Re: How can a single row with a single column represent 2 values without bitwise data representation

2003-06-28 Thread John Hicks
So, my question is how can multiple values for a single field get represented in a single row and receive the benefits of an index? How can this data be represented? Nice puzzle. At first I thought it couldn't be done, given all your constraints. But there is one way. You will have to build

RE: mysql database dump

2003-06-28 Thread electroteque
lol of course mysqldump -u username -p databasename databasename.sql -Original Message- From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mysql database dump Can I dump a database while the database is running in mysql ? --

Now I have solved my problem!

2003-06-28 Thread Itoh Kohji
Now I have solved the problem I asked you to help me! The problem was when to invoke mysql_install_db. I invoked it before l let the daemon start, following the instruction of a textbook on MySQL. I have found in a magazine that I shoulld have run the script after letting the mysql daemon

More (different) problems with mysql.sock

2003-06-28 Thread Xavier Fernández i Marín
Hello, I am able to start the mysql daemon with: # [usr/local/mysql/bin] safe_mysqld Then, on /var/lib/mysql appears the 'mysql.sock'. But the problem is that I want the server running since I start my computer, and not having to re-start every time. And when I start my computer, there is no

Re: distributed database architecture for a large database

2003-06-28 Thread Aodhan Cullen
6/27/03 6:37:49 PM, Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My read/update ratio would be something along the lines of 1:3, 3 updates for every read. So it is highly unusual, and more or less rules replication out of the picture. I'm unclear why you can't use replication for this. There must

Re: More (different) problems with mysql.sock

2003-06-28 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Xavier Fern?ndez i Mar?n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to start the mysql daemon with: # [usr/local/mysql/bin] safe_mysqld Then, on /var/lib/mysql appears the 'mysql.sock'. But the problem is that I want the server running since I start my computer, and not having to re-start every

Re: update and order by in 3.23.51

2003-06-28 Thread Egor Egorov
Bob Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using 3.23.51 and I'd like to update a field in a certain order. I've got a table of images for a slide show and the format of the table is: image varchar(128) not null order_number integer not null primary key So we might have something like:

Re: Now I have solved my problem!

2003-06-28 Thread Martin Gainty
Itoh- Is the MySQL doc incorrect? Please advise. Martin - Original Message - From: Itoh Kohji [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:56 AM Subject: Now I have solved my problem! Now I have solved the problem I asked you to help me! The problem

Re: Can't compile on NetBSD

2003-06-28 Thread Roman Neuhauser
please don't top-post. # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-27 14:01:58 -0400: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-20 11:07:09 -0400: I am trying to compile MySQL 3.23.57 on NetBSD 1.6.1. I downloadded pthreads-1_60_beta6-mysql.tar.gz from your site

Lookup used Version of MySql MySql Foreign Keys and Referencial Integrity

2003-06-28 Thread Vince Veggus
Hello, I use mySQL on HP/UX 11.i - unfortunateley I am unable to lookup the used version. What is the command to do that? (according to mysql.info it is Version 3.23.42. ) Are foreign keys and referencial integrity supported by MySQL Version 3.23.42. ? If yes - why is the second insert into

Re: Advanced Query Help (My brain hurts!)

2003-06-28 Thread MyLists
Well, the only thing that matters is that you are returning the same number of columns with, presumably, the same data types in both queries. Obviously, UNION wouldn't be helpful if you had 2 columns in the first query and 8 columns in the second. I'll leave it to you to find the documentation on

table query oscommerce

2003-06-28 Thread Andrew
Has any of the MySQL gurus here made any amendments to Oscommerce's DB structure or added any tailored queries? I have custom made 26 shipping modules for certain shipping specifications and now I have another one to cater for! product category type. The problem with this is that the product

table creation problems

2003-06-28 Thread anders thoresson
Hi, I've three tables that my local MySQL server accepts, but when I try to create the same three tables on my ISP's server, it doesn't work. These are the three tables: CREATE TABLE un_user ( u_id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL, u_uname VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL UNIQUE,

select and delete

2003-06-28 Thread harsh
Hi, I need to perform a query which deletes the selected results from the table, like SELECT * from data where name='harsh' (here i want something to delete it as well) if its possible with single query... thanks for help..:)

Re: mysql database dump

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 1:08 -0400 6/28/03, Asif Iqbal wrote: Can I dump a database while the database is running in mysql ? Yes. You can, for example, use the mysqldump program. mysqldump is a MySQL client program that, like all MySQL clients, requires the server to be running. -- Asif Iqbal

Problems setting up Priveleges

2003-06-28 Thread J.A. Jones Tyler III
Greetings, I have installed MySQL 4.0.13 in a Windows 2000 machine. I am new to this and originally did the install on a box that was secure from the internet and ran some tests. I ran a forum software program and also created a few databases on my own, all successfully (although some

Re: Now I have solved my problem!

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 17:56 +0900 6/28/03, Itoh Kohji wrote: Now I have solved the problem I asked you to help me! The problem was when to invoke mysql_install_db. I invoked it before l let the daemon start, following the instruction of a textbook on MySQL. I have found in a magazine that I shoulld have run the

Re: table creation problems

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 18:11 +0200 6/28/03, anders thoresson wrote: Hi, I've three tables that my local MySQL server accepts, but when I try to create the same three tables on my ISP's server, it doesn't work. These are the three tables: CREATE TABLE un_user ( u_id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL,

Re: select and delete

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 21:40 +0530 6/28/03, harsh wrote: Hi, I need to perform a query which deletes the selected results from the table, like SELECT * from data where name='harsh' (here i want something to delete it as well) if its possible with single query... thanks for help..:) It sounds as though you really

Re: Problems setting up Priveleges

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 12:20 -0400 6/28/03, J.A. Jones Tyler III wrote: Greetings, I have installed MySQL 4.0.13 in a Windows 2000 machine. I am new to this and originally did the install on a box that was secure from the internet and ran some tests. I ran a forum software program and also created a few databases on

Re: Problems setting up Priveleges

2003-06-28 Thread J.A. Jones Tyler III
- Original Message - From: J.A. Jones Tyler III [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have gone into the user table in mysql db and placed both 'localhost' and '%' into the host entry. It was my understanding that '%' would allow access from any host for that particular username. Well, I finally

Re: Problems setting up Priveleges

2003-06-28 Thread J.A. Jones Tyler III
- Original Message - From: Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where are these instructions found? Got em here : http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/code/mybasic.htm#installation snip Yes, unless some other user table matches first, which may be what is happening in your case. Cool.

Re: Problems setting up Priveleges

2003-06-28 Thread J.A. Jones Tyler III
- Original Message - From: Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have gone into the user table in mysql db and placed both 'localhost' and '%' into the host entry. It was my understanding that '%' would allow access from any host for that particular username. Yes, unless some other user

Re: Problems setting up Priveleges

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 12:58 -0400 6/28/03, J.A. Jones Tyler III wrote: - Original Message - From: Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where are these instructions found? Got em here : http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/code/mybasic.htm#installation snip Yes, unless some other user table matches first, which

Re: mysql database dump (remotely, How?)

2003-06-28 Thread Jerry M. Howell II
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 06:14:07PM +1000, electroteque wrote: lol of course mysqldump -u username -p databasename databasename.sql I am atempting to backup a database remotely. I added something like the following. mysql GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON db.* - TO

MySQL/INNODB speed on large databases

2003-06-28 Thread Wendell Dingus
Hello, I've got a situation I'm hoping someone here can help me out with. We have a web server serving up data via some PHP programs pulling from MySQL (3.23.56 currently) in INNODB tables. There are 40+ (active) databases totalling a bit over 28 Gigabytes at this point. As we add more users speed

Insert statement with an ' in it

2003-06-28 Thread Zachary Perschall
Help! I'm trying to do an insert statement where one of the fields sometimes contains an apostrophe. The field type is a varchar. Everytime that one of these values comes up with an apostrophe, it tells me there is an error in my SQL statement (obviously because it thinks there are more

Re: Insert statement with an ' in it

2003-06-28 Thread nospam
why don't you just insert your values after you escaped some special characters? specifically, you have to replace all ' by \' (prepend a single backslash character), and everything works fine! i guess you do your INSERTs from out of some programming language, like PHP, Perl or C. just use the

Re: MySQL/INNODB speed on large databases

2003-06-28 Thread Joseph Bueno
Maybe my question is too obvious but, since you have several databases instead of only one, have you considered moving some of them to a separate server ? Also, have you checked MySQL replication capabilities ? It is a very efficient way to distribute the load across several servers unless you do

Re: Insert statement with an ' in it

2003-06-28 Thread Andrew Pierce
Well, the easiest thing is to escape any single quotes with a backslash character (\). PHP includes a function named addslashes() that does this. http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php Same logic applies in other languages. Hope this helps. Andrew Help! I'm trying to do an

Re: mysql database dump (remotely, How?)

2003-06-28 Thread Jerry M. Howell II
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 11:35:54AM -0600, Jerry M. Howell II wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 06:14:07PM +1000, electroteque wrote: lol of course mysqldump -u username -p databasename databasename.sql I am atempting to backup a database remotely. I added something like the following.

Persistent annoying slave binlog corruption...

2003-06-28 Thread Michael Loftis
Recently, and pretty consistently our slave's relay logs have been getting garbage that is not in the master. The symptom is usually a truncated query with a few characters of garbage. The solution for now is to change master to to the errored master bin log and position and have it start

Re: select and delete

2003-06-28 Thread harsh
thanks for help..:) It sounds as though you really want something more like this: DELETE FROM data WHERE name='harsh'; That will only result in deletion,I want it to be displayed and simultaneously deleted.more precisely the effect of following two commands in one SELECT from data where

Re: select and delete

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 0:42 +0530 6/29/03, harsh wrote: thanks for help..:) It sounds as though you really want something more like this: DELETE FROM data WHERE name='harsh'; That will only result in deletion,I want it to be displayed and simultaneously deleted.more precisely the effect of following two

left join on more than one field

2003-06-28 Thread Eric Kilgore
Anyone know how to perform a left join by more than one field? I have several tables I'm working with. An example query is like this: SELECT tbl1.Name, tbl1.Location, tbl1.Case, tbl1.Class, tbl1.Type, tbl3.Identity, tbl2.FileDate, tbl2.Status FROM tbl2, tbl1 LEFT JOIN tbl3 ON tbl1.Case =

Re: Insert statement with an ' in it

2003-06-28 Thread Alfredo J. Cole
El Sb 28 Jun 2003 12:24, Zachary Perschall escribi: Help! I'm trying to do an insert statement where one of the fields sometimes contains an apostrophe. The field type is a varchar. Everytime that one of these values comes up with an apostrophe, it tells me there is an error in my SQL

INSERT weirdness

2003-06-28 Thread Dan Bowkley
Hey there everyone, I'm trying to get a table of computer parts manufacturers populated with a list culled from my distributor and I'm having a devil of a time getting anything to work. I'm totally new to MySQL and don't really know my SELECT from a hole in the ground just yet...which is

Re: INSERT weirdness

2003-06-28 Thread Joseph Bueno
Dan Bowkley wrote: Hey there everyone, I'm trying to get a table of computer parts manufacturers populated with a list culled from my distributor and I'm having a devil of a time getting anything to work. I'm totally new to MySQL and don't really know my SELECT from a hole in the ground just

RE: MySQL/INNODB speed on large databases

2003-06-28 Thread Wendell Dingus
Ahh, there's something I could have explained better. Each of the databases represents a remote office of a different customer. I specifically want/need to keep the data separate, it doubles as an offsite backup for these offices as well as would conflict if it were merged. I currently use

freebsd 5.1 + mysql 4.0.13

2003-06-28 Thread Richard Fuchs
hi! i'm using mysql 4.0.13 from the standard freebsd 5.1 ports distribution, and i keep getting repeated random table corruptions. the same thing happens when building both with the native threading lib, and with linuxthreads. i figured it would be related to threading as it's always

Re: MySQL/INNODB speed on large databases

2003-06-28 Thread Joseph Bueno
OK, the picture is now a little bit simpler: 1. Your performance problem is coming mainy from one BIG database. 2. Although your servers have a lot of RAM (at least 4Gb), InnoDB can only use a small fraction because of addressing limitations of 32 bits CPU. Some random ideas: 1. Swith to a

max_connections being ignored/overridden?

2003-06-28 Thread Gary Huntress
I have some simple user quotas set to help balance my server load. I think I've implemented them properly because people do whine to me when they reach the query limit. I have max_connections set to 200, but right now I'm watching connections for 1 user scroll by at an alarming rate. 7800 in

Re: left join on more than one field

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 12:29 -0700 6/28/03, Eric Kilgore wrote: Anyone know how to perform a left join by more than one field? I have several tables I'm working with. An example query is like this: SELECT tbl1.Name, tbl1.Location, tbl1.Case, tbl1.Class, tbl1.Type, tbl3.Identity, tbl2.FileDate, tbl2.Status FROM

Re: max_connections being ignored/overridden?

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 17:26 -0400 6/28/03, Gary Huntress wrote: I have some simple user quotas set to help balance my server load. I think I've implemented them properly because people do whine to me when they reach the query limit. I have max_connections set to 200, but right now I'm watching connections for 1

Temporary Table Issues

2003-06-28 Thread Phil Dowson
Hi, I am experiencing a problem creating temporary tables within a MySQL database. When I run the following query: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS rmb AS SELECT * FROM rmmt GROUP BY rmmtid; drop table rmb I get the error [server] ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to

Re: Temporary Table Issues

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:47 -0500 6/28/03, Phil Dowson wrote: Hi, I am experiencing a problem creating temporary tables within a MySQL database. When I run the following query: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS rmb AS SELECT * FROM rmmt GROUP BY rmmtid; drop table rmb I get the error [server] ERROR 1044: Access

Re: Temporary Table Issues

2003-06-28 Thread Phil Dowson
Very good question, I believe I do since it does work 90% of the time. Only occasionally it doesnt work, and thats why I need help - Original Message - From: Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Phil Dowson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:50 pm

RE: left join on more than one field

2003-06-28 Thread Eric Kilgore
That works perfectly. Thank you. -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 2:42 PM To: Eric Kilgore; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: left join on more than one field At 12:29 -0700 6/28/03, Eric Kilgore wrote: Anyone know how to perform

Re: max_connections being ignored/overridden?

2003-06-28 Thread Gary Huntress
Yes, I am referring to MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR, poorly worded on my part sorry. Users are granted access to only one database (barring errors in my scripts) and I did verify that his entry in mysql.user is 200 for max_connections. And the connections in the logfile are for the same user each

Re: max_connections being ignored/overridden?

2003-06-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 18:15 -0400 6/28/03, Gary Huntress wrote: Yes, I am referring to MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR, poorly worded on my part sorry. Users are granted access to only one database (barring errors in my scripts) and I did verify that his entry in mysql.user is 200 for max_connections. And the connections

Re: Advanced Query Help (My brain hurts!)

2003-06-28 Thread otherguy
Thank you! That gets me halfway there, and not to my surprise, it's not even that hard! I should've known that it wouldn't be. So the other part that I truly have no idea how to do the following: UPDATE this_other_table SET satus = WHERE zipcode IN (result set from union query blow); can

Re: Advanced Query Help (My brain hurts!)

2003-06-28 Thread Bruce Feist
otherguy wrote: That gets me halfway there Does it? In your original question, you'd indicated that you only wanted zips where *both* criteria were met -- enough CIRGs and enough CILTs. By using a UNION, you'll be getting zips where *either* is met. Bruce Feist -- MySQL General Mailing

Re: Advanced Query Help (My brain hurts!)

2003-06-28 Thread MyLists
OK - one more freebie :-) How about a TEMP table? You can create a temp table, fill it with the results of your UNION statement and then JOIN it with this new UPDATE query - that should get you what you need. Note that this is a workaround for MySQL - in other DBRMS, you can use a sub-SELECT to

Re: Advanced Query Help (My brain hurts!)

2003-06-28 Thread MyLists
- Original Message - From: Bruce Feist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:28 PM Subject: Re: Advanced Query Help (My brain hurts!) otherguy wrote: That gets me halfway there Does it? Yes, it does. In your original question, you'd

Re: Advanced Query Help (My brain hurts!)

2003-06-28 Thread otherguy
On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 03:43 PM, MyLists wrote: otherguy wrote: That gets me halfway there Does it? Yes, it does. No, I don't think it does, upon further consideration and testing... I thought it did b/c I read, and misinterpreted the UNION documentation In your original

Re: max_connections being ignored/overridden?

2003-06-28 Thread Gary Huntress
I regularly have users email me reporting that they've hit the max (usually begging for me to raise or remove the limit) An example (from this morning) is: SQL Error : 1226 User 'algalord' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 800) I similarly do get reports of connection

MySQL/PHP ?

2003-06-28 Thread tlr7425
I'm writing here in hopes of finding someone who uses this and might be able to help me. I am dealing with a recordset who's query is thus: SELECT firstName, lastName, deptPOS, workPH, homePH, location, model, make, propID, addressIP, OS FROM people, make, models, machines WHERE

Re: Advanced Query Help (My brain hurts!)

2003-06-28 Thread otherguy
On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 07:15 PM, Bruce Feist wrote: otherguy wrote: On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 03:43 PM, MyLists wrote: That gets me halfway there BF: Does it? No, I don't think it does, upon further consideration and testing... I thought it did b/c I read, and

[mysql-test-run failure Mac OS X 10.2.6 fails ctype_latin1_de test [assumed]

2003-06-28 Thread Robert D. Sharp
From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mysql-test-run failure Mac OS X 10.2.6] Description: Using OpenJaguar distribution www.openjaguar.fr MySql runs very slow How-To-Repeat: sudo perl mysql-test-run Fix: unknown Submitter-Id: Robert D. Sharp