RANDOM in GROUP BY

2003-11-08 Thread Colleen Dick
This stumped them in PHPbuilder... I have a table lets call it moms each row in the moms table can have many kids, and some kids have 1 mom. I have a kid table and I have a mxk map table to relate them. what I want to do is select all the moms and for each mom I want a random one of its kids to

WANTED: lots of data

2003-11-08 Thread Mark Horton
I'm working on some software that will generate all sorts of statistics on large volumes of data. I'm looking for data to experiment on. I'd like 100 million - 1 billion records. These records can be anything from log files to database records, or whatever. I just need tons of data. If you

Re: ROWID

2003-11-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 07), Jeremy Zawodny said: In Oracle for example, a ROWID is the unique address of a row in the database. Every row, unique key or not has a unique address. Is there such a thing in MySQL? No. If there was it'd be documented. But at least with MyISAM tables,

Mysql daemon dies on startup

2003-11-08 Thread ekg1
I have installed Redhat 9.0 and upgraded mysql thru RHN to 3.23.58-1.9 I executed the following commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# mysql_install_db then [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# /usr/bin/safe_mysqld [1] 12018[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from

Fwd: Re: WANTED: lots of data

2003-11-08 Thread Nils Valentin
Hi Mark, I understand that Dbvisualizer 4.0 has this function built in. There is a trial version available at www.minq.se I hope that helps Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo/Japan http://www.be-known-online.com/mysql/ On Saturday 08 November 2003 16:37, Mark Horton wrote: I'm working on

BRU Help

2003-11-08 Thread Nitin
Hi all, I'm sorry, I know this is not the list, to ask this question, but I couldn't find the right one. I'm having trouble with BRU. I'm running it for quite a time but it has started throwing errors. Main problem is, though there's plenty of free space on my tape media, it says, Insert vol

Re: ROWID

2003-11-08 Thread Patrick Sherrill
We add an auto_increment BIGINT to every table we create. This gives us the essence and utility of ROWID (BTW we always name the first column in a new table 'row_id'). Just my 2 cents Pat... [EMAIL PROTECTED] CocoNet Corporation SW Florida's First ISP 825 SE 47th Terrace Cape Coral, FL 33904

Problem with Code from 2nd edition Welling/Thomson PHP?MySQL Web App Book

2003-11-08 Thread Stephen Tiano
Sorry for the long post, but I'm using with difficulty the 2nd edition of Welling/Thomson's PHP and MySQL Web Development as a textbook for self-teaching. After being pleased to work my way thru to Chapter 14, not memorizing the earlier material, but having some success basically understanding

About MySQL Documentation

2003-11-08 Thread Vladik Zakhozhai
Hello! My name is Vlad. I'm begginer with MySQL. And now I should like to know where can I take good documentation, tutor or others about MySQL. Thank you. -- ___ OperaMail free e-mail - http://www.operamail.com

Update table with UNIX_TIMESTAMP

2003-11-08 Thread Ron McKeever
Hello I have a table that gets appended to every night with the LOAD DATA command. The column 'start' is a unix timestamp. So when the LOAD DATA is done I then want to update the Column to be human readable. I was thinking of the following: UPDATE table SET start = UNIX_TIMESTAMP(start); I

Re: Mysql daemon dies on startup

2003-11-08 Thread Eric K. Grant
OK thx to MATHAN's previous post. Solution: Executed the following commands.. # chown -R mysql /var/lib/mysql # chmod 700 /var/lib/mysql Then started the daemon. Thx -EKG From: ekg1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 1:39 AM Subject: Mysql daemon dies on

How to query mySQL in java without using actual column names? but using something like field(0),field(1) etc.,

2003-11-08 Thread karthikeyan
I have a table with about 100 column with different column name. It is difficult to remember all the field names. But I know the last few columns are very important for query and used frequently. For example: Table with fields weight_42(double),width_43(double),height_44(double) where the

RE: remote connection

2003-11-08 Thread John Almberg
For anyone else that stumbles over this problem, there were two problems... 1. My firewall was blocking the remote mysql port (duh) 2. Unlike what I expected from reading the docs, I had to give my remote user rights in the user table (Select_priv='Y', Insert_priv='Y', etc.) to get a connection.

phpmysql(which array function?)

2003-11-08 Thread joffrey leevy
Hi all: Trying to solve a phpmysql array problem. Let's say I have a table in mysql format Column1 Column2 dog brown cat white cat black cat mixed pig black pig brown What kind of (query, array function, loop, etc...) should I use to

Re: phpmysql(which array function?)

2003-11-08 Thread Jan Pieter Kunst
Trying to solve a phpmysql array problem. Let's say I have a table in mysql format Column1 Column2 dog brown cat white cat black cat mixed pig black pig brown What kind of (query, array function, loop, etc...) should I use to produce an html

Re: How to query mySQL in java without using actual column names? but using something like field(0),field(1) etc.,

2003-11-08 Thread Paul DuBois
At 10:38 -0500 11/8/03, karthikeyan wrote: I have a table with about 100 column with different column name. It is difficult to remember all the field names. But I know the last few columns are very important for query and used frequently. You cannot perform comparisons on columns by using column

Hello Paul DuBois?

2003-11-08 Thread Colleen Dick
if it just can't be done with a query please somebody like Paul DuBois say so... Colleen Dick wrote: This stumped them in PHPbuilder... I have a table lets call it moms each row in the moms table can have many kids, and some kids have 1 mom. I have a kid table and I have a mxk map table to relate

MySQL Success Story

2003-11-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Dear Lists MySQL, I have just released the site http://www.DhakaStockExchangeGame.com/ which uses MySQL database and CGICC heavily. I Like MySQL, cuz, I can twist,turn,roll and whatever I want with its MySQL C API. Thank you MySQL, you all are really good. Dont become sooo commercial. Aftab

regexp with - '-' or - like phone numbers e.g: d-dd-d dd-dd-d ddd-dd-d dddd-dd-d

2003-11-08 Thread karthikeyan
I have one query: how to use regular expression to search all digits of the pattern in MYSQL X-XX-X XX-XX-X XXX-XX-X -XX-X X-XX-X I tried mysql select * from database where field regexp (\d{2,5}-\d{2}-d{1}d{1}); others: *-*-* ??-??-? ???-??-? (\d{2,5})?- etc, seems not working

Re: regexp with - '-' or - like phone numbers e.g: d-dd-d dd-dd-d ddd-dd-d dddd-dd-d

2003-11-08 Thread Jan Pieter Kunst
because '-' is understood as from - to e.g a-z, 0-9, etc., Escape the '-' with a backslash: '\-' JP -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Update table with UNIX_TIMESTAMP

2003-11-08 Thread Erik Osterman
Sounds like there is a misunderstanding about what exactly a data type can do. What you can't do is change the 'type' of a column with an UPDATE command. You can do it with an ALTER TABLE command, but this would be a _misuse_ of the command, given what you are trying to do. You have one of 2

Re: Urgent Pl: problem with rename the field name: IN

2003-11-08 Thread Fred van Engen
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 06:58:58PM -0500, karthikeyan wrote: how to rename a field name IN to something else.. I could not use alter table tbl_name change IN NEW mediumtext; I suppose this complains about a syntax error? You can use any reserved word as fieldname (or tablename) by putting

Re: aes encryption bug

2003-11-08 Thread Matt W
Hi Herb, You should be able to specify 255 as the PRI KEY length... I think. CREATE TABLE table ( col TINYBLOB NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (col(255)) ); Hope that helps. Matt - Original Message - From: Herb Rubin Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:50 AM Subject: Re: aes

Re: aes encryption bug

2003-11-08 Thread Matt W
Hi William, - Original Message - From: William R. Mussatto Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:49 PM Subject: Re: aes encryption bug Paul DuBois said: Okay, I investigated this further and I believe I know the cause of the problem. The solution is to use a TINYBLOB NOT NULL

Re: aes encryption bug

2003-11-08 Thread Paul DuBois
At 10:49 -0800 11/7/03, William R. Mussatto wrote: Paul DuBois said: At 15:29 -0800 11/6/03, Herb Rubin wrote: Paul, I did try VARCHAR(16) BINARY and it still failed to INSERT in a NOT NULL column. The encrypted string seems to be equivalent to the NULL value even though it visually looks like

Re: aes encryption bug

2003-11-08 Thread Paul DuBois
At 8:50 -0800 11/7/03, Herb Rubin wrote: Paul, TINYBLOB does seem to hold the value properly. I can't use a TINYBLOB in a primary key. Is this not allowed? The ALTER statement complains that I am using a column without a length specified. Specify a length, then. :-)

Re: regexp with - '-' or - like phone numbers e.g: d-dd-d dd-dd-d ddd-dd-d dddd-dd-d

2003-11-08 Thread karthikeyan
atleast: d-dd-d 0-00-0 9-99-0 select count(*) from processes where `in` regexp [0-9]{1}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{1 }; for: 00-00-0 99-99-0 select count(*) from processes where `in` regexp [[:space:]][0-9]{2}-[0-9] {2}-[0-9]{1}; for 00-00-0, 99-99-0, select count(*) from processes where

Missing mysql.sock

2003-11-08 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This has got to be a common question, but I'd really appreciate a little help. I recently reinstalled my Linux (SuSE 8.2). I *KNOW* I don't have a cron run that deletes this. When I try to start mysql, I get the message Can't connect to local

Re: Missing mysql.sock

2003-11-08 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:40:25PM -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This has got to be a common question, but I'd really appreciate a little help. I recently reinstalled my Linux (SuSE 8.2). I *KNOW* I don't have a cron run that deletes

Re: Strategies for optimizing a read-only table

2003-11-08 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:45:08PM -0500, Jonathan Terhorst wrote: I could have sworn I posted this once before, but apparently it got lost somewhere. Apologies if you're seeing this twice: I'm wondering what I can do with MySQL to optimize reads (SELECTs) on a read-only table where data

Re: MySQL List Digest ???

2003-11-08 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:48:46PM -0600, Paul Fine wrote: Thanks. I tried that awhile back to no avail. Hmm. Am I correct that I should be receiving only a single large e-mail each day? Thanks! Unless something is misconfigured, I'd expect you to get one message per day--unless the message

Re: practical MySQL database size limits

2003-11-08 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:08:54PM -0700, Jeff Mathis wrote: our database is about 20 Gb and growing daily. so far, I still see nearly constant time query performance on tables with ~10M rows. I don't think mysql is limited by file size per se. It is limited to the extent that your operating

sql parser

2003-11-08 Thread Carl Karsten
I am looking for code that will take an SQL command and break it into it's parts. I have found some attempts, but none that use the code from an actual SQL engine, and big surprise, they don't work 100%. I have a few goals: 1) developer tool: cut/paste the SQL command and get a pretty format