Re: GRANT semantics...

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Stassen
John Ratliff wrote: I'm trying to use a grant statement to grant privileges to a user on a set of database names. e.g. for some user k, I want them to be able to have complete access to any database named k_*. I know this can be done. The test database is setup this way by default. Here is wha

Clean up temp files after creating new db

2004-05-19 Thread Jonathan Villa
I'm administering a Red Hat machine which is used soley for MySQL. The person working with the db has more than 15 million records in various tables...they were trying to run some queries to create one table from these many tables. When this was happening, they ran out of disk space. They had ab

Re: selecting by average

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Stassen
Gerald Taylor wrote: I have a table called ratings. It has 3 rows of interest id foreign key to another table quala quality rating u the user who gave that rating (also a foreign key into the users table) Now I would like to select all the unique ids for which the average qu

Re: Help with Joins

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Stassen
Robert Reed wrote: Greetings. I have a table that contains procedures and a table that contains forms. Each procedure may have 1 or more forms or it may have no associated forms. Each form may be relevant to more than 1 procedure. The procedure table has 1 entry per procedure. The forms table m

Help with Joins

2004-05-19 Thread Robert Reed
Greetings. I have a table that contains procedures and a table that contains forms. Each procedure may have 1 or more forms or it may have no associated forms. Each form may be relevant to more than 1 procedure. The procedure table has 1 entry per procedure. The forms table may have more than

Re: Please help me optimize a MySQL server.

2004-05-19 Thread Scott Haneda
on 05/19/2004 08:36 AM, Brent Baisley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wouldn't upgrade until you know where the bottleneck is (CPU, disk, > network, or RAM). Since you are using "professional" software, I > wouldn't try to change the queries. Have you made changes to your > my.cnf file? Since you

Re: Please help me optimize a MySQL server.

2004-05-19 Thread Mohammed Sameer
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Brent Baisley wrote: > I wouldn't upgrade until you know where the bottleneck is (CPU, disk, > network, or RAM). Since you are using "professional" software, I > wouldn't try to change the queries. Have you made changes to your > my.cnf file? Since you h

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread Hassan Schroeder
David Blomstrom wrote: 1. When you talk about including dimensions in image names, do you mean it literally? For example, if I create an image in photoshop that measures 150px X 125px, I could save it as horse.jpg, or save it as horse.150X125.jpg? Yep, horse.150X125.jpg And feel free to add any ot

Re[2]: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread artem
Hello David, Thursday, May 20, 2004, 2:21:37 AM, you wrote: DB> --- Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Actually, if you include the dimensions in your >> image *names* -- >> which is a great timesaver -- you can store them as, >> say >> >>ak.200x150.gif >> >> and retrieve as >>

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread David Blomstrom
--- Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, if you include the dimensions in your > image *names* -- > which is a great timesaver -- you can store them as, > say > >ak.200x150.gif > > and retrieve as > >SELECT > img > , SUBSTRING(img,4,3) AS width > ,

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread Hassan Schroeder
David Blomstrom wrote: > then all I have to do is replace $seg with the path to > the image folder to display my images. The images > don't even have to be the same size, since I have to > enter each state's image individually, anyway. > Actually, it would be more convenient if I could enter > imag

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread Greg Willits
On May 19, 2004, at 3:12 PM, David Blomstrom wrote: Suppose I have a field that stores links that look like this: images/states/ak.gif" width="100" height="75" /> images/states/wy.gif" width="100" height="75" /> and another field that stores image links that look like this: images/maps/ak.gif" widt

selecting by average

2004-05-19 Thread Gerald Taylor
I have a table called ratings. It has 3 rows of interest id foreign key to another table quala quality rating u the user who gave that rating (also a foreign key into the users table) Now I would like to select all the unique ids for which the average quality is below 1.5 so

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread Greg Willits
On May 19, 2004, at 1:19 PM, David Blomstrom wrote: All "conventional wisdom" I've ever come across for this type of application is that there's no advantage to keeping the image in the db itself. Just keep them as files on the server, store a filename &/or location in the db if necessary, and use

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread David Blomstrom
--- Michael Kruckenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having images in the database also makes scaling > pretty simple in that > we can add replicated slave machines for reading > images. I'm not yet familiar with scaling and "replicated slave machines," but I'm beginning to see more uses for

Re: Simple table, 1.7 million rows, very slow SELECTs

2004-05-19 Thread David Griffiths
Jacob Elder wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped me with this. I settled on breaking it down into area code, exchange and subscriber. This is one of the most generous lists I've ever had the pleasure of begging for help on. I don't want to deter you from making the changes above, but it's pretty

Re: MySQL Cluster - queries execute with 6.60sec delay when one DB node is dead

2004-05-19 Thread Mikael Ronström
Hi, This behaviour is due to a bug (#3657) which has been solved and the fix is on its way out. Rgrds Mikael 2004-05-19 kl. 13.35 skrev Maciek Dobrzanski: Hi, I have configured MySQL Cluster on two machines with 2 DB nodes (NoOfReplicas = 2) and 2 MySQL API nodes, one of each node type on both sy

Re: Large inserts, chunking and Concat

2004-05-19 Thread John Ling
Part of the problem was the way the server settings were allocating memory. The concat would work until a certain size and then the suddenly failed to insert (inserted NULL). After the memory configuration change, in terms of concatenating (with CONCAT) in pieces, it seems to work at least

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread jabbott
I have an application where I serve out blobs. I store the PDF files in blob fields for two reasons. 1. I want to make an interface where staff can upload pdf's into the server but not actually give them access to the server. I use my code to maintain the security of who gets to write to wh

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Kruckenberg
In a lot of cases storing images on the filesystem makes the most sense. We store images in a database because we have multiple webservers that need to both read and write images. Keeping them in MySQL makes this easy. NFS isn't an option for us. Having images in the database also makes scaling

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread Greg Willits
On May 19, 2004, at 1:19 PM, David Blomstrom wrote: I'd like to get some feedback on storing images in MySQL databases. The stuff I've read so far suggests that it's fairly difficult to work with images in MySQL, and they also slow down databases. I've also read that there isn't much you can do wit

MySQL Connector/J 3.0.12 (Production) Has Been Released

2004-05-19 Thread Mark Matthews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, MySQL Connector/J 3.0.12, a new version of the Type-IV all-Java JDBC driver for MySQL has been released. Version 3.0.12 is a bugfix release for the production tree that is suitable for use with any MySQL version including MySQL-4.1 or MySQL-5.0.

Installing Mysql binary distribution

2004-05-19 Thread Laercio Xisto Braga Cavalcanti
Hi all, Iá trying to install and use a MySQL binary distribution doing the folowing steps: Download the file mysql-standard-4.0.20-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz groupadd mysql useradd -g mysql mysql cd /usr/local gunzip < /path/to/mysql-VERSION-OS.tar.gz | tar xvf -

BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread David Blomstrom
I'd like to get some feedback on storing images in MySQL databases. The stuff I've read so far suggests that it's fairly difficult to work with images in MySQL, and they also slow down databases. I've also read that there isn't much you can do with BLOB's that you can't do with PHP manipulating im

RE: Installing Mysql binary distribution

2004-05-19 Thread Jeffus Chris - cjeffu
First of all check the *.err log in your data dir. It will likely give you some clue as to what is happening. -Original Message- From: Laercio Xisto Braga Cavalcanti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installing Mysql binary dist

Re: Simple table, 1.7 million rows, very slow SELECTs

2004-05-19 Thread Jacob Elder
Thanks to everyone who helped me with this. I settled on breaking it down into area code, exchange and subscriber. This is one of the most generous lists I've ever had the pleasure of begging for help on. -- Jacob Elder -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mys

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-19 Thread David Blomstrom
--- Greg Willits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 19, 2004, at 1:19 PM, David Blomstrom wrote: > > All "conventional wisdom" I've ever come across for > this type of > application is that there's no advantage to keeping > the image in the db > itself. Just keep them as files on the server, st

GRANT semantics...

2004-05-19 Thread John Ratliff
I'm trying to use a grant statement to grant privileges to a user on a set of database names. e.g. for some user k, I want them to be able to have complete access to any database named k_*. I know this can be done. The test database is setup this way by default. Here is what I tried: grant all

RE: Password error

2004-05-19 Thread Victor Pendleton
You can try using the old-passwords option in the my.cnf file or you can try building your ODBC driver from the bitkeeper source. I would check the documentation to verify that the ODBC build you have supports the 4.1.+ servers. -Original Message- From: Arthur Maloney To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

vb.net and mysql training

2004-05-19 Thread Grant Cooper
I am looking for a course in North America that provides mysql and vb.net or c# training or a good text book or dvds. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

mysqld sock conflicts

2004-05-19 Thread Greg Willits
I have two mysql apps running on the same machine (OS X 10.3.3). A mysql 3.23.54 on port 14551, and a mysql 4.0.16 on 3306. Each has a config file specifying the port and a unique socket name in /tmp. They have coexisted just peachy for a very long time. Now however, w/o any changes to either M

Re: Running more than one level of MySQL

2004-05-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 19), Robert A. Rosenberg said: > I have one suggestion to be added to the base code to assist in > running multiple levels - Allow the --port=port_number parameter to > take a list as opposed to only one number (so the server monitors > more than one port and treats them as

Password error

2004-05-19 Thread Arthur Maloney
Hello MySQL Listers, Using myODBC 3.51.07, Win2k SP4, ADO 2.7 & mySQL5 If I make the connection when user account does not have a password it works. If I set a password I get the error below ??? Which MySQL client is it referring to?? Any suggestions regarding connection string ?? err No -2147

Re: Running more than one level of MySQL

2004-05-19 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:09 -0500 on 05/18/2004, Paul DuBois wrote about Re: Running more than one level of MySQL: At 15:46 -0400 5/18/04, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: I have a site that is being hosted by an ISP which is running version 3.23.52. When I questioned why that downlevel version and not a 4.0 version (s

Subquery and LIMIT

2004-05-19 Thread Jacque Scott
I have a subquery where I am retrieving Shipment information from the DB. I want to LIMIT the result to '1' but I first need the results in 'ID' order. When I use this subquery I don't get the FIRST row because the data is not in ID order: (SELECT TextValue FROM tblQuoteItems WHERE (Type = 6

Re: Please help me optimize a MySQL server.

2004-05-19 Thread Brent Baisley
I wouldn't upgrade until you know where the bottleneck is (CPU, disk, network, or RAM). Since you are using "professional" software, I wouldn't try to change the queries. Have you made changes to your my.cnf file? Since you have enough ram to hold all the data, ram is probably not your bottlene

R: query string too long?

2004-05-19 Thread Leonardo Francalanci
> Could you provide structure of tables and some data for testing? How? I tried to post a couple of zip files (2 mails, 10k each) but it doesn't work. Some data (and schema) CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS PARTITIONED2_1 ( ID int(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' , DATA1 timestamp , PRIMARY KEY (

Re: Please help me optimize a MySQL server.

2004-05-19 Thread Mohammed Sameer
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:47:28AM -0400, Brent Baisley wrote: > Something that small shouldn't really need optimizing. What is the size > of your data (mb?, gb?) and what does your query look like? If you are > doing a wild card search on a large text field without a full text > index, then tho

Re: query string too long?

2004-05-19 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
"Leonardo Francalanci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using MySql version 4.1.1. > When I issue a query like > > (SELECT * FROM PARTITIONED_1_1 AS PARTITIONED, PARTITIONED2_1 AS > PARTITIONED2 WHERE > PARTITIONED2.ID=PARTITIONED.ID1) UNION (SELECT * FROM PARTITIONED_2_1 AS > PARTITIONED, PARTITI

Antwort: Re: Problem with UTF8 and upper case german umlaute

2004-05-19 Thread Rainer . Rohmfeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 19.05.2004 15:46 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thema: Re: Problem with UTF8 and upper case german umlaute >At a guess, the problem wthe the upper case U-umlaut is that it contains >the backslash character, which is a str

MySQL on embedded systems (Part 2)

2004-05-19 Thread Joseph Monti
Hi, I sent an email yesterday on this topic, but I just wanted to more clearly and concisely re-phrase the question. Is it possible for MySQL to run using less than 15Mb of memory? If so, is it done using: a) compile options / hacked code b) configuration options c) both If I know the answer t

Re: Problem with UTF8 and upper case german umlaute

2004-05-19 Thread Alec . Cawley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19/05/2004 14:28:02: > Hallo, > > I am trying to migrate a IBM-DB2 database to MySQL (4.1.1-alpha, > Gentoo-Linux and Win32) and all is working fine, except the UTF8 tables. > > So I have tried a simple example > > create table test ( > text varchar(100) char

Re: Simple table, 1.7 million rows, very slow SELECTs

2004-05-19 Thread SGreen
To honestly answer your question, I would say try both and use whichever method gives you the best performance in your application. I don't actually know if the ZEROFILL option forces those zeroes onto the disk during the write (so that the column is stored that way) or if it is a signal to the e

query string too long?

2004-05-19 Thread Leonardo Francalanci
I'm using MySql version 4.1.1. When I issue a query like (SELECT * FROM PARTITIONED_1_1 AS PARTITIONED, PARTITIONED2_1 AS PARTITIONED2 WHERE PARTITIONED2.ID=PARTITIONED.ID1) UNION (SELECT * FROM PARTITIONED_2_1 AS PARTITIONED, PARTITIONED2_1 AS PARTITIONED2 WHE RE PARTITIONED2.ID=PARTITIONED.ID1)

Re: which table type does not have the maximum columns limitation?

2004-05-19 Thread Egor Egorov
"Hongyu Sun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder if there exist a type of table which can allow for unlimited or at > least more than 1024 columns? I know MaxDB has 1024 max columns. > Each table type has limitation on the number of columns. According crash-me page it's 3398 columns per tab

Problem with UTF8 and upper case german umlaute

2004-05-19 Thread Rainer . Rohmfeld
Hallo, I am trying to migrate a IBM-DB2 database to MySQL (4.1.1-alpha, Gentoo-Linux and Win32) and all is working fine, except the UTF8 tables. So I have tried a simple example create table test ( text varchar(100) character set utf8 ) default charset=utf8; insert into test values

Re: lookup tables, populating automatically

2004-05-19 Thread SGreen
Taylor, You seem to be confusing your user interface with your database. You can use a variety of techniques to get data from a user via a web page. The exact methods available to you are dependent on your platform (the web server and its operating system) and your processing language( ASP, PHP,

Re: Please help me optimize a MySQL server.

2004-05-19 Thread Brent Baisley
Something that small shouldn't really need optimizing. What is the size of your data (mb?, gb?) and what does your query look like? If you are doing a wild card search on a large text field without a full text index, then those times may be the best you're going to get. Many times it's about op

Re: which table type does not have the maximum columns limitation?

2004-05-19 Thread Brent Baisley
I think if you are looking for unlimited columns, you may want to rethink your database structure. Databases are designed for unlimited rows, not columns. Whatever data you were looking to put into unlimited columns, should be put into rows in a related table. I usually do this by adding a "qua

Re: Fully compliant GIS

2004-05-19 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Trevor Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the roadmap for fully compliant GIS? > > " The OpenGIS specification defines the following functions, which MySQL > does not yet implement. They should appear in future releases. When > implemented, they will provide full support for spatial a

MySQL Cluster - queries execute with 6.60sec delay when one DB node is dead

2004-05-19 Thread Maciek Dobrzanski
Hi, I have configured MySQL Cluster on two machines with 2 DB nodes (NoOfReplicas = 2) and 2 MySQL API nodes, one of each node type on both systems. The config is almost the same as the one of 2-node demo. The cluster is working fine as long as all DB nodes are operational, but if one of them is g

[uniball@gmx.net: Re: Please help me optimize a MySQL server.]

2004-05-19 Thread Mohammed Sameer
sorry Egor Egorov, Mutt sent the mail to your private inbox ;) resending to the mailing list. On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 02:02:29PM +0300, Egor Egorov wrote: > Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running a MySQL server on a duel P III 1G, with 2 GB RAM. > > MySQL 4.0.18 compiled from s

Re: Select on Multiple columns

2004-05-19 Thread Stephen E. Bacher
"Rocco Castino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like, for example, to get the records starting from row number 6 > (without, of course, working with the primary key, where the numbers could > not necessarily be sorted as here): > +++---+---+ > | id_example

Re: Please help me optimize a MySQL server.

2004-05-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running a MySQL server on a duel P III 1G, with 2 GB RAM. > MySQL 4.0.18 compiled from source. > > We have 2 webservers running apache, And this is the backend database server. > The server is really slow. > a select on a table with 138,247 rows take

Re: help uploading

2004-05-19 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
sbraun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have many tables to upload, but each time I try I get a syntax error > 1064. > What format should my table be in? > I've been attempting to upload tab delimited text, but I can't get > past an error in line 1. > I can't see any errors. > How did you try

Re: MySQL and NPTL

2004-05-19 Thread Andrey Kotrekhov
SQL I have the problem like this under FreeBSD 5.2 with libkse (kernel threads). Server with high loading doesn't want to shutdown. But server with low loading does. > Steve, > > I have had this same problem exept the entire server does not hang, only > one thread which experiences a signficiat s

Re: Comments/questions on "High Performance MySQL"

2004-05-19 Thread Jigal van Hemert
Sasha Pachev: > > I actually do have a fairly long chapter on that subject in "MySQL (...) > > would be willing if the opportunity presented itself. If somebody could > > find a good way to sell it, I would write it. Maybe you can publish something on a website as "MySQL Enterprise Solutions - The

Re: Comments/questions on "High Performance MySQL"

2004-05-19 Thread Hans-Peter Grimm
Hi, Sasha Pachev wrote: Hans-Peter Grimm wrote: I just finished reading "High Performance MySQL". Congratulations to the authors, it's a great book and I enjoyed reading it. Would be great if someone now started to write "MySQL Internals" ;-) I actually do have a fairly long chapter on that subje

Please help me optimize a MySQL server.

2004-05-19 Thread Mohammed Sameer
Hi, I'm running a MySQL server on a duel P III 1G, with 2 GB RAM. MySQL 4.0.18 compiled from source. We have 2 webservers running apache, And this is the backend database server. The server is really slow. a select on a table with 138,247 rows takes about 1.6 - 2+ seconds, I have about 50% CPU id