Re: Killing Queries...

2003-09-15 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:46:45PM -0700, James Kelty wrote: > I was wondering of there is a way to kill multiple processes in MySQL > rather than one at a time? mytop has a currently undocumented super kill feature. By using the 'K' key, you can kill all connections owned by a given user. I hav

Re: joining 4 tables [solved]

2003-09-15 Thread ΝΙΚΟΣ ΓΑΤΣΗΣ
This might be a good solution. I work on it in a diferent way. I create a temporary table, insert all cod from t1, t2, t3 tables and left join it with t4 table. Not so eficient way I could say... Anyway thanx all Nikos - Original Message - From: "Mikhail Entaltsev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:29:38PM -0700, Jon Frisby wrote: > That's an ugly way to make the distinction between A-mark and I-mark. > In most situations, I'd move the relevant column(s) to a separate table, > with a NULL-allowed column in that table and a FK reference back to the > original table.

HELP - Permission denied with ODBC 3.51 - not with tools...

2003-09-15 Thread Tore Bostrup
Why do I get a permission denied when I try to execute the following SQL statement via ODBC 3.51? UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = Password('Blank') WHERE user = 'sdaf' I can execute the statement from a tool such as SQLYog (logged in as 'myAdmin'). The error I get is: DIAG [S1000] [MySQ

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:33:27PM -0400, Bruce Feist wrote: > if you stick to the natural meaning, that doesn't happen; integer and > other values have precise and obvious natural meanings. NULL does not. Integers and NULL are exactly alike it this regard. Neither has a natural meaning; their

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:24:50PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 15), Bruce Feist said: > Your example has nothing to do with the vagueness of NULL though. > Replace NULL with "0" and you get the same result. Bad move. "0" has a universally known meaning, and it isn't "not

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:53:11PM -0400, Bruce Feist wrote: > Bob Hall wrote: > > >The meaning of NULL is defined in the SQL specification; it means > >"not known" or "not applicable". > > > Which is just about as useful as not defining it, actually. The That's not true. Having a univerally

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Bruce Feist
Jon Frisby wrote: The application is payroll/personnel. A programmer is tasked with creating forms for data entry on new employees, including supervisor. If the user doesn't enter a new employee's supervisor, the application accepts it, figuring that it is not yet known, and stores NULL fo

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Bruce Feist
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 15), Bruce Feist said: The application is payroll/personnel. A programmer is tasked with creating forms for data entry on new employees, including supervisor. If the user doesn't enter a new employee's supervisor, the application accepts it, figuring

RE: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Jon Frisby
> The application is payroll/personnel. A programmer is tasked with > creating forms for data entry on new employees, including > supervisor. > If the user doesn't enter a new employee's supervisor, the > application > accepts it, figuring that it is not yet known, and stores > NULL for the

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 15), Bruce Feist said: > Bob Hall wrote: > >The meaning of NULL is defined in the SQL specification; it means > >"not known" or "not applicable". > > Which is just about as useful as not defining it, actually. The > vagueness is the cause of a great many program bugs when

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Bruce Feist
Bob Hall wrote: The meaning of NULL is defined in the SQL specification; it means "not known" or "not applicable". Which is just about as useful as not defining it, actually. The vagueness is the cause of a great many program bugs when database designers don't specify what NULL means for a g

Re: FOREIGN KEY() REFERENCES ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE RESTRICT

2003-09-15 Thread Toro Hill
I believe that your ON UPDATE CASCADE clause should be in the definition for the PRODUCT and CUSTOMER table rather than the PRODUCT_ORDER table. However, I don't think that it will work how you expect. ON UPDATE CASCADE means that everytime you update a row in this table then all rows in other

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:46:50PM -0400, Randy Chrismon wrote: > an exort from a Lotus Notes database. At some point, the MySQL > documentation says that a table with no nullable columns is > better/faster than one with. The Lotus Notes database I'm migrating, > however, has many fields with no va

Re: LOAD Fails on Lost Connection

2003-09-15 Thread Matt W
Hi Randy, See here: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Gone_away.html Maybe one of the queries in import_cash.sql is longer than max_allowed_packet? - Original Message - From: "Randy Chrismon" Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 4:50 PM Subject: LOAD Fails on Lost Connection I've tried this sev

Re: Lotus Notes/Script...

2003-09-15 Thread Tony
In a message dated 9/15/03 4:53:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Would I have to have built MySQL with ODBC support? I installed the > binary so wouldn;t this already be available... Download and install the MyODBC driver for your client application machine (surprisingly

Re: Order By question - solved

2003-09-15 Thread Martin Moss
sorry, I had some extraneous quotes in my perl code:-) zzz - Original Message - From: "Martin Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:17 PM Subject: Order By question > I have a query:- > SELECT recTran.TransactionID,tr.* FROM Transa

Problem with stability

2003-09-15 Thread Bc. Radek Krejča
Hello, I have problem with stability of MySQL. I got this messages: 030915 11:30:52 mysqld restarted /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections mysqld got signal 11; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary or one of the libraries it was linked against is

Re: Order By question

2003-09-15 Thread Keith C. Ivey
"Martin Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SELECT recTran.TransactionID,tr.* FROM Transaction tr LEFT OUTER JOIN > ReconciledTransactions recTran ON recTran.TransactionID = > tr.TransactionID WHERE tr.ReconciliationID = '8' HAVING > recTran.TransactionID IS NULL ORDER BY 'tr.Amount' DESC; You are

Order By question

2003-09-15 Thread Martin Moss
I have a query:- SELECT recTran.TransactionID,tr.* FROM Transaction tr LEFT OUTER JOIN ReconciledTransactions recTran ON recTran.TransactionID = tr.TransactionID WHERE tr.ReconciliationID = '8' HAVING recTran.TransactionID IS NULL ORDER BY 'tr.Amount' DESC; The problem I have is that the Order By

LOAD Fails on Lost Connection

2003-09-15 Thread Randy Chrismon
I've tried this several times: mysql> source c:/mysql/import_cash.sql with this error: ERROR 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query from the commandline, using: C:\mysql -u myname -pmy_password my_database < c:/mysql/import_cash.sql I get the same error. This happens immediately, so

Performance of using 2 columns as row ID

2003-09-15 Thread Russ
Hello, I am currently creating a multi-user system which has approximately 15 tables. Each table has a primaryID as well as the userID of who this record belongs to. Therefore, when I perform a SELECT I am checking (potentially) both the primaryID column as well as the userID. I'm using MyISAM ta

RE: Lotus Notes/Script...

2003-09-15 Thread Lopez David E-r9374c
Jonathon We are using odbc and jdbc to link up from notes to mysql. David > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Villa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Lotus Notes/Script... > > > Has anyone every connected Lotus Not

RE: Lotus Notes/Script...

2003-09-15 Thread Randy Chrismon
> Has anyone every connected Lotus Notes/Script to MySQL? I'm not sure what you mean. Just five minutes ago, I finished writing a LotusScript agent that exports Notes data to a text file. I then used LOAD to bring that data into a MySQL table. Both Lotus/Notes and MySQL have obdc drivers but I hav

Convert with Unions

2003-09-15 Thread Taft, Andy
Hello all, I've tried searching through the lists but haven't been able to find an answer to my problem. If any one can help I would be very grateful, Thanks in advance. Anyway, on to the problem. I have two tables each with field that contains a date in string format 'YYMMDDhhmmss' I want to g

Re: MySQL access issue

2003-09-15 Thread Rich Allen
this link from the mysql docs should help http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Resetting_permissions.html - hcir Kind of an oddball question but I'll try to make it as clear as possible. We have a Solaris server, that we have root access to. It houses mysql db's and information. I was not the admin for th

Re: mysqldump and mysqlimport

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 4:47 PM -0400 9/15/03, Peter Koutsoulias wrote: I've been trying this for a few hours now and I'm not sure what's going on. mysqldump --host=localhost --user=root --password=mypass dbname > dbname.dump This works fine, it creates a text file with CREATE TABLE blocks and INSERT statements for ea

RE: MySQL 3.23.58 has been released

2003-09-15 Thread Rob A. Brahier
It is a good idea to stick with the MySQL branch that you currently use in production. The only reasons I can see to do otherwise are 1) if you need a feature introduced in one of the newer development trees or 2) if your project is in its early stages and you want to avoid the hassle of upgrading

Re: Problem with "CHARACTER SET xxx COLLATE yyy"

2003-09-15 Thread Sigfrid Lundberg - LUB NetLab
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 5:23 PM +0200 9/15/03, Sigfrid Lundberg - LUB NetLab wrote: > >I'm trying to create a table in my database with > > > > CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE COLLATE utf8_general_ci > > > >Answer is > > > > ERROR 1115: Unknown character set: 'utf8_general

mysqldump and mysqlimport

2003-09-15 Thread Peter Koutsoulias
I've been trying this for a few hours now and I'm not sure what's going on. mysqldump --host=localhost --user=root --password=mypass dbname > dbname.dump This works fine, it creates a text file with CREATE TABLE blocks and INSERT statements for each table in the database. When I try to recreate

Lotus Notes/Script...

2003-09-15 Thread Jonathan Villa
Has anyone every connected Lotus Notes/Script to MySQL? Someone asked me about it and I can't seem to find any information on Google... and I don't know much of MySQL... Would I have to have built MySQL with ODBC support? I installed the binary so wouldn;t this already be available... -- MySQ

Re: Does InnoDB use any of these variables?

2003-09-15 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Mikhail, I am not absolutely sure of the answers below. We should ask Monty. - Original Message - From: ""Mikhail Entaltsev"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:30 AM Subject: Does InnoDB use any of these variables? > Hi, > > Doe

MySQL/InnoDB-3.23.58 is released

2003-09-15 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! InnoDB is a MySQL table type which provides transactions, foreign key constraints, and a non-free hot backup tool. InnoDB is included in MySQL-Max-3.23 downloads, and in all downloads of MySQL-4.0 and MySQL-4.1. Release 3.23.58 is a bugfix release of the 'old' stable 3.23 branch. For product

MySQL access issue

2003-09-15 Thread Phil Perrin
Hello everyone, Kind of an oddball question but I'll try to make it as clear as possible. We have a Solaris server, that we have root access to. It houses mysql db's and information. I was not the admin for the db's and frankly I'm not an MySQL buff to be honest. Our DB Admin is gone now, I ne

Re: Stop a User warning message

2003-09-15 Thread Kelley Lingerfelt
Yep, you're right Paul, it is a bad query, one thing I've been burnt on a lot in the past, is using the variables inside those double quoted lines. I've started expanding everything, mostly objects and arrays won't get interpreted correctly, try building the query in a string, and then printing

Re: MySQL ssl Q

2003-09-15 Thread Tbird67ForSale
In a message dated 9/15/03 3:05:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hey, > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Is this the correct list to post MySQL > ssl questions? I didn't get any responses so far. Thanks. > > Sherrill Are you orunning the monitor from the sam

User privileges on a database ... really stuck!

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Handiboe
Hello List Meisters. I have the MySQL Reference Manual (the brown book), 1st Edition, and it is a mighty fine book. On p256, I follow the examples, but for a user who's supposed to have access to a single database ('cabs') with the following privileges: SELECT, REFERENCES, INDEX, ALTER

Re: random record

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Brunson
I just checked... 83 On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:54:53 +0100, "Andy Eastham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 39? | | > -Original Message- | > From: tuncay bas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: 15 September 2003 13:32 | > To: mysql | > Subject: random record | > | > | > hi, | > | > why its

Mixed Inner and Left Join SQL Statement

2003-09-15 Thread Chris Fowler
I am needing help with a mixed left and inner join SQL statement in MySQL 4.0 (ie, can't use subselects yet like 4.1). I guess my point of confusion is that if I do a join like table_1 left join table_2 inner join table_3 (assuming the clauses only reference each of the 2 tables in the order wr

RE: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
Yeah, I have a similar box like yours. I copied the first column to a new table with an index. I ran select distinct and the query took 6 seconds to execute. This must have to do with the record length, because when I indexed the origional table's first column the query was 1 minute 30 seconds to

Re: MySQL ssl Q

2003-09-15 Thread Sherrill (Pei-chih) Verbrugge
Hey, Does anyone have any suggestions? Is this the correct list to post MySQL ssl questions? I didn't get any responses so far. Thanks. Sherrill On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Sherrill (Pei-chih) Verbrugge wrote: > Hey, > > I am trying to test mysql moniter ssl connection. I've compiled ssl > sup

mysqld_multi - Cant find mysqld in my.cnf

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Hewitt
Hi, I have an odd problem with mysqld_multi. I am trying to set up several MySQL servers on my new development server, for testing purposes. I currenty have only one, 4.0.9, just want to get this one going first. However, when I try to start mysqld_multi, it seems it does not recognise the mysqld

IGNORE THIS MESSAGE

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Handiboe
didn't ignore, huh? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stop a User warning message

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
Paul, It is not an error for $category to be 'no' in all records. The warning is just telling me that it didn't find any 'yes' records. Well, no, it is not. The error you showed was: Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in {pathname to program} on line 40 PHP is tel

Re: Stop a User warning message

2003-09-15 Thread Tom Sparks
Paul, It is not an error for $category to be 'no' in all records. The warning is just telling me that it didn't find any 'yes' records. I need to read up and find out how to error check the SELECT statement, I guess... -tom

Re: Stop a User warning message

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 11:06 AM -0700 9/15/03, Tom Sparks wrote: I am doing a mysql_num_rows after a SELECT statement and am getting the following warning message: Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in {pathname to program} on line 40 Line 40 - $result = mysql_num_rows($res); The SELECT

Re: MySQL 3.23.58 has been released

2003-09-15 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:48:36PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote: > > There are 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 development trees, each at different > > stages of their lifetime. > > Is there any reason not to use 4.0.15 and instead use 3.23 in a > production environment? I know MAX is unstable but I have 4.

Stop a User warning message

2003-09-15 Thread Tom Sparks
I am doing a mysql_num_rows after a SELECT statement and am getting the following warning message: Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in {pathname to program} on line 40 Line 40 - $result = mysql_num_rows($res); The SELECT statement: $res = mysql_query("SELECT * FRO

Re: MySQL 3.23.58 has been released

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Anderson
> There are 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 development trees, each at different > stages of their lifetime. Is there any reason not to use 4.0.15 and instead use 3.23 in a production environment? I know MAX is unstable but I have 4.0.15 installed. -Dan -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives

Re: MySQL 3.23.58 has been released

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 1:31 PM -0400 9/15/03, Dan Anderson wrote: Wasn't there just an announcement that 4.0.something was released? Yes, 4.0.15. There are 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 development trees, each at different stages of their lifetime. -- Paul DuBois, Senior Technical Writer Madison, Wisconsin, USA MySQL AB, w

Mixed Left and Inner Join

2003-09-15 Thread Chris Fowler
I am needing help with a mixed left and inner join. I guess my point of confusion is that if I do a join like table_1 left join table_2 inner join table_3 (assuming the clauses only reference each of the 2 tables in the order written), i expect to get all of the results from table_1 - where am

Re: MySQL 3.23.58 has been released

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Anderson
Wasn't there just an announcement that 4.0.something was released? -Dan On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:52, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > MySQL 3.23.58, a new version of the popular Open Source/Free Software > Database, has been released. It is now a

Re: random data

2003-09-15 Thread Egor Egorov
"tuncay bas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > excuse me > > have can I get from mysql database random 6 data item? Take a look at the RAND() function: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Mathematical_functions.html -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita Th

RE: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
Well, it's an InnoDb database and has some decent memory pools. | innodb_additional_mem_pool_size | 33554432 | innodb_buffer_pool_size | 536870912 -Original Message- From: Joseph Bueno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:47 AM To: Nathan Cassano Cc: '[

RE: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
> > From: Haydies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column > > > Its a compound key, they are always slow. I would imagin you will need to > seriously redesign your database to speed t

RE: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Richards
That sounds reasonable to me, but better let more experienced hands, particularly in db design, chime in here... There are some good reasons to allow Null, so perhaps it would be wise to consider some other ideas before plunging forward. :) Just my 0.02 -m- -Original Message- From: R

MySQL 3.23.58 has been released

2003-09-15 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, MySQL 3.23.58, a new version of the popular Open Source/Free Software Database, has been released. It is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/ and mirror sites.

Re: Does Null == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Randy Chrismon
> Null is a special value and cannot be tested in the same manner as a > > string > or other value. Yes, there is a difference. If the column is Null, a > comparison operation such as a.field == "" or a.field == "something" > will > both return Null. > Maybe this document will help: > A.5.3 Pr

Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Joseph Bueno
Since your primary key is used, maybe you should consider adding an index on PostedZpdi field only. You may also check 'key_buffer_size' value (show variables like 'key%'). Since your primary key is more than 200 MB big, allocating a "big" key buffer (> 256MB) may help. Joseph Bueno Nathan Cassano

Re: NULL

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 5:21 PM +0100 9/15/03, Haydies wrote: Ye, NULL = "Undefined" in every database I've ever used. Null and "" are not equal, NULL and NULL are not equal eigther. Infact absolutly nothing is ever equal to NULL. One slight exception is that for purposes of ORDER BY, GROUP BY, and DISTINCT, NULL valu

Re: Does NULL == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 15 Sep 2003 at 11:47, Brent Baisley wrote: > It's almost useless to specify a property as NOT NULL and also set a > default value. The only way it would ever be NULL is if you > specifically set it to NULL. I think you meant "NULL" rather than "NOT NULL" there. -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: NULL

2003-09-15 Thread Haydies
Ye, NULL = "Undefined" in every database I've ever used. Null and "" are not equal, NULL and NULL are not equal eigther. Infact absolutly nothing is ever equal to NULL. Haydies. Database/PHP Developer - Original Message - From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Gainty" <[EMA

RE: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
mysql> explain select distinct AccountLevelId from PostedZpdi; ++---+---+-+-+--+-+- + | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows| Extra | ++---+---+-+--

Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Haydies
Its a compound key, they are always slow. I would imagin you will need to seriously redesign your database to speed that up. I'm not 100% sure how the index is stored, but it would be some what pointless if it was individual field values. Its like haveing "field1field2feild3field4field5" so that a

Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Joseph Bueno
Nathan Cassano wrote: Hey everyone, I have a question about the speed of selecting distinct values on an indexed column. I have a table with a five column primary key and 3,215,540 records. I want to select all of the distinct values of the first column in the primary key. This column only

FOREIGN KEY() REFERENCES ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE RESTRICT

2003-09-15 Thread Morten Gulbrandsen
Dear Programmers, At the end of this query, I make a select * from the table product_order, Which happens to be empty, Why ? Is something wrong with my insert statements please ? I inserted something into the tables CUSTOMER and PRODUCT, and I expected it to appear into the table PRODUCT_ORDE

Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
Hey everyone, I have a question about the speed of selecting distinct values on an indexed column. I have a table with a five column primary key and 3,215,540 records. I want to select all of the distinct values of the first column in the primary key. This column only has 549 distinct valu

Re: Problem with "CHARACTER SET xxx COLLATE yyy"

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 5:23 PM +0200 9/15/03, Sigfrid Lundberg - LUB NetLab wrote: I'm trying to create a table in my database with CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE COLLATE utf8_general_ci Answer is ERROR 1115: Unknown character set: 'utf8_general_ci' Try it again when 4.1.1 comes out. There is a bunch of character s

Re: NULL

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 11:12 AM -0400 9/15/03, Martin Gainty wrote: Randy- NULL means No Data So in the case of a MySQL Column defined as Type String NULL is equivalent to "" Actually, it's not. "" isn't No Data, it's Data with a length of zero. -- Paul DuBois, Senior Technical Writer Madison, Wisconsin, USA MySQL

Re: Does NULL == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 11:00 AM -0400 9/15/03, Randy Chrismon wrote: The MySQL documentation confuses me a bit. If I create a table with property NOT NULL and default "", does that mean that a record with a column so defined will have a zero-length string in that column if I don't provide a value? I guess what I'm ask

Re: Querys Dropped/Connections Lost

2003-09-15 Thread Daniel Baughman
I don't seem to have a my.cnf file. Maybe I should create one. Dan >Can you send you're my.cnf options in /etc? You might have wait-timeout >set. - Dathan Vance Pattishall - Sr. Programmer and mySQL DBA for FriendFinder Inc. - http://friendfinder.com/go/p40688 -->-Original Message--

Re: Does NULL == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Brent Baisley
This is sometime a tough concept to get through. For example, there is more than two answers to a yes and no question. There is yes, no, "I don't know" (the empty set) and the "No answer at all" (null). It's almost useless to specify a property as NOT NULL and also set a default value. The only

RE: Does NULL == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Richards
I ran into the issue where data had been written, and then a Null was written. The presence of Null in a field may not in fact guarantee that data has never been written. -m- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:12 To:

RE: Does NULL == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Richards
Null is a special value and cannot be tested in the same manner as a string or other value. Yes, there is a difference. If the column is Null, a comparison operation such as a.field == "" or a.field == "something" will both return Null. Maybe this document will help: A.5.3 Problems with NULL V

Problem with "CHARACTER SET xxx COLLATE yyy"

2003-09-15 Thread Sigfrid Lundberg - LUB NetLab
I'm trying to create a table in my database with CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE COLLATE utf8_general_ci Answer is ERROR 1115: Unknown character set: 'utf8_general_ci' What am I doing wrong, if anything? Please find details on my server and the table I'm trying to create below: my

Re: Does NULL == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Bruce Feist
Randy Chrismon wrote: what I'm asking is whether there's a difference between a field with NULL in it and a field with a zero-length ("") string in it. Yes, there is. NULL is the absence of a value; an empty string is a valid value. NULL by definition isn't equal to anything, even to itself

NULL

2003-09-15 Thread Martin Gainty
Randy- NULL means No Data So in the case of a MySQL Column defined as Type String NULL is equivalent to "" Best Regards, Marty Gainty

Re: Does NULL == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Alec . Cawley
No, NULL is not the same as the empty string. NULL, for any class of field, means that no data has ever been written there. Tests involving NULL other than IS NULL and IS NOT NULL will return NULL. Thus "" < "a" returns 1 (true) whereas NULL < "a" returns NULL, which will always be regarded as a "

Does NULL == ""?

2003-09-15 Thread Randy Chrismon
The MySQL documentation confuses me a bit. If I create a table with property NOT NULL and default "", does that mean that a record with a column so defined will have a zero-length string in that column if I don't provide a value? I guess what I'm asking is whether there's a difference between a fi

Re: OS X Installation and Setup

2003-09-15 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Brent Baisley wrote: > Are you trying to run mysqld or mysqld_safe (or safe_mysqld)? If you are > going to start mysql manually, you should be in the /usr/local/mysql > directory and then type the following: sudo ./bin/mysqld

Re: OS X Installation and Setup

2003-09-15 Thread Brent Baisley
Are you trying to run mysqld or mysqld_safe (or safe_mysqld)? If you are going to start mysql manually, you should be in the /usr/local/mysql directory and then type the following: sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe & mysqld_safe is actually just a shell script that will launch and monitor mysqld to make s

RE: Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Jeff McKeon
That's what I thought. Thanks for the advise!! :o) Jeff > -Original Message- > From: Joseph Bueno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:26 AM > To: Jeff McKeon > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Joining tables from two different databases > > > Jeff McKeon

Re: SELECT only unique records

2003-09-15 Thread Bruce Feist
Petre Agenbag wrote: How can one select unique rows based on a set of fields select distinct state_ID from financial_master where category_id='1' only returns rows based on the uniqueness of one field. what if there is another field that COMBINED with state_ID forms a unique row; how can one sear

Re: Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Tbird67ForSale
In a message dated 9/15/03 9:50:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Jeff McKeon wrote: > > > Is it possible to relate a record in one database to a record in another > > and do queries that pull from both databases? Programmatically yes. Using referential integrity (for

Re: Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Kelley Lingerfelt
I do it everyday, they are on the same machine and installation, but most of my queries span 2 to 4 databases. I can't get it it work on ODBC queries though, but PHP does it fine and so does the mysql command line. But I would be interested to know if there is any problems or reason not to do thi

Q: 3rd party ADO access to Mysql?

2003-09-15 Thread Tbird67ForSale
Has anyone ever used a non-ODBC, 3rd party ADO connector to MySQL? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My client does not wish to use ODBC. /tony -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: more on don't work.

2003-09-15 Thread gerald_clark
Is the server running? SWIT wrote: badboy# ./mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' ( 2) that file is not there. should I touch it ? argggh ! and ya say windows sucks. (ok the beer is talking n

Re: Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Joseph Bueno
Jeff McKeon wrote: I have an existing database with a lot of information, I need to create a new database to record inventory information that pertains to records in the first database. I'd like to keep these two database's separate. Is it possible to relate a record in one database to a record in

random data

2003-09-15 Thread tuncay bas
excuse me have can I get from mysql database random 6 data item?

Re: {Scanned} RE: random record

2003-09-15 Thread Henry Wong
pls unsubscribe me from this maillist. thanks. - Original Message - From: "Andy Eastham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mysql List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:54 PM Subject: {Scanned} RE: random record > 39? > > > -Original Message- > > From: tuncay bas [ma

RE: random record

2003-09-15 Thread Andy Eastham
39? > -Original Message- > From: tuncay bas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 September 2003 13:32 > To: mysql > Subject: random record > > > hi, > > why its mysql database over random record use? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To uns

Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Jeff McKeon
I have an existing database with a lot of information, I need to create a new database to record inventory information that pertains to records in the first database. I'd like to keep these two database's separate. Is it possible to relate a record in one database to a record in another and do qu

RE: Blasted #$%$^$^ host has v3.23 when i need UNION

2003-09-15 Thread Andy Eastham
Ryan, You might well find that the 5 separate counts are quicker than the join approach. Mysql is pretty efficient at counts on indexed columns from a single table. My instincts suggest that the four table join you are proposing could be slower than the 5 separate counts, especially if the table

Problem with mysql.sock

2003-09-15 Thread michael watson (IAH-C)
Hi I need to know how and where to tell mysql to look for mysql.sock. I am using mysql version 3.23.55 and SUSE Linux 8.2. My problem is that i have a mysql daemon working very well and using /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock as the correct socket. No problems. My problems come when I try and inst

Re: Blasted #$%$^$^ host has v3.23 when i need UNION

2003-09-15 Thread Ryan A
Hey Andy, True, but thats using 5 selects instead of just one, and since we are expecting quite a bit of traffic to the site that can add up pretty fast, expecially since we cant afford to have a dedicated server but are on a shared hosting package. If we have no other alternative we will be go

Re: Blasted #$%$^$^ host has v3.23 when i need UNION

2003-09-15 Thread Mixo Shiburi
You may also want to look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-num-rows.php Ryan A wrote: Hey, Thanks for replying. Nope, the whole reason for selecting the data is the count, i need to display to the client how many records of each category he has...if there is any other way to do that (

random record

2003-09-15 Thread tuncay bas
hi, why its mysql database over random record use?

random record

2003-09-15 Thread tuncay bas
hi, why its mysql database over random record use?

Re: Numeric Types and display attribute

2003-09-15 Thread Egor Egorov
Dwight Trumbower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed before, I just haven't found it. > > When creating numeric data types you have the option of putting a display > attribute. After reading the docs, I'm not really sure why you would want > to do this. Display size do

Re: joining 4 tables

2003-09-15 Thread Mikhail Entaltsev
Hi, You need to use UNION, but it's not possible in version 3.23.* So it's better to upgrade MySQL server first. SELECT table1.cod FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table4 ON table1.cod=table4.cod WHERE table4.cod IS NULL UNION SELECT table2.cod FROM table2 LEFT JOIN table4 ON table2.cod=table4.cod WHERE t

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