MySQL and Unicode

2004-04-09 Thread Pascal Francq
Hi, I have a question. I have read that since MySQL 4.1, VARCHAR type can hold unicode characters. But, it seems that the API of the C library use to send queries to the server still use 'const char*' for the type of the query. So, praticaly, if I have a unicode string stored in C, how can I use

Killing overactive mysql selects

2004-04-09 Thread Scott Haneda
Every now and then I am not thking and I am working on the mysql shell and I send it a select name from table; Just so happens there are a few hundred K of records. What I meant to do is LIMIT 10; Anyway, how do I get mysql to stop, the best I can do is control-C, but that leaves mysql

Re: Killing overactive mysql selects

2004-04-09 Thread Vadim P.
Start another Mysql shell session; then do show processlist; identify the thread ID of the offending process, then do kill ID. Not sure how graceful this method is, though. I use it to kill overlooked hanging connections from time to time. Cheers, Vadim. Scott Haneda wrote: Every now and

Re: MySQL and Unicode

2004-04-09 Thread Hirofumi Fujiwara
Hi, I have a question. I have read that since MySQL 4.1, VARCHAR type can hold unicode characters. But, it seems that the API of the C library use to send queries to the server still use 'const char*' for the type of the query. So, praticaly, if I have a unicode string stored in C, how can

Inserting blob

2004-04-09 Thread Marco Paci
Env: Win2003 Server, MySql 4.17 I've the following table CREATE TABLE TabellaTipi ( id int unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, intero int, lungo bigint, decimale decimal(20,10), data datetime, stringa varchar(100), booleano tinyint unsigned,

Re: problem wil insert statement merging values

2004-04-09 Thread Roger Baklund
* dan orlic INSERT INTO cp.Items SELECT distinct g.RecordID as id,'' as category_id, '' as pattern_id,'' as manufacturer_id, g.Item + g.Desc1 + g.Desc2 + g.Desc3 as description, g.Desc4 as price,0 as quantity, '' as comments,'Active' as status,'n' AS is_bridal, 'Gallery' AS type, now() as

Dual-master setup

2004-04-09 Thread sdf sdf
Hi, When configurating a dual master setup do I need to set parameter log-slave-updates ? /J _ Hitta rätt på nätet med MSN Sök http://search.msn.se/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Re: MySQL and Unicode

2004-04-09 Thread Pascal Francq
OK, you use a C char* using an UTF-8 encoding. On Friday 09 April 2004 11:45, Hirofumi Fujiwara wrote: Hi, I have a question. I have read that since MySQL 4.1, VARCHAR type can hold unicode characters. But, it seems that the API of the C library use to send queries to the server still use

Re: MySQL and Unicode

2004-04-09 Thread Warren Young
Pascal Francq wrote: OK, you use a C char* using an UTF-8 encoding. That's very commmon in the Unix world. 2-byte encodings are very rare on Unix-like systems, for compatibility reasons. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: Best practice on table design

2004-04-09 Thread Carsten R. Dreesbach
Hi Ciprian, OK, I'm by no means a DB guru, so a) take this with a grain of salt and b) feel free to tear it apart if I'm completely wrong! ;] If in fact your people and city tables aren't going to change very often, then why don't you just go all the way and keep that

Re: MySQL on Linux

2004-04-09 Thread Paul Smith
%% Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dn That is because although Linux binaries can access files over 2gb, dn they do not do so by default. Apache was probably not compiled dn with the required defines (-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE dn -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64), so that's why it stops at 2gb even

Re: Configuring SuSE Pro 9.0, MySQL 4.0.18 with ssl

2004-04-09 Thread Egor Egorov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have been looking and looking for some guidance for installing MySQL with SSL on a SuSE 9.0 box. By searching the archives, the net using Google, etc., we keep finding pieces of the puzzle, but no single piece that covers all of the ground. The problem is that

Re: How can I make index block size all the same?

2004-04-09 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Apr 08, Haitao Jiang wrote: Why Mysql load index ... into cache require the same size index block when it creates indexes in different block sizes (1k or 2k)? I don't understand. It's limitation of the current implementation :( It reads MYI file successively by fixed chunks (multiple

Select inside a subquery

2004-04-09 Thread Russell Horn
I ahve a problem with updating a row using a field from another row in the same table. The mySQL manual says: Error 1093 (ER_UPDATE_TABLE_USED) SQLSTATE = HY000 Message = You can't specify target table 'x' for update in FROM clause This error will occur in cases like this:

Better Solution than Multiple Queries?

2004-04-09 Thread Tim McDonough
I have an application where I want to look for records that match certain criteria and then for each item found do a second lookup for additional information. Normally I would do a join. In this case however I want to display each of the results from the first of the two criteria whether or not

RE: Better Solution than Multiple Queries?

2004-04-09 Thread Victor Pendleton
Can you create a 'fact' table containing the infomration that you are querying? This goes against normalization but if the table will only be used for querying purposes then this will eliminate your need to perform joins. -Original Message- From: Tim McDonough To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: MySQL on Linux

2004-04-09 Thread Dan
Perhaps stated a bit more correctly: Apache is NOT unique to Linux, so any system using Apache would need this configuration, that would include windows, MAC OS, Solaris, Irix, etc. Can't blame the OS on a softwares requirements... Dan. At 08:07 AM 4/9/2004, Paul Smith wrote: %% Dan Nelson

Re: Better Solution than Multiple Queries?

2004-04-09 Thread Roger Baklund
* Tim McDonough I have an application where I want to look for records that match certain criteria and then for each item found do a second lookup for additional information. Normally I would do a join. In this case however I want to display each of the results from the first of the two

Re: Better Solution than Multiple Queries?

2004-04-09 Thread Jigal van Hemert
I have an application where I want to look for records that match certain criteria and then for each item found do a second lookup for additional information. Normally I would do a join. In this case however I want to display each of the results from the first of the two criteria whether or

Dumping mass inserts?

2004-04-09 Thread Mark Susol | Ultimate Creative Media
I'm trying only to update one table from a backup. I have the sql file stripped down to just the INSERT commands. I have emptied the table from phpMyadmin to start. How do I load this sql file so it runs all of the inserts in this file through ssh (70MB)? Mark Súsol

Re: disabling backslash as an escape character in strings

2004-04-09 Thread Christos Karras
Yes, I use JDBC (with the MySQL Connector/J driver). I did not find a way in the JDBC API to escape a string before inserting it in a SQL string. The JDBC PreparedStatement class is able to escape parameters (in a database specific way) with the setString(parameterIndex, string) method, but

Re: Dumping mass inserts?

2004-04-09 Thread James E Hicks III
On Friday 09 April 2004 09:52 am, Mark Susol | Ultimate Creative Media wrote: I'm trying only to update one table from a backup. I have the sql file stripped down to just the INSERT commands. I have emptied the table from phpMyadmin to start. How do I load this sql file so it runs all of the

RE: Inserting blob

2004-04-09 Thread Osvaldo Sommer
I found a place that say MYSQL has a limit for the size off the packet in relation with blob field. They say that you need to put this in the my.cnf set-variable = max_allowed_packet=15M. With that you increase the size to 15 mb You can go and check the code in

Re: Dumping mass inserts?

2004-04-09 Thread Egor Egorov
Mark Susol|Ultimate Creative Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying only to update one table from a backup. I have the sql file stripped down to just the INSERT commands. I have emptied the table from phpMyadmin to start. How do I load this sql file so it runs all of the inserts in this

auto next field

2004-04-09 Thread /dev/null
We have a DB of customer comments that we want to display one at a time on our web site. We want the web pages (wrote in php) to use a user name/password on the DB that has SELECT ability and that's it. What's the best way to cycle through the comments so that each page requested gets the next

auto next row (was: auto next field)

2004-04-09 Thread /dev/null
Just realized my subject wasn't correct, we don't want the next field, we want the next row... Thanks! We have a DB of customer comments that we want to display one at a time on our web site. We want the web pages (wrote in php) to use a user name/password on the DB that has SELECT ability

Replication slaves quitting with binlog error

2004-04-09 Thread Matt Sturtz
Hi all-- We have one master and 12 slaves replicating from it. Server is 4.0.16 (havn't wanted to take it down to upgrade), the slaves are 4.0.17, all running on RedHat AS. Lately, every few hours one of the machines caughs up this error, and quits replicating: Could not parse relay log event

Re: auto next row (was: auto next field)

2004-04-09 Thread Jigal van Hemert
We have a DB of customer comments that we want to display one at a time on our web site. We want the web pages (wrote in php) to use a user name/password on the DB that has SELECT ability and that's it. What's the best way to cycle through the comments so that each page requested gets

Re: Better Solution than Multiple Queries?

2004-04-09 Thread beacker
Tim McDonough writes: The solution I presently have does a query for the first criteria. Then, I loop through the results of that query and do another query for each returned row. This produces the desired results but requires a lot of queries, i.e.-- if the first query returns 1000 customers

Re: Dumping mass inserts?

2004-04-09 Thread Mark Susol | Ultimate Creative Media
On Friday 09 April 2004 09:52 am, Mark Susol | Ultimate Creative Media wrote: I'm trying only to update one table from a backup. I have the sql file stripped down to just the INSERT commands. I have emptied the table from phpMyadmin to start. How do I load this sql file so it runs all of

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin Jaques
That didn't work but it led to something that did. It turned out that the owning group didn't have full authorization in the data folder. So, I did a brute force approach. I made mysql the owner of everything, instead of root, made mysql the group of everything (which it already was), then

Re: auto next row (was: auto next field)

2004-04-09 Thread /dev/null
You could do something like this: $start = 0; if (isset($_GET['start'])) { $start = 1 * $_GET['start']; //make sure it's numerical } then query: SELECT .. FROM .. ORDER BY date LIMIT $tart, 1 display the comment $start++; provide a link to thispage.php?start=$start

Re: Dumping mass inserts?

2004-04-09 Thread James E Hicks III
On Friday 09 April 2004 11:40 am, Mark Susol | Ultimate Creative Media wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 11:29 am, you wrote: I'm not getting an error..I'm getting inserts that are NOT in the file I'm directing it to dump. Maybe I don't understand the dump function and how it works with a sql

Re: Dual-master setup

2004-04-09 Thread Egor Egorov
sdf sdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When configurating a dual master setup do I need to set parameter log-slave-updates ? MySQL supports only one master for slave. What do you mean dual master setup? -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is

Re: Dumping mass inserts?

2004-04-09 Thread Mark Susol | Ultimate Creative Media
Ah..I see now. I was still using mysqldump..instead of mysql. Yes I'm trying to import the data from backup, into an empty table since the data was corrupt. Looks like you are on the right track now! :) James Ok now I want to dump tables with names starting with phpads so I can move them

RE: Perl Modelues

2004-04-09 Thread Kirti S. Bajwa
Michael: Thanks. It did the trick. Kirti -Original Message- From: Michael Stassen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 6:32 PM To: Kirti S. Bajwa Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl Modelues Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Ken: Thank you for your response. I tried

Am I doing things right? (selecting groups of objects problems)

2004-04-09 Thread chillz
Hello, I've recently came across a problem I couldn't seem to solve right by myself. I have a db with objects table, each of those objects may belong to groups of objects. The number of groups can be about 256 and an object belongs from one to many different groups at once. I cannot find a good

Issue compiling mysql with ssl on solaris

2004-04-09 Thread electroteque
Ok i worked out a possible bug with mysql 4.1 compiling openssl on solaris i keep getting this error gcc -DDEFAULT_CHARSET_HOME=\/usr/local/mysql\ -DDATADIR=\/usr/local/mysql /var \ -DSHAREDIR=\/usr/local/mysql/share/mysql\ -DDONT_USE_RAID -I. -I. -I.. -I.. /include /opt/csw/include/openssl -O3

RE: Using BYTEFX to connect to MySql , closing connection do not release the connection.

2004-04-09 Thread Reggie Burnett
Looks like it could be a bug. I'll check it out. -Original Message- From: tweewan.wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Using BYTEFX to connect to MySql , closing connection do not release the connection. Thanks

Problem while starting mysql daemon

2004-04-09 Thread Rohan Shrivastava
hello, I have installed mysql-3.23.58-pc-linux-i686 on Red Hat 9.0, while starting daemon i got the following message: ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql [1] 5240 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql-3.23.58-pc-linux-i686]# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql-3.23.58-pc-linux-i686/data

Re: Am I doing things right? (selecting groups of objects problems)

2004-04-09 Thread Garth Webb
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 09:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've recently came across a problem I couldn't seem to solve right by myself. I have a db with objects table, each of those objects may belong to groups of objects. The number of groups can be about 256 and an object belongs

Re: Dumping mass inserts?

2004-04-09 Thread James E Hicks III
On Friday 09 April 2004 12:26 pm, Mark Susol | Ultimate Creative Media wrote: Ok now I want to dump tables with names starting with phpads so I can move them to another db. How is the mysqldump command run then? And when I go to move them to the new db, I do use the mysqldump command since I

Problem with mysql_install_db

2004-04-09 Thread Mickey
Hello, I am trying to install Mysql (mysql-standard-4.0.18-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz) on my 'SCO_SV 3.2 5.0.5 i386' unix machine. When unzipping and untarring the file when I try to run the scripts/mysql_install_dn program I get a bunch of error messages. Here is what I get :- WARNING: The host

mysql scripting

2004-04-09 Thread Brad Tilley
Hello again, Is there a way to do regex search are replace on all entries in a mysql field? Or, a way to uppercase or lowercase all characters for all entries in a filed? Some of the fields are varchars with numbers and letters. In my particular case, I have a field of serial numbers some of

Re: Problem with mysql_install_db

2004-04-09 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Mickey wrote: I am trying to install Mysql (mysql-standard-4.0.18-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz) on my 'SCO_SV 3.2 5.0.5 i386' unix machine. This is for linux. Do you have the lxrun installed? If you have lxrun installed and updated to the lastest libraries then it will work. If

Re: Problem while starting mysql daemon

2004-04-09 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Rohan Shrivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have installed mysql-3.23.58-pc-linux-i686 on Red Hat 9.0, while starting daemon i got the following message: ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql [1] 5240 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql-3.23.58-pc-linux-i686]# Starting mysqld daemon with

Re: Am I doing things right? (selecting groups of objects problems)

2004-04-09 Thread beacker
Lecho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a db with objects table, each of those objects may belong to groups of objects. The number of groups can be about 256 and an object belongs from one to many different groups at once. Lecho, I threw together the following tables/data/queries that I

Re: mysql scripting

2004-04-09 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Brad Tilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to do regex search are replace on all entries in a mysql field? Or, a way to uppercase or lowercase all characters for all entries in a filed? Some of the fields are varchars with numbers and letters. In my particular case, I have a

Re: Corruption and my.cnf

2004-04-09 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Mark, - Original Message - From: Mark Susol|Ultimate Creative Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:25 PM Subject: Re: Corruption and my.cnf I've experienced more corruption lately on my main site since I moved to = my own

Re: read_key: Got error 146 when reading table

2004-04-09 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Philippe, - Original Message - From: Philippe Lewicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:51 AM Subject: Re: read_key: Got error 146 when reading table Heikki, Its: mysql-standard-4.0.17-pc-linux-i686 thank you for the bug

Re: Problem while starting mysql daemon

2004-04-09 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Friday, April 09, 2004, 8:59:48 PM, Rohan Shrivastava wrote: RS there are some tables named RS columns_priv and tables_priv RS are you talking about these Yes. In this case check permissions on the MySQL data dir and files. MySQL should be owner of the data dir. RS Regards RS Rohan Rohan

Re: disabling backslash as an escape character in strings

2004-04-09 Thread Mark Matthews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christos Karras wrote: Yes, I use JDBC (with the MySQL Connector/J driver). I did not find a way in the JDBC API to escape a string before inserting it in a SQL string. The JDBC PreparedStatement class is able to escape parameters (in a database

Fulltext index is not being built with large database

2004-04-09 Thread sascha mantscheff
I'm trying to build a fulltext index on a table with about 4 million entries with 2 varchar and one text field. The indexing starts and runs for about 1/2 to 1 hour, then the process stops without any error message. And leaves me with no index. I checked for the size in tmp and redirected it to

unique field problem

2004-04-09 Thread Brad Tilley
Hello again, I have a form that users fill out and submit into a mysql database using php. The problem I have is that there is only one unique field in the main table... it's an int that's auto-incremented with each new entry. This works fine unless the user accidentally submits the data

Re: unique field problem

2004-04-09 Thread chillz
BT Hello again, BT I have a form that users fill out and submit into a mysql database using php. BT The problem I have is that there is only one unique field in the main BT table... it's an int that's auto-incremented with each new entry. This works BT fine unless the user accidentally submits

Trying to understand the license

2004-04-09 Thread charles kline
Hi all, I am still a bit confused as to the license for using MySQL. If I create an application in PHP, that uses a MySQL database (for example a shopping cart application) and I want to sell this application (not open source), am I required to pay a license fee? I found this quote: 2. Free

Re: Trying to understand the license

2004-04-09 Thread Dan Bowkley
Exactly. The license only becomes an issue when you distribute mysql itself. Essentially, the gist is you can't charge people for mysql; only mysql can do that. You could, OTOH, let folks get your php app, and provide a link so they can download mysql themselves. - Original Message -

Re: Why can't I use an AS value in the WHERE clause.

2004-04-09 Thread Adam
MIchael, Point well taken. Cheers, Adam On Apr 8, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Michael Stassen wrote: Good point. I was focused on the question of using the alias to restrict results, so I left the function in the SELECT part. As you say, in this query, that would just give a useless column of '1's, so

Question regarding defaults

2004-04-09 Thread Boyd E. Hemphill
Hello: I have need to declare a column as type integer then default is at '0' (that is a string with a zero in it). An example may be: Create table foo ( foo_id int not null default '0' ) My question centers on the notion of implicit type conversion. Is the server converting the type

Re: Trying to understand the license

2004-04-09 Thread John Mistler
I thought I read that if your app is not GPL and interacts with MySQL in any way, you must license MySQL. on 4/9/04 5:16 PM, Dan Bowkley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly. The license only becomes an issue when you distribute mysql itself. Essentially, the gist is you can't charge people

Re: Trying to understand the license

2004-04-09 Thread Dan Bowkley
Only if you incorporate mysql into your app--for example, if your app is a database system based on the mysql engine. An app that merely talks to mysql doesn't require you to license it. - Original Message - From: John Mistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April

Change the date format.

2004-04-09 Thread David Carlos Brunstein
Hi, I'm new to the list. By these days I'm facing a system DB migration to MySQL (the last production version) and I have the followin problem. All the SELECTs sentences are all over the application, and for date/datetime filters are using the dd/mm/ format in the WHERE clause. Is the same