optimizing inserts

2004-05-15 Thread Ron Gilbert
I have a table that is: CREATE TABLE GPSData ( ID int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, Lat decimal(9,5) default '0.0', Lon decimal(9,5) default '0.0', TDate datetime default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (ID), UNIQUE KEY ID (ID), KEY ID_2 (ID) ) TYPE=MyISAM; When I insert a GPS log i

mysql slow server after crash

2004-05-15 Thread Jim Nachlin
Hi List, Recently, a machine running an instance of mySQL crashed and had to be rebooted. Cause still unknown, but could have been RAID controller problem. Since then, the mySQL sserver has been extremely slow. For instance, a SELECT that would have taken < 1 second can take > 70 seconds. A

Re: Automatically optimizing a table - how should I so this?

2004-05-15 Thread Joshua Beall
"Daniel Kasak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there any particular reason why you think the table will need > optimizing, or do you just want everything to be super-optimized? Because when I pull up phpMyAdmin, and it says there is 3,768 bytes of overhead, I just

Re: Automatically optimizing a table - how should I so this?

2004-05-15 Thread Daniel Kasak
Joshua Beall wrote: Hi All, Is there a way to automatically optimize a table anytime data is changed. I have a table that only has changes made to it occasionally (average over a 1 week period is probably 1 row is updated each day), and I would like it to automatically optimize the table, rather t

Re: Need Table Joins Example

2004-05-15 Thread Jigal van Hemert
Brad Eacker wrote: > Jigal van Hemert writes: > >Do you mean temporary tables? These are only necessary when there's no way > >to solve the problem with a join. > > Actually a temporary table can be used with a join to do what is usually > knows as a sub-select or sub query. In this fashion y

Re: Default search directory for SOURCE command?

2004-05-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 15:05 -0500 5/15/04, Josh Trutwin wrote: On Sat, 15 May 2004 14:38:52 -0500 Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there something similar in MySQL? No. Dang - oh well. :) >Also, any idea why SOURCE filename.sql; works in MySQL 5.0.0 and \. > >filename.sql; does not? Leave out the t

Automatically optimizing a table - how should I so this?

2004-05-15 Thread Joshua Beall
Hi All, Is there a way to automatically optimize a table anytime data is changed. I have a table that only has changes made to it occasionally (average over a 1 week period is probably 1 row is updated each day), and I would like it to automatically optimize the table, rather than having to do it

Re: Default search directory for SOURCE command?

2004-05-15 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Sat, 15 May 2004 14:38:52 -0500 Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there something similar in MySQL? > > No. Dang - oh well. :) > >Also, any idea why SOURCE filename.sql; works in MySQL 5.0.0 and \. > > > >filename.sql; does not? > > Leave out the trailing semicolon for short-f

Re: Default search directory for SOURCE command?

2004-05-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 14:27 -0500 5/15/04, Josh Trutwin wrote: Hi, I teach a class using Oracle and MySQL and I store a few things like creating tables for student labs in SQL files. I have them load these files by typing: SOURCE filename.sql; from the MySQL prompt. A nice feature in Oracle is that you can set a

Default search directory for SOURCE command?

2004-05-15 Thread Josh Trutwin
Hi, I teach a class using Oracle and MySQL and I store a few things like creating tables for student labs in SQL files. I have them load these files by typing: SOURCE filename.sql; from the MySQL prompt. A nice feature in Oracle is that you can set a default path where the client looks for t

AW: How big is big?

2004-05-15 Thread KingKarsten
Well, in fact it is the table that is kind of the heart of it all. And there surely will be some other tables depending of it, but there probably won't be serious traffic between them and complex is really not the right word for that. But when others handle millions of entries I will be able to mak

AW: How big is big?

2004-05-15 Thread Freddie Sorensen
Karsten, I wouln't worry about this - There are plenty of examples where people are running tables with millions of records without significant performance problems. Of course it all depends on the complexity - will you have many tables and many joins in your queries ? Just make sure to index yo

How big is big?

2004-05-15 Thread KingKarsten
Aloha! I want to create a date table which will get about 2 thousand entries per year and should easyly handle 10 years, which means about 20.000 entries. Is that realistic? Or shall I reorganize my database? Where is the border of too many entries and MySQL gets slow? Thanks for your help, Karst

Re: Need Table Joins Example

2004-05-15 Thread beacker
Jigal van Hemert writes: >Do you mean temporary tables? These are only necessary when there's no way >to solve the problem with a join. Actually a temporary table can be used with a join to do what is usually knows as a sub-select or sub query. In this fashion you select the elements that wo

Re: Need Table Joins Example

2004-05-15 Thread David Blomstrom
--- Jigal van Hemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you need to know how to display the resulting > record sets, example 1 on: > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php > gives you a complete piece of code to print out the > resulting records. OK, I think this example points out what I'm doi

Re: Need Table Joins Example

2004-05-15 Thread David Blomstrom
--- Jigal van Hemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Great, you've given me a lot of ideas (and examples) to play with. Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ -- MySQL Genera

Re: Need Table Joins Example

2004-05-15 Thread Jigal van Hemert
> I think part of the confusion stems from the dynamic > tables I was creating with Dreamweaver. I thought they > were a necessary part of the equation, when they may > in fact be optional. Do you mean temporary tables? These are only necessary when there's no way to solve the problem with a join.