content design / database design help

2002-10-19 Thread Randy Hammons
I'm new and I'm TOTALLY lost! Why am I here? To BEG for help! My office currently keeps track of our projects via an excel spreadsheet. We keep such info as project costing, status, points oif contact, name, description, number, last updated, etc... What I want to do is merge all that info

Re: limiting the number of mysql instantces?

2002-10-19 Thread Paul DuBois
At 15:30 -0700 10/19/02, John Weez wrote: How can i limit the number of mysql instances that occur when i start mysql?? It seems to be launching 10 instances of mysql. You're running Linux? If so, you're seeing threads, not processes. Thanks, John ---

Re: First time MySQL user needs help using/understandingmysqlimport

2002-10-19 Thread Paul DuBois
At 17:28 -0400 10/19/02, Paul Melia wrote: Hello, I am newbie to MySQL and I having some problems transferring my existing data to MySQL. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I started by exporting certain fields from Filemaker 5.5 to a comma-separated .txt file. I then opened the file

limiting the number of mysql instantces?

2002-10-19 Thread John Weez
How can i limit the number of mysql instances that occur when i start mysql?? It seems to be launching 10 instances of mysql. Thanks, John - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) ht

First time MySQL user needs help using/understanding mysqlimport

2002-10-19 Thread Paul Melia
Hello, I am newbie to MySQL and I having some problems transferring my existing data to MySQL. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I started by exporting certain fields from Filemaker 5.5 to a comma-separated .txt file. I then opened the file in BBedit, deleted duplicates and made othe

Re: Security

2002-10-19 Thread Paul DuBois
At 5:54 -0500 10/17/02, Terry & Cheryl Haimann wrote: I was reading a book at B&N yesterday which left me with the impression that in MySQL you can do the following: What book was this? Define a group with specific security access. Then define a list of users that inherit this groups securit

Re: Which files to download/install - problems running MySQL

2002-10-19 Thread Miguel Angel Solórzano
At 15:16 19/10/2002 +0100, Nikki Mason wrote: Hi, Hi, I wish to learn SQL, and as some of my friends already use MySQL, they recommended that I too use it. Please can you tell me what I need to download and install to get me going. I have: Pentium III 450Mhz, 256Mb Ram Windows 98 I don't have a

Re: Slow opening a recordset

2002-10-19 Thread Patrick Sherrill
It sounds like it may be time to look at threads. Set up a thread and open your recordset there or look at the C or C++ API for MySQL. Pat... [EMAIL PROTECTED] CocoNet Corporation SW Florida's 1st ISP - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday,

Re: Fwd: Only half of the results shown when using order by on unindexed field

2002-10-19 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Victoria Reznichenko writes: > > SELECT COUNT(*) FROM question, listing, user ub, user us WHERE > question.listing_id = listing.id AND question.buyer_id = ub.id AND > listing.seller_id = us.id AND (ub.id = 2346 OR us.id = 2346) > ORDER BY question.last_modified DESC; > > +--+ > | COUNT(

Re: MySQL 4.0.4 Question

2002-10-19 Thread Miguel Angel Solórzano
At 17:23 18/10/2002 -0400, Fernando Grijalba wrote: Hi, You guy recommend that I download the binaries instead of the source code. In the Win32 version of 4.0.4 is SSL enabled or do I need to download the source code and apply the flags that you mention in your sort version of the SSL Documentati

RE: Slow opening a recordset

2002-10-19 Thread Venu
Hi !!! > Hi all > > I'm having a performance problem opening a recordset using a > CRecordset class (Visual C++). If the table is empty (or > contains few records) it takes a very little time to open, > but if the table contains many records (about 48000 in my > tests) it takes too much time

Re: Gah, mysql and PHP woes

2002-10-19 Thread Dave Best
I can get PHP to work fine, its just the mysql functions... The PHP setting --with_mysql points to /usr but its installed in /usr/local. The only way I found to change this is to recompile PHP but then I run into a multitude of problems for some reason. If you could send me that, it would be g

Re: Which files to download/install - problems running MySQL

2002-10-19 Thread Insanely Great
Greetings... In windows, in general the settings are done by default so that you can start it with the default case. To start the server go to the bin directory and just enter mysqld. I dont think you need to enter --standalone or something like that. By default a root user is created with 'root'

RE: Slow opening a recordset

2002-10-19 Thread Ed Carp
> Does anybody know how I can solve this problem? > How can I improve the " opening " performance? > Does MySQL cache something for each records? It's not a MySQL problem, but a problem how you're opening the recordset. In VB, you would set the DBSQLPassThru flag - I don't know what the equivalent

RE: Slow opening a recordset

2002-10-19 Thread Mike Hillyer
Well, let's start with the simply, yet possibly overlooked solution: have you indexed the table appropriately? Mike Hillyer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:m.colurcio@;softhor.com] Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Slow opening a re

Slow opening a recordset

2002-10-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all I'm having a performance problem opening a recordset using a CRecordset class (Visual C++). If the table is empty (or contains few records) it takes a very little time to open, but if the table contains many records (about 48000 in my tests) it takes too much time (about 20 seconds) to open

Which files to download/install - problems running MySQL

2002-10-19 Thread Nikki Mason
Hi, I wish to learn SQL, and as some of my friends already use MySQL, they recommended that I too use it. Please can you tell me what I need to download and install to get me going. I have: Pentium III 450Mhz, 256Mb Ram Windows 98 I don't have a C or C++ compiler installed. My PC is not connecte

RE: Connecting to MySQL on Linux from a Windows machine. -- Resolved !!

2002-10-19 Thread Will Merrell
Well, after much fussing around with RPM's and searching this list, I have resolved my problem. The clue was the discussion on this list regarding the glibc bug. I upgraded to the 4.0.x RPM's that I got from the MySQL site and after I got all of the dependency problems fixed I was able to start up

Re: Gah, mysql and PHP woes

2002-10-19 Thread Mertens Bram
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:04, Dave Best wrote: > Anyone have any good information on how to setup PHP and mysql? [snip] I followed the instructions from the "Create dynamic sites with PHP & MySQL" I downloaded from http//www.ibm.com/developerWorks (you have to register first). If you want I can m

problem installing mysql 3.32.51

2002-10-19 Thread usha
Can anyone shower light over this problem: I tried to install mysql 3.32.51. But it throws the following error while trying to start safe_mysqld: 021019 17:40:10 mysqld started 021019 17:40:10 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/usr/local/var/ibm.pid' (Errcode: 13) 021019 1

Another solution for ERROR 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query

2002-10-19 Thread Dishko Georgiev
Hi all, I found another solution of a problem with buggy glibc. Try to start mysqld with --skip-name-resolve It's work for me fine, but hosts part in security must be only IP addresses, not names. Dishko Georgiev SysAdmin Terasyst Ltd. ---

Re: mysql_install_db script: can't find it

2002-10-19 Thread Roland Schmid
RG>> I've installed and re-installed MySQL on Windows (binary) multiple times, RG>> using multiple versions (3.x and 4.x). The reference manual discusses a RG>> script called mysql_install_db, in the /scripts folder. I can't for the RG>> life of me find such a script anywhere on my machine. RG>

About recent "bugs" in MySQL/Glibc

2002-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Hello. A note due to lots of reports. Those of you who has problems running latest binary MySQL with the latest glibc from RedHat (MySQL crashes when client tries to connect from remote host) - you can either: * Downgrade glibc * Run nscd That will help. -- For technical support contrac

re: killing a hung thread

2002-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Inandjo, Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 7:54:03 PM, you wrote: IT> i'd like to know if there is a way to tell the mysqld to remove a thread IT> that has hang, without human intervention. IT> Let say an update query is fired to the engine, and the client just freezes IT> and we have to reboot the ma

re: Silly lock-question

2002-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Mark, Saturday, October 19, 2002, 11:57:35 AM, you wrote: M> Is it true that when I assert a WRITE lock on a table, SELECTS by other M> threads just wait, instead of fail? I did a test, and this seems to be the M> case. That would be perfect, really. Yes, it's true. -- For technical support c

re: Lost Connection

2002-10-19 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Deleo, Friday, October 18, 2002, 1:19:55 PM, you wrote: DPRJ> I would like to know if someone has the solution to my problem. DPRJ> I was using MySQL Administrator for Windows yesterday and everything was DPRJ> working fine (I use dBTools also). Today when I tried to access MySQL DPRJ> (default v

re: Bug report

2002-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Douglas, Saturday, October 19, 2002, 1:08:14 AM, you wrote: D> INNODB: Error:datafile /home/mysql/mysql/data/ibdata1 is of a different size D> INNODB: than specified in the my.cnf file! D> INNODB:Assertion failure in thread 138207232 in file os0file.c D> send bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] D> mys

re: bug

2002-10-19 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Umashankar, Saturday, October 19, 2002, 8:55:46 AM, you wrote: UA> I had a problem with mysql. Actually mysql was UA> accepting a space after a column name, which I think UA> its not supposed to accept. This problem frustrated me UA> a lot, it gave a error stating field does not exist. UA> Eventu

re: mysql_install_db script: can't find it

2002-10-19 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Randy, Saturday, October 19, 2002, 4:23:31 AM, you wrote: RG> I've installed and re-installed MySQL on Windows (binary) multiple times, RG> using multiple versions (3.x and 4.x). The reference manual discusses a RG> script called mysql_install_db, in the /scripts folder. I can't for the RG> life

re: MySQL Server Crashs on MySQL CC Connection

2002-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
avoigt, Saturday, October 19, 2002, 5:06:45 AM, you wrote: >Description: aatdrdc> Attempting to connect to MySQL Server 3.23.53 (also tested aatdrdc> with 3.23.51) causes a message to appear on the root console: aatdrdc> /usr/local/mysql_3.23.53/bin/safe_mysqld: li

Silly lock-question

2002-10-19 Thread Mark
Is it true that when I assert a WRITE lock on a table, SELECTS by other threads just wait, instead of fail? I did a test, and this seems to be the case. That would be perfect, really. mysql, query - Mark - Before posting, pleas