Re: Displaying Data of a MySQL Table

2002-10-31 Thread Iikka Meriläinen
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to create a table in PHP with data from a MySQL database table. Can someone >please help with a sample script. I know this is probably easy but I need quick >help. I searched the archives and couldn't find something this simple. Please he

Re: Questions about indexes

2002-10-31 Thread Paul DuBois
At 20:15 -0800 10/31/02, Andre Kirchner wrote: Hi, is it possible in the mySQL to have an index that none of the values could be repeated except for a single value that could be repeated? Yes, but the only value that can be repeated is NULL. That's how UNIQUE indexes work for MyISAM and InnoDB

Re: Problem JOINing with Aliases

2002-10-31 Thread Bruce Hodo
No, I hadn't. So I did. IT WORKED! Thank you very much! Roger Baklund wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] In other words, any pix that has a bigpix defined is ok. But on any pix that does not have a bigpix defined, I "loose" the filename info from pix. And I don't understand why! Here is the

make_set and grouping

2002-10-31 Thread tore . eriksson
Hello all, Having a column item set('a','b','c','d') it is possible to select bit_count(bit_or(item)) to get the total number of used positions; and also to do a sum(bit_count(item)) to get the total number of set positions. However, I would also like to add a make_set(bit_or(item),

Re: data modeling question

2002-10-31 Thread olinux
I think the best solution would be TABLE ITEMS [ item_id | parent_id | item_name ] data 1, 0, foo 2, 0, bar 3, 2, baz 4, 2, quux 5, 1, fee 6, 1, fi So above baz and quux are subcats of bar and fee/fi are subcats of foo This structure allows for unlimited levels of sub-categories to be added. G

RE: Multiple MySQL Instances...

2002-10-31 Thread jeff
Hello Matt You probably already thought of this - but why not just set up a database or table for each department and set up separate users with privileges to their corresponding database or table? It would virtually accomplish the same thing. They would have their own database that could on

Re: Multiple MySQL Instances...

2002-10-31 Thread Daniel Kasak
Matt Neimeyer wrote: Hey All, On Redhat Linux is there an easy way to have an ISP style setup where each "user" has their own database directory? Long story short, we have to implement a small in house server that will allow multiple departments to create their own little web pages. Perhaps

Multiple MySQL Instances...

2002-10-31 Thread Matt Neimeyer
Hey All, On Redhat Linux is there an easy way to have an ISP style setup where each "user" has their own database directory? Long story short, we have to implement a small in house server that will allow multiple departments to create their own little web pages. Perhaps I've missed something o

Questions about indexes

2002-10-31 Thread Andre Kirchner
Hi, is it possible in the mySQL to have an index that none of the values could be repeated except for a single value that could be repeated? The values of the column would be something like this '123' '245' '233' 'XXX' 'XXX' '027' where just the value XXX could be repeated. Thanks, Andre ___

Re: How to query a varchar column's value staring with a string?

2002-10-31 Thread Andre Kirchner
Hi there, I found a way to do it with the following query select * from theTable where 'test' like concat( theColumn, '%' ); Thanks for the help, Andre --- Andre Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the help, but what I really want is to > select all the values that are a substrin

MySQL footprint keeps growing...

2002-10-31 Thread John Lawton
I noticed that the resources used by MySQL grow continually. I recently restarted our MySQL server because the process had grown to 259MB. MySQL is used by our Webserver running CGI scripts with roughly 57,000 connections in the last couple of days. Currently the process is using 18MB of memo

Re: How to query a varchar column's value staring with a string?

2002-10-31 Thread Andre Kirchner
thanks for the help, but what I really want is to select all the values that are a substring of 'test' as 't', 'te', 'tes' and 'test', and so I was trying the query select * from theTable where ( theColumn || '%' ) like 'test'; I think my previous email as a litle bit confusing. Sorry for that :

RE: Still not getting a mysql prompt

2002-10-31 Thread Daevid Vincent
Um, kindof an obvious question, but did you install the mySQL CLIENT as well as the server? They are separate .rpm files or binaries or whatever you use. DÆVID. "A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but a true friend will be sitting next to you in the holding cell, laughing and sayi

Re: password function

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 21:27, Elaine Kwek wrote: > i hope someone can help me in my problem. I have use the password function > in mysql to encrypt a string. Then when i try to get the encrypted password > using php and compare with the password that user enter. although the user > provide the corre

Re: password function

2002-10-31 Thread Dennis Salguero
You can't decrypt the password from MySQL, instead, you should encrypt the input from PHP and then do the string comparison. Good Luck, Dennis - Original Message - From: "Elaine Kwek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:27 PM Subject: password f

How to query a varchar column's value staring with a string?

2002-10-31 Thread Jennifer Goodie
select * from theTable where theColumn like 'test%'; or select * from theTable where LEFT(theColumn,4) = 'test'; depending on the table structure and data and indexing, etc. I have seen a performance difference between the two, test and see which works best for your application. Hi there, how c

Re: Still not getting a mysql prompt

2002-10-31 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Black, Kelly W [PCS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'CM Miller'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:16 AM Subject: RE: Still not getting a mysql prompt > In order to perform these tasks you may need to stop the > mysqld daemon

password function

2002-10-31 Thread Elaine Kwek
i hope someone can help me in my problem. I have use the password function in mysql to encrypt a string. Then when i try to get the encrypted password using php and compare with the password that user enter. although the user provide the correct password, but then the comparetion still fail. So, wa

RE: Still not getting a mysql prompt

2002-10-31 Thread Jennifer Goodie
'command not found' means that the server cannot find the application. Either alias it or add /usr/local/MySQL/mysql-3.23.52-pc-linux-gnu-i686/bin/ to your path or try cding to /usr/local/MySQL/mysql-3.23.52-pc-linux-gnu-i686/bin/ and then running it or just type the entire path at your prompt. th

How to query a varchar column's value staring with a string?

2002-10-31 Thread Andre Kirchner
Hi there, how can I query all the values starting with 'test'? I tried the following query, but it didn't work select * from theTable where ( ( theColumn || '%' ) like 'test' ); Thanks, Andre mySQL __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs dail

RE: Still not getting a mysql prompt

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
Make sure you are logging in as indicated in the docs. Something along these lines (from local host) shell> mysql -u username -p hostname databasename if hostname (being your hosts domain name) doesn't work try "localhost" It may be possible that mysql needs to be owned over to a user id on th

Displaying Data of a MySQL Table

2002-10-31 Thread benc
I want to create a table in PHP with data from a MySQL database table. Can someone please help with a sample script. I know this is probably easy but I need quick help. I searched the archives and couldn't find something this simple. Please help. Ben ---

Still not getting a mysql prompt

2002-10-31 Thread CM Miller
I'm still not getting a mysql prompt to login to. I've tried what was suggested below, but I'm not sure what it does and I searched for that directory and could not find a TMPDIR. If I try loging in under Root or as a user by typing mysql I get an error message: command not found, but the mysql

RE: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Steven Roussey
Well, I should correct what I just said. The OSDN number is likely not up to date. Bad comparison. Nevertheless, MySQL seems to handle data as fast as you can supply it with. > > But this has nothing to do with SQL or QUERYs. :) > > True, so I'll shut up now. Really this time. Sincerely, Steven

RE: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Steven Roussey
> Alexa's a horrible measure... Things I don't want to listen to. ;) At any rate, my point is that we have a very dynamic site (all forums and chat) powered by MySQL that continuously both updates and reads from the same server and does 100,000,000+ pageviews a month. (Slashdot + freshmeat + geoc

Re: Replication

2002-10-31 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:02:49PM -0300, Alexander Burbello wrote: > I am try to make replication between two servers. > > I configurated the master and slave servers with the follow parameter in > my.ini > > MASTER > server-id=1 > > SLAVE > master-host= > master-user= > master-password= > mast

subquerys?

2002-10-31 Thread Victoria Meza
Hi! mysql experts, I'm migrating my access db's to mysql but some querys in Access need sub querys. I know that is n't possible with mysql but maybe with the beta distribution I could do it. can some body helpme, maybe there are other way to do it. thanks, Victoria -

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:02:09PM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote: > Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > >>A very good suggestion indeed (IMHO); replication for performance in > >>this way is probably very under-utilized. I wonder if Slashdot is > >>doing it yet? > >> > >> > > > >They've been using Re

data modeling question

2002-10-31 Thread Wellington Fan
Hello all, I have an 'items' table with 2 'types' of items -- 'foo' & 'bar' Say that items of type 'bar' may be further classified as 'subtypes' 'baz', 'quux', etc. Now I build an online store so that visitors may buy items. Contstraints 1.) I would like to, as much as possible, use the same c

Re: Last row in table

2002-10-31 Thread Aamer Rauf
In my perl script I do the following: my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT MAX(Id) FROM sometable"); my $id = $sth->execute(); print "id: $id\n"; It prints 1 which I guess is the number of rows selected. I was expecting that it would give me the highest id in that table. How can I get that? Thanks for

Select by row number

2002-10-31 Thread horizonx
Hi, I need a 20 GB + DB that I'd like to access by row number or physical order. Of course I could use a special rownum column but that would be a waste of space plus require an additional key whereas mySQL already maintains such table internaly. Hope this makes sens, Best, Thierry www.arbitr

Re: Unable to Start the Server

2002-10-31 Thread Jason Thiesse
Incase anyone cares the fix was to give ownership to everything in the mysql directory to user mysql. Thanks all who helped!! Jason - Bond: "That gun, looks more fitting for a woman." Largo: "Do you know much about guns Mr. Bond?" Bond: "No, I know a little abou

RE: Creating users through SQL

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
It's all right here => http://www.mysql.com/manual.php -Original Message- From: John Meyer [mailto:johnmeyer_1978@;yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating users through SQL How do I create users for a specific database using SQL? -

RE: sql query

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
Michael Heheheh lmao! I can see what you mean oh yea sql query! ~K Black -Original Message- From: Michael T. Babcock [mailto:mbabcock@;fibrespeed.net] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:11 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: sql query Black, Kelly W [PCS] wrote: >Pretty lam

sql

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
Apparently I am unpopular. This person => Abdel-Hameed Abdel-Salam Badawy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tried to unsubscribe me from the list server :( Hmm wonder why? Sorry if I hurt someone's feelings or something? *looks confused* ~K Black sql,query -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTE

Creating users through SQL

2002-10-31 Thread John Meyer
How do I create users for a specific database using SQL? - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[E

RE: access denied for user with granted privileges

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
You must issue flush privileges; to the sql query line. ~K Black -Original Message- From: alex [mailto:alex@;dynaweb.ru] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: access denied for user with granted privileges Hi ppl! I've got a strange problem. I've c

RE: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
Try compiling form source instead of running binary. ~K Black -Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:admin@;asarian-host.net] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:33 PM To: heath boutwell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a - Original Message - From: "hea

RE: mysql fills the disk with temporary files?

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
compile mysql with ./configure --with-memory-limit= I forget the exact syntax. It's also possible to pass the limit on via the env. try using "show variables;" as your sql query, and read how my.cnf is affecting the settings. Then you can export memory limits with ulimit to env from the shel

JDBC DBMetaData and proper FK rules against InnoDB tables

2002-10-31 Thread j.random.programmer
Hi: Consider (default table type set to InnoDb, mysql 3.23.52): CREATE TABLE A ( id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, name VARCHAR(20), PRIMARY KEY (id) ); CREATE TABLE B ( id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, AID INTEGER NOT

RE: MYSQL start hangs term..

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
Joe You might want to try owning all the mysql files over to a userid like "mysql" and then use cd /usr/local/mysql-ver. ./bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql & sql query Regards ~K Black -Original Message- From: Joe M [mailto:joe_m@;circlepressroom.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:1

RE: mysql fills the disk with temporary files?

2002-10-31 Thread Lars Andersson
Mysql is installed properly with user mysql and group mysql. What happens if I limit the maximum filesize for the mysql user? When it reches that size it will send what kind of errors to the user doing the query? Another problem is that I have quite big innodb data-files, owned by mysql, the limi

Replication with rewriting

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
I've got, in my slave my.cnf: replicate-wild-do-table = RemoteTableName replicate-rewrite-db = RemoteTableName->LocalTableName ... and the slave thread seems to be happily following along with the sequence numbers on the master, but when I insert data into the master's "RemoteTableName", nothin

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Steven Roussey wrote: Really? If I were to go by their Alexa traffic rating of 1390, I'd think it would not even be necessary. Our traffic ranking is 859 and we don't need to do anything like that. Maybe Alexa is not a good measure. :( I like our ranking there... Alexa's a horrible measure, e

Re: [newbie] how do I force a numerical comparison of two md5 strings

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: So what's left is that you save the real md5 string instead of it's hex representation, e.g. in a CHAR BINARY. That's easiest if you have the binary representation on the client side. I see no easy way of doing it in MySQL if you only have the hex rep (you could split it

RE: mysql fills the disk with temporary files?

2002-10-31 Thread Jan Steinman
>From: Lars Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Thanks for your advices, but I don't want to solve this problem on the >OS/shell level. Assuming MySQL is installed properly, with its own user and group, I don't see why you should not want to solve the problem this way. -- SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL

Re: Prepared Statement Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Mark Matthews
Heikki Tuuri wrote: Ryan, - Original Message - From: "rcandersonmn" Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:23 PM Subject: Prepared Statement Problem >I'm new to MySQL and am having problems with Prepared Statements in >MySQL. I'm using the latest MySQL b

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Steven Roussey
> They've been using Replication for a long time at Slashdot. Really? If I were to go by their Alexa traffic rating of 1390, I'd think it would not even be necessary. Our traffic ranking is 859 and we don't need to do anything like that. Maybe Alexa is not a good measure. :( I like our ranking the

Re: [newbie] how do I force a numerical comparison of two md5 strings

2002-10-31 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. On Thu 2002-10-31 at 13:54:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am I right in assuming that comparing two md5 strings would be faster > if they were compared as two hexadecimal numbers than if they were > compared as two strings? > > If so, is there any way to insist on this in a SQL que

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-31 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "heath boutwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:22 PM Subject: Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a > Aren't these just aborted clients? When you upgraded before did mysql > bring the server t

Re: Prepared Statement Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Ryan, - Original Message - From: "rcandersonmn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:23 PM Subject: Prepared Statement Problem > I'm new to MySQL and am having problems with Prepared Statements in > MySQL. I'm using the latest MySQL be

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-31 Thread Steven Roussey
Can anyone that was experiencing the thread thrashing problems with the other binaries confirm that this has been with resolved with 53a? Yes. At least for us. We can again do 3,000+ qps. The 'out of sync' errors were completely separate issue related to PHP. Pre

Re: sql query

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Black, Kelly W [PCS] wrote: Pretty lame. Agreed (again) Oh yeah, SQL QUERY. PS,I'm typically against "me too" type comments, but this p@!ses me off so much, its worth it ... -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: A very good suggestion indeed (IMHO); replication for performance in this way is probably very under-utilized. I wonder if Slashdot is doing it yet? They've been using Replication for a long time at Slashdot. That's not actually what I asked; I asked if they were

Replication

2002-10-31 Thread Alexander Burbello
I am try to make replication between two servers. I configurated the master and slave servers with the follow parameter in my.ini MASTER server-id=1 SLAVE master-host= master-user= master-password= master-port= server-id= What I have to do for the servers starts to replicate data? Alexander

Re: mysql fills the disk with temporary files?

2002-10-31 Thread Lars Andersson
Is there any way to put a limit on the size of temporary tables? Or is it possible for my users to put the server down just by creating some kind of big cartesian product as a result of a big join? The server is used in an production environment and it would be a great releaf if there is some way

RE: UPS (Was: Mysql in Innodb)

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
Almost all modern unix type systems come with the powerd daemon. -Original Message- From: Jan Steinman [mailto:Jan@;Bytesmiths.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UPS (Was: Mysql in Innodb) >From: gerald_clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >A UPS is of

MYSQL start hangs term..

2002-10-31 Thread Joe M
Hello, starting mysql-3.23.32 on ydlinux from the command prompt. freezes the current terminal, BUT the mysql server is running, i can access it from outside or a new term. #safe_mysqld & or just #safe_mysqld, tried both. can't find anything in the man. thanks--Joe M -

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:38:37PM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote: > Joseph Bueno wrote: > > >You install a slave server on your web frontend and use it for all > >your selects: no need to upgrade your network anymore ! > > > > A very good suggestion indeed (IMHO); replication for performance in

RE: mysql fills the disk with temporary files?

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
pico /etc/services ulimit 2 # size in k BTW It cannot remove files in use. It would simply generate cron errors -Original Message- From: Lars Andersson [mailto:lars@;rockar.nu] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:05 AM To: Black, Kelly W [PCS] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: my

Re: Question on Preparing Reports

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Varun VallaBhaneni wrote: MYSQL,same as we do in th Access Reports,I am not getting much information on how to start this.So, it will be of great help to me if we give Some MySQL only does the back-end work, not the reports, etc. You can easily generate reports with PHP + MySQL in my experie

RE: mysql fills the disk with temporary files?

2002-10-31 Thread Lars Andersson
Thanks, Unfortunatley I think things will break if I remove the temporary files while they still are in use =) I want a solution that keeps the files limited in size. There must be some settings that controll this kind of stuff. /Lars On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Black, Kelly W [PCS] wrote: > #!/usr/l

[newbie] how do I force a numerical comparison of two md5 strings

2002-10-31 Thread Walter Lee Davis
Am I right in assuming that comparing two md5 strings would be faster if they were compared as two hexadecimal numbers than if they were compared as two strings? If so, is there any way to insist on this in a SQL query? I am using PHP, and would like to know from that perspective if it makes an

access denied for user with granted privileges

2002-10-31 Thread alex
Hi ppl! I've got a strange problem. I've created a user account with access to some concrete database using GRANT query (see below) but I cannot connect to the server using this usename only when connecting via mysql_real_connect() from C API. When using "mysql -u MY_USER" it works fine. What's w

RE: mysql fills the disk with temporary files?

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
#!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; my @files=(`/bin/ls /tmp/sql*.M*`); for (@files) { unlink; } exit 0; shell> crontab -e 0 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/perl /path/to/delete/program :wq :) -Original Message- From: Lars Andersson [mailto:lars@;rockar.nu] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:56 A

sql query

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
Hi, I could use some advice on this query. SELECT cell, sum(att) as att , sum(lc) as lc , sum(csh) as csh, ROUND((SUM( lc + csh ) * 100 ) / (SUM(att) - SUM(tccf + bpp + bpc + suf)),2) AS drops, sum(tccf) as tccf, sum(bpp) as bpp, sum(bpc) as bpc, sum(suf) as suf, ROUND((SUM( tccf + bpp + bpc

UPS (Was: Mysql in Innodb)

2002-10-31 Thread Jan Steinman
>From: gerald_clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >A UPS is of little use if you dont have software installed to shut the computer >down when AC power is lost. That may be true of un-attended operation, but if someone is around to shut down when the UPS starts making noise, Bob's your uncle! But such so

RE: How do I log into MySQL?

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
use this Shell>TMPDIR=/tmp Shell>export TMPDIR restart mysql. -Original Message- From: CM Miller [mailto:cmmiller1973@;yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do I log into MySQL? I can start/stop the daemon for MySQL with no problem.

Re: how to import a database

2002-10-31 Thread Jan Steinman
>From: tosca ballerini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I want to import a >database from filemaker to mysql: is that possible? and how? It's a pain in the butt. FileMaker does not allow access to all the schema info you need to do a fully automated CREATE TABLE, and its typing and relational mechanisms a

sql query

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
Pretty lame. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mysql@;lists.mysql.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:58 AM To: Black, Kelly W [PCS] Subject: Re: SELECT Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either spam or simply off topic to our filter. To bypass

RE: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
The government has a white paper on this. Just !google "benchmark MySQL" -Original Message- From: Benji Spencer [mailto:ben.spencer@;moody.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:36 AM To: Benjamin Pflugmann Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How much data can MySQL push out? >Sorry,

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2002-10-31 at 11:35:56 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Sorry, I do not have much experience with MySQL on Suns (at least not > >in pushing it to the limits). On an Athlon 700Mhz selecting 1 > >random rows out of 6, I get over 330MB/sec (1000 queries/sec) on > >localhost an

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Benji Spencer wrote: 3) We would be adding a database to a machine which is already somewhat busy (we split the web and database off of the same box because the CPUs where not able to keep up with both web and db activity) Understandable, but it might actually improve performance to not be w

Re: Repeating Results in Query

2002-10-31 Thread Michael Stearne
,5) AS Item_Sku,count(*) as Quantity_Sold, SUM(price) AS Total_Sales FROM `orderline` WHERE (order_date>='20021030' AND order_date<='20021031') GROUP BY sku ORDER BY Item_Sku ASC Produces results like: Item_Sku Quantity_Sold Total_Sales LE104 1 18 MD008 1 25 MD012 1

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Benji Spencer
Have you tried installing a Windows copy of MySQL on the web server for the replication suggestion given before? I know it may be difficult to do politically. This is a little hard to do politically for a number of reasons. 1) In order for this to work, the backend database (which allows upda

RE: Repeating Results in Query

2002-10-31 Thread Arthur Fuller
Quantity_Sold, SUM(price) AS Total_Sales FROM `orderline` WHERE (order_date>='20021030' AND order_date<='20021031') GROUP BY sku ORDER BY Item_Sku ASC Produces results like: Item_Sku Quantity_Sold Total_Sales LE104 1 18 MD008 1 25 MD012 1 5 MD103 1 18 MD104 10 400 MD104

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Benji Spencer wrote: this helps A LOT. MySQL doesn't have to be on the Sun Box. What OS where you using? We could put MySQL on a Windows box. I don't know that I could convince them to put it on a Linux box though. Have you tried installing a Windows copy of MySQL on the web server for the r

mysql fills the disk with temporary files?

2002-10-31 Thread Lars Andersson
Hi, I manage a mysql server with a few hundred users. All of a sudden mysql has started to put large files in /tmp I've never noticed this behavior before. The files looks like this -rw-rw1 mysqlmysql3788431360 Oct 31 17:49 #sql420e_36b82b_1.MYD -rw-rw1 mysqlmysql

Re: Identical entries

2002-10-31 Thread Alec . Cawley
> I have a database which has identical entries. Is there > a way to tell mySQL to throw out duplicate entires > when un insert/update is done via ColdFusion? Tell mySQL that the columns are UNIQUE. Alec - Before po

RE: SQL UPDATE question

2002-10-31 Thread Fernando Grijalba
Why not only do: conn.beginTrans(); //Statments conn.commit(); or conn.rollback(); -Original Message- From: David Shanes [mailto:dshanes@;san.rr.com] Sent: October 31, 2002 12:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SQL UPDATE question Filter: SQL, UPDATE Is there a way to do the following

Re: klez worm (OT)

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Peter Lovatt wrote: Somebody out there is probably infected. Do us all a favour and make sure you are virus free :) And get your network admins (if that's not you) to install a virus scanner on your E-mail system (like the McAfee + qmail + smtpd-queue patch combo I use). It doesn't use SQL

How do I log into MySQL?

2002-10-31 Thread CM Miller
I can start/stop the daemon for MySQL with no problem. And, if i ps -aux | grep mysql I show that it is running, but if I check the log I get the following output: 021025 20:11:44 mysqld started 021025 20:11:44 /usr/local/MySQL/mysql-3.23.52-pc-linux-gnu-i686/bin/mysqld: Can't create/write to

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Joseph Bueno wrote: You install a slave server on your web frontend and use it for all your selects: no need to upgrade your network anymore ! A very good suggestion indeed (IMHO); replication for performance in this way is probably very under-utilized. I wonder if Slashdot is doing it yet?

Question on Preparing Reports

2002-10-31 Thread Varun VallaBhaneni
Hi, How can we Prepare Reports From MYSQL,same as we do in th Access Reports,I am not getting much information on how to start this.So, it will be of great help to me if we give Some information on How to get started. I am working on a project in Linux, PHP, Apache, MYSQL, one o

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Benji Spencer
Sorry, I do not have much experience with MySQL on Suns (at least not in pushing it to the limits). On an Athlon 700Mhz selecting 1 random rows out of 6, I get over 330MB/sec (1000 queries/sec) on localhost and about 5.5MB/sec via a 100MBit TCP connection using the mysql command line clie

RE: update and data manipulation

2002-10-31 Thread Gordon
Use the concat function. It takes any number of arguments. mysql> create table test (a char(5)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec) mysql> insert into test values ('A'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec) mysql> select * from test; +--+ | a| +--+ | A| +--+ 1 row in set (0.

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. On Thu 2002-10-31 at 08:10:17 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are experiencing some issues with performance on a non-MySQL box and are > looking for alternatives (and alternative methods). Once of the issues that > we seem to be facing, is that the pure volume of data which needs to

SQL UPDATE question

2002-10-31 Thread David Shanes
Filter: SQL, UPDATE Is there a way to do the following in one single statement? I know I can get all of the info from the three tables in a single query using joins... // Start a transaction conn.setAutoCommit(false); // Do the work. stmt = conn.createStatement(); // Update general acct info sS

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Benji Spencer
I'm sure you've already specified this, but here's a few questions: Probably not a bad idea to recap What size of machine (CPU, RAM, # and type of drives) are you using for each server? (MySQL vs. MS SQL) MSSQL (Current setup) - 2-1.2 GHZ CPUs, 4 gig of mem, and a RAID5 SCSI array, Server

re: Can server tell me how I connected?

2002-10-31 Thread Egor Egorov
Brian, Thursday, October 31, 2002, 6:07:43 PM, you wrote: BH> Is there anyway to get a mysql server to tell me BH> a) What user I am connected as? BH> b) What host I am connected from (i.e., localhost vs. fqdn)? SELECT USER(); BH> c) What database I am using? SELECT DATABASE(); SHOW PROCESSLI

Re: A simple one that gets me!

2002-10-31 Thread Roger Baklund
* scott [...] > Lets say I had another table called others > And I wanted the query you supplied to INCLUDE items from others that > are not in test > > Eg, (old example) > Others > > Name item > -- > Abc 10 > Def 11 > Geh 12 > Ijk 13 > Lmn 99 This table has a different strucure

Re: Mysql in Innodb

2002-10-31 Thread Pedro Rocadas
--- gerald_clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A UPS is of little use if you dont have software > installed to shut the > computer > down when AC power is lost. Indeed :-). The problem was the eletrical board. This kind of problems shouldn't happen but sh*t happens :-))). Anyway, I read more caref

SQL UPDATE question

2002-10-31 Thread David B. Shanes
Filter: SQL, UPDATE Is there a way to do the following in one single statement? I know I can get all of the info from the three tables in a single query using joins... // Start a transaction conn.setAutoCommit(false); // Do the work. stmt = conn.createStatement(); // Update general acct info sS

Re: Identical entries

2002-10-31 Thread Joseph Bueno
Create an unique index. See: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/CREATE_INDEX.html Regards, Joseph Bueno FlashGuy wrote: > Hi, > > I have a database which has identical entries. Is there a way to tell > mySQL to throw out duplicate entires when un insert/update is done via > ColdFusion? > > > --

MySQL compiled using --with-libwrap

2002-10-31 Thread Stephen P Ficklin
This really isn't a bug, just an a bit of information I copmiled MySQL for Solaris 9 on an UltraSPARC using gcc-2.95.3. If you compile MySQL with the option --with-libwrap for tcp wrappers support, and then try to run the test cases, they will not fail, but they will hang. If you compile MyS

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Joseph Bueno
Since your requests are mainly selects and each select is returning a lot of data (more than 500K) you could eliminate most of your network problem with MySQL replication : You install a slave server on your web frontend and use it for all your selects: no need to upgrade your network anymore ! Re

Re: How much data can MySQL push out?

2002-10-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Benji Spencer wrote: is why that might be an option. However, it might be easier to switch from MSSQL to MySQL if MySQL would handle the traffic better. We do need a little logic to determine if the user is logged in (if they aren't logged in, they don't see the page) but it shouldn't be all

Repeating Results in Query

2002-10-31 Thread Michael Stearne
The query below: SELECT DISTINCT LEFT(sku,5) AS Item_Sku,count(*) as Quantity_Sold, SUM(price) AS Total_Sales FROM `orderline` WHERE (order_date>='20021030' AND order_date<='20021031') GROUP BY sku ORDER BY Item_Sku ASC Produces results like: Item_Sku Quantity_Sol

: A simple one that gets me!

2002-10-31 Thread scott
Many thanks I have checked out the mysql site and am starting to get my head around it. How would I modify your query so that I had a clause that selected in another value from another table? Your suggestions have been most helpful Lets say I had another table called others And I wanted the query

Compiling MySql on Solaris 9

2002-10-31 Thread Ficklin Stephen P
Okay, I figured out the problem. Test cases will not pass if you compile MySQL with the flag --with-libwrap, if you don't include 127.0.0.1 in the /etc/hosts.allow file. Even if you have your machine's IP in there, you must also include the localhost IP as well. Oh, the frustrations this cause

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