eBay: Sold on Grid (database array)

2004-09-17 Thread Henry Chang
I like to share with you all, an interesting article about eBay's deployment of database arrays. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1640234,00.asp Specifically on page 2, Marty Abbott (eBay's VP of Technology) states that eBay has four equal data centers. So in this array scheme, a write

mysql and myisam

2004-09-17 Thread Roberto Amucano
Does anybody know if it's possible to use together the mysql interface and native myisam commands? I tried with unfortunate result, obtaining a: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x080b7aee in _mi_writeinfo (info=0x8118bf0, operation=0) at mi_locking.c:371 371

How to limit log space usage?

2004-09-17 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, I have a configuration with 1 master and 2 slaves; all servers are correctly running mysql-max-4.0.20. All is fine, but I'm observing a strange usage of logs. On one of the slaves I have: mysql show slave status \G *** 1. row ***

Re: How to limit log space usage?

2004-09-17 Thread Alex Greg
Nico Sabbi wrote: [...] There are 3 GB of logs that no one needs anymore. Since the master knows that all the slaves are correctly aligned up to a certain MASTER_LOG_POS, can't it automatically remove the logs up to that position? The problem here is that MySQL masters aren't necessarily aware of

Re: drop database after lost of synchro in innodb

2004-09-17 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Johanne, DROP DATABASE is rather safe, if it succeeds. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/InnoDB.html is the best reference. Best regards, Heikki Innobase Oy InnoDB - transactions, row level locking, and foreign keys for MySQL InnoDB Hot Backup - a hot backup tool for InnoDB which also backs up

Re: How to limit log space usage?

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/PURGE_MASTER_LOGS.html -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/

Re: 4.1 client protocol?

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Todd Gruben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an interesting problem. I have developed a custom mysql replication client that we use for monitoring our mysql database. Kinda like a poor man's trigger, but the power of an asynchronus trigger is very beneficial. Any way, I developed this

Re: Which file to backup

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Mauricio Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to backup the 'binary log' and don't know which file is it. these are the files I see in my datadir -rw-rw 1 mysql users175K Sep 14 14:21 hrrgp01-bin.07 -rw-rw 1 mysql users345K Sep 14 15:03

Error

2004-09-17 Thread Scott Hamm
mysql create table list_admin ( - admin_id int(11) default '0' not null auto_increment - ); ERROR 1067 (42000): Invalid default value for 'admin_id' How can I set default value to 0? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: About Mysql Security

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Mike Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last week, the all tables in one database had been deleted, which is second times since I upgrade my operation system from NT 4.0 to Server 2003. Before that, they had been deleted many times. I just copied all table files to one database(one directory).

Re: Changing datatype of a large table's column

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Wouter van Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would I be able to support the datatype change on this? And more generally; can somebody advice me on (maybe some other) strategy for changing the datatype? Actually it's easy, you just need to have free space to be able to convert from blob to

Re: Query execution time?

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
joe mcguckin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the mysql server return to the client (DBI in this case) the query execution time? If so, how do I retrieve it? my $_startTime = time; $dbh-do(INSERT INTO dinner VALUES ('chicken','grille')); print Execution time: .(time - $_startTime).\n; Like

Re: Installing DBIx::DWIW on CPAN

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Sanjeev Sagar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DBIx-DWIW-0.41]# make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=3D1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch test.pl 1..1 # Running under perl version 5.008 for linux # Current time local: Wed Sep 15 13:42:27 2004 # Current time GMT: Wed Sep 15 20:42:27

Re: Error

2004-09-17 Thread Alec . Cawley
Scott Hamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/09/2004 13:15:30: mysql create table list_admin ( - admin_id int(11) default '0' not null auto_increment - ); ERROR 1067 (42000): Invalid default value for 'admin_id' How can I set default value to 0? I don't think you can have a default

Re: Error

2004-09-17 Thread Terry Riley
You can't - auto_increment cannot have a default value, AFAIAA. Terry - Original Message - mysql create table list_admin ( - admin_id int(11) default '0' not null auto_increment - ); ERROR 1067 (42000): Invalid default value for 'admin_id' How can I set default value to

Re: root-password important?

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Marten Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: security problem? Is there any way to trick the mysql-server, so that a remote-client can claim to be a localhost-client and thus can connect as mysql-user root? No. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita

Re: different max_connections based on users/host

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Alberto Mucignat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean, suppose we have max_connections=500, is it possible to say that from all external clients there could be at max 490 connections, while a single host or user can have at max 10 connections? Obviously, if host who has reserved 10 connections

Re: Mysql goes down when executing query

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Mauricio Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry to disturb but Mysql 4.1.4 gamma goes down when executing this query. Please create a testcase and send it to me by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will investigate and get back to you. Somehow looks like you've found a bug. -- For

Re: Force slave to connect from specified IP

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Irek Slonina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two interfaces on my slave: ppp0 80.80.80.8 ( - Internet ) eth0 10.10.10.1 ( - LAN ) and remote master host 192.168.168.168 available by 80.80.80.8. How can I force mysql to start slave processes using 10.10.10.1 and not 80.80.80.8, which is

Re: Error

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Stassen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Hamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/09/2004 13:15:30: mysql create table list_admin ( - admin_id int(11) default '0' not null auto_increment - ); ERROR 1067 (42000): Invalid default value for 'admin_id' How can I set default value to 0? I don't think you can

Re: Problem bringing up mysql on RHEL

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: manual, mysql_install_db gets run automatically when you do this, but I don't know what to look for as evidence that this has happened. Wrong way. Remove it and install MySQL official binary RPMs downloaded from www.mysql.com. -- For technical

Re: Checking for live connections

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of checking for live connections prior to using mysql_connect in the C API (asside from mysql_ping) Try to open a TCP connection to port 3306 of target server. If successful - then connections are live. Close that test

Re: ft_min_word_len=2... YAY or NAY?

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering whether or not I should implement fulltext searching for 2 letter words within a product database (HP, TV, G5, LG, etc)... My searchable text is currently about 600Mb and a 3-letter fulltext index is consuming about 420Mb. Is the trade-off for user

Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? OpenBSD? SuSE?

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Dathan Vance Pattishall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get permission from my bosses to release the benchmarks I will send it = to the list. Please! This definitely will be a valuable information for the community. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita

Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? OpenBSD? SuSE?

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can verify that a quad opteron 2.2 runs about a million times better than a quad xeon 3.06. The opteron can handle more than 3 gigs of memory which is a 32 bit limitation. Right now in my quad opteron we have 32 gigs of memory and MySQL is using

Re: Which MySQL product should I choose for a comparison?

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing a technical comparison between two products of which one is MySQL. But I don't exactly know which product that MySQL offers that I should pick. I am thinking of MaxDB, because it's supposed to be the most feature rice, but it does not seem to be MySQL

Re: Which file to backup

2004-09-17 Thread Luciano Barcaro
Egor Egorov wrote: Mauricio Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to backup the 'binary log' and don't know which file is it. these are the files I see in my datadir -rw-rw 1 mysql users175K Sep 14 14:21 hrrgp01-bin.07 -rw-rw 1 mysql users345K Sep 14

Re: Query with group by

2004-09-17 Thread Rhino
Here is the output I got when I ran my query - and yours, Michael - against DB2 V7.2. Please note that I replaced the 'temp' table in Michael's query with the real table in both the outer query and the subquery; no other changes were made.

Re: delay_key_write usage

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the documentation, when delay_key_write is active the index keys aren=92t written to disk until the table(s) are closed. When is a = table closed? Is it only when a connection is closed? When connection is closed, when FLUSH TABLES

Re: Lost connection to MySQL server during query bind-address

2004-09-17 Thread Egor Egorov
Marten Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redhat Enterprise Linux 3, self-build mysql 4.0.20 (server and client). OKay, here's the problem - a self-built MySQL. Unfortunately, due to some glibc bugs it's not really possible to build a stable MySQL under linux using stock glibc... And the

database relations

2004-09-17 Thread tommie ramirez andujar
Hello folks Can I use or implement database relations in sql as some do in databases in accecss..? tommie -- ___ msc. tomas alberto ramirez.andujar webmaster - cejisoft - +5332 262451 /261410 universidad pedagogica jose marti. camaguey circunvalacion norte

Re: Problem bringing up mysql on RHEL

2004-09-17 Thread Peter Flynn
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:47, Egor Egorov wrote: Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: manual, mysql_install_db gets run automatically when you do this, but I don't know what to look for as evidence that this has happened. Wrong way. Remove it and install MySQL official binary RPMs

JDBC - how to insert Strings with mixed characterEncodings

2004-09-17 Thread Barley
Say, for example, I want to run an insert like the following: java.sql.Statement select = conn.createStatement(); select.executeUpdate(update test set observerNote='\u201C ... \u00BC'); FWIW, u201C is an opening curly quote and u00BC is a fraction representing one quarter. If I create my JDBC

mysqldump and the dreaded lost root password dilemma

2004-09-17 Thread Mitch Pirtle
Hi list, First question - I have a machine that was being managed by Plesk, and an update to mod_python left Plesk in a nonrunning state (actually causes apache to segfault). So I am attempting to manually manage MySQL (the way it should be done!) - but there is apparently no root user in

mysql installation

2004-09-17 Thread Caulfield, Linda
Hello, I am trying to setup mysql and need some guidance - thanks Linda Caulfield Software Quality Engineer Global Hawk Program Rancho Bernardo X4680 Phone:858.618.4680 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: grants to multiple DBs at once

2004-09-17 Thread Brian C. Hill
Hi Michael, Thanks for the reply. It doesn't work, at least not with 4.0.18. I also tried without the _ to simplify the case, but the grant statement isn't wild about the wildcard. :) The docs you list are for 4.1. I guess I will have to wait until 4.1. :)

sql statement: optimize TABLE tablename taking forever

2004-09-17 Thread Lopez David E-r9374c
the statement is taking 3 hours and counting. optimize TABLE tablename normally this takes 30 minutes or so. boss wants to kill this thread. does that mean the table will end up corrupt? any input helpful. david hrdw: solaris 4cpu, running version 8 mysql version

Re: How to limit log space usage?

2004-09-17 Thread kernel
Nico Sabbi wrote: Hi, I have a configuration with 1 master and 2 slaves; all servers are correctly running mysql-max-4.0.20. All is fine, but I'm observing a strange usage of logs. On one of the slaves I have: mysql show slave status \G *** 1. row

Re: mysqldump and the dreaded lost root password dilemma

2004-09-17 Thread Brent Baisley
There probably is a root user, but it's not called root. You can name the root user whatever you want. You probably just don't have a user named root, which is why you can change the password for user root. You want to start MySQL with the skip grant tables options, just like in the

OUTER JOIN bug in 5.0.1?

2004-09-17 Thread Josh Trutwin
Is there a known bug with outer joins in MySQL 5.0.1? I tried the following query on 5.0.1: SELECT s.tech_id, s.full_name, sa.points_awarded, sa.date_submitted FROM student s INNER JOIN enrollment e ON e.tech_id = s.tech_id INNER JOIN submitted_assignment sa ON sa.tech_id = s.tech_id RIGHT JOIN

Re: grants to multiple DBs at once

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Stassen
That's my fault. It does work with 4.0.18. (The manual is usually pretty good at specifying when something is 4.1 only, by the way.) You need to quote the db string with backticks, not single quotes (as I did in my example). So, you would use GRANT SELECT ON `dev\_%`.* TO [EMAIL

Problems with Left Join query

2004-09-17 Thread David T.
I am building a database with permissions for different modules. The permissions table contains a separate row for each module/user combination, and lists the add/mod/del permissions for that module. So, for example, user 'bob' might have add and del rights for 'module1', add only rights for

Re: Problems with Left Join query

2004-09-17 Thread Greg Donald
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:33:04 -0700 (PDT), David T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building a database with permissions for different modules. The permissions table contains a separate row for each module/user combination, You didn't say, but if you're using PHP you might find this of use:

Re: Problems with Left Join query

2004-09-17 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: David T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 2:33 PM Subject: Problems with Left Join query I am building a database with permissions for different modules. The permissions table contains a separate row for each

Re: Problems with Left Join query

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Stassen
First, you want to get an answer for every module, so you must use modules LEFT JOIN permissions to get a row for every module. You see? The table with missing rows (no row for Bob/module3 in permissions) goes on the right. When the table on the right does not have a matching row, the LEFT

Re: best-performing CPU + platform for MySQL now? Opteron? OpenBSD? SuSE?

2004-09-17 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:01:53PM +0300, Egor Egorov wrote: Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can verify that a quad opteron 2.2 runs about a million times better than a quad xeon 3.06. The opteron can handle more than 3 gigs of memory which is a 32 bit limitation. Right now in

Re: Query with group by

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Stassen
I took a closer look and found the problem -- char(date). Is char() necessary in DB2 to cast the date as a string? In MySQL, char() expects a list of integers to interpret as a list of character codes http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/String_functions.html. Removing char() makes the query

Upgrading MySQL. Caveats or Cautions anyone?

2004-09-17 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello: Am currently using Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.58 on Linux 2.4.20-20.9. (RH 9.0). I'd like to upgrade to the current version. I would like to know if there are any cautions to observe, or any prepartory steps to take. If I look at the following URL:

Re: Upgrading MySQL. Caveats or Cautions anyone?

2004-09-17 Thread Eric Bergen
You can ignore both of those if you use the binaries. -Eric On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:43:02 -0800, Tim Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: Am currently using Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.58 on Linux 2.4.20-20.9. (RH 9.0). I'd like to upgrade to the current version. I would like to know

Re: Query with group by

2004-09-17 Thread Rhino
From the SQL Reference for DB2: --- -CHAR--(--datetime-expression+---+--) '-,--+-ISO---+--' +-USA---+ +-EUR---+

Connection Error

2004-09-17 Thread Phillip Mangwiro
I'm getting an Error 1130, (MyDNSName is not allowed to connect to this machine), whenever I try to connect to MySQL server from any client by using its IP or friendly DNS name other than 127.0.0.1 or localhost. This has happened on three machines so far, is there something I forgot to