Re: proper way to export with the --tab function

2005-12-18 Thread Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
On Monday 19 December 2005 08:15, Bruce Carey wrote: > Hi List, > > I have recently had a crash coursh in the fineer points of > db recovery due to a mis-managed server. > > Could someone help me out with advice on the proper syntax > for doing mysqldump? I have a rather large db (4.2GB), and > reg

insert utf8 character in Linux commind-line tool

2005-12-18 Thread wangxu
I can't operate utf8 characters within command-line in linux operating system. Mysql doesn't support?

insert utf8 character in Linux commind-line tool

2005-12-18 Thread wangxu
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proper way to export with the --tab function

2005-12-18 Thread Bruce Carey
Hi List, I have recently had a crash coursh in the fineer points of db recovery due to a mis-managed server. Could someone help me out with advice on the proper syntax for doing mysqldump? I have a rather large db (4.2GB), and regular dump files get easily corrupted, so I found out, plus LO

Re: include a field from a table into another table

2005-12-18 Thread SGreen
Hi Bill, (answers intermixed) "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/18/2005 07:33:52 PM: > Hi Shawn, > > > > */-\ /-\ > * / \ / \ > * / X \ > * / / \ \ > */ /

Re: How to Square a number?

2005-12-18 Thread mos
At 05:43 PM 12/18/2005, James Harvard wrote: Maybe I'm missing something, but can't you just multiply the number by itself? select (3 * 3); select (int_col * int_col) as squared from table_name; James H James, Yes, it's a bit more complicated than that. I'm using an expression so

Re: timestamp

2005-12-18 Thread Richard AB
Hello. Have you checked if the timestamp column is set with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as the default value? If it doesnt, you can try this: ALTER TABLE tbl MODIFY column TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP; And mysql will fill the column with current timestamp

Re: use deterministic within procedure

2005-12-18 Thread wangxu
It is a doubt.What do the "deterninistic" option do? You ever gave me the follow example: - create procedure unsafe_sp() begin if @@server_id=2 then drop databaseaccounting; enf if; end - This is a

locating ibdata1 and *.ibd files in different directories.

2005-12-18 Thread Nathan Gross
Hi; Mysql 4x on Linux Fc4. In /var/lib/mysql there is an ibdata1 file. Also in this directory I also have various database folders, with *.ibd data files. I would like to locate the ibdata1 somewhere else, say, /usr/extraData/mysql. I am confused as how to set *innodb_data_file_path* as well as *in

Re: How to Square a number?

2005-12-18 Thread SGreen
mos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/18/2005 06:36:16 PM: > How do I square a number in MySQL 4.1? I thought it would be something > simple like: > > select 3**2 > > but that produces a syntax error. I can use Pow(3,2) but that produces a > float. Is there a Square function? TIA > > Mike >

Re: String Formatting

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kasak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may not be as bad off as you think you are. One of the ways to write datetime information in MySQL is mmddhhMMss so if you left-padded with zeroes each of your numbers to 14 total places, then inserted it into a datetime field (or fed it to a function that too

Re: How to Square a number?

2005-12-18 Thread James Harvard
Maybe I'm missing something, but can't you just multiply the number by itself? select (3 * 3); select (int_col * int_col) as squared from table_name; James H At 5:36 pm -0600 18/12/05, mos wrote: >How do I square a number in MySQL 4.1? I thought it would be something simple >like: >select 3**2

Re: String Formatting

2005-12-18 Thread SGreen
Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/18/2005 06:14:56 PM: > Greetings. > > I've got some time data that is in an unfortunate format - stripped of > colons and leading zeros, eg: > > 00:00:10 is simply: > 10 > > and > 00:02:00 is: > 200 > > Nice, eh? Until today, I assumed that I had *

How to Square a number?

2005-12-18 Thread mos
How do I square a number in MySQL 4.1? I thought it would be something simple like: select 3**2 but that produces a syntax error. I can use Pow(3,2) but that produces a float. Is there a Square function? TIA Mike -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql

String Formatting

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kasak
Greetings. I've got some time data that is in an unfortunate format - stripped of colons and leading zeros, eg: 00:00:10 is simply: 10 and 00:02:00 is: 200 Nice, eh? Until today, I assumed that I had *seconds*, but apparently not ... Is there a formatting function that allows me to apply a fo

Re: GUI (linux X based or web based) for mysql

2005-12-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12/18/05, Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > >I keep a lot of personal information in a MySQL database. I have a few > >querys premade for the wife to use, but we have gotten to the point > >where we need a solution for her to be able to run her own queries. > >She

Re: Report tool - Mysql

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kasak
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I need to get a tool to create reports using mysql databases. It would be great if the resultant reports could be run by themselves (not inside the report development environment). Anybody have any recommendations ? Yes. One of my open-source projects is PDF::R

Re: fulltext search

2005-12-18 Thread Octavian Rasnita
> AFAIK you are right - MySQL treats a hypen as a word-break. And, AFAIK you cannot modify that behaviour. > > The only possibility, I think, would be to modify the source and compile your own MySQL. :-( > > However if you do a full-text search using IN BOOLEAN MODE, then you can put quotes arou

Re: GUI (linux X based or web based) for mysql

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kasak
Dotan Cohen wrote: I keep a lot of personal information in a MySQL database. I have a few querys premade for the wife to use, but we have gotten to the point where we need a solution for her to be able to run her own queries. She is NOT about to learn SQL, and myPHPadmin is a little too compicat

Re: include a field from a table into another table

2005-12-18 Thread SGreen
It's not your fault, the documentation is very light on the topic of JOINing ( I have made a feature request to improve this). Joining two tables works like this Draw two circles on a piece of paper, Make sure they overlap to some degree. Put an A in the left circle not part of the overlap

timestamp

2005-12-18 Thread mihai.chira
hi! I'm using mysql 4.1 and I have a problem with a TIMESTAMP column (with all of them actually). I've used them before in mysql 3.x and they worked just fine. And at first I thought 'they changed something', but in the mysql 4.1 manual it still says "A TIMESTAMP column is useful for recording

Re: 'LIKE' for numbers

2005-12-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. > Let's say I wanted to select all rows where column x has a value of ~y Please, could you explain, what does it mean x ~ y. LIKE works for integer, at least in traditional way: mysql> create table tint(a int); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec) mysql> insert into tint set a=

Re: INSERTS slower after upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0?

2005-12-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. > As you have not seen my first questions you did not know that I >restored a file which was created with mysqldump and there are single >INSERTS in it, but I do not want to have to change such dump files to >make it faster. You do not have to change your existing dump files, you

Re: Incorrect key file for table '%-.64s'

2005-12-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. > and slave. Error on master: 'Incorrect key file for table '%-.64s Really, the name of the table is strange enough. Is it possible that you have non-latin symbols in table name, which are displayed incorrectly on your terminal? If you're able check all your tables on the master for

Re: How to define utf8 function

2005-12-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. This should be fixed in 5.0.18. See: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=13909 Hirofumi Fujiwara wrote: > Dear MySQL fans, > > I want to make a function which returns utf8 string. > > > mysql> CREATE FUNCTION hello() RETURNS CHAR(20) CHARACTER SET utf8 > -> RETURN 'japan

Re: fulltext search

2005-12-18 Thread James Harvard
AFAIK you are right - MySQL treats a hypen as a word-break. And, AFAIK you cannot modify that behaviour. The only possibility, I think, would be to modify the source and compile your own MySQL. :-( However if you do a full-text search using IN BOOLEAN MODE, then you can put quotes around hype

Re: 'LIKE' for numbers

2005-12-18 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 12/18/05, Andy Pieters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any operator for mysql that behaves like "LIKE" but can act on > numbers. No. But with a bit of creativity you can use arithmetic to come to a predictae that does the same: SELECT * FROM table WHERE floor(log10(floor(x / y))) <>

Re: 'LIKE' for numbers

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Phillips
In a jsp application I created, I had a similar problem. I defined a constant 'spread' and then searched for values of x that x>= y-spread and x<=y+spread. I then configured the spread value from web.xml, so I could fine-tune the spread when the application was in testing. We didn't have the act

fulltext search

2005-12-18 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, Please tell me how can I configure MySQL 5 in order to be able to search (using fulltext indexes) for combined words like "s-au". This is a single word and not 2 words but I think MySQL thinks that there are 2 words, one of them having a single character, and the second 2 chars, so it is not

Re: include a field from a table into another table

2005-12-18 Thread Sandy
Hi Works #1 I tought GROUP BY was a grouping algo not a summarizing instruction. I have problems understanding the meaning of INNER, LEFT etc. Does LEFT mean that the joined table will be placed before the actual table ? meaning that calculations will be made against the joined table first ? Co

Re: INSERTS slower after upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0?

2005-12-18 Thread PgmHelmi
Hallo! Thank all of you for your answers! As my answers are not posted to my questions, I copy the whole text here. I am not subscribed to the mailing list and therefore not reply but send my answers with same subject. This worked the last time I answered to a mail. Perhaps someone can tell

How to define utf8 function

2005-12-18 Thread Hirofumi Fujiwara
Dear MySQL fans, I want to make a function which returns utf8 string. mysql> CREATE FUNCTION hello() RETURNS CHAR(20) CHARACTER SET utf8 -> RETURN 'japanese-string'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec) mysql> SELECT hello(); +-+ | hello() | +-+ | j

Re: 'LIKE' for numbers

2005-12-18 Thread Yves Goergen
On 18.12.2005 11:06 (+0100), Andy Pieters wrote: > Is there any operator for mysql that behaves like "LIKE" but can act on > numbers. > > Let's say I wanted to select all rows where column x has a value of ~ y > > How should I do this? You can use BETWEEN x AND y or maybe also IN (x, x+

'LIKE' for numbers

2005-12-18 Thread Andy Pieters
Hi all Is there any operator for mysql that behaves like "LIKE" but can act on numbers. Let's say I wanted to select all rows where column x has a value of ~ y How should I do this? With kind regards Andy -- Now listening to Trancelation - Intensensation on amaroK Geek code: www.vlaamse-k