Country FROM EUR; >

Re: Creating a table from a query/How to?.....

2002-05-09 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello Again: I'm not usually this lucky, but it seems that the trick is to let mysql do more of the work, and I'm happy to go along with that: What I needed is CREATE TABLE EurCount SELECT DISTINCT Country FROM EUR; (with EurCount being nonexistant) I would appr

multiple db, multiple table join

2002-05-09 Thread Dan Vande More
Good evening all, I have a strange situation which I cannot think myself out of. To make it simple my db looks like this (hr db, emp_master table) ++---+ | emp_id | last_name | ++---+ | 1 | smith | | 3 | wesson| |

Re: error granting rights

2002-05-09 Thread Mark Shade
As bizarre as it sounds, it works now. I thought just on a whim I would try it again. I scrolled up and used the exact same commands as before (without retyping them) and it worked fine. I don't know what was wrong, but I suspect it may have had something to do with the amount of activity of

Creating a table from a query/How to?

2002-05-09 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello: Am using Ver 11.15 Distrib 3.23.41, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386) on RH 7.2. I would like to construct a mysql command that select a unique set of data from one table and creates a table with that data. I think I'm close here, but am still getting errors: The query string i

DROP DATABASE executes but fails to remove database!

2002-05-09 Thread Gartside, Andrew
Windows 2K MySQL V ? (recent). Sorry, I'm not at my own machine at present, can't check actual version number. Installed, running and everything is ok, except I created a database called 'xyz' as a test then decided to delete it. I used the command: DROP DATABASE 'xzy';which returns a mes

RE: Help! Error building 4.0.2 under RH Linux 7.2

2002-05-09 Thread crashke
Hi Vadim, I don't know but have you read the instructions on the Mysql-website? To determine if you should be concerned about this compiler issue, execute gcc -v from the command prompt on your system. If the compiler reports version 2.96, then there is a problem (this is the case, for example on

Good Job

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Grover
Well, My hat's off to MySql 4 I finally got around my slow query problem... :-) Mysql has beat any other database I have used for this specific purpose... I wrote a quick little app to directly import records to the MYD file. I then run "myisamchk -r -q v:\Data\...\..\MyDataFile" to reindex t

Compiling with gcc3 3.0.4

2002-05-09 Thread John S
How do i do that? Tried : CC=gcc3 CXX=gcc3 ./configure make -j2 but it does not work. Gives this error : gcc3 -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -rdynamic -o .libs/mysqltest mysqltest.o ../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib/mysql mysqlbinlog

Re: error granting rights

2002-05-09 Thread Mark Shade
The command > mysql -u root -p mysql is what I used to get in. That is why I am confused. I have always gotten into MySQL that way before, and done the "granting" with no problems. I can't get to a shell just now, but I will checkthe myisamchk command as soon as I can. Thanks. Mark > Hmm

RE: merge tables using sql to find table names

2002-05-09 Thread Ken Easson
> >Does your master table have a list of table names and the table's >characteristics? How is the search called? currently i have a master table called "files", the primary key is id and the data tables are called filedata1 filedata2, etc. where 1 and 2 correspond to the file id. Each of the f

Re: error granting rights

2002-05-09 Thread Mark
Hmm, I am kinda new at this, but what happens if you specifically log into the user database first? mysql -u root -p mysql It could perhaps also mean your database is corrupted somehow; what do you get when you are running this below? /usr/local/bin/myisamchk /var/db/mysql/*/*.MYI (adjust path

Re: Pretty Simple MAX Value question...

2002-05-09 Thread Arjen Lentz
ECT MAX(id) FROM table WHERE DATE = '20020509' LIMIT 100 > No matter what, I will always get the max for the column for the whole > tableadding and removing the "LIMIT" command changes absolutely > nothing... As Paul wrote, LIMIT is applied after everything else. Bas

Re: Pretty Simple MAX Value question...

2002-05-09 Thread Paul DuBois
SELECT MAX(id) FROM table WHERE DATE = '20020509' LIMIT 100 > >No matter what, I will always get the max for the column for the whole >tableadding and removing the "LIMIT" command changes absolutely >nothing... That's how LIMIT works. It's applied after t

Re: multivalue question

2002-05-09 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Michael, On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 02:27, Michael Davis wrote: > I'm trying to allow an attribute to hold multiple value. I know you can use > varray in oracle but I cant find anything in mysql. I found SET but you > must set the possible choices from the beginning. This is not good for what >

RE: Pretty Simple MAX Value question...

2002-05-09 Thread Gurhan Ozen
Hi Andrew, IT is working as it is supposed to , MAX() only returns one row with the highest value. IF you wanna get 100 highest values, just order the rows by id and limit the result set to 100. SELECT id FROM table WHERE DATE = '20020509' ORDER BY id LIMIT 100 Gurhan -Origin

Re: My.cnf and large packet size..

2002-05-09 Thread David Bouw
Hi Pete, Thanks for the answer, I will search a bit better in the MySQL manual for info about the .cnf files.. (Already did, but couldn't 123 found the information you gave me.) What I understand is that changing the packet size doesn't have a very negative impact, sounds that it works as a prot

RE: error granting rights

2002-05-09 Thread Mark Shade
Yep... I am in as root, so I should have rights to everything. Yep, I have confirmed that the dbname is right, but doublechecking it multiple times. Plus, this happens even on db that I did the same thing to only a week ago. The * just says "all tables" as I understand it. And, that is what

Re: change displayed text results?

2002-05-09 Thread Steve Edberg
Hmmm - Off the top of my head, how about: select order, if(SUM(cat1+cat2)=0, '-', SUM(cat1+cat2)) as sum from tbl group by order Although you might need to quote the column name 'order', since that is a reserved word: select 'order', ... group

Re: To: mysql as a Good Person - Conduct Education in the 21st Century

2002-05-09 Thread mos
At 03:57 PM 5/9/2002, you wrote: >Dear mysql: > >You may ask yourself > >How to make people respect you > >How to win friends > >How to make your life smoother and happier > >How to do whatever you like without being unpleasant to other > people Speaking o

RE: time recording

2002-05-09 Thread Cal Evans
check freshmeat.net There are several time recording tools. You may find one that works for you. Some of them use MySQL as a backend and some don't. While The idea of using MySQL as the backend for a program like this is good, you can't do it with MySQL alone. (Well, and keep your sanity) =C=

RE: Most efficient query

2002-05-09 Thread Max Anderson
SELECT main.id FROM MainTable main OUTER JOIN MapTable map ON main.id = map.id WHERE map.id = null Does this work? Give it a whirl. Another solution could be to do it like this: SELECT col1, col2, coln FROM MainTable WHERE id IN ( SELECT id FROM MainTable WHERE id NOT IN ( S

Re: Most efficient query

2002-05-09 Thread Augey Mikus
Correction. I can see a mistake in my syntax. the correct statement to pull the list of name in MainTable that ARE in mapMainTable is: select MainTable.Name from MainTable inner join MapTable using (ID); this works. but how can I pull the list of names that ARE NOT in the map table? Augey

Re: Most efficient query

2002-05-09 Thread Harrison C. Fisk
You can do this with a pretty simple left join as follows: SELECT MainTable.ID from MainTable LEFT JOIN MapTable ON MainTable.ID=MapTable.ID where MapTable.ID IS NULL; Because it is a left join, it will pad all MainTable entries that don't appear in MapTable with NULL's. Hence we can check if t

time recording

2002-05-09 Thread Simon Tierney
Has anyone on this list used MySQL for time recording? I am a lawyer considering using it for recording time spent on cases where there are many to many relationships between cases, caseworkers, and charge-out rates. I posted to the list under the subject "lookup" and I learned that one cannot d

RE: newbie help

2002-05-09 Thread Gurhan Ozen
Are you trying to load data FROM a text file, or are you trying to load data INTO a textfile? You said "I just created a database and tried to LOAD 1 line of data from a text file." but then you stated "i need to INTO OUTFILE" ... If you wanna load data from a text file into a table, look at: ht

RE: Pretty Simple MAX Value question...

2002-05-09 Thread Max Anderson
SELECT MAX(id) FROM (SELECT MAX(id) FROM table WHERE DATE = '20020509' LIMIT 100) Dunno if this works in MySQL, I can't access a MySQL database from here to test it out. This should return the value that you want but I would be interested to learn th

Most efficient query

2002-05-09 Thread Augey Mikus
I have two tables. One table, which (to protect the innocent :-)) we'll call MainTable, has a list of names with user info like address, etc.. and an auto-incrementing unique id for each. The other, which we'll call MapTable, is simply a key mapping table with ids from MainTable that just bas

RE: problem on Load Data!

2002-05-09 Thread Bob Ryan
Here is a bit of text I copy/pasted from the documents. The `\' directory character Pathname components in Win95 are separated by the `\' character, which is also the escape character in MySQL. If you are using LOAD DATA INFILE or SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE, you must double the `\' character: mys

Re: Help! Error building 4.0.2 under RH Linux 7.2

2002-05-09 Thread Vadim P.
Just tried building Mysql-3.x.x cloned from the Development Tree on the same machine - works like a charm. Still no luck with 4.0.2 Is there any known issue regarding building 4.0.2 under RedHat7.2? Thanks, Vadim. "Vadim P." wrote: > > The Dev. Tree Source MySQL 4.0 no longer builds on t

Re: newbie help

2002-05-09 Thread Mark Stringham
Maybe the poster of the message is an imposter developer too? MS -Original Message- From: Steve Buehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mysql <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: RE: newbie help >What makes you think that i

RE: newbie help

2002-05-09 Thread Steve Buehler
What makes you think that it is an imposter site? They both have the same IP address, they are both the same site. # nslookup mysql.org Name:mysql.org Address: 64.28.67.70 # nslookup mysql.com Name:mysql.com Address: 64.28.67.70 >-Original Message- >From: Ryan Hatch [mailto

To: mysql as a Good Person - Conduct Education in the 21st Century

2002-05-09 Thread Dr. Carter
Dear mysql: You may ask yourself >How to make people respect you >How to win friends >How to let your conduct help your health, work, job, career, relationships, spirit, mind, well-being, ... >How to make your life smoother and happier >How to

RE: newbie help

2002-05-09 Thread BJ Phillips
"Mysql.org is an IMPOSTER's site." What? They are one in the same. -Original Message- From: Ryan Hatch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie help "bd"... Two things here: 1.) Mysql.org is a

muti value question

2002-05-09 Thread Miked
I'm trying to allow an attribute to hold multiple value. I know you can use varray in oracle but I cant find anything in mysql. I found SET but you must set the possible choices from the beginning. This is not good for what I'm doing because these choices will change. The only other thing that

Very very Simple UDF Example...

2002-05-09 Thread Mike Grover
Here is download for Very Simple UDF example for MySQL 4 and Delphi 6. This is by ni means perfect... mike http://www.tctelco.net./~mmgrover/udf.zip - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

Pretty Simple MAX Value question...

2002-05-09 Thread Andrew Kuebler
I want to select say 100 of 1,000 records and get the highest value for "id" in that query, however the MAX command always gives me the MAX for the whole table, not just my query. Here's my expression: SELECT MAX(id) FROM table WHERE DATE = '20020509' LIMIT 100 No m

Re: newbie help

2002-05-09 Thread Ryan Hatch
"bd"... Two things here: 1.) Mysql.org is an IMPOSTER's site. www.MySQL.com is the real site. and 2.) You haven't given us the warning / error message you received. -Ryan Hatch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I just created a database and tried to LOAD 1 line of data from a text file. > >I h

RE: problem on Load Data!

2002-05-09 Thread Matthew Walker
Wrong. Windows uses \ for their paths, so MySQL should use the same thing. Matthew Walker Senior Software Engineer ePliant Marketing -Original Message- From: Bob Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:59 PM To: 'ali hafiz'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];

RE: problem on Load Data!

2002-05-09 Thread Bob Ryan
I think you have to use a forward slash in your path instead of a backslash. C:/ as opposed to C:\ even in windows operating environments I believe you need to use /. -Original Message- From: ali hafiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Help -- Can't Get Logs Up and Running on Mysql - Win32

2002-05-09 Thread David Simcik
MySQL is running as a Service in Windows 2000, as one might expect. Tried to get the logs up and running with a my.cnf file in multiple locations, including C:/ and DATADIR\my.cnf, then restarted service, tried logging in, a few inserts, etc - no luck. Flushed logs using mysqladmin too. Here's my

newbie help

2002-05-09 Thread teck
I just created a database and tried to LOAD 1 line of data from a text file. I have only 9 coloums , most varchar, one char, one smallint (autoincrement) when i load the data (tab de-limeted) it goes fine but i get one Warning. I found on mysql.org that i need to INTO OUTFILE and look for erro

Re: SOP for hosting services?

2002-05-09 Thread tgharris
Peter This might not be exactly the kind of answer you are looking for(or it might not even be what you are really asking), but you can do Transactions programmatically in Cold Fusion. I doubt Ultradev can do that, so you would probably have to code it yourself. there is a good example in t

data scrambles

2002-05-09 Thread Greg Peretti
Using MySql 3.23 Using Perl, I have a table that I feed data into. I then retrieve the data and order it to write to arrays for use further on. All works fine. Data remains in proper order (e.g. head[1] is in the same array position as graf[1], etc. The problem occurs now that I am trying to on

Re: problem on Load Data!

2002-05-09 Thread ali hafiz
Hi Jack, For question1, I think you need to use insert with set: insert into table ABC set column3 = "", column4 = "", column5 = ""; I think that should do it. Have you managed to find an answer to question2? Please let me know. Ali >From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To:

Fw: link problem

2002-05-09 Thread Hisseine Dj.
- Original Message - From: "Hisseine Dj." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: Re: link problem > > > gcc simple1.cc -c -I/usr/include/mysql -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient > > > -lm -tz -> > > Replace the -c option with -o > > Hisse

Re: adding a new mysql user with rights to add other users

2002-05-09 Thread Jim Chivas
On Thu, 9 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either spam or > simply off topic to our filter. To bypass the filter you must include > one of the following words in your message: > > sql,query > > If you just reply to this message, and includ

RE: MySQL GROUP BY Anomaly? SOLVED

2002-05-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I have 2 tables with RecordDate in them, one has millions of records, one has hundreds of records. If I perform the following query on the table with hundreds; mysql> select RecordDate -> from tblInfo -> WHERE RecordDate BETWEEN '2002-03-04' AND '2002-03-06' -> GROUP BY RecordD

RE: MySQL GROUP BY Anomaly?

2002-05-09 Thread Max Anderson
I don't want to doubt you :-) but can you show us a select including the time component? I don't know how date comparison works in MySQL but here is a test I ran in Oracle. I inserted some dates into a table using sysdate which include time information and inserted more records using to_date('20

Re: link problem

2002-05-09 Thread Hisseine Dj.
> > gcc simple1.cc -c -I/usr/include/mysql -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient > > -lm -tz -> Replace the -c option with -o Hisseine - Original Message - From: "Sinisa Milivojevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:43 PM Subj

Fwd: update mixes fields up??

2002-05-09 Thread Sven Bentlage
> > Hi > below is a small sub I wrote. It works, but mixes up the updates for > several fields. > The update query should take every value and update the assigned column. > But every time it happens, that after the columns are omitted or added > so that the columns are not correctly updated. > >

getting count of courses for 1 applicant

2002-05-09 Thread tgharris
Hi I am looking for help with a problem I haven't figured out how to do. Below is a query which gives me a count of the number of applicants registered for courses. With that I can get when the course is full, and how many are on the waiting list.. Now what I would REALLY like is all this info,

Re: link problem

2002-05-09 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
adelpfe writes: > hi every body > i have succeed to compile source examples given with mysql++1.7.9. but i > can't link them. > i used > gcc simple1.cc -c -I/usr/include/mysql -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient > -lm -tz ->all rigth > but , i didn't succeed to link > can you help me > HI! First o

Re: >>> MYSQL ERROR-NO.0 <<

2002-05-09 Thread Georg Richter
On Thursday, 9. May 2002 18:43, ">>> Soilant ! wrote: > Dear mysql, > I just got one simple table. The PHP-Script ist ok (tested on another > server), but trying to get data over my server, nothing comes back. > So, I put up the lines: > ".mysql_errno()." - ".mysql_error()." > It gives back: " 0 -

can't execute any of the binaries

2002-05-09 Thread jk
>Description: i installed the binaries of mysql 3.23.49 (tried both tar.gz and rpm) but cannot execute any (neither the deamon mysqld nor the monitor mysql). i can execute scripts but they will fail as they are calling mysqld >How-To-Repeat: execute mysqld on my particular machine ;-) >Fix:

RE: MySQL GROUP BY Anomaly?

2002-05-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Perhaps the time component of the date is different, hence you are getting back what looks like duplicate rows but they're not really? [/snip] The time components are all the same. And if I say this in my query; WHERE RecordDate = '2002-03-04' , it works (returns one row of data) or if I

RE: User Variables

2002-05-09 Thread Paul DuBois
At 11:57 -0400 5/9/02, Luc Foisy wrote: >It may not make any sense to you, but it makes perfect sense to me Okay. Then it would seem that either: - I understand what you want to do, in which case you can't do it, because you're using SQL variables in a self-contradictory way. - I don't unders

MySQL EV56 binary?

2002-05-09 Thread Ron Jamison
Hi, I've an AlphaServer 1200 with dual EV56 533MHz processors and I'm looking for a precompiled MySQL binary (any of the four release trees, I don't mind which). In running the benchmark tests distributed with MySQL on the source distribution of 3.23 I found the results were worse than that of a

RE: User Variables

2002-05-09 Thread Paul DuBois
At 12:19 -0400 5/9/02, Luc Foisy wrote: >hmm. ok i see what you are getting at >but you do that every time you use a where clause, do you not? No, not really > >SELECT value FROM table WHERE value = 5 In this case value is used in the WHERE clause to determine which records to select. Once sel

RE: MySQL GROUP BY Anomaly?

2002-05-09 Thread Max Anderson
Perhaps the time component of the date is different, hence you are getting back what looks like duplicate rows but they're not really? - Max Martin Anderson QA Engineer ProfitLogic Eleven Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 t: 617.218.1946 -Original Message- From: Jay Blanchard [mailt

RE: error granting rights

2002-05-09 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] mysql> GRANT ALL -> ON dbname.* -> TO username@localhost -> IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; [/snip] A. Do you have GRANT capability as the user that you are logged on as? 2. Is dbname.* right? Shouldn't it be just dbname? III. Is user set up as username@localhost? Jay

Help! Error building 4.0.2 under RH Linux 7.2

2002-05-09 Thread Vadim P.
The Dev. Tree Source MySQL 4.0 no longer builds on this machine, giving lots of errors. Had been able to build from the same source w/o any problems up until a few days ago, when I 'bk resync'ed the source. Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

mod_auth_mysql

2002-05-09 Thread Steve Buehler
I hope that someone can help with this. I am trying to install mod_auth_mysql as a DSO, but I get errors. Here are the errors when compiling mod_auth_mysql: /usr/local/src/mod_auth_mysql-2.20# cp config.h auth_mysql_config.h /usr/local/src/mod_auth_mysql-2.20# /usr/sbin/apxs -i -a -I/

>>> MYSQL ERROR-NO.0 <<

2002-05-09 Thread >>> Soilant ! <<
Dear mysql, I just got one simple table. The PHP-Script ist ok (tested on another server), but trying to get data over my server, nothing comes back. So, I put up the lines: ".mysql_errno()." - ".mysql_error()." It gives back: " 0 - " What does it mean? Is there maybe NO connection to MySql? Sor