studying for the certification exam

2004-09-24 Thread Levi Campbell
Hi, I took the MySQL core and professional certification exams and failed both, so now I want to go again, but does anyone have any tips or techniques for studying that they've found useful? - Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Fre

Re: MIN(foo) as bar WHERE bar>50

2004-09-24 Thread Garth Winter Webb
You can't use a value calculated in the SELECT clause as a constraint in the WHERE clause (its a chicken & egg problem); the WHERE clause is what determines the values in the SELECT clause. What you want is the HAVING clause which is applied *after* all matching rows have been found: SELECT p.nam

Re: MIN(foo) as bar WHERE bar>50

2004-09-24 Thread Rhino
What version of MySQL are you running? Version 4.1.x and 5.0.x offer many more potential solutions than the earlier versions, which don't support subqueries. Rhino - Original Message - From: "Laszlo Thoth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:31

MIN(foo) as bar WHERE bar>50

2004-09-24 Thread Laszlo Thoth
I'm trying to construct a query and running into either a limitation of the SQL language or (more probably) a limitation in my *comprehension* of the SQL language. Here's a simplified version of my data set: === CREATE TABLE people ( name varc

Re: bulk loading of data

2004-09-24 Thread mos
At 03:28 PM 9/24/2004, you wrote: Hello, I have a C++ application which spits out data continuously which I need to load into a database. The data rate is roughly 50,000 rows * 50 bytes/row per second. I use LOAD DATA INFILE (the quickest way I can find to load data into the db) to load these data

Re: how to change mysqldump output txt file format?

2004-09-24 Thread Monet
Thanks Jim. Great suggestions. I will try both to see which one is better for my case. Appreciated your help. Monet --- Jim Grill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah. I am moving data from mysql server to sql > > server. > > Because I have single quote in some strings, it > > generated errors whe

Re: browser form question

2004-09-24 Thread Jim Grill
> > I've been searching long and hard and have come across > > a few techniques for changing text entries with lower > > case (entered by web user) and changing them to have > > first letter capitalized. > > > > in php. ucfirst > > in java capitalize > > > > But I'm not having success on t

bulk loading of data

2004-09-24 Thread David Mehringer
Hello, I have a C++ application which spits out data continuously which I need to load into a database. The data rate is roughly 50,000 rows * 50 bytes/row per second. I use LOAD DATA INFILE (the quickest way I can find to load data into the db) to load these data into MyISAM tables which is ac

Re: how to change mysqldump output txt file format?

2004-09-24 Thread Jim Grill
> Yeah. I am moving data from mysql server to sql > server. > Because I have single quote in some strings, it > generated errors when I ran mysqldump scripts in sql > server to import data in. > i.e. strings Here's, Martin's ,... caused trouble. > Does that mean sql didn't recognize escaped single

Re: ISAM corruption: Error 1033: Incorrect information in file '/path/x.frm'

2004-09-24 Thread Brian J.S. Miller
> > > Brian J.S. Miller wrote: > >> >>Walt, >> >>The tables are ISAM type. These are some seriously old tables >> (originally >>from version 3.21) and were never updated to type MyISAM. Despite >>frequent updates to mysqld. >> >>There is a program isamchk which is similar to myisamchk, but it ret

Re: ISAM corruption: Error 1033: Incorrect information in file '/path/x.frm'

2004-09-24 Thread gerald_clark
Brian J.S. Miller wrote: Walt, The tables are ISAM type. These are some seriously old tables (originally from version 3.21) and were never updated to type MyISAM. Despite frequent updates to mysqld. There is a program isamchk which is similar to myisamchk, but it returns the error "___ is not a

Re: browser form question

2004-09-24 Thread Donna Hinshaw
within Java, you'll need to create a new String object, like String textCapitalized = new String; and then when you receive the web text input (say you call it webText) you do the capitalize function on webText and set it to textCapitalized, like textCapitalized = capitalizeFCT(webText); and then

Re: ISAM corruption: Error 1033: Incorrect information in file '/path/x.frm'

2004-09-24 Thread kernel
Brian J.S. Miller wrote: Brian J.S. Miller wrote: Hello, I've read over every archived posting I can find about this problem and havne't found a solution that seems to work for me. Here is the deal: I had a server crash. Hard. I re-built the server (i686, Debian install, kernel 2.4.18). I rest

Re: how to change mysqldump output txt file format?

2004-09-24 Thread Monet
Yeah. I am moving data from mysql server to sql server. Because I have single quote in some strings, it generated errors when I ran mysqldump scripts in sql server to import data in. i.e. strings Here's, Martin's ,... caused trouble. Does that mean sql didn't recognize escaped single quote? Thank

Re: ISAM corruption: Error 1033: Incorrect information in file '/path/x.frm'

2004-09-24 Thread Brian J.S. Miller
> Brian J.S. Miller wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I've read over every archived posting I can find about this problem and >>havne't found a solution that seems to work for me. >> >>Here is the deal: >>I had a server crash. Hard. >>I re-built the server (i686, Debian install, kernel 2.4.18). >>I restored t

Re: how to change mysqldump output txt file format?

2004-09-24 Thread Jim Grill
> Is there nothing you can do with > --fields-terminated-by=... > --fields-enclosed-by=... > --fields-optionally-enclosed-by=... > --fields-escaped-by=... > --lines-terminated-by=... As I mentioned, those options **only** apply when using the "-T" option which creates a tab delimited dump fi

Re: SV: Mysql goes down when executing query

2004-09-24 Thread Mauricio Pellegrini
Heikki, I was collecting information about the incident and preparing a detailed bug report, when decided to repeat the whole process from within the mysql client, (I mean the original text mode client that comes with the server installation) I was surprised to see that problem DOES NOT occur fro

Re: how to change mysqldump output txt file format?

2004-09-24 Thread SGreen
Jim - He needs to change the format because he isn't exporting from one MySQL database to another His destination database doesn't like the escaped single quotes. Here is the manual page for mysqldump: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqldump.html Is there nothing you can do with --fie

Re: Problem with insert statement; ERROR 1030 at line 188: Got error 28 from table handler

2004-09-24 Thread kernel
Sebastian Geib wrote: Hi! I have a huge problem with the following insert statement: INSERT INTO cds_catalog SELECT cds_stage.cds_catalog.* FROM cds.cds_catalog, cds_stage.cds_catalog WHERE cds_stage.cds_catalog.prodid<>cds.cds_catalog.prodid; Whenever I'm running it, it pro

Re: ISAM corruption: Error 1033: Incorrect information in file '/path/x.frm'

2004-09-24 Thread kernel
Brian J.S. Miller wrote: Hello, I've read over every archived posting I can find about this problem and havne't found a solution that seems to work for me. Here is the deal: I had a server crash. Hard. I re-built the server (i686, Debian install, kernel 2.4.18). I restored the data for 1 database f

Re: how to change mysqldump output txt file format?

2004-09-24 Thread Jim Grill
> Hello everyone, > > In mysqldump output txt file, all datetime, varchar, > text fields value are surrounding by single quotes. Is > there any way that the single quotes can be replaced > by double quotes in the txt file? > Furthermore, if you have a single quote in text field, > it will automatic

Re: browser form question

2004-09-24 Thread SGreen
You have two good opportunities to fix your text before it hits the database. Your first chance is on the submitting form. Use JavaScript to modify the submitted data. Your second opportunity is server-side and is in the script on the page that handles your form's submission. That's also the pa

how to change mysqldump output txt file format?

2004-09-24 Thread Monet
Hello everyone, In mysqldump output txt file, all datetime, varchar, text fields value are surrounding by single quotes. Is there any way that the single quotes can be replaced by double quotes in the txt file? Furthermore, if you have a single quote in text field, it will automatically replaced b

Re: browser form question

2004-09-24 Thread Brian J.S. Miller
> I've been searching long and hard and have come across > a few techniques for changing text entries with lower > case (entered by web user) and changing them to have > first letter capitalized. > > in php. ucfirst > in java capitalize > > But I'm not having success on the database side.

browser form question

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Ripley
I've been searching long and hard and have come across a few techniques for changing text entries with lower case (entered by web user) and changing them to have first letter capitalized. in php. ucfirst in java capitalize But I'm not having success on the database side. Everything the

Re: MIGRATION OF DATABASE FROM ONE BOX TO ANOTHER BOX

2004-09-24 Thread Roger Baklund
* Seena Blace > How to migrate mysql database from one box to another box ? You could use mysqldump on the source box, and the standard client to import the dumped file on the target box: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqldump.html > There are other options, depending on the table handler u

TO - Mysql + PHP

2004-09-24 Thread nestor(earth)
Hi people, Well, I managed to set apache (1.3.31) + php (5.0.1) + mysql (5.0.1) on my laptop and it works find :-) I am tried the same set up on my desktop and I could not get it to work. I can get Apache(1.3.31) + PHP (4.3.8) to work together and mysql (5.0.1) and php can see mysql but every

MIGRATION OF DATABASE FROM ONE BOX TO ANOTHER BOX

2004-09-24 Thread Seena Blace
Hi, How to migrate mysql database from one box to another box ? thanks -Seena - Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!

Fw: great problem with questions

2004-09-24 Thread SGreen
Always CC the list. That way everyone gets a chance to help. Problems like I had yesterday with my mail router won't slow down a response as everyone will have seen it. Understand? This latest post is rather disjointed... You show us a sample SELECT statement but tell us that an EXPLAIN SELECT

ISAM corruption: Error 1033: Incorrect information in file '/path/x.frm'

2004-09-24 Thread Brian J.S. Miller
Hello, I've read over every archived posting I can find about this problem and havne't found a solution that seems to work for me. Here is the deal: I had a server crash. Hard. I re-built the server (i686, Debian install, kernel 2.4.18). I restored the data for 1 database from tapes to use for te

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] MySQL License Question

2004-09-24 Thread Victor Medina
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 11:05, Jim Grill wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I sent this question to the mysql license email, but it's been more than > > 3 days since then and I haven't received a answer... So I will ask it > > again here, to see if someone can clarify this issue. > > > > Are you actually distri

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] MySQL License Question

2004-09-24 Thread Jim Grill
> Hi! > > I sent this question to the mysql license email, but it's been more than > 3 days since then and I haven't received a answer... So I will ask it > again here, to see if someone can clarify this issue. > Are you actually distributing MySQL with your application? Or are you just using inst

Problem with insert statement; ERROR 1030 at line 188: Got error 28 from table handler

2004-09-24 Thread Sebastian Geib
Hi! I have a huge problem with the following insert statement: INSERT INTO cds_catalog SELECT cds_stage.cds_catalog.* FROM cds.cds_catalog, cds_stage.cds_catalog WHERE cds_stage.cds_catalog.prodid<>cds.cds_catalog.prodid; Whenever I'm running it, it produces the error mentio

Re: great problem with questions

2004-09-24 Thread Roger Baklund
* DeRyl > * Roger Baklund > The first thing to notice: "Using temporary"... this is to be avoided, if > possible. > > ## how is the correct way to avoid that? Depends, in this case I think it is because of the DISTINCT. > The first table read is klientslowo based on the criteria > klientslowo.kli

reg backup

2004-09-24 Thread lakshmi.narasimharao
Hi, Is there any way to handle backup in the mysql 4.0 classic with out innoDB?. And may i know the differences between transaction - safe and transaction -full locks ?. And what is the best way to confirm whether innodb is running or not in mysql 4.0?. Thanks, Narasimha -

[OFF-TOPIC] MySQL License Question

2004-09-24 Thread Victor Medina
Hi! I sent this question to the mysql license email, but it's been more than 3 days since then and I haven't received a answer... So I will ask it again here, to see if someone can clarify this issue. We are small hardware store. We have developed our own POS software to fill our necessities

Windows VS Linux Platform

2004-09-24 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hello, I have a very short question I was wondering if there are any differences in how MySQL behaves on Windows and Linux. (i.e. difference in performance, slightly different syntaxetc) If anyone has a link to such documentation it would be greatly appreaciated. Thanks, -- Yves Arse

Re: Unable top drop table, error 1051

2004-09-24 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi, Egor Egorov wrote: Can you create a test case? I.e. a .sql file which is supposed to drop the table well but instead fails? Nevermind my last post, I found the workaround to disable foregin_key_checks during import; interesting. Here is a small example: set foreign_key_checks=0; CREATE TABLE

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

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Thank you for valuable feedback! -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_

Re: A query to swap the data in two fields

2004-09-24 Thread Bill Easton
How about: update table1 set beds1=(@TEMP:=beds1), beds1=beds2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems to work for me. = original message follows == To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: zzapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A query to swap the data in two fields Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:01:09

Re: Unable top drop table, error 1051

2004-09-24 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi, Egor Egorov wrote: Can you create a test case? I.e. a .sql file which is supposed to drop the table well but instead fails? This will help us determine if it's a bug and fix if it is. Thanks, this hit a pretty interesting nail for me: I can dump it, but I can't load the dump into the datab

Re: Huge Innodb file

2004-09-24 Thread Ware Adams
On Sep 24, 2004, at 4:03 AM, MaFai wrote: Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here's my setting: innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend Now the ibdata1 has been grow up to 1.3G We try to add more ibdata file to store the data by the following setting. innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:1500M;ibdata2:1500

mysqldump --opt crashes server on InnoDB tables

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Plümpe
Hi there, I'm using mysql on a Mandrake 9.2 server. As I wanted to move to InnoDB tables and the standard mysql-4.0.15 on Mandrake doesn't have that compiled in, I obtained the most recent (4.0.21) version from mysql.com, uninstalled the Mandrake version and installed the mysql.com one. I assumed

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

2004-09-24 Thread JG
At 02:04 AM 9/24/2004, Egor Egorov wrote: Jeremy Zawodny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > And we've had good but limited experiences so far with 64 bit FreeBSD >> > 5 on amd64 (also a quad w/32GB). >> >> Somewhere in this list I've seen controversial reports about FreeBSD/amd64. >> Seems like it's

RE: Upgrading MySQL. Caveats or Cautions anyone?

2004-09-24 Thread Michael McTernan
Hi, I found that the Intel C++ version needed some libraries which weren't on my RH9.0 system (this was when upgrading to 4.1.4g): libcprts.so.5 libcxa.so.5 libunwind.so.5 This seems to have been reported many times e.g. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=4408 The resolve was to get the lib

Re: Two versions on same server?

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
"Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The link to manual was already suggested, but I may also suggest you to try run the application on 4.0 anyway. It should work seamlessly. > Can I run two different versions of MySQL on the same server? I've got a > commercial application for which the v

Re: 4.1.3-5. Bugs alive!

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Juri Shimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using 'int not null' make next enum (using cp1251) corrupted in > mysqldump output on W2000. > Is this a known issue? Spasibo, the bug is posted as http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=5728 I'm not sure if this is a known issue, but I let the developers inve

Re: libmysqlclient.so.10()(64bit) not found

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Better download the official binaries from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html There are RPM builts for AMD64. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ __ /

Updating one table with results from another..

2004-09-24 Thread Critters
Hi, I have alot of data and im trying to speed things up by making some summary tables. My summary_totals table has: id, websiteid, hits, visitors This will contain the websiteid, total hits and total visitors. My hits table has (there are many more fields, but they are not relevant to this) id,

Re: mysql 4.1.5 FreeBSD 4.10 compile error

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Unreal HSHH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Making all in sql > make all-recursive > Making all in share > ../../extra/comp_err -C./charsets/ danish/errmsg.sys > Usage: ../../extra/comp_err [-?] [-I] [-V] fromfile[s] tofile > *** Error code 255 > > what's this error? Something wrong which is uncl

Re: Clean Reinstall

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
FayeC SQL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: rpm -qa | grep -i mysql then remove all MySQL packages, which are likely to be MySQL-shared, MySQL-server, MySQL-client and/or similar names if not the official RPMs where installed. To remove a package, do rpm --erase --force --nodeps Then rm -rf /var/l

Re: Duplicate Entries

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Suresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am porting from 4.0.0-alpha-nt to 4.0.1-alpha-nt. In which i have a > table with two primary key, my older mysql server insert all the records > except the duplicate fields(Primary Key). Whereas in the new mysql > server it exits whenever it sees a duplicate

Re: Unable top drop table, error 1051

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Can you create a test case? I.e. a .sql file which is supposed to drop the table well but instead fails? This will help us determine if it's a bug and fix if it is. Thank you! -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.n

Re: MySQL query performance test tool

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Haitao Jiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We want to test our MYSQL (4.1.4g) server's query performance, and I > just wondering if there is a tool that enable us sending a list of > queries over HTTP or JDBC repeatedly and gather/display the > statistics? Honetsly, it's almost always better to wr

Re: libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Installing MySQL-server-4.0.21-0.i386.rpm > on Red Hat 9.0 > > Getting the following: > error: Failed dependencies: >libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by (installed) MySQL-python-0.9.1-6 >libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by (installed) perl-D

Re: Eventual connection looses

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Server_system_variables.html You are interested in "interactive_timeout" and "wait_timeout" system variables. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __

Re: Upgrading MySQL. Caveats or Cautions anyone?

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The simpliest way: Download and install MySQL Official Binary RPMs from www.mysql.com. They will install on your server and run fine. You'd also want to install the shared-compat RPM in case you have something compiled with older libmysqlclient. The lin

Re: Which file to backup

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Luciano Barcaro <[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

Re: Connection Error

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
"Phillip Mangwiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 m

RE: Need to store a Guid as an Id

2004-09-24 Thread Michael McTernan
Hi, > I was able to get the binary storate I needed in a TinyBlob > but I can't set this to a primary key. Can be done: mysql> CREATE TABLE tb -> ( -> id TINYBLOB NOT NULL, -> PRIMARY KEY (id(255)) -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) You need to say how many chars you

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

2004-09-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Jeremy Zawodny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > And we've had good but limited experiences so far with 64 bit FreeBSD >> > 5 on amd64 (also a quad w/32GB). >> >> Somewhere in this list I've seen controversial reports about FreeBSD/amd64. >> Seems like it's not yet stable and may give unpredictable

Re: Using keys and left()

2004-09-24 Thread Alec . Cawley
"Alexander Newald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 23/09/2004 19:28:09: > > > > Does > >select count(id) from test where id like "d%" ; > > work any better? I would expect it to make better use of the index. > > > >Alec > > > > Hello, > > yes it works better for sets of data with ve

Huge Innodb file

2004-09-24 Thread MaFai
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here's my setting: innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend Now the ibdata1 has been grow up to 1.3G We try to add more ibdata file to store the data by the following setting. innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:1500M;ibdata2:1500M:autoextend innodb_data_file_path = ibd