Re: Totals Across Multiple Records

2005-07-22 Thread Peter Brawley
Albert, Your spec isn't entirely clear to me (eg if sd1 & sd2 were 'unique within each record', wouldn't there be zero rows where sd1=sd2?), but is this what you're looking for ... SELECT zz, COUNT(zz) as zzCount, SUM(IF(zz=sd1 AND sd1=sd2, 1, 0)) AS sd1sd2Count FROM ss GROUP BY zz; Peter

Re: GROUP BY approximation

2005-07-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 22), Andy McHargue said: > I have table with very similar values in one field, > > count word > - > 2 APPLE > 6 APPLES > 1 APPEL > > select *,sum(count) as total from table group by word will leave > these rows separated. > > So I want to GROUP BY that field to

Totals Across Multiple Records

2005-07-22 Thread Albert Padley
I would be grateful if those of you around this weekend could help me figure out if what I'm after is possible. I've already spent hours with the manual, the archives and my books. I've looked at JOINS and TEMP TABLES but still can't come up with a solution. THE ENVIRONMENT: MySQL Version

Re: innodb_file_per_table table status

2005-07-22 Thread Bruce Dembecki
Hi, I've just converted my databases so they are using per_table tablespaces. When I do a show table status in that database the Comment line still shows the amount free, but I assume this doesn't mean anything now ?? It doesn't make sense ? As innodb_file_per_table makes individual f

Re: Backups on high-availability servers

2005-07-22 Thread Bruce Dembecki
I would really like to hear how some of you are handling backups on high-availability servers. The DBA in my company is skeptical about switching from MSSQL Server to MySQL, this is one of his reasons (backups). If someone is making MySQL work in a high-availabity environment, let's hear about i

Re: How to use Like Clause in Perl? Works fine in MySQL control center!

2005-07-22 Thread Frank Bax
At 07:03 PM 7/22/05, Siegfried Heintze wrote: I'm having trouble getting the like clause to work. It seems to work fine in the MySQL Control Center 9.4.beta. I'm using MySQL 4.0.23-debug. use DBH; my $sth = DBH->prepare("SELECT 'David!' LIKE '%D%v%'"); $sth->execute(); my $row; print join(@$row

GROUP BY approximation

2005-07-22 Thread Andy McHargue
I have table with very similar values in one field, count word - 2 APPLE 6 APPLES 1 APPEL select *,sum(count) as total from table group by word will leave these rows separated. So I want to GROUP BY that field to add the numbers (to come up with 9 APPLES). Is this possible? I gues

How to use Like Clause in Perl? Works fine in MySQL control center!

2005-07-22 Thread Siegfried Heintze
I'm having trouble getting the like clause to work. It seems to work fine in the MySQL Control Center 9.4.beta. I'm using MySQL 4.0.23-debug. use DBH; my $sth = DBH->prepare("SELECT 'David!' LIKE '%D%v%'"); $sth->execute(); my $row; print join(@$row,",")."\n" while ($row = $sth->fetch); This doe

4.1.13 OS X MAJOR I/O Degredation

2005-07-22 Thread Bruce Dembecki
So it appears I am having an issue with 4.1.13 which I'm guessing is a bug... wanted some input before I file it... Setting up a new machine to take over for an old one, so it's clean, Operating System and some empty disks... the server does nothing other than MySQL so there are no other pr

Re: Documentation on Like clause

2005-07-22 Thread Paul DuBois
At 15:56 -0600 7/22/05, Siegfried Heintze wrote: Could someone kindly point me to the documentation on the like clause. I found the documentation on the SELECT statement but could not find the discussion on the like clause. I search too -- but there were too many "like"'s used outside of the SQL

Documentation on Like clause

2005-07-22 Thread Siegfried Heintze
Could someone kindly point me to the documentation on the like clause. I found the documentation on the SELECT statement but could not find the discussion on the like clause. I search too -- but there were too many "like"'s used outside of the SQL syntax. Thanks, Siegfried -- MySQL General Mail

Re: confirm unsubscribe to mysql@lists.mysql.com

2005-07-22 Thread SOTL
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Date/Time Problem with V5.0.6 views

2005-07-22 Thread TheRefUmp
Hello everyone, I cannot figure this out. I have a table like the following: Tab_A datetime_field datetime not null, num_field bigint not null I do a SELECT as follows: Select datetime_field, num_field from Tab_A where datetime_field='2005-03-10' and num_field = 1234; I return 2 ro

Re: OSX messed up installation

2005-07-22 Thread Andy Hilton
Gentlemen Thank you VERY much ! Am now back to working again Then when Amazon delivery my MySQL books I should be a lot wiser too ! Very much appreciated all the assistance Andy On 7/22/05 3:12 PM, "Santino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK > > Now open the terminal and type: > cd /usr/loc

Re: OSX messed up installation

2005-07-22 Thread Santino
OK Now open the terminal and type: cd /usr/local/mysql/ ./scripts/mysql_install_db and restart mysql. Santino Cusimano At 14:34 -0400 22-07-2005, Andy Hilton wrote: This would appear to be the relevant stuff - the err file was in the mysql/data directory 050722 14:23:32 mysqld started

Re: OSX messed up installation

2005-07-22 Thread Andy Hilton
This would appear to be the relevant stuff - the err file was in the mysql/data directory 050722 14:23:32 mysqld started 050722 14:23:32 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/mysql/data/ is case insensitive 050722 14:23:33 InnoDB: Database was not shu

Re: OSX messed up installation

2005-07-22 Thread Michael Stassen
Andy Hilton wrote: Santino - many thanks (thanks to Brent too but I cannot reply to him directly - seemingly I am not allowed !) I had removed all of the mysql folder and the 'other' directory - the one with the really long name where most stuff seemed to beand did a re-install... What hap

Fedora core 3 install

2005-07-22 Thread Anne Ramey
This may be a stupid question, but on the mysql site, there are downloads for 64 bit, then the same 64 bit downloads for redhat ES3. If I'm using fedora core 3, do I need the redhat rpms? Anne -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:htt

Re: OSX messed up installation

2005-07-22 Thread Santino
The permission of directory /usr/local/mysql/data and it's contents must be mysql/mysql so open the terminal and type cd /usr/local/mysql chown -R mysql:mysql ./data and try to restart mysql. Santino Cusimano At 12:40 -0400 22-07-2005, Andy Hilton wrote: Santino - many thanks (thanks to Bre

Re: OSX messed up installation

2005-07-22 Thread Andy Hilton
Santino - many thanks (thanks to Brent too but I cannot reply to him directly - seemingly I am not allowed !) I had removed all of the mysql folder and the 'other' directory - the one with the really long name where most stuff seemed to beand did a re-install... What happens now is I have an

RE: Questions about backups, InnoDB tables, etc.

2005-07-22 Thread andy.lawton
We are using MyISAM tables with MySQL running on Windows. We also use Acronis (www.acronis.com) to take images of the various disc partitions we have. This uses the "Volume Shadow Copy" capability of XP and Win2K. Acronis can run a command before the "snapshot" is taken and after it. It only takes

Re: OSX messed up installation

2005-07-22 Thread Santino
The directory where MySql install bin script and data is: /usr/local/mysql this is a symbolic link to another directory in /usr/local/. Try to open a terminal and type: cd /usr/local/mysql bin/mysqlsafe & this command launches the server. bin/mysql launches the client. There is a file in scri

RE: Questions about backups, InnoDB tables, etc.

2005-07-22 Thread John Trammell
Did you try that link? When I follow it, I get a search results page saying <>. Too bad it doesn't actually show the search results > -Original Message- > From: Michael Monashev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 5:45 PM > To: Ryan Stille; mysql@lists.mysql.c

Backups on high-availability servers

2005-07-22 Thread Ryan Stille
I would really like to hear how some of you are handling backups on high-availability servers. The DBA in my company is skeptical about switching from MSSQL Server to MySQL, this is one of his reasons (backups). If someone is making MySQL work in a high-availabity environment, let's hear about it

Re: OSX messed up installation

2005-07-22 Thread Andy Hilton
It's SOOO frustrating ! Yes that let me set a password for root - thanks But no change on the admin app - still tells me it cannot get the catalog list - 'Could not retrieve user list: SELECT command denied to user 'root'@'localhost' for table 'user' (error 1142)' I tried for interest using

Re: OSX messed up installation

2005-07-22 Thread Brent Baisley
Sounds like it could be a problem with the graphical management tool. Maybe it just doesn't like a system with no password set, which is a very bad thing. It sounds like you may not have set an initial root password for mysql. It defaults to being nothing, which is not good. In your termin

RE: use of indexes

2005-07-22 Thread emierzwa
I believe the conflict here is the OR. Try this... select * from table where field1 = 'VALUE1' and field2 like 'VALUE2%' union select * from table where field3 = 'VALUE1' and field2 like 'VALUE2%' Currently, MySql can't utilize two indexes on the same table at the same time but it is on their

Re: MySQL charset

2005-07-22 Thread Eugene Kosov
Privet! Yogesh wrote: HI, I have a client that runs php+mysql application and it has a problem with "ORDER BY some_varchar_field" sql expression. The DB is in russian cp1251 encoding and "order by" doesnt produce an alphabetically ordered result. our mysql server default charset is latin1 a

Re: use of indexes

2005-07-22 Thread Alec . Cawley
The system cannot used the index on field2 because it is the second half of the index in both cases, and it can only use indexes in order. It cannot use the separate indexes on field 1 and field 2 because the are ORred together. If you rephrase your query SELECT * from table WHERE field2 LI

MySQL charset

2005-07-22 Thread Yogesh
HI, I have a client that runs php+mysql application and it has a problem with "ORDER BY some_varchar_field" sql expression. The DB is in russian cp1251 encoding and "order by" doesnt produce an alphabetically ordered result. our mysql server default charset is latin1 and I don't know of any wa

Re: use of indexes

2005-07-22 Thread Chris Faulkner
Hi field2 is indexed. I have 2 indexes. One is on field1 and field2, the second indexes field3 and field2. You mean a separate index which only indexes field2 ? Ithought that the type of query I am doing is a good reason for doing composite indexes. Chris On 7/22/05, Eugene Kosov <[EMAIL PROT

Re: use of indexes

2005-07-22 Thread Eugene Kosov
Eugene Kosov wrote: Chris Faulkner wrote: HI I have a query like this select * from table where ( ( field1 = 'VALUE1' and field2 like 'VALUE2%' ) OR ( field3 = 'VALUE1' and field2 like 'VALUE2%' ) ) I have created two composite indexes - one on field1 + field2 and one on field3 + field2. Ex

Re: use of indexes

2005-07-22 Thread Eugene Kosov
Chris Faulkner wrote: HI I have a query like this select * from table where ( ( field1 = 'VALUE1' and field2 like 'VALUE2%' ) OR ( field3 = 'VALUE1' and field2 like 'VALUE2%' ) ) I have created two composite indexes - one on field1 + field2 and one on field3 + field2. Explain on the SQL

RE: Correct way to use innodb_file_per_table?

2005-07-22 Thread Marvin Wright
Hi Heikki, I've followed your instructions here and its all worked fine. Now I currently have a 200Gb shared innodb table space which is sitting almost empty now all databases have there own table spaces. I want to reduce this amount but ot sure what is the best way to do it. I know I can not ju

Re: Multiple indexes on same column

2005-07-22 Thread Alec . Cawley
Andrea Gangini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22/07/2005 10:17:34: > I have a column in one of my table, which: > - must be unique > - must be indexed because almost all queries are "SELECT .. WHERE > COLUMN LIKE " > > I created two indexes this column, one of type UNIQUE and a normal one

Multiple indexes on same column

2005-07-22 Thread Andrea Gangini
I have a column in one of my table, which: - must be unique - must be indexed because almost all queries are "SELECT .. WHERE COLUMN LIKE " I created two indexes this column, one of type UNIQUE and a normal one, because I thought that the unique index and a normal indexes were differ

use of indexes

2005-07-22 Thread Chris Faulkner
HI I have a query like this select * from table where ( ( field1 = 'VALUE1' and field2 like 'VALUE2%' ) OR ( field3 = 'VALUE1' and field2 like 'VALUE2%' ) ) I have created two composite indexes - one on field1 + field2 and one on field3 + field2. Explain on the SQL indicates that the indexes

RE: Update Debian 2.0 (mysql 3.21 to 3.22)

2005-07-22 Thread iagosineiro
Thanks for the information, I will look more. What are the specifications (libraries) for compile mysql 3.22? I want to use 3.22.xx that I know is stable for my application and for continue use ISAM format in the future and with a more modern linux distribution I want to use 4.1 or wait for 5.0.

Re: optimize a sql statement

2005-07-22 Thread 王 旭
sorry,my english is poor. Follow is my mean. One,I create a index.(create index orders_test on orders(o_id,o_c_id)) Two,I do explain again. Follow is result -- 1, 'PRIMARY', 'orders', 'range', 'PRIMARY,orders_test', 'orders_test',