RE: Query Help

2004-02-29 Thread John Berman
Paul Sorry to be a pain. I'm not sure that I understand Select an extra column in each SELECT. SELECT member, ... UNION SELECT non-member, ... Regards John Berman -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 February 2004 03:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: Timestamp woes

2004-02-29 Thread Scott Plumlee
Ryan A wrote: /** Somewhat new myself but I believe you can do something like SELECT (whatever you need) FROM tbl_users WHERE (UNIX_TIMESTAMP(now()) - ($days_last*24*60*60)) UNIX_TIMESTAMP(dat_and_tim). I will add the the PHP Cookbook and the MySQL Cookbook are godsends and that's where

Re: procedure entry point question

2004-02-29 Thread Alan
Thanks to anyone who was looking at this question. I have resolved the issue myself. During a prior MySql installation (earlier version) I moved the LibMysql.dll to the WINNT/system32 directory so that it was available throughout the system. After upgrading to a newer version of MySql, all of

Re: Query Help

2004-02-29 Thread Rhino
I hope you don't mind me butting in but your note was sent to the whole group The technique Paul is describing involves adding another expression to each of the SELECT clauses in the UNION. Up to now, you've probably just used column names or functions in a SELECT clause, for example: select

Query cache and queries with non-english characters

2004-02-29 Thread G B U
Just to be sure that this question is not supressed here :) Recently I've come around that mysql (4.1.0 at least) treats different queries containing non-english characters (in my case characters from cp1251 charset) as the same query and therefore returns wrong results. For example the following

Problems with mysql

2004-02-29 Thread Farryls
Hi, I am currently experiencing a few problems getting mysql to run on my PC. I have a windows XP machine P4 2.6 GHZ. I have downloaded the version mysql 4.0.15 from mysql.com and am struggling to get the program to work. I have follwed the instructions listed in a book i purchased called

RE: Query Help - Thanks

2004-02-29 Thread John Berman
Rhino This is great it works a treat Thanks Regards John Berman -Original Message- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 February 2004 13:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Paul DuBois' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Query Help I hope you don't mind me butting in but your note

Communication link failure - MySQL Server seems to stop

2004-02-29 Thread hl
Hi, What can I do to find the cause / correct the following problem? More often I get the following with Connector/J: error com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure due to underlying exception: ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION ** java.io.EOFException STACKTRACE:

Re: Query Help - Thanks

2004-02-29 Thread Michael Stassen
I'd like to add an alternate solution. All these subselects and unions seem overly complicated to me, when you could accomplish the same thing with a single join. Also, union requires mysql 4.0.x or higher and subselects require mysql 4.1 or higher. (Of course, you are obviously using 4.1+

Re: Timestamp woes

2004-02-29 Thread Michael Stassen
Scott Plumlee wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (Please note: NEWBIE WARNING, below questions might sound stupid, but feel free to flame.) ;-) I have a table tbl_users with a field dat_an_time which is a timestamp(14). In that I have values such as: 2004022215 20040227042018

RE: Problems with mysql

2004-02-29 Thread J.R. Bullington
First of all, get rid of Windows and use Linux =) Secondly, try downloading the newest version 4.0.18-nt from mysql.com. That will help you out. I run both Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of MySQL and haven't had any problems with the MySQL installer for any OS. If you have any other questions,

Re: Problems with mysql

2004-02-29 Thread Victor Medina
Two things first, first of all you obviously don't have mysql correctly installed, message a means mysql dead unexpectedly while trying to start, mysql cannot start. Why? I just don't know you didn't detailed your install procedure. Message b means that you cannot connect to the db because

Re: optimizing a select statement over a database with 50 million recs

2004-02-29 Thread karthik viswanathan
here is the updated select statement i came with but still needs improvement SELECT Distinct (a.id) From table1 a INNER JOIN table1 b USING ( p_id ) INNER JOIN table2 c USING ( p_id ) INNER JOIN table3 d USING ( out_id ) INNER JOIN table4 e ON ( d.name_id = e.name_id ) INNER JOIN table4 f

Dumping MySQL result set to a spreadsheet

2004-02-29 Thread Joshua Beall
Hi All, I am wondering if anyone can point me to a utility that will let me dump the result of a MySQL query to a file I can open in MS Excel or (preferably) OpenOffice.org Calc. phpMyAdmin lets you do this if you want to dump a SELECT * FROM table, but if I want to fine tune it I cannot (unless

RE: optimizing a select statement over a database with 50 million recs

2004-02-29 Thread Donny Simonton
Can you send us a new explain on this version? Donny -Original Message- From: karthik viswanathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: optimizing a select statement over a database with 50 million recs here is the

mysqld crashes, stack trace doesn't help

2004-02-29 Thread Claus
Hi all, we have rh 9.0 (kernel 2.4.20) mysqld 4.0.15 php 4.3.3 apache 1.3.29 and a quite large (10.000 unique visitors/day) server and messageboard (phpbb). every 2 or 3 days the server crashes (mysqld crashes, then all myslqd_safe and httpd processes crashes one after one) there is no

RE: optimizing a select statement over a database with 50 million recs

2004-02-29 Thread karthik viswanathan
Thanks for looking at my problem. here is the explain for this version of select b | ref | id,p_id,combine | combine | 4 | const | 5281 | Using where; Using index; Using temporary | c | eq_ref | PRIMARY,p_id | PRIMARY | 4 | b.p_id | 1 | | | d | ref | name_id,out_id | out_id | 4 | c.out_id |

unixODBC and MySQL

2004-02-29 Thread Wendy Moore
Hi, I'm trying to make a connection via ODBC to a remote database. On my client linux machine I installed unixODBC-2.2.8 and MyODBC-3.51.06. I'm doing the configuration via ODBCConfig: Driver properties: Driver: /usr/local/unixODBC/lib/libmyodbc3.so Setup:/usr/local/unixODBC/lib/libodbcmyS.so

RE: optimizing a select statement over a database with 50 million recs

2004-02-29 Thread Donny Simonton
From looking at this, you have a using temporary, on table b. Which may be the biggest slow down, it's hard to somewhat tell. I assume you have indexes on everything... I'm not sure where you are running explain from, but when I run one it looks like below. You can easily see where problems

Re: Dumping MySQL result set to a spreadsheet

2004-02-29 Thread Paul DuBois
At 17:45 -0500 2/29/04, Joshua Beall wrote: Hi All, I am wondering if anyone can point me to a utility that will let me dump the result of a MySQL query to a file I can open in MS Excel or (preferably) OpenOffice.org Calc. phpMyAdmin lets you do this if you want to dump a SELECT * FROM table, but

RE: optimizing a select statement over a database with 50 million recs

2004-02-29 Thread karthik viswanathan
Here is the command line explain, earlier i had used phpAdmin +-++-+--+-+--- --+--+---+ | table | type | possible_keys | key |

Re: Problem with regexp

2004-02-29 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:42 -0500 2/28/04, Ed Leafe wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a particular pattern to match, and a pattern that works in Python and other languages is not working in MySQL. I'm using 4.1.0 on RH Linux. I archive messages from an email list, and we have a standard that posts to the list that

Embeded MySQL for Java ???

2004-02-29 Thread Luis Duran
Can anyboby tell me wheter exists an embeded MySQL server JDBC implementation ??? Thanks -- Luis Duran signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug: Berkley DB seems to have problems with multi table updates.

2004-02-29 Thread Thomas Kathmann
Hi, if I try a multi table update with a Berkley DB Table, where the updated table is bigger than the joined table, the system produces the strange Got error 22 from table handler error. The attached (zipped) script should demonstrate the problem. Gru, Thomas Kathmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: optimizing a select statement over a database with 50 million recs

2004-02-29 Thread Donny Simonton
So if this is your query and based on the explain this is what I would recommend. SELECT Distinct (a.id) From table1 a INNER JOIN table1 b USING ( p_id ) INNER JOIN table2 c USING ( p_id ) INNER JOIN table3 d USING ( out_id ) INNER JOIN table4 e ON ( d.name_id = e.name_id ) INNER JOIN table4

4.1 Stable Enough For Beginner To Use?

2004-02-29 Thread Dave G
MySQL Listers, The ability to have utf-8 encoded data in my database is important enough for me that I am considering upgrading to 4.1. I am a beginner to MySQL, having only used it for not quite a year. My question is whether or not MySQL 4.1 is stable enough for a beginner to use. On the

Re: 4.1 Stable Enough For Beginner To Use?

2004-02-29 Thread daniel
MySQL Listers, The ability to have utf-8 encoded data in my database is important enough for me that I am considering upgrading to 4.1. I am a beginner to MySQL, having only used it for not quite a year. My question is whether or not MySQL 4.1 is stable enough for a beginner to use. On

mysqld-nt.ext - Application Error

2004-02-29 Thread Maru, Mulugeta
I am using MySQL 5 issuing the following query when the application died on me three times. Query: Select name, year_of_birth from players where year_of_birth = ALL(select year_of_birth from players) Note: If I only use the first part of the query it runs no problem. I do not think it is because

Re: Embeded MySQL for Java ???

2004-02-29 Thread Victor Medina
Hi!! No there isn't Although, you can try bdb(www.sleepycat.com), it comes with a java access class that will let you use bdb in a embeded environment, one thing i must say, is that it does not use jdbc, instead it uses it's own access methods, quite easy btw. GUYS!, it would be really nice to

Can't execute ./bin/mysqld_safe from dir /var/lib

2004-02-29 Thread jda
I had MySQL running just a couple days ago, but now it is not. The command and error: # /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start Can't execute ./bin/mysqld_safe from dir /var/lib There is mysql directory under /var/lib, but I am not executing from there. If i go to

RE: 4.1 Stable Enough For Beginner To Use?

2004-02-29 Thread Donny Simonton
I started using 4.1.0 in a production environment 2 weeks after it was released. Then when 4.1.1 came out I started using it before it was even posted on the mysql.com website. And I am sure I will do the same with 4.1.2. Is it stable? Yes. Are there bugs? Depends on what you are doing, but

Best Database

2004-02-29 Thread Paul Higgins
Hi everyone, I want to create a table that will consistently have data added and removed from it. Is there anything I should know/consider before doing this? Any information you could provide would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, Paul

Replication / Synchronizing DB across different machines

2004-02-29 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm at the stage where I need to create redundancy in my network / DB server. Am currently using MySQL 4.0.x, and have been trying to figure out how I can safely replicate/synchronize between different machines. I know there is a way to do a Master / Slave replication, but I'm looking more

myisamchk operation not permitted problem

2004-02-29 Thread Rishi Pande
Hello, I have been having trouble with rebuilding a database from backup. The backup consists of the MYD and frm files only. Therefore, I need to rebuild the myi file. I am using MySQL4.0.14 on Mac OS X. I use the myisamchk command to rebuild the database, in the following way

Re: Dumping MySQL result set to a spreadsheet

2004-02-29 Thread Neale Banks
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Joshua Beall wrote: I am wondering if anyone can point me to a utility that will let me dump the result of a MySQL query to a file I can open in MS Excel or (preferably) OpenOffice.org Calc. [...] But before I spend any time working on doing that, I am wondering if

RE: Replication / Synchronizing DB across different machines

2004-02-29 Thread John McCaskey
Yes, Lets call the two serves A, and B. You set A as the master for B, and you set B as the master for A. In this way you can insert/delete/update on either side and both sides will be kept in sync. If you plan to actively use both at the same time you do need to be weary of some

Re: Replication / Synchronizing DB across different machines

2004-02-29 Thread Eric B.
Really? I didn't know that a single machine could act as both a slave and a master for the same DB. H This opens a whole new world of possibilities. Okay - I can understand the issue for autoincrement columns becoming a problem. UIDs per server would need to be used in that case.