Re: set wait_timeout

2004-05-20 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > i have problem with automatic setting of variable wait_timeout. > mysql version 4.0.20 (and 4.0.18) on slackware linux. > i've tried to set it in several ways: > > 1) in startup script as a parameter to mysql_safe: > -O wait_timeout=30 > > 2a

Re: Repeat loops in mysql, large data issue, suggestions wanted

2004-05-20 Thread Scott Haneda
on 05/20/2004 10:18 PM, David Griffiths at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I can use any I like, I wont have not even built the DB yet, so I am open to >> any suggestions. >> >> I don't see how I can do it all in one transaction, what does that mean? >> >> >> > What that means is you do 100,0

Re: Repeat loops in mysql, large data issue, suggestions wanted

2004-05-20 Thread David Griffiths
You didn't mention the table-type (storage-engine) you were planning on using, but if you use InnoDB, and do it all in one transaction (ie turn off auto-commit and commit just once at the endi), then any failure during the mass-insert will cause a rollback, so you don't have to worry about the int

Re: delete temp data...

2004-05-20 Thread I D
Jonathan Villa wrote: 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 di

Re: Repeat loops in mysql, large data issue, suggestions wanted

2004-05-20 Thread Scott Haneda
on 05/20/2004 09:36 PM, David Griffiths at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You didn't mention the table-type (storage-engine) you were planning on > using, but if you use InnoDB, and do it all in one transaction (ie turn > off auto-commit and commit just once at the endi), then any failure > during the

Re: Repeat loops in mysql, large data issue, suggestions wanted

2004-05-20 Thread David Griffiths
Assuming you insert 100,000 rows, you also have to consider that any indexes on the table will need to be re-analyzed to fix the statics. Also, the inserts will be slower due to any indexes. You didn't mention the table-type (storage-engine) you were planning on using, but if you use InnoDB, an

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-20 Thread David Blomstrom
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Another perspective on the subject of BLOB vs. > Links. > > > > Links are easier to implement and may be an OK way > to start. However, a file system is really a crude > database, and I emphasize "crude". It's not very > good at handling high transaction rates, acces

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-20 Thread jabbott
You might want to read it again. He is saying the performance and consistancy exists in the database whereas it doesn't in a file system. --ja On Thu, 20 May 2004, David Blomstrom wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Another perspective on the subject of BLOB vs. > > Links. > > > > >

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-20 Thread David Blomstrom
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Another perspective on the subject of BLOB vs. > Links. > > > > Links are easier to implement and may be an OK way > to start. However, a file system is really a crude > database, and I emphasize "crude". It's not very > good at handling high transaction rates, acces

Mysql 4.1.1, InnoDB - Slow TRUNCATE operations with Multiple Tablespaces

2004-05-20 Thread Richard Dale
Hi everybody, I'm experiencing that the command TRUNCATE TABLE with InnoDB takes an extraordinary amount of time on large (> 400MB) tables - ie about 3-4 minutes. In comparison, performing a DROP TABLE then recreating it takes about 2 seconds. When the truncate operation is performed

RE: thread stack issues

2004-05-20 Thread Donny Simonton
I have this same problem on 4.1.1 as well. Donny > -Original Message- > From: Steven Roussey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: thread stack issues > > Since going from 4.0.18 to 4.0.20 (or 4.0.19) I now receive these warni

Repeat loops in mysql, large data issue, suggestions wanted

2004-05-20 Thread Scott Haneda
Faced with some larger than usual for me data requirements, I thought I would ask some others what they think about my logic. MySql 4 In short, I will have a file upload on a web server that will digest a file, I will be able to dictate the format of this file. There may be a few formats, the mai

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:45:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another perspective on the subject of BLOB vs. Links. > > Links are easier to implement and may be an OK way to start. However, a file system > is really a crude database, and I emphasize "crude". It's not very good at handling

thread stack issues

2004-05-20 Thread Steven Roussey
Since going from 4.0.18 to 4.0.20 (or 4.0.19) I now receive these warnings on startup: 040520 14:55:21 mysqld started 040520 14:55:21 Warning: Asked for 196608 thread stack, but got 126976 /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '4.0.20-standard' socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' port: 3306

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-20 Thread Greg Willits
On May 20, 2004, at 2:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another perspective on the subject of BLOB vs. Links. Links are easier to implement and may be an OK way to start. However, a file system is really a crude database, and I emphasize "crude". It's not very good at handling high transaction rate

RE: Rename database

2004-05-20 Thread emierzwa
MERGE tables have a table_name.MRG that contains pathed names to the original table location. You can carefuly hand edit these or run an ALTER command to fix them. ALTER TABLE merge_table_name UNION=(table_1,table_2...)" Ed -Original Message- From: Ed Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

Re: BLOB's - General Guidance

2004-05-20 Thread Udikarni
Another perspective on the subject of BLOB vs. Links. Links are easier to implement and may be an OK way to start. However, a file system is really a crude database, and I emphasize "crude". It's not very good at handling high transaction rates, access from multiple machines, or volume. If your

Re: Limit operations by condition

2004-05-20 Thread Marco Lazzeri
Hi Sasha, I've tried writing a python wrapper but It's an hard work because I've to wrap every type of queries, join, where, order, group and any other MySQL 4.0 clause. Have you ever written or used a wrapper like the one I need? Anyone knows a simple way for developing it? This is not just a SE

RE: Rename database

2004-05-20 Thread Victor Pendleton
innodb and dbd -Original Message- From: Ed Reed To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5/20/04 3:52 PM Subject: RE: Rename database Is there anything wrong with just stopping the server and renaming the database's directory in the DATA directory? I've used that method without any problems. It also

Join Issue

2004-05-20 Thread Roger Counihan
Hi - I'm running 4.0.18, so I can't use subqueries. I need to run a query to get the sum of costs from multiple tables for a given master table. What I have right now which is clearly not going to work is: SELECT conveyor.serial, SUM(conveyorsupport.cost), SUM(conveyoraccessories.cost) from (

Join Question

2004-05-20 Thread Roger Counihan
Hi - I'm running 4.0.18, so I can't use subqueries. I need to run a query to get the sum of costs from multiple tables for a given master table. What I have right now which is clearly not going to work is: SELECT conveyor.serial, SUM(conveyorsupport.cost), SUM(conveyoraccessories.cost) from

RE: Rename database

2004-05-20 Thread Ed Reed
Is there anything wrong with just stopping the server and renaming the database's directory in the DATA directory? I've used that method without any problems. It also works very well for making a copy of the database to a new differently named database. Are there any pitfalls that I haven't encount

RE: Rename database

2004-05-20 Thread Bartis, Robert M (Bob)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/RENAME_TABLE.html -Original Message- From: Ngim Ngau - Kzresults [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rename database Hi, Is there a way I can rename a database? or at least copy an old database wi

Rename database

2004-05-20 Thread Ngim Ngau - Kzresults
Hi, Is there a way I can rename a database? or at least copy an old database with existing tables into a new one? Thanks. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

set wait_timeout

2004-05-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, i have problem with automatic setting of variable wait_timeout. mysql version 4.0.20 (and 4.0.18) on slackware linux. i've tried to set it in several ways: 1) in startup script as a parameter to mysql_safe: -O wait_timeout=30 2a) in configuration file /etc/my.cnf, section [mysqld]: set-variable

Re: delete temp data...

2004-05-20 Thread Ware Adams
Jonathan Villa wrote: > >in /usr/local/mysql/data there is one dir named the same as the db >they are working on, then there is this other file called ibdata1 >which is 2.1G in size.I take a look at the first few lines and all >I get is garbled data, as if it were a binary file or something.

mysql on solaris 8/9

2004-05-20 Thread Aysun Alay
Our application needs to support both solaris 8 and solaris 9. I was wondering if mysql has a backwards compatibility in terms of operating systems. Can I use mysql-pro-4.0.20-sun-solaris2.9-sparc.tar file to install mysql on Solaris 8? Thanks Aysun

Re: R: query string too long?

2004-05-20 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
"Leonardo Francalanci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. Don't send attachments to the mailing list. You can upload file to the ftp://support.mys

delete temp data...

2004-05-20 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 abo

Re: mysqld sock conflicts

2004-05-20 Thread Greg Willits
On May 20, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Sasha Pachev wrote: Greg Willits wrote: 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

Re: Table Relation Design Question

2004-05-20 Thread Garth Webb
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:13, Lewick, Taylor wrote: > Hi all, I am having a little trouble deciding how to relate some of my > tables together. > > > > I was wondering about creating one big lookup table to relate 3 or 4 > tables together, but wasn't sure if that was a good id, or should I have

Re: User information in the binlog (again...)

2004-05-20 Thread Hans-Peter Grimm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember reading about someone inquiring about including the user's information in each query logged to the binlog. Neither "mysqlbinlog" or "show binlog events" shows which user performed which changes to the database (at least for me:4.1.1a-alpha-nt-log / binary distro

Re: Heap table limitations

2004-05-20 Thread Sasha Pachev
Daniel Cummings wrote: We want to convert a 200+ meg table to a heap table. We've gotten pretty good performance converting from InnoDb to MyIsam table but converting to a heap table would give an even bigger performance boost. You think it would, or it already has in your testing? Heap vs. MyISAM

Re: User information in the binlog (again...)

2004-05-20 Thread Sasha Pachev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember reading about someone inquiring about including the user's information in each query logged to the binlog. Neither "mysqlbinlog" or "show binlog events" shows which user performed which changes to the database (at least for me:4.1.1a-alpha-nt-log / binary distro

RE: Heap table limitations

2004-05-20 Thread emierzwa
You can't do efficient ranging on a HASH indexed column without a table scan... Select * from heap_table where indx_col between 247 and 258 This would table scan your 200meg table even if "indx_col" is a PRIMARY KEY, using the default hash key. Hash key was the only choice prior to 4.1, but now y

Re: Table Relation Design Question

2004-05-20 Thread Sasha Pachev
To simplify, is It better to have many smaller lookup tables or one big one? Traylor: You can create three entity tables (organization,contact,event) + the relation tables (org_contact, org_event, contact_event). Small lookup tables are usually better, and also give you points for sticking to

Re: Limit operations by condition

2004-05-20 Thread Sasha Pachev
Marco Lazzeri wrote: Yes, I know. Perhaps, I'm searching for workarounds. Il gio, 2004-05-20 alle 17:58, Victor Pendleton ha scritto: You can grant those permissions on columns but not on individual rows. Marco: Your choices are limited to creating a wrapper for your users. If they have direct ac

Re: mysqld sock conflicts

2004-05-20 Thread Sasha Pachev
Greg Willits wrote: 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

Re: Multi-threading problems in MySql

2004-05-20 Thread Sasha Pachev
Daniel Cummings wrote: We have one query which takes approximately 2 minutes. MySql seems to be unresponsive to any other threads until this query has completed. On some platforms, the thread library has a limitation/bug that does not permit thread pre-emption, which means that if a thread does

Re: max db size for individual users

2004-05-20 Thread Egor Egorov
Jay Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how or where to set the maximum size limit on a per > user basis for their db? This is not for a table, but for their entire db. > > example: >GRANT ALL ON usera.* TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENTIFIED BY "password" > WITH max_db_size=5M

Heap table limitations

2004-05-20 Thread Daniel Cummings
We want to convert a 200+ meg table to a heap table. We've gotten pretty good performance converting from InnoDb to MyIsam table but converting to a heap table would give an even bigger performance boost. Does making a heap file this large make any sense? Are there size limitations to heap

Re: Principles of Data-Base Management

2004-05-20 Thread David Fleming
"Eve Atley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not specifically a MySQL question, but my boss has a lending library, and I > found a book here titled "Principles of Data-Base Management" by James > Martin, publish date of 1976. I thought I might peruse this to get a > background on DB Mangement, but th

RE: Limit operations by condition

2004-05-20 Thread Marco Lazzeri
Yes, I know. Perhaps, I'm searching for workarounds. Il gio, 2004-05-20 alle 17:58, Victor Pendleton ha scritto: > You can grant those permissions on columns but not on individual rows. > > -Original Message- > From: Marco Lazzeri > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 5/20/04 10:04 AM > Subjec

RE: Limit operations by condition

2004-05-20 Thread Victor Pendleton
You can grant those permissions on columns but not on individual rows. -Original Message- From: Marco Lazzeri To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5/20/04 10:04 AM Subject: Limit operations by condition I would like to grant SELECT/UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE privileges _only_ on particular set of rows.

Principles of Data-Base Management

2004-05-20 Thread Eve Atley
Not specifically a MySQL question, but my boss has a lending library, and I found a book here titled "Principles of Data-Base Management" by James Martin, publish date of 1976. I thought I might peruse this to get a background on DB Mangement, but the publishing date concerns me. Has anyone read t

max db size for individual users

2004-05-20 Thread Jay Fitzgerald
Does anyone know how or where to set the maximum size limit on a per user basis for their db? This is not for a table, but for their entire db. example: GRANT ALL ON usera.* TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENTIFIED BY "password" WITH max_db_size=5M; Therefore, usera would be limited to 5 megs of enti

Copying BLOBs

2004-05-20 Thread Ben Ricker
I have a database that stores information in Japanese characters stored in a blob formatted fields. I am having trouble copying these fields from one database to another. I tried doing a mysqldump on the table and then copyng the Insert statement generated but that failed; the inserted filed

Re: Help with Joins

2004-05-20 Thread Peter Brawley
>I want to compose a query that will pull out each >distinct instance of a form (in other words, no >duplicates) and then list which procedures use that >form Something like... SELECT DISTINCT formName FROM forms INNER JOIN procedures USING (formName) PB - Original Message - From: Ro

Limit operations by condition

2004-05-20 Thread Marco Lazzeri
I would like to grant SELECT/UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE privileges _only_ on particular set of rows. The GRANT syntax I'm dreaming could be: GRANT SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE ON table_a TO user_a WHERE table_a.foo = 'bar' I've tried using TEMPORARY TABLEs as follow: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE table_

Re: OT: anyone had a surge of spam recently?

2004-05-20 Thread ct85711
I know my emial; accounts been getting quite alot of spam, though it's been like that for a while now for my self. All I know my email was harvested from other lists too; which may have been the case for myself. Chris > > From: Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/05/20 Thu AM 08:14:0

RE: Very large query text?

2004-05-20 Thread Victor Pendleton
Can you post the explain plan and the query? -Original Message- From: Boyd E. Hemphill To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5/20/04 9:32 AM Subject: Very large query text? I am having a tough time of it in production today ... Any help would be appreciated. I am executing a query of about 10k in

User information in the binlog (again...)

2004-05-20 Thread SGreen
I remember reading about someone inquiring about including the user's information in each query logged to the binlog. Neither "mysqlbinlog" or "show binlog events" shows which user performed which changes to the database (at least for me:4.1.1a-alpha-nt-log / binary distro ) . Is that information

RE: Query help with grouping and latest date.

2004-05-20 Thread emierzwa
Since your on 4.1, give this a try... select * from tbl as a where a.recdate=(select max(b.recdate) from tbl as b where b.id=a.id and b.mount=a.mount) Ed -Original Message- From: Duncan Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Query help with groupin

Very large query text?

2004-05-20 Thread Boyd E. Hemphill
I am having a tough time of it in production today ... Any help would be appreciated. I am executing a query of about 10k in size. When I do this it takes about 15 seconds. If I remove a bunch of case, sum and if statements but get the same explain plan the query runs in 5 seconds (it size is l

Table Relation Design Question

2004-05-20 Thread Lewick, Taylor
Hi all, I am having a little trouble deciding how to relate some of my tables together. I was wondering about creating one big lookup table to relate 3 or 4 tables together, but wasn't sure if that was a good id, or should I have a look up table For each pair of tables. Here is a simple ex

Re: Query help with grouping and latest date.

2004-05-20 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:49, Egor Egorov might have typed: > Duncan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a table that has data that looks like: > > ++-+---+-+ > > > > | id | recdate | mount | perused | > > > > ++-+-

tests please ignore

2004-05-20 Thread Victor Medina
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OT: anyone had a surge of spam recently?

2004-05-20 Thread Daniel Kasak
Hi all. Over the last 2 days, both my home and work email addresses have been hit with a sudden surge in spam, and the content in both cases is the same. Another strange thing is that my home address got basically none - until now. I'm assuming my addresses have been harvested from this list, as

Re: Query help with grouping and latest date.

2004-05-20 Thread Egor Egorov
Egor Egorov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Duncan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a table that has data that looks like: >> ++-+---+-+ >> | id | recdate | mount | perused | >> ++-+---+-+ >> | 1 | 2004-05-20

Re: Query help with grouping and latest date.

2004-05-20 Thread Egor Egorov
Duncan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a table that has data that looks like: > ++-+---+-+ > | id | recdate | mount | perused | > ++-+---+-+ > | 1 | 2004-05-20 10:46:12 | QUAR | 80 | > | 2 | 2004-05

Query help with grouping and latest date.

2004-05-20 Thread Duncan Hill
I have a table that has data that looks like: ++-+---+-+ | id | recdate | mount | perused | ++-+---+-+ | 1 | 2004-05-20 10:46:12 | QUAR | 80 | | 2 | 2004-05-20 11:05:11 | QUAR | 99 | | 2 | 2004-05-20

test please ignore

2004-05-20 Thread Steve Davies
had no mysql list mail for a while just testing please ignore mysql -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]