RE: Increasing max_connections and table_cache on Solaris 8

2005-06-27 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, Hm, using ulimit on my own Ultra Sparc w/ Solaris 8, I can raise ulimit to max. 1024. Probably not quite enough. More study will be required :-/ Martijn > -Original Message- > From: Gleb Paharenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: donderdag 23 juni 2005 16:27 > To: mysql@lists.mysq

Re: looking for a pure startup opportunity..

2005-06-27 Thread Sebastian
if that was the case it would easy to be a millionaire.. spam or scam... it's all the same.. bruce wrote: hi... i'm out here in california, the bay area, and was wondering if anyone on the list is interested in either being partners, forming a sweat equity startup? or if anyone has an idea/con

Dynamic insertion of date for LOAD INFILE

2005-06-27 Thread David Perron
Im trying to get dynamically insert the current date into a LOAD FILE statement for some ETL automation, but Im having difficulty passing the string into the LOAD statement: This will not work. SELECT @Today:=CURDATE(); LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/s3/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' INTO TABLE Data; Anyone

looking for a pure startup opportunity..

2005-06-27 Thread bruce
hi... i'm out here in california, the bay area, and was wondering if anyone on the list is interested in either being partners, forming a sweat equity startup? or if anyone has an idea/concept, and you're looking for people to be part of your team... i've read way too many articles about the 3 ki

FW: what WHERE how... i am confused: extra instances of foreign keys are being problematic

2005-06-27 Thread Duncan Westfall
I am having trouble with this small bit of sql I am using for a homepage. I need to select information on the next two events from two separate tables; tblevents (which holds event related info), and tbleventdate (which holds info related to each date, including times and informatio

what WHERE how... i am confused: extra instances of foreign keys are being problematic

2005-06-27 Thread Duncan Westfall
I am having trouble with this small bit of sql I am using for a homepage. I need to select information on the next two events from two separate tables; tblevents (which holds event related info), and tbleventdate (which holds info related to each date, including times and informatio

Re: Why would a UNION be 100x slower than the same SELECT...

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin Burton
Kevin Burton wrote: Any idea whats going on and how I could fix this? This seems like a bug in the SQL parser. The LIMIT is only ignored in this one situation. If I just add a: UNION (SELECT * FROM FOO LIMIT 0) To the query will work correctly. This might be an acceptable workaround

Re: could a Trigger execute a outside command?

2005-06-27 Thread Ted Zeng
Jeremy, Thanks. I used Perl's cron module to execute my script. So I assume only the cron mdoule is active all the time, but not my perl script. Your approach looks interesting to me. I will think about it. ted zeng On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Jeremy Cole wrote: Hi Ted, When a new record

Re: Why would a UNION be 100x slower than the same SELECT...

2005-06-27 Thread Rhino
Why do you think you're using a UNION in your query? The keyword UNION doesn't appear anywhere in your query. You don't even have a second query being UNIONed to the first. All you've got is a pair of parentheses surrounding your original query, which seems to perform okay. For what it's worth, I

Re: Why would a UNION be 100x slower than the same SELECT...

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin Burton
Kevin Burton wrote: ( SELECT * FROM FOO WHERE FOO.LAST_UPDATED < 1119898418779 AND FOO.FEED_ID = 1 ORDER BY FOO.LAST_UPDATED DESC LIMIT 10 ) ORDER BY LAST_UPDATED DESC LIMIT 10 OK. I *totally* just figured it out! WOW. so.. the LIMIT in the first SELECT is *totally* ignored and the entire

Why would a UNION be 100x slower than the same SELECT...

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin Burton
Here's a big problem I'm having. If I have a query like: SELECT * FROM FOO WHERE FOO.LAST_UPDATED < 1119898418779 AND FOO.FEED_ID = 1 ORDER BY FOO.LAST_UPDATED DESC LIMIT 10 it only takes about 10ms or so to execute. but... if I rewrite it to wrap it in a union like so: ( SELECT * FROM FOO WH

Re: could a Trigger execute a outside command?

2005-06-27 Thread Jeremy Cole
Hi Ted, When a new record is added to a specific table, I want to react to it right away, running a perl script to do something. Right now, I use a cronjob that checks the table every minuet. It is slow(it could waits up to a whole min.) and not efficient. To my understanding, I would need to

Re: could a Trigger execute a outside command?

2005-06-27 Thread Ted Zeng
When a new record is added to a specific table, I want to react to it right away, running a perl script to do something. Right now, I use a cronjob that checks the table every minuet. It is slow(it could waits up to a whole min.) and not efficient. To my understanding, I would need to put a trig

Re: could a Trigger execute a outside command?

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Kruckenberg
On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Ted Zeng wrote: I don't know if it is possible under Mac OS. But I assume it is, consider it is basically a UNIX. I just want to trigger a shell script, say, a perl script. Could a shell script be called from a C program? It looks like I will need to go through a lot

Re: Problem with a TIME calculation - Can I do this?

2005-06-27 Thread Christopher Molnar
Thanks! Worked perfectly. And also thanks to the other people who responded. Being unfamiliar with how MySQL seems to handle time your responses really helped! -Chris On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would have worked if TIME values weren't converted to numbers

Re: question about field length for integer

2005-06-27 Thread SGreen
Eko Budiharto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/27/2005 12:28:27 PM: > >Are you actually saying that you have a database with more than 1.8e+19 > >records in it? I don't think you do. I think you are combining several > >pieces of information into something that looks like a number and it's > >e

Re: could a Trigger execute a outside command?

2005-06-27 Thread Ted Zeng
Thanks. This info. is very useful to me. I don't know if it is possible under Mac OS. But I assume it is, consider it is basically a UNIX. I just want to trigger a shell script, say, a perl script. Could a shell script be called from a C program? It looks like I will need to go through a lot of

Re: Problem with a TIME calculation - Can I do this?

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Stassen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/27/2005 12:55:08 PM: What I would like to use is: select ctype, count(tsid), sum(amount), sum(amount_collected), sum (camount), sum(commision), sum(subtime(time_out,dispatch_time)) as time from time_sheet where t

Re: Problem with a TIME calculation - Can I do this?

2005-06-27 Thread SGreen
Christopher Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/27/2005 12:55:08 PM: > I have a table that has the following structure: > mysql> describe time_sheet; > +--+---+--+-+ > ++ > | Field| Type | Null | Key | Defaul

"Document Library"

2005-06-27 Thread Scott Hamm
I am currently projecting a project where we can use MySQL to control documents similiar to ISBN for IntraNet. We plan to export into XML as well. It will require a good labelling, strategy and planning. Do anyone know where I can find good resource to get started? Thanks, Scott -- Power to

Problem with a TIME calculation - Can I do this?

2005-06-27 Thread Christopher Molnar
I have a table that has the following structure: mysql> describe time_sheet; +--+---+--+-+ ++ | Field| Type | Null | Key | Default| Extra | +--+---+--+-+---

Re: question about field length for integer

2005-06-27 Thread Alec . Cawley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 27/06/2005 16:33:44: > Are you actually saying that you have a database with more than 1.8e+19 > records in it? I don't think you do. If you were to add records at the rate of a million a second, which is, I think, beyond the capabilities of any foreseeable future h

Re: altering pointer size reveals unexpected result

2005-06-27 Thread Per Jessen
Gleb Paharenko wrote: > Hello. > > Your situation looks very rare. I didn't found complains in bug > database and archives. If you are able to reproduce this situation the > bug report would be helpful. Yeah, well - first I'd need to reproduce the 50mill records :-) This will take maybe a month

RE: question about field length for integer

2005-06-27 Thread Gordon Bruce
If you really need more than 20 digits of accuracy and can move to 5.0.3 + you can use the Decimal data type without losing precision. This is out of Chapter 23. Precision Math The maximum value of 64 for M means that calculations on DECIMAL values are accurate up to 64 digits. This limit of 64

Re: question about field length for integer

2005-06-27 Thread SGreen
Eko Budiharto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/26/2005 11:02:30 AM: > Hi, > is there anyway that I can have more than 20 digits for integer > (bigInt)? If not, what I can use for database index? BIGINT UNSIGNED can range from 0 to 18446744073709551615 (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/numeric-ty

Re: Preventing duplicates with "load data"

2005-06-27 Thread mos
At 08:11 AM 6/27/2005, you wrote: Hello, How can I prevent duplicate entries when I fill the data base with "load data"? I tried ignore, but that has no effect. Probably I'm something very elementary, but I'm still learning... Regards, Hans. Hans, Ignore/Replace will only

Re: Calculate LONG/LAT from ZIP+4

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Dunning
Changes average about 10 a month, in my experience: new ZIP codes and split ZIP codes, plus quite a few that go away. So you are working with a database that's probably around 2% wrong. I've never seen a *free* source of current accurate data: the USPS charges a lot for this, so generally t

Re: Calculate LONG/LAT from ZIP+4

2005-06-27 Thread Scott Gifford
Brian Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dude, that's more than 5 years old. Yup, but it's worked fine for every application I've used it for. ZIP codes don't tend to get moved around very often, and when they do it's not very far... ScottG. [...] >> As I said below, you can download a

Re: ORDER by Question

2005-06-27 Thread Mathias
Selon Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mathias wrote: > > > This is the right structure including "The" in the middle : > > mysql> SELECT * FROM names ORDER BY case when substring(name,1,3)='The' > >then REPLACE(name,'The ','') > >else name end; > > ? all of which produces

FULLTEXT INDEX support for ucs2

2005-06-27 Thread Lindh Kenneth
Hi, I would like to know if the support for fulltext index on ucs2-columns will be added and if so when. BR /Kenneth Lindh -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ORDER by Question

2005-06-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Mathias wrote: This is the right structure including "The" in the middle : mysql> SELECT * FROM names ORDER BY case when substring(name,1,3)='The' >then REPLACE(name,'The ','') else name end; ? all of which produces exactly the same result as: SELECT * FROM names ORDER BY T

Re: Enhance a query

2005-06-27 Thread SGreen
"Harish Gabbita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/27/2005 10:17:48 AM: > Hi Everybody, > I am using MySql 4.0.21 standard version. I have a profile table with the > structure in similar manner: > mysql> select A0,A1,A14,A15,A19,Split from PROFILE where A1=100; > +---+-+-+-+-+

Enhance a query

2005-06-27 Thread Harish Gabbita
Hi Everybody, I am using MySql 4.0.21 standard version. I have a profile table with the structure in similar manner: mysql> select A0,A1,A14,A15,A19,Split from PROFILE where A1=100; +---+-+-+-+-+--+ | A0| A1 | A14 | A15 | A19 | Split| +---+-+-+-+-+

Re: load balancer and cluster

2005-06-27 Thread d2clon
thanks gary: of course this is the perfect solution, and it will be a very good open source project, but: how is it posible that the mysql team has not implemented this proxy solution all ready? i am not a lazy guy, of course if a need to implement this i will do, but i prefer a mysql's solu

Re: ORDER by Question

2005-06-27 Thread Mathias
Right, i have all my attention on the " The Yeti" order, and didn't see the rest. This is the right structure including "The" in the middle : mysql> SELECT * FROM names ORDER BY case when substring(name,1,3)='The' then REPLACE(name,'The ','') -> else name end; ++ | name

Re: ORDER by Question

2005-06-27 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Mathias wrote: you didn't give an alternative, but i've forgotten just a '^' : mysql> SELECT * FROM names ORDER BY REPLACE(name,'^The ',''); No, sorry -- that doesn't work at all; REPLACE takes a string, not a regex. Look at your example below: 'The ' should be after ''; '' shou

Newbie mysql windows-linux prob

2005-06-27 Thread Prashanth H. Baragur
Hi, Am a newbie to mysql. I am trying to deploy mysql database server on a windows machine and update this database from a remote linux machine(client) periodically. The connection to mysql server in windows is failing when i run the client program at mysql_real_connect (). Am using mys

Re: ORDER by Question

2005-06-27 Thread Mathias
Hi, you didn't give an alternative, but i've forgotten just a '^' : mysql> SELECT * FROM names ORDER BY REPLACE(name,'The ',''); ++ | name | ++ | | | The | | The | | | | | | |

Preventing duplicates with "load data"

2005-06-27 Thread lists . mysql-users
Hello, How can I prevent duplicate entries when I fill the data base with "load data"? I tried ignore, but that has no effect. Probably I'm something very elementary, but I'm still learning... Regards, Hans. jdh dot beekhuizen at duinheks dot xs4all dot nl --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5/04041

Re: Decimal comma in input

2005-06-27 Thread lists . mysql-users
Hallo Jigal, Op 22 Jun 05 schreef Jigal van Hemert aan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]: JvH> What about reading the data into the table and storing the JvH> 'amount' in varchar for now. Then you can run an update query in JvH> UPDATE `table` SET `amount`= REPLACE( `v_amount`, ',' , '.'), JvH> `v_amount`

Re: Decimal comma in input

2005-06-27 Thread lists . mysql-users
Hallo Anoop, Op 22 Jun 05 schreef Anoop kumar V aan Jigal van Hemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,: AkV> Alternatively, you can parse the text files using application logic AkV> (java, c++, etc) and then after extracting (and cleaning) your data AkV> insert them into mysql. I had been thinking about t

Re: connection error from c application

2005-06-27 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Send an example of your file and your table's definition (use SHOW CREATE TABLE for this purpose). Please, next time send your replies to the list. > >Hope you're doing great today. Back to my question last week, I've >been encountering this problem of loading my file using the

Re: altering pointer size reveals unexpected result

2005-06-27 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Your situation looks very rare. I didn't found complains in bug database and archives. If you are able to reproduce this situation the bug report would be helpful. Per Jessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran into a table full situation a couple of days ago, but didn't spot it

Re: Mysql 4.x Error

2005-06-27 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. You have several problems and they're should be resolved step by step. First fix the problems with permissions. Usually they're solved by changing the owner of mysql database to mysql user. Check what's wrong with /var/log/mysqld.log. It might be necessery to create it manually. Why a

Re: Innodb Performance Measurement

2005-06-27 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. A lot of statistics you could get from 'SHOW INNODB STATUS'. For example 'FILE I/O', 'INSERT BUFFER AND ADAPTIVE HASH INDEX', 'BUFFER POOL AND MEMORY' could be helpful. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/innodb-monitor.html Manoj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetin

Re: Max Connections of MySQL on Linux

2005-06-27 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Check your results with official binaries. Set max_connections variable to big enough value. Combinations of different versions of compilers and glibc sometimes could give unpredictable results. "huang leo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, everyone: >I had done a test on Lin

Re: ORDER by Question

2005-06-27 Thread Sergey Spivak
Hi > this,among other answers, can be done : > > mysql> select * from names; > +--+ > | name | > +--+ > | | > | The | > | | > | The | > | | > +--+ > 5 rows in set (0.02 sec) > > mysql> select * from names order by replace(name,'The

Re: load balancer and cluster

2005-06-27 Thread d2clon
thanks for the reply. but this solution its imposible because my applications are done allready, or perhaps the applications are not mine. i need a transparent balancer, and i dont anderstand how is possible thet it does not exists. grettings d2clon Gary Richardson wrote: You're probably

altering pointer size reveals unexpected result

2005-06-27 Thread Per Jessen
I ran into a table full situation a couple of days ago, but didn't spot it till last night. I read the advice about altering the pointer-size: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/full-table.html but I neglected to read Jason Collisons comment about backing up my data first. I lost about 50mill

Re: 4.1.x with php-4.3.x

2005-06-27 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
Mathias wrote: You have the choice between this : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/application-password-use.html and this : The optimal solution when migrating to MySQL 4.1+ from a previous version is to upgrade to PHP 5 (if you're not using it already) and rewrite any code accessing MySQL usin

Mysql 4.x Error

2005-06-27 Thread plaza c
Hi, Im using : mysqlclient10-3.23.58-6 ,mysql-server-4.1.11-2,mysql-4.1.11-2 On fedora 3. when i run the following command its gives Error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ /etc/init.d/mysqld start touch: cannot touch `/var/log/mysqld.log': Permission denied chmod: changing permissions of `/var/log/mysqld.

Re: why donn't work mysql_real_connect

2005-06-27 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
mm wrote: Dear friends, This is my first cpp module working with mySQL. It looks like the error is located in MYSQL *m=mysql_real_connect(myDB, host, user, passwd, ... There is a way to find out step by step which parameters is wrong? I am working with Fedora core 3 and MySQL 3.23.58 Thanks, MT