Re: Do I specify a primary key to be primary, unique and index ?

2004-04-11 Thread Eldon Ziegler
From the MySQL documentation: * A PRIMARY KEY is a unique KEY where all key columns must be defined as NOT NULL. KEY is a synonym for INDEX. So, specifying PRIMARY KEY implies UNIQUE and INDEX.. You don't have to specify them yourself. At 01:11 am 4/11/2004, you wrote: I learned that there

stressing mysql - configuration advice

2004-04-11 Thread Merlin
Hi there, I just installed the newest mysql 4.x server on a suse9.0 system with apache 1.x and php4.x The system is a p4 2.4G with 1GB of RAM. It serves one LAMP application. Now I am trying to configure the server for huge load. To stress test it, I installed the Microsoft stress test tool

RE: Do I specify a primary key to be primary, unique and index ?

2004-04-11 Thread Matt Chatterley
As I discovered recently, thanks to another user on this list, there is at least one situation where you WILL need to also create a KEY index on a PRIMARY KEY column - If you have a composite primary key such as (col1, col2) and you wish to place a foreign key on col2, you will ALSO have to add a

stressing mysql - configuration advice

2004-04-11 Thread Merlin
Hi there, I just installed the newest mysql 4.x server on a suse9.0 system with apache 1.x and php4.x The system is a p4 2.4G with 1GB of RAM. It serves one LAMP application. Now I am trying to configure the server for huge load. To stress test it, I installed the Microsoft stress test tool

stressing mysql - configuration advice

2004-04-11 Thread news.groups
Hi there, I just installed the newest mysql 4.x server on a suse9.0 system with apache 1.x and php4.x The system is a p4 2.4G with 1GB of RAM. It serves one LAMP application. Now I am trying to configure the server for huge load. To stress test it, I installed the Microsoft stress test tool

RE: MSSQL to MYSQL

2004-04-11 Thread Matt Chatterley
Yep. Theres no reason at all why this sort of thing won't work for MSSQL too. Use SQL Enterprise Manager to generate a create script for all objects in the database, and also tell it to script referential integrity (FKs, etc). Then add anything MySQL specific, such as Type=InnoDB (which you will

RE: sql join help

2004-04-11 Thread Matt Chatterley
Hmm. SELECT o.* FROM orders o INNER JOIN orderitems oi ON o.orderid = oi.orderid INNER JOIN products p ON p.productid = oi.productid AND p.productparentid 2 WHERE o.orderstatus =2 Not sure why you are checking for a NULL ordered in orderitems? That would suggest you get back only items

stressing mysql - configuration advice

2004-04-11 Thread Walter Andreas
Received: from 213.39.151.4 by freemailng1402.web.de with HTTP; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:47:20 +0200 Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:47:20 +0200 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- END HEADERS --- Hi there, I just installed the newest mysql 4.x server on a suse9.0 system with apache 1.x and php4.x

Re: Change the date format.

2004-04-11 Thread Egor Egorov
David Carlos Brunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Egor. Thanks for your answer. I'm relatively new to MySQL. Isn't any way -like an environment variable or configuration file setting or something like that- to change the date format at the MySQL side, not at client side ? No. You can

5.0.0a stored procedure crash

2004-04-11 Thread Matt Chatterley
Hi folks. I've just submitted the following as a 'bug' via the MySQL website, and was wondering if anyone out there had experienced the same problem? It only seems to cause a crash when a nested IF is put into a stored procedure, so the work-around is obvious - don't nest 'em! As posted to

RE: sql join help

2004-04-11 Thread Michael Collins
Thanks Matt. But, what I am attempting to do with (oi.orderId IS NULL) is to eliminate the orders that have at least one order item with products of product parents not equal to 2. What you show finds all orders that have orderitems that have a product parent greater than 2, however, if that

free software and open source

2004-04-11 Thread Saurabh Data
Dear Users Can anyone in your own words clarify the difference between open source and free software. Many Thanks Saurabh Data ___ Saurabh Data School of Computing University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT U.K. one who seeketh , will

Re: free software and open source

2004-04-11 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sunday 11 April 2004 10:58 am, Saurabh Data wrote: Dear Users Can anyone in your own words clarify the difference between open source and free software. Many Thanks Saurabh Data This is off topic for this list, but I'll provide a quick answer. Free software is software that's free to

Re: free software and open source

2004-04-11 Thread Christian Kienle
Can anyone in your own words clarify the difference between open source and free software. Free Software: You can make changes in the sourcecode for your own and you can redistribute it again. Open Source: The sourcecode is only open... Cheers -- MySQL General Mailing List For list

Re: Best practice on table design

2004-04-11 Thread beacker
Cities (CityID, Name) People (PersonID, Name) Travel_Exp (ExpID, Date, PersonID, Per_Diem) Travel_Exp_Cities (CityID, ExpID) Based on the descriptions I'd tend to go with a normalized table set of this nature: Cities (CityID, Name) People (PersonID, Name) Travel_Exp (ExpID, Date, PersonID,

Re: free software and open source

2004-04-11 Thread beacker
Can anyone in your own words clarify the difference between open source and free software. Interesting question, though you missed one other label 'public domain'. These are all interesting elements of who controls the source and to what extent. MySQL as I understand it, allows the

RE: free software and open source

2004-04-11 Thread Saurabh Data
Dear Peter As you said that access to the source code for a free software may or may not be give. Looking at the FSF website and definition of free software, freedom 1 states that access to the source code is given to study how the program works So there is a small contradiction here . Please

compiling mysql with intel icc

2004-04-11 Thread Walter Andreas
Hi there, I am trying to compile mysql 4.x with intel compiler for maximum performance. On my research I have found that following line will squese more performance out of mysql: CFLAGS=-O3 -unroll2 -ip -mp -no-gcc -restrict CC=icc CXX=icc CXXFLAGS=-O3 -unroll2 -ip -mp -no-gcc -restrict

Re: compiling mysql with intel icc

2004-04-11 Thread James Moe
Walter Andreas wrote: CFLAGS=-O3 -unroll2 -ip -mp -no-gcc -restrict CC=icc CXX=icc CXXFLAGS=-O3 -unroll2 -ip -mp -no-gcc -restrict ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql--with-mysqld-user=mysqladm --without-debug --with-client-ldflags=-all-static--with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static

Long numbers

2004-04-11 Thread Craig Hoffman
Hi There: I have a query where I get an average of weekly miles. For example: Average Weekly Miles: 3.4285714285714 How would I get this number into a more read format? Such as 3.42. I have tried the truncate but I can't seem to get it to work. Does any one have any suggestions? SELECT

Re: free software and open source

2004-04-11 Thread Sam Tregar
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Saurabh Data wrote: Can anyone in your own words clarify the difference between open source and free software. Don't take our words for it, get it from the Gnu's mouth: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html -sam -- MySQL General Mailing List

Re: Long numbers

2004-04-11 Thread Mike Blezien
I think your looking for the ROUND(N,D) function, IE: select round('3.4285714285714',2) as miles; 3.43 miles MikemickaloBlezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing Providing Internet Solutions that work! http://www.thunder-rain.com Quality Web Hosting

Re: Long numbers

2004-04-11 Thread Craig Hoffman
that worked - Thanks a bunch! CH __ Craig Hoffman - eClimb Media v: (847) 644 - 8914 f: (847) 866 - 1946 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.eclimb.net _ On Apr 11, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Mike Blezien wrote: I think your looking for the

Mac Installation

2004-04-11 Thread Mustafa Hakim
I am trying to install MySql on MAC OS X. After the pkg is installed I am not able to start the MySql server due to the Socket error. ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Now, when I check the /tmp folder I see that there is no file by that name

Constraining MySQL Replication

2004-04-11 Thread Gowtham Jayaram
Hello all: I understand that MySQL Replication can be configured to replicate selected tables in a Database. Is there anyway to further constrain the replicate, say based on a query of these tables etc..? Thank you Gowtham. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center -

unified encoding

2004-04-11 Thread Phlip
MySQLers: When I started porting an app from MSSQL to MySQL, I got a flurry of error messages complaining of Illegal mix of collations for operation ' IN '. I want to set all encodings to utf8 and leave them there. I finally managed (despite help from winmysqladmin.exe and the Services Control

How can I avoid filesort with BETWEEN and ORDER BY

2004-04-11 Thread Steven Ducat
I am trying to optimize a query using both BETWEEN and ORDER BY but after months of reading and research I still can not get the hang of this. Details are as follows: 2 Tables CREATE TABLE `p_ad` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `cat` mediumint(9) NOT NULL default '0', `title`

Set Password

2004-04-11 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Okay, I've been googling for about half an hour, found several useful links but I'm still having a problem with the password for the initial mysql db that is created when you follow the install instructions. Here is the problem I'm having: joseph-a-nagy-jr root # /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h

Re: Set Password [SOLVED]

2004-04-11 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Problem solved. ): -- Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. http://joseph-a-nagy-jr.homelinux.org Political Activist Extraordinaire Peace, Life, Liberty The only fallacy is the inaction on our part to stave off the worst of horrors, the stripping of personal freedom. -- Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. January 2004

Re: Mac Installation

2004-04-11 Thread Scott Haneda
on 04/11/2004 03:00 PM, Mustafa Hakim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install MySql on MAC OS X. After the pkg is installed I am not able to start the MySql server due to the Socket error. ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

RE: How can I avoid filesort with BETWEEN and ORDER BY

2004-04-11 Thread Donny Simonton
Steven, In your case, you query doesn't even use an index. And you are using an order by DESC. Now what I would recommend is something like this, change your query just to test this out. SELECT p.* FROM p_cat c, p_ad p WHERE p.cat = c.id AND c.lft BETWEEN 4 AND 5 ORDER BY p.date DESC LIMIT

Re: Set Password [SOLVED]

2004-04-11 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 06:34:28PM -0500, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote the following: Problem solved. ): snip Well, it wasn't a problem with mysql per sey but a problem with how I was entering the command. The man page says /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u user -p somepassword is correct as is

FBSD 5.2.CURRENT-p4 and mysqld problems

2004-04-11 Thread Ganbold
Hi, I found some problematic queries which locks mysql server any further processing. I'm using mysql-4.0.18 from FreeBSD ports collection. I'm using FreeBSD-5.2-CURRENT. Some of the queries like : select sum(total_amount) pbc from customers.payment where contract_id=0 and contract_id=4999 and

Re: backup

2004-04-11 Thread Benjamin Arai
Don't use rsync. Try rdiff-backup, its much more reliable and offers rolling restoration. On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 02:08, Matt W wrote: Hi Steve, You might want to look at FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK. That's a query to run from mysql, but I'm sure you can get it to work in your shell script

Re[2]: backup

2004-04-11 Thread Carsten R. Dreesbach
Hi Matt, if Steve can accept the limitations, mysqlhotcopy might work for him: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqlhotcopy.html If not, mysqldump with --add-locks could do it fairly easily, I should think... http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqldump.html Saturday, April 10, 2004, 5:08:43

Getting mysql to work in Panther

2004-04-11 Thread Daniel Lahey
I have been trying for months to set up mysql on my Mac (Panther) with no success. I can't run mysqladmin as root. I get an access denied error message. If I try to use SHELLmysqladmin -u root password 'password' I get access denied as either root or the regular user. I can't run mysql as