Problem: MySQL Client Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar: Build 6C106)

2002-07-27 Thread Ian Fieldhouse
Hi, Is anybody else having a problem using the MySQL client with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar: Build 6C106)? When I try to connect to the server on 'localhost' I get the following: dyld: ./bin/mysql Undefined symbols: ./bin/mysql undefined reference to _BC expected to be defined in

ALTER TABLE and REFERENCES

2002-07-27 Thread Chris Dion
Is there any plane to implement the REFERENCES function for foreign keys on the alter table command.or is it implemented? If it is what version of mysql? Chris Dion - Before posting, please check:

Accessing multiple indexes

2002-07-27 Thread Orr, Steve
It's my understanding that MySQL will only use one index per table on a given query. For example... SELECT * FROM HUGE_TABLE WHERE col1 = val1 AND col2 val2 AND col3 val3 ; If col1, col2, and col3 are indexed the query can only use one index, right? Single index access is a problem when you

Re: groupadd

2002-07-27 Thread David Houghton
Hello Thanks for getting back to. The real problem I have is that I am rtying to install mysql remotely and don't have access to the MacOSX console. Hence Netinfo is is not an option. On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Chris Garaffa wrote: He who calles himself Gerald Clark (from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Starting on Windows 2000 Server

2002-07-27 Thread miguel solorzano
At 09:42 25/7/2002 -0700, Wheeler, Andrew wrote: Hi, Hi, I just downloaded the binaries. I have followed the installation instructions. Have run the command mysqld-max-nt --install-manual and checked the service panel and MySql is installed as a service. In the same service panel screen right

Re: Calculating weeks

2002-07-27 Thread b.ware
I use the Now() function, and I just set my format to ww without parenthesis and it gives me the current week number. --- Georg Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 15. July 2002 20:28, Paul W. Reilly wrote: Hello Paul, maybe

Re: Starting on Windows 2000 Server

2002-07-27 Thread Paul DuBois
Hi, I just downloaded the binaries. I have followed the installation instructions. Have run the command mysqld-max-nt --install-manual and checked the service panel and MySql is installed as a service. However when I either try to start the service in the service panel or issue the command net

Re: Need help with Tables/Attributes

2002-07-27 Thread Francisco Reinaldo
Hello Nitesh, You can find that and more at... http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/L/ALTER_TABLE.html Good Luck, --- Nitesh Divecha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I need help with tables. I have created my table with some attributes in it. I need to modify my table attributes, can any

RE: Do you run multiple servers on WIndows?

2002-07-27 Thread Luc Foisy
I would, very much, like to know if anyone has been able to do this. NOTE: Multiple MySQL servers does not necessarily mean running multiple MySQL services (just to clarify to another reply on this) You can have multiple MySQL servers running on Unix system with some configuration in your

Re: FIND_IN_SET index problem

2002-07-27 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2002-07-25 at 10:49:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a problem where the index for a SET column does not get used once I link in another table. The output to explain: mysql explain select count(*) from NS_articles where find_in_set('approved', artFlags) 0;

Re: Query problem

2002-07-27 Thread Francisco Reinaldo
Hi, Use LEFT JOIN instead of =. In a 1:m relationship, only records that match in both tables are selected. With L.J., the master is always selected even if the record is not present in the child. Master Id 1 2 3 4 5 Children FK_id Value 1 V1 1 V2 2 V3 Select id, value from

Re: Change string quote char

2002-07-27 Thread Robin Johnson
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: is it possible to change the default string quoting chars (')? I'm using MySQL with an older shop solution. The data to write has both: ' and chararcters. It isn't possible to escape those chars. Therefor I have to change the quoting char

Delay in SELECT with innodb

2002-07-27 Thread Alberto Crespo
Hi, We have a problem : We are working with MySql ver 3.23.51 in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6. We use Acctualy MyIsam. It works fine, SELECT works fast with any indexes ( primary and others ) But when try to use InnoDB, only the primary key works like MyIsam

Re: groupadd

2002-07-27 Thread David Houghton
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Gerald Clark wrote: create a group called mysql greate a user called mysql, and make it a member of the mysql group. There is no groupadd or useradd command on MacOSX. -- Dave Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Manager

Re: Starting on Windows 2000 Server

2002-07-27 Thread Bhavin Vyas
Andrew, I assume that basedir and datadir are set to the *actual* paths specific to your install and not 'the_install_path' and 'the _data_path'. If not, you will need to set those. Bhavin. - Original Message - From: Wheeler, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Need help with Tables/Attributes

2002-07-27 Thread Nitesh Divecha
Hello All, I need help with tables. I have created my table with some attributes in it. I need to modify my table attributes, can any one help me with the modify command or can give me the short cut to the web. Example: Mysql create table test(ID int(4), Name varchar(20), Sex varchar(1));

Re: Do you run multiple servers on WIndows?

2002-07-27 Thread Bhavin Vyas
From what little I know of MySql on Windows, it runs as a service and you can't run multiple services on the same Win Server. Bhavin. - Original Message - From: Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:35 AM Subject: Do you run multiple servers

Re: Change string quote char

2002-07-27 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2002-07-25 at 18:28:20 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is it possible to change the default string quoting chars (')? I'm using MySQL with an older shop solution. The data to write has both: ' and chararcters. It isn't possible to escape those chars. Therefor I have to

Error updating table structure.

2002-07-27 Thread Jeff Dyer
I am developing a new application using MySQL instead of MS SQL Server 2000, I have just shelled out for the Microolap Delphi SQL DIrect Access Components, having successfully converted an existing SQL Server database to MySQL. HOWEVER, I have tried using MyCC, MySQL Explorer, and PremiumSoft

Re: Do you run multiple servers on WIndows?

2002-07-27 Thread Bhavin Vyas
clarification: can't run multiple instances of the same service on Windows. - Original Message - From: Bhavin Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:07 PM Subject: Re: Do you run multiple servers on WIndows? From what

RE: RE: Problem downloading MySQL4.0.2a for windows

2002-07-27 Thread Tam, Michael
Hi Victoria, Thanks. Does this mean in the future the -max version would be merged into one release or just for the 4.0.2a?? Many thanks. Regards, Michael -Original Message- From: Victoria Reznichenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:07 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Do you run multiple servers on WIndows?

2002-07-27 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! You can run multiple servers on any Windows version with any MySQL version. They must NOT share any data, .frm, or log files. Below Miguel explains how with MySQL-4.0.2 you can run multiple instances also as Windows services. For any MySQL version you can do like this: You have to create

Re: Alter table and sort_buffer_size is to small

2002-07-27 Thread Martin Pavlas
MP But when I do it I get: MP ERROR 1034: sort_buffer_size is to small Hm.. Error 1034 means: Incorrect key file for table ... not a sort_buffer_size is to small How did you installed the server? MP I compiled it from source files. Something is very wrong with your

mysql sub query

2002-07-27 Thread Aman Raheja
Hello All I have the following situation ID GRP PRC CHECK 1 3 10.0Y 2 2 12.0Y 3 3 32.0N 4 1 5.0 N 5 1 7.0 Y 6 2 9.0 N 7 3 17.0N 8 1 11.0N Problem is

Re: max_connections recovery

2002-07-27 Thread Troy Hakala
The language is English (same as server) and the client is PHP. I've never seen this problem even when maxing out the connections at the default 100. On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 02:55 PM, Georg Richter wrote: On Thursday, 25. July 2002 18:48, Troy Hakala wrote: Hello, I've been

Re: Query problem

2002-07-27 Thread Diana Soares
Hi, On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 20:40, Kevin wrote: Hello, I have a query that runs perfectly until one of the items has no value or is set to 0: SELECT item.*, color.Name AS COLOR, shapecode.Shape AS SHAPE, clarity.Name AS CLARITY FROM item, color, shapecode, clarity WHERE

Re: Need help with Tables/Attributes

2002-07-27 Thread Diana Soares
Hi, I suppose that what you want would be something like: Mysql create table test(ID int(4), Name varchar(20), Sex varchar(1)); Mysql alter table test change Name FullName varchar(40); You should read this for more information about ALTER TABLE: http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/L/ALTER_TABLE.html

Re: Fw: Complex SQL assistance

2002-07-27 Thread Daniel Koch
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 05:17, Corey Wallis wrote: Peoples, I'm currently trying to work out if this is possible by SQL. I have the need to use SQL and only SQL to achieve the following. If a record exists and meets a certain criteria (i.e. field X = '1234') then update the record. If the

Re[2]: TRUNCATE TABLE

2002-07-27 Thread Andrew Sitnikov
Hello Benjamin, Why after TRUNCATE TABLE data file with indexes not freed ? BP See http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/d/Adding_and_removing.html (2nd paragraph) BP and http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Table_types.html#InnoDB_File_space BP (second link does not work in the

Fwd: Re: Question about group by or distinct

2002-07-27 Thread Vivian Wang
Hi Benjamin, Arjen I did some testing again. I have 75,000,000 rows table, after using group by I got 62,300,000 rows. If I use *nix -u sort, I got 74800,00 rows. I compared the two results, I feel I trust my *nix result. Some lines just miss in group by' result, look like no reason at all.

Possible bug?

2002-07-27 Thread Rich Amick
Looks as if the MySQL DB crashed and recovered. Linux 2.4.18-5smp #1 SMP MySQL version 3.23.51 From the MySQL server while running mtop 26JUL02 ~6:45AM PST: Unable to execute show procs [Lost connection to MySQL server during query] Stack Trace: at main::__ANON__(/usr/local/bin/mtop:446)

Re: Fw: Complex SQL assistance

2002-07-27 Thread Gerald Clark
SQL does not exist in a vacuum. You have to run a client. The client is part of or runs under some scripting language ( perl , php, sh, command.com ) which in turn runs on an operating system. You have to somehow pass values that you want to select, update, or insert. So it really not possible

RE: Fw: Complex SQL assistance

2002-07-27 Thread Jon Frisby
SQL does not exist in a vacuum. You have to run a client. The client is part of or runs under some scripting language ( perl , php, sh, command.com ) which in turn runs on an operating system. You have to somehow pass values that you want to select, update, or insert. So it really not

Re: Fw: Complex SQL assistance

2002-07-27 Thread Diana Soares
Take a look at REPLACE: http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/E/REPLACE.html On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 10:17, Corey Wallis wrote: Peoples, I'm currently trying to work out if this is possible by SQL. I have the need to use SQL and only SQL to achieve the following. If a record exists and meets a

Re: problem with win98

2002-07-27 Thread Dicky Wahyu Purnomo
Pada Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:44:26 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] menulis : Mysql engine is running under win98, then at the prompt I type mysql mysql then press enter and I have control. I can delete users (root included), whatever I want, so How can I make Mysql always require a username and a

RE: Do you run multiple servers on WIndows?

2002-07-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, When starting the MySQL server from the command line, you can successfully run multiple MySQL servers in the same Windows machine. This is possible because you can specify the port number MySQL has to bind to on the command line. All you have to do is run each server on a different port.

Re: Re: IBM-AIX 4.3 MySQL Binnary Installation Problem: libz ismissing.

2002-07-27 Thread Rick Flower
Francisco writes: Also, when I try to compile mysql-3.23.51.tar.gz, I get the following error executing the make command: my_gethostbyname.c, line 81.5: 1506-068 (S) Operation between types struct hostent* and int is not allowed. You need to modify the config file, since you are using the

HANDLER

2002-07-27 Thread Steve Howie
Does anybody have any PHP examples of how to use the mySQL HANDLER command in place of a select statement? From the manual it appears as a high speed version of SELECT. Cheers, Steve - Before posting, please check:

Re: Re: Question about group by or distinct

2002-07-27 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri 2002-07-26 at 11:00:31 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Benjamin, Arjen I did some testing again. I have 75,000,000 rows table, after using group by I got 62,300,000 rows. If I use *nix -u sort, I got 74800,00 rows. I compared the two results, I feel I trust my *nix

Re: HANDLER

2002-07-27 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:33 +0100 7/26/02, Steve Howie wrote: Does anybody have any PHP examples of how to use the mySQL HANDLER command in place of a select statement? From the manual it appears as a high speed version of SELECT. Use HANDLER ... OPEN, then treat HANDLER ... READ like a SELECT, then use HANDLER

Querying MYSQL and Return Variable Length

2002-07-27 Thread Chris Rodgers
I'm using coldfusion to update a MySQL Database. on my edit record page I'm querying the Database for some fields, i get most of the fields but one field (Field A let's say) only returns 40 chars or so when it is a blob field set to 65000 chars, were not actually using that many chars but it's

RE: Named Pipes in MySQL

2002-07-27 Thread miguel solorzano
At 09:16 26/7/2002 -0500, Mike Grover wrote: Hi, cut Does anybody know if connecting with named pipes has changed in 4.02? I used to use . For the host name in 4.01 , after I switched to 4.02 I get the error Failed to open named pipe when I try to connect? Any Ideas? Yes, on 4.0.2 the named

Re: Facing some problem in installation

2002-07-27 Thread Ralf Narozny
Manisha wrote: Hi, I am not a root. Our server is at ISP and I am trying to install mysql on our shared server. They have provided one user id and password with which I can access it. I also do not know whether mysql previously exists or not as mysql.sock is existing. (how to find

Re: mysql sub query

2002-07-27 Thread Diana Soares
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 15:46, Aman Raheja wrote: I have the following situation IDGRP PRC CHECK 1 3 10.0Y 2 2 12.0Y 3 3 32.0N 4 1 5.0 N 5 1 7.0 Y 6 2 9.0 N 7 3 17.0N 8 1

SUMMARY how to retrieve data from two tables?

2002-07-27 Thread Dermot Paikkos
First thanx to all those how answered: Benjamuin Pflugmann Gerald Clark. hcir Dicky Purnomo Original posting is below. The best answer came from Benjamin and he also gave a good explanation why: Because it relates to the times table and you want to see the users regardless, you have to put it

MySQL Logs

2002-07-27 Thread Nitesh Divecha
Hello All, I need help with MySQL Log, can I know where does MySQL saves the log files. I need a log for ODBC; I have some problem with ODBC connection from outside. I need to know what the Error is. Please advice, Thanking in Advance. Regards Nitesh

Fw: Complex SQL assistance

2002-07-27 Thread Corey Wallis
Peoples, I'm currently trying to work out if this is possible by SQL. I have the need to use SQL and only SQL to achieve the following. If a record exists and meets a certain criteria (i.e. field X = '1234') then update the record. If the record doesn't exist then insert it. For reasons too

Re: Need help with Tables/Attributes

2002-07-27 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Nitesh, Friday, July 26, 2002, 1:45:35 AM, you wrote: ND I need help with tables. I have created my table with some attributes in ND it. ND I need to modify my table attributes, can any one help me with the ND modify command or can give me the short cut to the web. ND Example: ND mysql create

Re: Query problem

2002-07-27 Thread Diana Soares
Forget everything i said, now i realize that i didn't understand the problem very well. Francisco Reinaldo is right, use LEFT JOIN. Sorry for having replied that! On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 20:40, Kevin wrote: Hello, I have a query that runs perfectly until one of the items has no value or is

Re: fulltext searching / BUG report

2002-07-27 Thread Marko Djukic
sergei, no i meant loading it up from raw data again. in the sense, i empty the database, then i have a script which takes a directory full of files and reads them into the database. each time i do that the database ends up corrupted. is there any way to figure out where the corruption is? is

Re: increment function

2002-07-27 Thread Ezequiel H Panepucci
hello there, Is there a way to select an increment function so it returns an index which is increemented by one for each row and that could be used to do some calculations with other fields? Example: select incr() as INDE, date_add(date_col, interval (INDE-1)*7 day) from suchtable where

Re: Is there an older version of MySQL for DOS (or Win 3.x)?

2002-07-27 Thread Paul DuBois
At 13:17 -0500 7/26/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an older version of MySQL that runs on DOS (or on Windows 3.x)? The earliest version mentioned in the manual is Win95. - Before posting, please check:

MySQL search question

2002-07-27 Thread Paul Maine
I am currently working on a website that is implemented using PHP and MySQL. The site currently has a simple search engine that allows a shopper to type in a search string that is stored in $search. For example, if a shopper types in 1972 Ford Mustang $string =1972 Ford Mustang Using the

Re: Odd Question on automatic start of Mysql upon boot

2002-07-27 Thread Paul DuBois
At 10:24 -0700 7/26/02, David Kramer wrote: I automated the MYSQL start up process using the setup command. the setup command? Everything works fine except that I noticed safe_mysql is the daemon running, shouldnt this be mysqld or mysql.server? I suppose it depends on what the setup

Re: max_connections recovery

2002-07-27 Thread Paul DuBois
At 11:17 -0700 7/26/02, Troy Hakala wrote: ok, i turns out I have lots of sleeping connections. This is because I'm using PHP's mysql_pconnect which opens persistent connections so the next connect (on the same process) will reuse the connection. this does appear to improve performance

Re: security

2002-07-27 Thread Paul DuBois
At 15:24 -0300 7/26/02, Anderson Pereira Ataides wrote: Why should I close port 3306 used by mysql? What would happen if a hacker use this port? You may want to close it at your firewall, if you want to allow the server to be used only by machines on the local side of the firewall. That will

Re: max_connections recovery

2002-07-27 Thread Dicky Wahyu Purnomo
Pada Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:17:08 -0700 Troy Hakala [EMAIL PROTECTED] menulis : ok, i turns out I have lots of sleeping connections. This is because I'm using PHP's mysql_pconnect which opens persistent connections so the next connect (on the same process) will reuse the connection. this does

Re: Possible bug?

2002-07-27 Thread Dicky Wahyu Purnomo
Pada Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:59:37 -0700 Rich Amick [EMAIL PROTECTED] menulis : Searched G for mysqld_list_processes: The above happens if a new user logs in at the same time you do mysql_list_processes(). This is fixed in the newest MySQL 3.22 version! --We are using version 3.23.51 -

Re: security

2002-07-27 Thread Dicky Wahyu Purnomo
Pada Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:24:58 -0300 Anderson Pereira Ataides [EMAIL PROTECTED] menulis : Why should I close port 3306 used by mysql? What would happen if a hacker use this port? Hemmm ... if you close the port 3306, so where do you put the mysqld to LISTEN on ? Well, if you considering the

Re: HANDLER

2002-07-27 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri 2002-07-26 at 16:33:40 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have any PHP examples of how to use the mySQL HANDLER command in place of a select statement? From the manual it appears as a high speed version of SELECT. Not to sound harsh, but IMHO, if you have to ask, you

Re: security

2002-07-27 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri 2002-07-26 at 15:24:58 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why should I close port 3306 used by mysql? What would happen if a hacker use this port? You should close it (as far as reasonable only, of course), simply, because you lose nothing, but gain an additional layer a malicious

Re: 4.0.2 Replication problem w/ AUTO_INCREMENT columns?

2002-07-27 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Jon, replication basically pipes into the mysql client the SQL statements in the output of mysqlbinlog hostname-bin.xxx Can you study from the output what was happening when row 6781602 was to be inserted? You should find SET INSERT_ID=6781602 in the output. If you pipe the output to the

display stuck .... ! ! ! !

2002-07-27 Thread toby -
hi guyx i ve a lil problem i run this query n get a result set $query = SELECT lang_id,strng_id, strng FROM strngx where pg_id = 6 and lang_id = '$lang_id '; $query_result_handle = mysql_query ($query) or die ('qry failed ! DA tbl must xixt in DA db specifyd bov '); exe and

Re: question about varchars

2002-07-27 Thread toby -
desmond one of my teachers at college once told me to give as less a digit as possible that is give it jst a BIT more den i need coz it takes up space . :S ... will someone correct me if im rong here . pleez toby Hello there Mysql documentation says the following:

Date Comparison Problem...

2002-07-27 Thread Tom Norwood
Just when I thought I was getting the hang of this mysql stuff, the simplest of tasks is causing me to think about pulling my hair out. My table: NEWS { newsID (INT(3), AUTO-INCREMENT), newsTitle (VARCHAR (50)), newsText (BLOB), newsDate (DATE) } I just want to filter

ADD: Date Comparison Problem...

2002-07-27 Thread Tom Norwood
Very interesting addition to message... Forgot to mention what the problem-query produces: Nothing. Cheers, Tom. -Original Message- From: Tom Norwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 July 2002 19:39 To: mysql-list Subject: Date Comparison Problem... Just when I thought I was

MySQL manual for Palm OS

2002-07-27 Thread kwabeef
Hi, Would it be possible to have a MySQL manual (documentation) in .pdb or .pdf (for palm) so that it could be read on handhelds? It's a nice pocket reference. Thanks. Ashifi. - Before posting, please check:

Re[4]: TRUNCATE TABLE

2002-07-27 Thread Andrew Sitnikov
Hello Benjamin, BP Hi. BP First, when you start an independend question, please start a new BP thread, but at least change the subject accordingly. This is not independent question. Manual say what TRUNCATE TABLE will recreate table from frm file, but when i use TRUNCATE TABLE, index file will

Re: Slow queries

2002-07-27 Thread Bhavin Vyas
Thanks Mike! Yes, the query is certainly using tmp tables for the longest of times. I will try and implement the solution you provided and see how it goes. If I do, I will update you with the results. Regards, Bhavin. - Original Message - From: mos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bhavin Vyas

Access denited error

2002-07-27 Thread VINOD
Dear Friends, I am having a local Linux server which have MySQL database. I am loging to MySQL by administrative user root. I have two tables in the database lngsnet, the table names are count and product. I want to load the text file which have 25 lines / records which is stored in the

mysql 3.23.51 problems ? (with snortreport)

2002-07-27 Thread Bart Burkhardt
Hi, I have installed apache-mysql-php with the apachetoolbox.com script. (www.apachetoolbox.com) I have first installed everything with keeping mysql 3.23.49(rpm), everything was fine then, now i have used apachetoolbox to install mysql 3.23.51 and now i have a problem. I use Snort-Mysql to

Re: MySQL manual for Palm OS

2002-07-27 Thread Tim Luoma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible to have a MySQL manual (documentation) in .pdb or .pdf (for palm) so that it could be read on handhelds? It's a nice pocket reference. Something like http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/Manual/manual.pdf ?

PHP/MySQL Search Engine Query Question

2002-07-27 Thread Paul Maine
I am currently working on a website that is implemented using PHP and MySQL. The site currently has a simple search engine that allows a shopper to type in a search string that is stored in $search. For example, if a shopper types in 1972 Ford Mustang $string =1972 Ford Mustang Using the

help me out here guys... you gotta have a primary key

2002-07-27 Thread Desmond Lee
k This is seems ridiculous to me,.. but i'll let you tell me if i'm just being stubborn. So, one of my associates has made a linking table (some people also call it intersection table, cross tab table, but i believe that the propper way to model a many to many relationship is via a

transaction issue

2002-07-27 Thread João Borsoi Soares
Hello everyone, We can find at mysql documentation, that using transaction may slow down up to 4 times mysql. This because working with transfaction means to do a lot of things while updating tables. I'm currently working in a system where in some cases (very few cases) I realy need to use

Re: question about varchars

2002-07-27 Thread xuefer tinys
i think it's just a length limiter in serversite (mysql server) string longer than this limit will be cut off allowing you to be lazy to cut it off in clientsite (mysql client) and also a way to indicate the string length, don't have to write a txt file for document From: toby - To: [EMAIL

Re: Date Comparison Problem...

2002-07-27 Thread Paul DuBois
Just when I thought I was getting the hang of this mysql stuff, the simplest of tasks is causing me to think about pulling my hair out. My table: NEWS { newsID (INT(3), AUTO-INCREMENT), newsTitle (VARCHAR (50)), newsText (BLOB), newsDate (DATE) } It's better to

Re: help me out here guys... you gotta have a primary key

2002-07-27 Thread Bhavin Vyas
Desmond, A primary key is needed to maintain a unique identity of each record and there by help in linking it to other records in other tables. However, we have certain tables which link one table to another (needed because of absence of foreign keys in mysql) which don't necessarily have primary

Re: help me out here guys... you gotta have a primary key

2002-07-27 Thread Khanh Pham
Hello Desmond, I am not an expert in DB, but I support your ideas. The primery key is one of the fundamental concept of database. With the key, you can refer faster to the record that you are looking for. Even you have a perfect codes, you will be not able to cover all senario that your

RE: help me out here guys... you gotta have a primary key

2002-07-27 Thread Dave Dutcher
Well, there are people who feel that tables should be linked by foreign keys to ensure referential integrity. Everyone who uses MySQL gets by without them though. Its up to your coding to make sure referential integrity is not violated. Although foreign keys are left out of MySQL for

RE: help me out here guys... you gotta have a primary key

2002-07-27 Thread Eric Frazier
Hi, Is it such a big deal to use more than one field for a primary key? Two field keys are only a little slower than single field Primary keys for selects. Often in linking tables you want to have duplicates of the two foreign keys right? I just wish people would stop making 100 field tables,

Set different sizes on a per-database level?

2002-07-27 Thread Bill Leonard
I have been searching and searching, and maybe this is a 4.0 thing, but is there a way, on a case by case basis, to pre-define a size limit for a MySQL database? In other words, make one 50MB and the next one make 100MB on the same server? I've seen indications you can set the default size for

RE: help me out here guys... you gotta have a primary key

2002-07-27 Thread Dean Harding
If it's for a linking table, you'd just have something like this: CREATE TABLE linking_table ( first_id INTEGER, second_id INTEGER, PRIMARY KEY (first_id, second_id) ); For an n-m relationship, that's the only way to do it. Dean Harding. P.S. The syntax may be wrong, that's just

Set different sizes on a per-database level?

2002-07-27 Thread Bill Leonard
I have been searching and searching, and maybe this is a 4.0 thing, but is there a way, on a case by case basis, to pre-define a size limit for a MySQL database? In other words, make one 50MB and the next one make 100MB on the same server? I've seen indications you can set the default size for

Re: Set different sizes on a per-database level?

2002-07-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 28), Bill Leonard said: I have been searching and searching, and maybe this is a 4.0 thing, but is there a way, on a case by case basis, to pre-define a size limit for a MySQL database? In other words, make one 50MB and the next one make 100MB on the same server?