Re: Problem with 2GB limit.

2004-04-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 13), Cesar Bonavides Martinez said: > I'm working with Solaris 8, and MySQL 4.0.17-standard. > > I was trying to upload data into a single table database and when it > reached 2GB it stopped uploading sending the error message: > > ERROR 1030 at line 2450: Got error 27 fr

Average of every X number of rows?

2004-04-13 Thread Peter Janett
I searched all over and can't seem to find out how to take an average of every x number of rows from a result set. I have a table with over 700,000 rows, and I want to display an x and y graph of that data on the web. What is happening now is I'm creating 2 arrays, one for the x axis and one for

Error: 5 - Out of memory (Needed 2298807288 bytes)

2004-04-13 Thread Terence
Hi All, I am trying to perform an update: UPDATE helpdesk_tickets ht, helpdesk_status_master hsm SET ht.status_id = (SELECT status_id FROM helpdesk_status_master WHERE is_closed = 'y') WHERE ht.submit_date < DATE_ADD(curdate(), INTERVAL -7 day) AND ht.status_id = hsm.status_id AND hsm.is_closed =

Re: Multiple SELECTs in one query

2004-04-13 Thread Michael Stassen
A * by itself must come first, so SELECT *, "A" AS SortCode FROM Jobs will work. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure about MySQL but in Oracle this will NOT work: "SELECT "A" AS SortCode, * FROM Jobs" However, this WILL: "SELECT "A" AS SortCo

Problem with 2GB limit.

2004-04-13 Thread Cesar Bonavides Martinez
Hi, I'm working with Solaris 8, and MySQL 4.0.17-standard. I was trying to upload data into a single table database and when it reached 2GB it stopped uploading sending the error message: ERROR 1030 at line 2450: Got error 27 from table handler After more than 4 hours digging into the FAQs and

Fun Query with Question

2004-04-13 Thread J.R. Bullington
Greetings! I have a query that I would like to refine a little more. I am using this to send email to a directory with so many users in it that it causes my SMTP server to clog up. I want to break up the database send module so that it sends to only last names with the letters A - K first, do a pa

Data typing calculation results in SELECT?

2004-04-13 Thread David L. Van Brunt, Ph.D.
I'm doing a select where I lag across records, and would like to compute some differences. It seems to do the calcs right if I evaluate the result in an IF statement, but if I just want to get the calculation result stored, it seems to default to a data type that only stores on digit. Here's the of

about flush logs

2004-04-13 Thread Tang, Grace H
In my box, mysql server version is 4.0.18. I tried "> flush logs". Nothing happened in the mysql data directory. All the log files were not replaced. Does "flush logs" rename the old log files and create new log files? Thanks. Grace Tang Software engineer Computer Associates (China) Co.,

Populating database...

2004-04-13 Thread beginner
Hi, i just created a db with around 30 tables and i need to populate it. Is there any software or special technic for doing that automatically (using random characters for example)? Thanks, ltcmelo __ Yahoo! Messenger - Fale com

Re: First letter only of a column

2004-04-13 Thread Tim Johnson
* Peter Lovatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040413 16:27]: > Hi > > select left(field, 1) from table where field = "something" > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/String_functions.html * Kevin Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040413 16:27]: > try this: > > select LEFT(names, 1) from table Thanks folks.

Re: First letter only of a column

2004-04-13 Thread Kevin Carlson
try this: select LEFT(names, 1) from table Tim Johnson wrote: Hello: Is it possible to use mysql to select only the first letter of a string in a column? IOWS "select names from table" -> "select names from table" another way of asking my questions would be, Is it possible to truncate

Re: How can I detect the end of a replication cycle?

2004-04-13 Thread Garth Webb
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 13:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > >> I could frequently poll the slave servers using SHOW SLAVE STATUS or > SHOW > >> PROCESS LIST and watch for their status to change. > >> > >> I could start each slave with "--log-slave-updates" and watch the > slaves' > >> binlogs fo

REPLACE query

2004-04-13 Thread Kevin Carlson
I have a table with four columns, the first three of which are combined into a unique key: create table Test { cid int(9) NOT NULL default '0', sid int(9) NOT NULL default '0', uid int(9) NOT NULL default '0', rating tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0', UNIQUE KEY csu1 (

First letter only of a column

2004-04-13 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello: Is it possible to use mysql to select only the first letter of a string in a column? IOWS "select names from table" -> "select names from table" another way of asking my questions would be, Is it possible to truncate columns in selection set to a specific length (in the case: 1)

Re: User variables + SUM + GROUP BY = strange behavior

2004-04-13 Thread Emmett Bishop
Vadim, if I'm not mistaken, you can't set a variable then use it in the same statement. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Variables.html A little ways down the page... "The general rule is to never assign and use the same variable in the same statement." -- Tripp --- "Vadim P." <[EMAIL PR

Re: Multiple SELECTs in one query

2004-04-13 Thread Udikarni
I am not sure about MySQL but in Oracle this will NOT work: "SELECT "A" AS SortCode, * FROM Jobs" However, this WILL: "SELECT "A" AS SortCode, Jobs.* FROM Jobs" Try adding the table or alias in front of the "*". In general, however, I will repeat m

Suse 9, chroot mysql [long]

2004-04-13 Thread Troy Coulombe
OS: suse 9 Mysql: 4.0.15 Googled: yep, but didn't find anything conclusive I'm attempting to chroot mysql, and I'm failing [miserabaly]. I realize that this is a mysql list, but I currently believe it's either a dependency of mysql I forgot or something something I'm not aware of w/ mysql. I also

User variables + SUM + GROUP BY = strange behavior

2004-04-13 Thread Vadim P.
Sorry, the message got garbled, here is a more digestible look: -Original Message- Hello all, Could anyone comment on User Variable behavior in the example below? Thanks, Vadim. = mysql> SELECT -> LEFT(CallT

User variables + SUM + GROUP BY = strange behavior

2004-04-13 Thread Vadim P.
Hello all, Could anyone comment on User Variable behavior in the example below? Thanks, Vadim. = mysql> SELECT -> LEFT(CallTime,10) AS CallDate, -> @a := SUM(Charge), -> @b := SUM(Cost),

Re: Multiple SELECTs in one query

2004-04-13 Thread Steve Pugh
Hey gang, many thanks to all for pointing me in the right direction for my previous "multiple selects" question. I moved to 4.1.1 and implemented Udikarni's use of multiple sum()s instead of multiple selects() and that stuff is all groovy now! Of course, I'm beating my head on *another* wall n

Re: Altering MAX_DATA_LENGTH

2004-04-13 Thread Matt W
Hi Dan, (Sending to the General list too, since this isn't a Windows-specific thing.) SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'tbl_name' will show you the current Avg_row_length. But the specific values for MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH when you CREATE or ALTER the table don't matter (except for "looking correct"

Re: MySQL function

2004-04-13 Thread java_nutt
> > From: "Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/04/13 Tue PM 06:45:17 GMT > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: MySQL function > > > Has anyone out there written a Credit Card Validation routine as a > user-definable function (UDF)? > > We now have a requirement to collect credit card data

Replication and Error 1200

2004-04-13 Thread jim
Hi, I'm trying to get replication set up on a slave, and getting the error: "Error 1200: The server is not configured as slave, fix in config file or with CHANGE MASTER TO". The master machine is set up already, and there is already one database replicating off of it (a second instance of mysql o

RE: Reinstall Windows.

2004-04-13 Thread Amit_Wadhwa
Backup the data folder under the mysql folder, that's it -Original Message- From: Alejandro C. Garrammone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 10:11 AM To: MySQL Mailing List Subject: Reinstall Windows. I need to re-install windows, so I need to re-install mysql.

Re: ORDER BY alias

2004-04-13 Thread Michael Stassen
As far as I know, you can't use an alias in a calculation outside of a HAVING clause. You could work around this by adding the calculation to your SELECT clause: SELECT kills.PlayerID, player.DeathsPerMinute, SUM(kills.Kills) AS Total, SUM(kills.Kills) * (1-player.DeathsPerMi

Re: Strange Index Usage: select ... where foo = 90 on a varchar

2004-04-13 Thread Michael Stassen
You shouldn't be surprised. This is normal behavior. interchangeStatus is a varchar, so select fileName from outDocInterchange where interchangeStatus = 91; requires that interchangeStatus be converted to an int for each row so it can be compared to 91, rendering the index useless. On the

Re: How can I detect the end of a replication cycle?

2004-04-13 Thread SGreen
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 15:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 11:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [more snip] >> Somehow, I need to detect the >> end of my central slaves' replication cycle so that I can trigger the >> "merge processing". > Its not clear what you mean by 'replicat

Strange Index Usage: select ... where foo = 90 on a varchar

2004-04-13 Thread Max Campos
Lucy, you've got some EXPLAINing to do... (sorry, couldn't resist) A) select fileName from outDocInterchange where interchangeStatus = 91; B) select fileName from outDocInterchange where interchangeStatus = '91'; (A) Runs unindexed, (B) runs with the istat_date index. Can anyone explain

What distribution should I use for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther?

2004-04-13 Thread Daniel Lahey
Which distribution should I install on Mac OS X Panther? Thanks. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Arguments to fight against Ms SQL Server and Oracle

2004-04-13 Thread Alvaro Avello
Leonardo : La verdad es que debes analizar lo que yo llamo "¿donde te aprieta el zapato?" , esto quiere decir , que si requieres procedimientos almacenados y triggers y vistas , quizas oracle haga el trabajo. Si por otro lado la logica del negocio esta en tus aplicacciones y no requieres de est

Re: How can I detect the end of a replication cycle?

2004-04-13 Thread Garth Webb
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 11:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello List: [snip] > Here is where things get sticky. I would like to be able to merge the > replicated reports into the warehouse database with the smallest practical > delay (I have some very process-driven branch mangers and they feel they

Re: Arguments to fight against Ms SQL Server and Oracle

2004-04-13 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Leonardo Javier Belén wrote: The staff on the other hand, is thinking in using ORACLE, and I need very solid arguments to beet them. Any ideas I can borrow? If *you* don't know any arguments, then maybe Oracle is the best solution. Jochem -- I don't get it immigrants don't work and steal our job

Arguments to fight against Ms SQL Server and Oracle

2004-04-13 Thread Leonardo Javier Belén
Hi folks! I am sorry to bother but I need your help. At work I need to upgrade the data management the place is using (very old FOXPRO DOS) with something more modern. The use is only to store data and run multiple querys in a post mortem fashion. The data source is a Ms SQL server so manage

MySQL function

2004-04-13 Thread Gordon
Has anyone out there written a Credit Card Validation routine as a user-definable function (UDF)? We now have a requirement to collect credit card data through our Web Site. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com

How to replace a installed mysql version?

2004-04-13 Thread Walter Andreas
Hi there, I am a bit confused. It is not clear to me that the version I am currently running is the one I compiled last. How can I check the date of compiling? In order to get more performance I did try to install mysql 4.0.18 with different configure commands, now I am not sure if the make insta

How can I detect the end of a replication cycle?

2004-04-13 Thread SGreen
Hello List: I have been crawling the docs, the mailing lists, and the discussion groups looking for options to my issues for several weeks and have found answers to most of them. I have one last nut to crack and if the answer is out there I must be blind. That's why I finally came to the list for

Re: Best practice on table design

2004-04-13 Thread Brad Eacker
Ciprian Trofin writes: >Basically I have some tables with only 2 fields (ID and name), and a >central table, joined by a one-to-many relation. The key point here are the >2-field tables. If I keep them separate, I can extend them (add new fields) >without problem when need arise. But if there is no

Re: ADO driver?

2004-04-13 Thread Giulio
Il giorno 13/apr/04, alle 16:01, Martijn Tonies ha scritto: Hi, I've found VBMySQLDirect, go to http://vbmysql.com and look for VBMySQLDirect under the 'Projects' section. As the author itself explains on the documentation, it is not ADO, but very very near to it. I'm using it succesfully on som

Re: Constraining MySQL Replication

2004-04-13 Thread Egor Egorov
Gowtham Jayaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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..? > No. -- For technical support contracts, go

Re: Mysql MAtch against query help

2004-04-13 Thread beacker
>> I have a query that searches my database for people >> with C++ on their resume . ... >Hehe I've also had a problem with searching for something like it's , >anything with a single quote doesnt return anything, maybe try adding a >slash , C\+\+ ?? heheh maybe i'm wrong, it could be a limitation.

RE: What is the difference Between the mysql HEAP Table type and Views

2004-04-13 Thread adburne
A heap table isn't a view, it's just a table in memory, when you stop mysql the table disappear. Are usefull for speed selects; you don't need access hd. In the other hand views are definitions from other(s) table(s) stored in the db, are permanent and can be updated     Alejandro.     --

RE: Mysql MAtch against query help

2004-04-13 Thread Haitao Jiang
+ is not part of the definition of a word in MySQL. One solution is to normalize "C++" into "CPLUSPLUS" both during index and query time. Haitao --- electroteque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hehe I've also had a problem with searching for > something like it's , > anything with a single quote doe

Re: sql bench problems

2004-04-13 Thread Brad Eacker
Yonah Russ writes: >here is a sample output line: > >Time for alter_table_drop (91): 19 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.00 sys + 0.00 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.02 CPU) > > >here is the regexp: > >/^(estimated |)time (to|for) ([^\s:]*)\s*\((\d*)(:\d*)*\)[^:]*:\s*([\d.]+) .*secs \(\s*([^\s]*) usr\s*\+*\s*

Re: ADO driver?

2004-04-13 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi, > I've found VBMySQLDirect, > > go to http://vbmysql.com and look for VBMySQLDirect under the > 'Projects' section. > > As the author itself explains on the documentation, it is not ADO, but > very very near to it. I'm using it succesfully on some applications on > VB 6, without problems. Tha

RE: What is the difference Between the mysql HEAP Table type and Views

2004-04-13 Thread Victor Pendleton
Have you tried to update an underlying heap table? The heap table will not be updated. A view is updated when any of the underlying table(s) are updated. -Original Message- From: Abiola Aluko To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/13/04 8:01 AM Subject: What is the difference Between the mysql HEA

Re: Finding configure command after installation

2004-04-13 Thread beacker
>I just recompiled mysql and I am wondering if there is something like in php >(phpinfo();) where you can see the configure command after the db is installed. >It would just be nice to have that in a later time, or even to make sure that >the new version has replaced the old one. The initial port

Re: Best practice on table design

2004-04-13 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Carsten, Thanks for the answer (and other thanks go to the other guys that answered me). I think normalization is the way to go. I think it is the right thing to do (in theory). The problem is that theory doesn't fit all. Basically I have some tables with only 2 fields (ID and name), and a centr

What is the difference Between the mysql HEAP Table type and Views

2004-04-13 Thread Abiola Aluko
I know this might sound like a rather funny question to many gurus out here, but I'm a bit confused. The example give in the mysql manual is: mysql> CREATE TABLE test TYPE=HEAP SELECT ip,SUM(downloads) AS down -> FROM log_table GROUP BY ip; mysql> SELECT COUNT(ip),AVG(down

ADO driver?

2004-04-13 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi all, Is there an ADO (NOT ADO.NET) driver for MySQL? If so, where? Thanks in advance. With regards, Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL Server. Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archi

RE: Mysql MAtch against query help

2004-04-13 Thread electroteque
Hehe I've also had a problem with searching for something like it's , anything with a single quote doesnt return anything, maybe try adding a slash , C\+\+ ?? heheh maybe i'm wrong, it could be a limitation. > -Original Message- > From: David Taiwo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday

RE: turning off binary logging

2004-04-13 Thread Russell Horn
> I just found that mysql 4.0.18 is doing binary logging. How can I > turn this off? > I do not see a nead for this, plus I fear that > it might fill up the file system, plus I think it is reducing performance. > The binary log is primarily there to let you restore data. Say you backup every nigh

Mysql MAtch against query help

2004-04-13 Thread David Taiwo
I have a query that searches my database for people with C++ on their resume . Query = select * ,match(Res_resume) AGAINST ('C++') as kewyordscore from member,memberprofile,resume left join stateprovince on stateid = Res_state where mem_id = mempf_memid and match(Res_resume)

turning off binary logging

2004-04-13 Thread Walter Andreas
Hi there, I just found that mysql 4.0.18 is doing binary logging. How can I turn this off? I outcommented the line in my.cnf and restarted the server, but it is still creating those binary loggs inside the data dir. I do not see a nead for this, plus I fear that it might fill up the file system, p

Re: free software and open source

2004-04-13 Thread Joao Miguel Ferreira
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 15:58, Saurabh Data wrote: > Dear Users > > Can anyone in your own words clarify the difference between "open source" > and "free software". Go see the GNU.org site. http://www.gnu.org/home.html and also check this out http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html (If you d

Re: compiling mysql on a pentium

2004-04-13 Thread Victor Medina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer - -fno-exceptions -fno-ftti -felide-constructors" CXXFLAGS the same as above. Check out "Securing and Optimizing Linux" in the tldp.org i think is just what you nedd. Best Rega

Re: How to protect MySQL server from intruders ?

2004-04-13 Thread Victor Medina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! If the application is _NOT_ local you can restrict complete acces to one and only one machine, host, or network mask using the "grant" statement. Also changing mysql default port is not a bad idea, at least it make it ~ more dificult to guess Best

Space in multi-byte character set

2004-04-13 Thread Hirofumi Fujiwara
Here are charcodes of full-width space (IDSP,Ideographic Space) of sjis, ujis and utf8: sjis 81 40 ujis A1 A1 utf8 E3 80 80 String processing functions TRIM, LTRIM, and RTRIM don't recognize full-width space in a string. They don't trim the full-width space and leave it in string.

sql bench problems

2004-04-13 Thread Yonah Russ
I've been trying to compile a mysql server optimized for a zeon processor and a specific application- I'm compiling with icc. the problem is with the sql benchmarks- the perl regexp for making the detailed report of the benchmark doesn't match the output from the benchmarks so it doesn't create

ORDER BY alias

2004-04-13 Thread Danielb
I\'m trying to order by an alias in a multi table SELECT statement(Note I\'ve cut the statement down a bit to make it more readable): SELECT kills.PlayerID, player.DeathsPerMinute, SUM(kills.Kills) AS Total FROM playerweaponkills AS kills, ETPlayerSummary AS player WHERE kills.PlayerID=player.

Re: compiling mysql on a pentium

2004-04-13 Thread Yonah Russ
There does seem to be a bug in icc- I've posted on intel's message boards and they've confirmed a problem. There is a work around - here is the post: Hi Yonah, I can see the same problem on my system. I will create a support issue for you and will let you when this get fixed. I found that if you

Finding configure command after installation

2004-04-13 Thread Walter Andreas
Hi there, I just recompiled mysql and I am wondering if there is something like in php (phpinfo();) where you can see the configure command after the db is installed. It would just be nice to have that in a later time, or even to make sure that the new version has replaced the old one. thanx fo