RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-21 Thread JamesD
Jeremy, if i run the command show tables; on some database it returns 5 rows in set (0.02 sec) and if, on the same database i run the command select count(*) from 'table'; it returns +-+ | count(*)| +-+ | 47226322| +-+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) now, i believe its

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-21 Thread Dean Harding
It's just that the number of rows in a table is stored directly in the .MYD file (I believe) so a query like select count(*) from table will just return that value, rather than counting all the rows. It's not that the functions are built-in, rather they're *optimized* - a totally different thing.

Re: chroot() in 3.23.54

2002-12-21 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Dec 18, Andrew Rucker Jones wrote: Sergei, Forgive my ignorance, but i've been thinking about this. Isn't it impossible to get it to work with the system calls i listed from strace? To repeat: chdir(/usr/local/var/mysql/) = 0 chroot(/chroot/mysql) =

mysql sporadic crashes in find_item_in_list

2002-12-21 Thread Paul P Komkoff Jr
Description: Sometimes my hosting mysql server segfaulting typical backtrace follows 0x80be1f8 handle_segfault + 424 0x4011e8d5 _end + 938550201 0x80dbf61 find_item_in_list__FP4ItemRt4List1Z4Item + 417 0x80ec0b0 find_order_in_list__FP3THDP13st_table_listP8st_orderRt4List1Z4ItemT3 +

Memory allocation error in MySQL

2002-12-21 Thread Bruno Batarelo
Greetings Recently I have a great problem. My whole project depends on it and some people are not satisfied with my aplication because of it. I use database for storing into InnoDB tables word documents into BLOBs, and some other information about docs into standard column types. However, after a

need index date help

2002-12-21 Thread John Hinton
OK.. I have a field named 'adate' which is a mysql auto timestamp. I need to use this data to do many time functions on a large 160,000 or so row database. I have indexed adate, but am having trouble with this WHERE statement because I am unable to make clean use of the index. I have to do

server load

2002-12-21 Thread Sankaranarayanan Mahadevan
hi we have developed for a client and now its testing phase by next week... using Linux/PHP/MySQL 3.23 we need to test the database load... like how efficienty query is executing... how many inserts..updataes taking place...etc... how much the data etc... is there any tools available for this? any

More info on mysql sporadic crashes

2002-12-21 Thread Paul P Komkoff Jr
I tracked down the bug I have one table with BLOB field in it Then I execute queries like SELECT * FROM _search WHERE (LOWER(keywords) LIKE LOWER('% blabla %')) here, keywords is a blob fields when (LOWER(keywords) LIKE LOWER('% blabla %')) is true, mysql dies hope this helps -- Paul P

mysql corruption probelm - urgent

2002-12-21 Thread Lalit Chandwani
hi all , i am facing a great trouble of mysql corruption on windows i am using mysql 3.23.53-max-debug version on win 9x plateform i am using both PHP and VB as a client mysqld is running some the the cause of the table corruption is the sometimes improper shutdown sometimes normal shutdown

i need help

2002-12-21 Thread Rich Dodge
I keep getting this message what can i do to correct this problem ? Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in /web/repository/sites/www/inc/generate-page.php on line 4 -

Re: mysql corruption probelm - urgent

2002-12-21 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Lalit Chandwani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySql Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: mysql corruption probelm - urgent hi all , i am facing a great trouble of mysql corruption on windows i am using mysql 3.23.53-max-debug

Re: mysql corruption probelm - urgent

2002-12-21 Thread Gerald R. Jensen
MySQL is not the problem. Are you shutting down MySQL before you shutdown/restart the machine? When you say Win9x, which flavor or Win9x do you really mean ('95, 98, 98SE?) - Original Message - From: Lalit Chandwani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySql Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday,

RE: i need help

2002-12-21 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
This has been answered a zillion times in the past. Search the archive. mysqld.sock will usually live in /tmp Change the appropriate paths. -B. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Rich Dodge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: zaterdag 21 december 2002 16:10 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: MySQL Decimal Column Types Question

2002-12-21 Thread Michael She
At 09:18 PM 12/20/2002 -0500, Michael She wrote: The value's been clipped to the upper end of the range. Your next question should be why that value has 9 digits to the left of the decimal point. :-) How did you guess! This behaviour is why I asked the question in the first place. Why does it

RE: i need help

2002-12-21 Thread Adolfo Bello
Is mysql service started? Check with: ps -ax mysql | grep -i mysql If it does't appear on tje list, start the service with: service mysql start Adolfo P.S. I have mysql.sock in /var/lib/mysql which is the default. Check also basedir in your /etc/my.cnf. -Original Message- From:

Re: MySQL Decimal Column Types Question

2002-12-21 Thread Michael She
How did you guess! This behaviour is why I asked the question in the first place. Why does it get clipped for a 10 digit number. Without the decimal value I believe it inserts correctly, but with the 2 decimal places it get clipped... No, it won't insert correctly, it will still get

Bug Report

2002-12-21 Thread Christopher Stephan
Hello, following problem occurs using MySql. Can you help me with that Error? Betriebssystem: [ SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386) ] MySql Verision: MySql Max 4.0.6 OMEGA.ERR: 021221 14:24:21 InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread 16401 in file mem0pool.c line 491 InnoDB: We intentionally generate a memory

Re: MySQL Decimal Column Types Question

2002-12-21 Thread Michael She
At 10:12 PM 12/20/2002 -0600, Paul DuBois wrote: For a 10,2 decimal column, should this be a valid number: 1234567890.12? It's easy to test: mysql CREATE TABLE t (d DECIMAL(10,2)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) mysql INSERT INTO t SET d = 1234567890.12; Query OK, 1 row affected

RE: i need help

2002-12-21 Thread Cal Evans
either mysql is not running or php doesn't know where to find your sock. make sure that php.ini has the correct location for your sock and that ps auxwww shows mysql running. =C= * * Cal Evans * The Virtual CIO * http://www.calevans.com * -Original Message- From: Rich Dodge

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-21 Thread JamesD
Thanks Dean. -Original Message- From: Dean Harding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 12:46 AM To: 'JamesD'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records? It's just that the number of rows in a table is stored directly in the .MYD file (I

New DBTools Manager Release

2002-12-21 Thread Crercio O. Silva
Hi all, We are pleased to announce the new DBTools Manager Professional 2.0. This version is not a bug fixed, but a brend new application with much more features and still easier to use. This version has been developed for almost a year, and now with a new and improved GUI, really cool new

re: mysqladmin access denied error

2002-12-21 Thread Egor Egorov
On Friday 20 December 2002 15:31, Imran Khan wrote: I'm using solaris 8 with mysql v 3.23.54. I want to enable a solaris user - 'user1', to use the mysqlimport command without using a password. I've run, as root, the following sql command: mysqlgrant all on db1.* to user1@localhost -this

re: mysqldump user prive

2002-12-21 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
On Thursday 19 December 2002 21:29, Arun kumar R wrote: I want to run mysqldump through a batch process, in order to do that what prive do i need to give to the user. It will be running as a cron job, i don't want to give any creation or deletion authorization. Your help will be greatly

Docs make wrong statement about Debians init scripts

2002-12-21 Thread ch
Description: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Linux-x86.html says what to do to start MySQL on system boot in Debian GNU/Linux. I don't know if this holds true for some of your binary packages under Debian, but the official Debian package is configure by debconf.

[patch] Error in Makefile prevents complete distclean

2002-12-21 Thread ch
Description: The unpacked source differs from the source tree after a ./configure make make distclean. This should be considered as Makefile bug, as e.g. package maintainers like me depends on a souce that cleans up it self so that we can easyly produce diffs

Missing -lwrap on mysqld/mysqltest?

2002-12-21 Thread ch
Description: gcc -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -rdynamic -o mysqltest mysqltest.o -lstdc++ ../libmysqld.a -lrt -ldl -lpthread -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread ../libmysqld.a(lib_sql.o)(.text+0x2736): In function `handle_connections_sockets': : undefined reference to `request_init'

How to enter data in MySQLCC

2002-12-21 Thread KPS
Please someone email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] how to do this as well...I am lost on how to ad data to MYSQLCC - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/

mysql sporadic crashes in find_item_in_list

2002-12-21 Thread Paul P Komkoff Jr
Description: Sometimes my hosting mysql server segfaulting typical backtrace follows 0x80be1f8 handle_segfault + 424 0x4011e8d5 _end + 938550201 0x80dbf61 find_item_in_list__FP4ItemRt4List1Z4Item + 417 0x80ec0b0 find_order_in_list__FP3THDP13st_table_listP8st_orderRt4List1Z4ItemT3 +

re: mysqldump user prive

2002-12-21 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
On Thursday 19 December 2002 21:29, Arun kumar R wrote: I want to run mysqldump through a batch process, in order to do that what prive do i need to give to the user. It will be running as a cron job, i don't want to give any creation or deletion authorization. Your help will be greatly

Docs make wrong statement about Debians init scripts

2002-12-21 Thread ch
Description: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Linux-x86.html says what to do to start MySQL on system boot in Debian GNU/Linux. I don't know if this holds true for some of your binary packages under Debian, but the official Debian package is configure by debconf.

[patch] Error in Makefile prevents complete distclean

2002-12-21 Thread ch
Description: The unpacked source differs from the source tree after a ./configure make make distclean. This should be considered as Makefile bug, as e.g. package maintainers like me depends on a souce that cleans up it self so that we can easyly produce diffs

Missing -lwrap on mysqld/mysqltest?

2002-12-21 Thread ch
Description: gcc -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -rdynamic -o mysqltest mysqltest.o -lstdc++ ../libmysqld.a -lrt -ldl -lpthread -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread ../libmysqld.a(lib_sql.o)(.text+0x2736): In function `handle_connections_sockets': : undefined reference to `request_init'

How to enter data in MySQLCC

2002-12-21 Thread KPS
Please someone email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] how to do this as well...I am lost on how to ad data to MYSQLCC - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/

mysql sporadic crashes in find_item_in_list

2002-12-21 Thread Paul P Komkoff Jr
Description: Sometimes my hosting mysql server segfaulting typical backtrace follows 0x80be1f8 handle_segfault + 424 0x4011e8d5 _end + 938550201 0x80dbf61 find_item_in_list__FP4ItemRt4List1Z4Item + 417 0x80ec0b0 find_order_in_list__FP3THDP13st_table_listP8st_orderRt4List1Z4ItemT3 +

Re: Bug Report

2002-12-21 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Christopher, - Original Message - From: Christopher Stephan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:00 PM Subject: Bug Report Hello, following problem occurs using MySql. Can you help me with that Error? this is memory corruption,

re: mysqladmin access denied error

2002-12-21 Thread Egor Egorov
On Friday 20 December 2002 15:31, Imran Khan wrote: I'm using solaris 8 with mysql v 3.23.54. I want to enable a solaris user - 'user1', to use the mysqlimport command without using a password. I've run, as root, the following sql command: mysqlgrant all on db1.* to user1@localhost -this

Re: need index date help

2002-12-21 Thread John Hinton
OK.. no takers the first time... I'll try to give more/better information.. I am running into a system wall here. I have at the moment about 2600 rows of data totaling 650K. I expect this to grow at a rate of about an additional 1200-1500 rows per week. I am using PHP to format the returns into

Help with Joins

2002-12-21 Thread Jim Hankins
Greetings, I'm very new to Mysql and am trying to work with my first multi-table database project. Here are my two table descriptions. I'm trying to get the correct syntax for a sql query to do the following. Display Ticket.Ticketnum,Ticket.Priority,Ticket.Title,Ticket.Status. I assume

MySQL Command to edit a single record

2002-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Hi-- I have just begun using MySQL...I am using a program called MySQL to manage an online database. I can see the entire table I need and all the records in that table for the db I¹m working with. I have a field called fullname which is supposed to receive the full name of the person entering

Re: Help with Joins

2002-12-21 Thread Adolfo Bello
SEELECT t1.* FROM ticket t1,customer t2 WHERE t1.customerid=t2.customer.id AND t2.email='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 16:52, Jim Hankins wrote: Greetings, I'm very new to Mysql and am trying to work with my first multi-table database project. Here are my two table

RE: MySQL Command to edit a single record

2002-12-21 Thread Jim Hankins
Jeff, Are you looking for an update table syntax? Example Update tablename Set FullName=Their Full Name where someotherfield=someother value; Careful with this one. As if you omit the where clause it will update every record! -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: MySQL Command to edit a single record

2002-12-21 Thread Adolfo Bello
The following query adds NAME and ADDRESS (where the last name is wrongly placed) and set ADDRESS to an empty string. UPDATE tablename SET FullName=CONCAT(FullName,Address),Address='' WHERE ID=the register id Adolfo On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 17:07, Jim Hankins wrote: Jeff, Are you looking for

Re: MySQL Command to edit a single record

2002-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Hi, Adolfo-- Thank you! But I have two problems here...First, I (whoops!) don't have an id field. In the program I use, you can only set a key field when you first create the database. I would love to have an id field, but don't know how to create one now. :( The second is that the command will

Re: need index date help

2002-12-21 Thread Joseph Bueno
Instead of: TO_DAYS(adate) = TO_DAYS(NOW()) - 6 you can try: adate = unix_timestamp(now()) - 6 * 24 * 3600 This way, you don't need to apply a function to 'adate'. You should also note that these expressions are not exactly equivalent since yours compares day numbers but mine compares seconds. If

need index date help

2002-12-21 Thread John Hinton
I keep getting weird return messages from the list.. not sure if this made it through.. I am running into a system wall here. I have at the moment about 2600 rows of data totaling 650K. I expect this to grow at a rate of about an additional 1200-1500 rows per week. I am using

Re: MySQL Command to edit a single record

2002-12-21 Thread Adolfo Bello
CONCAT(FullName,' ',Address) regarding the lack of an ID field, create a new table with all the fields from the original table plus an ID field, auto_numeric, and insert the registers from the old table to the new one. Then, use the UPDATE on the new table. Adolfo On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 17:35,

Re: need index date help

2002-12-21 Thread Adolfo Bello
Just a wild guess. If you are only using TO_DAYS(somedate) for the queries, why don't you create the column 'adate' as INT and index it? When you need the real DATE, use the FROM_DAYS() function. Just a wild guess that I think could improve your queries speed. Adolfo On Sat, 2002-12-21 at

Re: MySQL Command to edit a single record

2002-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Hi, Adolfo-- Thank you again! However, the problem is, the table is linked to a file on the web. If I create a new table with a different name the link wont work and no data will be entered. Is there a way to rename a table once you create it? Then, I could delete the old table after I create

Re: MySQL Command to edit a single record

2002-12-21 Thread Adolfo Bello
Look in the manual the ALTER TABLE command. I don't remember the syntax but it can be done. Adolfo On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 18:56, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: Hi, Adolfo-- Thank you again! However, the problem is, the table is linked to a file on the web. If I create a new table with a different

Re: MySQL Command to edit a single record

2002-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Thanks, Adolfo! I appreciate very much you taking the time to help me:) All My Best, Jeffrey on 12/21/02 3:10 PM, Adolfo Bello at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look in the manual the ALTER TABLE command. I don't remember the syntax but it can be done. Adolfo On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 18:56,

How long is my piece of string?

2002-12-21 Thread Iain Lang
. Dear List, I'm using php MySQL for a cycling club website, results, guest-book, events and so on. I've just started and have faithfully created indices all over the place. At present, we have less than 400 records, be they of members, of image URLs, whatever. Each year will, I expect,

request

2002-12-21 Thread lateef ayinla
Dear sir, i come across yourmanual [mySQL Reference] when browsing through the internet, i read it but i didn't understand it. i like to develop software of my own through writing software programs but don't know how to do it, i would like you to

RE: How long is my piece of string?

2002-12-21 Thread Alan McDonald
You need indexes as soon as (or rather just before) they provide a performance difference. Alan -Original Message- From: Iain Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 22 December 2002 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How long is my piece of string? . Dear List, I'm using

Re: request

2002-12-21 Thread Chris Knipe
LOOL! This *IS* a joke right? ;) - Original Message - From: lateef ayinla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 2:13 AM Subject: request Dear sir, i come across yourmanual [mySQL Reference] when browsing through the

Temporary Table Size / Big Queries

2002-12-21 Thread John P
SHOW STATUS (after 24 hrs uptime): created_tmp_disk_tables = 597 created_tmp_tables = 8893. SHOW VARIABLES: tmp_table_size = 33554432. Does this mean that 597 queries have created a result set in excess of 33MB? How can I find these rogue queries and optimise them? I could increase the

Re: need index date help

2002-12-21 Thread John Hinton
FYI... Yes, I created a new field called 'd_now' with data inserted as (TO_DAYS(NOW()), updated it to include the proper date format for all the old records and of course then had to paste in the old timestamp values that automatically updated when I did that update... lots of fun on 2800

A perl program to replace mysql_setpermissions

2002-12-21 Thread Barry Pollock
I have written menu-1.13.tar.gz and menu-1.13.tar.bz2 for download at: http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~barryp This program will help the user with SQL and the handling of mysql reserve words. You can rename fields or columns or tables from a menu. The program `menu.pl' keeps track of all

A Newbie Question on Passwords

2002-12-21 Thread William Bradley
At the present time I am using Mandrake 9.0 and installed the MySql programmes that con the three disks: MySQL-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm* MySQL-bench-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm* MySQL-client-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm* MySQL-Max-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm #mysql_install_db has been run. The last time I did this

Re: request

2002-12-21 Thread jacob
if it's not you have probably just shamed him into never turning his computer on again. Quoting Chris Knipe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LOOL! This *IS* a joke right? ;) - Original Message - From: lateef ayinla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 22,

Re: How long is my piece of string?

2002-12-21 Thread wcb
Hi! I was interested in the answer to this person's question, too! The following response: You need indexes as soon as (or rather just before) they provide a performance difference. Alan seems to lack detail in answering the question, which might be phrased when might indices start making

Re: request

2002-12-21 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 2:12 AM Subject: Re: request If it is not, his computer should probably not have been on to begin with. :) - Mark if it's not you have probably just shamed him into never turning his

Re: How long is my piece of string?

2002-12-21 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: wcb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 2:23 AM Subject: Re: How long is my piece of string? Hi! I was interested in the answer to this person's question, too! The following response: You need indexes as soon as

Re: How long is my piece of string?

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Wexler
Sure. Indices increase the time it takes to add or update a record. They also take up disk space. Also when scanning a database, its quicker ot just read the data records directly than to use an index if most of the data records need to be read anyway. For example, if you had a table with 10,000

Re: How long is my piece of string?

2002-12-21 Thread John Hinton
wcb wrote: seems to lack detail in answering the question, which might be phrased when might indices start making a performance difference?. newbie to indexing talk Well, I'm no wizard or anything, but have just spent the last twos days on this subject here on my project. Anyway, waht I have

problem with install of mysql-4.0.5a-beta

2002-12-21 Thread Bill Patterson
When configuring mysql-4.0.5a-beta I found that if I were to configure as follows: CFLAGS=-O3 -mpentiumpro CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS=-O3 -mpentiumpro -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --enable-assembler --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static --disable-shared

MySQL password confusion.

2002-12-21 Thread William Bradley
At the present time I am using Mandrake 9.0 and installed the MySql programmes that con the three disks: MySQL-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm* MySQL-bench-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm* MySQL-client-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm* MySQL-Max-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm #mysql_install_db has been run. The last time I did this

Return every Nth row in a result set

2002-12-21 Thread SpamSucks86
What would be the SQL query to return every Nth row in a result set? So it would return the 5th row, the 10th row, the 15th row, etc. Thanks for any and all replies!

RE: Return every Nth row in a result set

2002-12-21 Thread JamesD
seems like it would be easier to write a perl script #repeated SQL selects $count=0; $sth = $dbh-prepare(qq(select * from table LIMIT ?,?)); while ($sth){ $sth-execute($count,1); $ref =$sth-fetchrow_arrayref(); print FILEHANDLE my item is $ref-[0],$ref-[1]...etc\n; $count+=5; } #or use modulo

Re: Return every Nth row in a result set

2002-12-21 Thread ric
Dear Spamsucks86, With Mysql 4.0.x I think you are limited to either performing the algorithm at the client side as James suggested or using temporary tables and mysql variables at the server side. create table test (var int); insert into test values

Remote access using sqlyog

2002-12-21 Thread Ritesh Nadhani
We have set up mysql on a linux webserver running apache at our college for students. We can create users at the site and log in to databases from a number of user ID's however when I try this from a dial up using sqlyog I always get the error message connection lost with mysql during query. have