mysql 4.1.12 package for solaris 2.9 x86 core dumps

2005-07-01 Thread cat
Description: The mysql-provided package mysql-standard-4.1.12-pc-solaris2.9-i386.pkg core dumps when running scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql. I'm running 5.9 Generic_118559-05 on an older dual CPU intel box - dual 500mhz processors. I was using the sunfreeware mysql-4.0.21-

Re: Tuning MySQL

2005-07-01 Thread Devananda
If you can, I recommend installing "mytop" (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/) - it has helped me immensely to identify which particular queries are putting the heaviest load on the server. >>I have a lot of two column tables consisting >>of integer primary key and varchar in the second c

Re: Tuning MySQL

2005-07-01 Thread Atle Veka
Here are two ways to find the queries: 1) 'SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST\G' in the mysql client and taking note of what queries seem to be taking the most time 2) enable update logging and slow query logging When you have gathered a list of queries that you want to look into optimizing, run [in the clie

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2005-07-01 Thread debian-cd
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we know what is causing now: InnoDB: Warning: using a partial-field key prefix

2005-07-01 Thread Brady Brown
Hi, We have inquired about this warning before, but now that we have upgraded to 4.1, we know which query/table is causing these frequent warnings: 050701 17:19:34 InnoDB: Warning: using a partial-field key prefix in search. InnoDB: index `rp_id` of table `as_imp/roundrobin_pub`. Last data fiel

Tuning MySQL

2005-07-01 Thread Siegfried Heintze
Are there any tools for finding hot spots in one's database? My screen scraper is maxing out my CPU. I'm thinking I might need some secondary indexes in some of my tables. I have a lot of two column tables consisting of integer primary key and varchar in the second column. I repeatedly search the s

Re: Some query help

2005-07-01 Thread SGreen
"Matt Babineau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/01/2005 05:05:28 PM: > Hi Again - > > I need some more help with a query. I have a list of numbers (bandwidth > required)... 2200, 2200, 2200, 400, 320 > > My data looks like this: > > Bandwidth | Distance > > 2250 | 10km

Re: unique by field issue

2005-07-01 Thread SGreen
Seth Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/01/2005 04:43:05 PM: > > I constantly bump up against this issue and am looking for a good > solution. I want a query that will return multiple rows, but only one > row per unique identifier in one field. > > > > For instance, if I have the followi

Some query help

2005-07-01 Thread Matt Babineau
Hi Again - I need some more help with a query. I have a list of numbers (bandwidth required)... 2200, 2200, 2200, 400, 320 My data looks like this: Bandwidth | Distance 2250 | 10km 1125 | 10km 622 | 10km 2250 | 20km 1125 | 20km 622 | 20km 2250

unique by field issue

2005-07-01 Thread Seth Leonard
I constantly bump up against this issue and am looking for a good solution. I want a query that will return multiple rows, but only one row per unique identifier in one field. For instance, if I have the following table: Name | Food | Eat_Date Bob | Hot Dog | 2005-06-25 Jan | Pizza | 2005

Re: Help Foreign Key Error

2005-07-01 Thread SGreen
"Scott Purcell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/01/2005 03:46:49 PM: > Hello, > > > MYSQL on PC v 4.0.15 > > And I am trying to add an address table off of it. Using the > users(id) as a primary key and deleting on cascade. So when the user > is deleted from system, so are the addresses associ

Help Foreign Key Error

2005-07-01 Thread Scott Purcell
Hello, MYSQL on PC v 4.0.15 And I am trying to add an address table off of it. Using the users(id) as a primary key and deleting on cascade. So when the user is deleted from system, so are the addresses associted with him. // code that errors CREATE TABLE `address` ( `id` int(11), `create

Re: Found Wrong Record xxx (using 5.0.6 windoz)

2005-07-01 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Follow recomendations from: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/repair.html After repairing with -r -q command line options, try just with -r. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I will give the output below. I just ran an insert of a small amount of data > into Windoz/MySQL 5.

Re: mysqld error [Can't start server: can't create PID file: No such file or directory]

2005-07-01 Thread Mir Islam
Make sure /var/run/mysqld exists and wrtable by mysql user -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Primary Key question

2005-07-01 Thread Haisam K. Ido
so if I do want 'name' to be unique I must not make it primary, just simply unique, since my primary key is for id and name simultaneously. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your primary key is based on your (auto-increment) id and the name, PRIMARY KEY (`id`,`name`) so your two entries would be

Re: Compatibility with ActiveState Perl 5.8.4+?

2005-07-01 Thread SGreen
"Siegfried Heintze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/30/2005 10:29:48 PM: > Approximately a half year ago I started to install bugzilla on windows which > uses mysql and perl. > > After much grief, I discovered that there was a problem with windows perl > and the latest version of mysql at the

Re: View onto tables w/ identical key names

2005-07-01 Thread Martijn Tonies
> >When creating the view, use > >CREATE VIEW viewname ( column names ) > >AS > >select [fields] > > > >Instead of "*". This way, you can only return a single "mat" column instead > >of having that column twice in the view. > > > > > i'll try that programmatically, no way am i typing close to 100

Re: View onto tables w/ identical key names

2005-07-01 Thread Les Schaffer
Martijn Tonies wrote: When creating the view, use CREATE VIEW viewname ( column names ) AS select [fields] Instead of "*". This way, you can only return a single "mat" column instead of having that column twice in the view. i'll try that programmatically, no way am i typing close to 1000 fi

Re: Possible to delay index writes until server is less busy?

2005-07-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 01), Mathias said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Jun 30), Mathias said: > >>We've been benchmarking a database that in real-life will have a > >>huge write load (max peak load 1 inserts/second) to the same > >>table (MyISAM). > >> > >>We will need about 4

Re: Primary Key question

2005-07-01 Thread Alec . Cawley
"Haisam K. Ido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/07/2005 15:04:01: > > I've created the following table (server 4.1 in win2k) > > CREATE TABLE `os` ( >`id` tinyint(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, >`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', >`description` varchar(255) default NULL, >PRI

Primary Key question

2005-07-01 Thread Haisam K. Ido
I've created the following table (server 4.1 in win2k) CREATE TABLE `os` ( `id` tinyint(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', `description` varchar(255) default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`,`name`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; and was very surprised

Re: Possible to delay index writes until server is less busy?

2005-07-01 Thread Mathias
Write to a memory table first then do a hotcopy on a scheduled basis. Do you mean converting the memory table into MyISAM on a scheduled basis? (mysqlhotcopy only works on MyISAM and ISAM tables). Or is there a faster way of storing the table to disk? - Mathias We've been benchmarking a

RE: load data infile

2005-07-01 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, > I have a file where the data looks like this: > > "1","23","345","45"; > "34","4","444","1er"; > > I am then trying to load that data using the load data local > infile and this statement: > > Load data local infile '/httpd/htdocs/sql/loader.sql' into > table vehicles fields terminate

Re: Possible to delay index writes until server is less busy?

2005-07-01 Thread Mathias
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 30), Mathias said: We've been benchmarking a database that in real-life will have a huge write load (max peak load 1 inserts/second) to the same table (MyISAM). We will need about 4 indexes for that table. However, from our benchmark tests, it

Re: Possible to delay index writes until server is less busy?

2005-07-01 Thread Mathias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Write to a memory table first then do a hotcopy on a scheduled basis. I'll look into that. Thanks for your reply. - Mathias - Original Message - From: "Mathias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:10 AM Subject: Possible to delay

Re: View onto tables w/ identical key names

2005-07-01 Thread Martijn Tonies
Les, > i am working on a database system where a number of tables (5-10) each > with possibly hundreds of columns share an identical primary key name. > the truth is if it weren't for a limitation in the number of columns in > M$ Access (long story: we're creating a client server scheme so th

Update query to set random data

2005-07-01 Thread zzapper
Hi, In order to generate some useful test data eg randomnly setting the flag select_normal to 0 or 1 use the following update tbl_products set select_normal=round(rand()); I've actually answered my own question (as usual in formulating the question you often can workout the answer) But anyone