Re: Altering column syntax help/and repare

2006-01-18 Thread Martijn Tonies
> I think I really misunderstood the directions for alter table, an I'm > not sure how to fix this. I was trying to allow certain columns to be > null in an existing table. > I used the following syntax: > ALTER TABLE users ALTER COLUMN title SET DEFAULT NULL; > Now 'describe users;' shows ex

Timezone settings

2006-01-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Friends, I need to do the timezone settings so that now() gives the system time.Actually first i have installed mysql on a different timezone han changed the system time zone but perhaps mysql shows the previous time zone or the default time zone only. Pl. tell me how to change that . I shall

Altering column syntax help/and repare

2006-01-18 Thread John Stile
I think I really misunderstood the directions for alter table, an I'm not sure how to fix this. I was trying to allow certain columns to be null in an existing table. I used the following syntax: ALTER TABLE users ALTER COLUMN title SET DEFAULT NULL; Now 'describe users;' shows extra columns wit

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Marco Neves
Ian, I'ld like to help you, but a more specific db design would depend on more specific description on your application needs. What I can say is that you need to adapt your database to your reality. What I got til now is that you need a product table, where you can sto

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Ian Klassen
Thanks Ed. That's another good idea. The consensus I'm getting is to create one table that stores unchanging data about the product and another that stores transaction details. The problem I'm still having is how to efficiently handle more than one changing value. As an example, let's say I

16 vs 41 byte password hashes

2006-01-18 Thread Gary Huntress
I have a new installation of MySQL 5.0 (I did not port an old ver). I am running a Ruby on Rails application that uses this db. I have grants for [EMAIL PROTECTED], root@"localhost" and root@'192.168.0.63'. The passwords for these 3 grants are old style 16 byte hashes. There was one single g

Install help on Linux: I cant obtain access

2006-01-18 Thread Wade Smart
01182006 1627 GMT-6 Im on Ubuntu. I have mysql 4.0.24. I have phpmyadmin installed. Im a little frustrated at this point so bear with me. Mysql is running. My book says type in: mysql -h localhost testto see if the install is working. That provides me with Access denied. I then tried: mys

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Ed Reed
I built my inventory system like this, I have a products table that contains all the information specific to each part, less the quantity, i.e. Part Number, Description, Vendor, Color, Weight, SKU number, etc... Then I have another table that is my Inventory Tranactions Log that is just the

Re: Help in joining three tables

2006-01-18 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Imran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:07 PM Subject: Re: Help in joining three tables "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/18/2006 03:30:44 PM: - Original Message

Re: Help in joining three tables

2006-01-18 Thread SGreen
"Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/18/2006 03:30:44 PM: > > - Original Message - > From: "Imran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:13 PM > Subject: Help in joining three tables > > > > Hello All: > > > > I need to join three tables but I am not sure

Re: Procedure / Prepared statements error converting table

2006-01-18 Thread Peter Brawley
Dan, >I tried using prepared statements to make a procedure that >converts every table in a schema from ARCHIVE to MyISAM... "The following SQL statements can be used in prepared statements: CREATE TABLE, DELETE, DO, INSERT, REPLACE, SELECT, SET, UPDATE, and most SHOW statements. Other statem

Re: Converting decimal to binary

2006-01-18 Thread Ed Reed
Actually please ignore my previous question. I just had a brain cramp. Thanks >>> "Ed Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/18/06 11:34:11 AM >>> Can you (or anyone else) explain to me how, or point me somewhere that I can learn how this works? I'd really like to know more about how bitwise arithmetic

Interesting Query Problem

2006-01-18 Thread G G
Hello, I have a simple Records table with two columns, member_id and question_id. The object of the query is to retrieve the question_id, as well as how many times it's been answered - as long as the current user hasn't answered it (member_id). So, the query shouldn't return any question_id

Re: Help in joining three tables

2006-01-18 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Imran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:13 PM Subject: Help in joining three tables Hello All: I need to join three tables but I am not sure how to structure the query. I need to join table1 to table2 and then join table3 to th

Re: Help in joining three tables

2006-01-18 Thread gerald_clark
Please do not hijack someone elses thread. ]Imran wrote: Hello All: I need to join three tables but I am not sure how to structure the query. I need to join table1 to table2 and then join table3 to this result set. So like (table1 join table2) join table3. Table1 and Table2 will be joined o

Re: Help in joining three tables

2006-01-18 Thread SGreen
"Imran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/18/2006 03:13:08 PM: > Hello All: > > I need to join three tables but I am not sure how to structure the query. > I need to join table1 to table2 and then join table3 to this result set. > > So like (table1 join table2) join table3. > > Table1 and Table

Help in joining three tables

2006-01-18 Thread Imran
Hello All: I need to join three tables but I am not sure how to structure the query. I need to join table1 to table2 and then join table3 to this result set. So like (table1 join table2) join table3. Table1 and Table2 will be joined on ProdNo,CustNo and Branch. Table3 will be joined to the resu

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Ian Klassen
At 06:27 PM 1/18/2006 +, Marco Neves wrote: Hi, Why don't you create two table: * a product table, with the product discriptions, and other product related info (call it prod): |ID|NAME|SOME|OTHER|FIELDS| |1|ProdA|..|..|..| |2|ProdB|..|..|..|

query question.

2006-01-18 Thread Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
Assume the following table: CREATE TABLE test ( id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, parent MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, name VARCHAR(60) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ); INSERT INTO test (name) VALUES ('root'); SELECT @root_id:=id FROM test WHERE name = 'roo

RE: Procedure / Prepared statements error converting table

2006-01-18 Thread Burke, Dan
Oh, I thought I had rolled all the changes back, I guess I missed that line before posting. I had tried to see if it was because the tables were ARCHIVE tables to being with, so I tried in another DB to convert a bunch of tables the other way and got the same error. Either way, I'm getting an

Re: Converting decimal to binary

2006-01-18 Thread Ed Reed
Can you (or anyone else) explain to me how, or point me somewhere that I can learn how this works? I'd really like to know more about how bitwise arithmetic works. Thanks >>> Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/10/06 4:58:47 PM >>> Francesco Riosa wrote: > And another one is (in inverse orde

Re: Procedure / Prepared statements error converting table

2006-01-18 Thread SGreen
"Burke, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/18/2006 02:05:24 PM: > > I tried using prepared statements to make a procedure that converts > every table in a schema from ARCHIVE to MyISAM (there's about three > dozen archive tables here). But for some odd reason it will give an > error after doin

Procedure / Prepared statements error converting table

2006-01-18 Thread Burke, Dan
I tried using prepared statements to make a procedure that converts every table in a schema from ARCHIVE to MyISAM (there's about three dozen archive tables here). But for some odd reason it will give an error after doing the first table, and abort. The really odd thing is that the table it give

INSERT encrypted data

2006-01-18 Thread sharif islam
mysql> insert into ccard values(AES_ENCRYPT(123453535,'uiwuerw'),'10/2003'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from ccard -> ; +--+-+ | crypt| expire | +--+-+ | )\u\u\u\u\u\u\u | 10/

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread SGreen
Ian Klassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/18/2006 01:09:55 PM: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to figure out a solution to the following problem. > > Let's say I have a store with various products. I take inventory of these > products on different days. At any given time I want to view what the

Re: Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Marco Neves
Hi, Why don't you create two table: * a product table, with the product discriptions, and other product related info (call it prod): |ID|NAME|SOME|OTHER|FIELDS| |1|ProdA|..|..|..| |2|ProdB|..|..|..| * a stock movements table, with moviments by p

Database design help

2006-01-18 Thread Ian Klassen
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out a solution to the following problem. Let's say I have a store with various products. I take inventory of these products on different days. At any given time I want to view what the inventory is for the entire store. I also want to know whether the inventory

Re: question about "CONTAINS SQL"

2006-01-18 Thread Rhino
If you are writing something that does INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE, you need to use the MODIFIES SQL DATA option. Rhino - Original Message - From: "wangxu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:05 AM Subject: Re: question about "CONTAI

Re: Unknown problem with backup restore

2006-01-18 Thread SGreen
Gleb Paharenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/18/2006 11:02:15 AM: > Hello. > > > MyISAM table of about 1.8 GB it stops restoring with no error output. > > It looks strange. Get the debug binary of mysql command line tool > and create a trace file to find out the place where if fails. See: >

CONCAT() And Columns

2006-01-18 Thread Shaun
Hi, I am trying to update a field so that it retains its contents plus the contents of another column like this: UPDATE MyTable SET Comments = CONCAT(Comments, 'Old_ID_Field = ', Old_ID_Field) WHERE Table_ID = 1; However I just get a blank Comments field, any ideas why this is happening? Than

Re: mysql-4.1.16 starting trouble

2006-01-18 Thread Trux
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 14:37, Gleb Paharenko wrote: > This is a bug: > http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=15965 > > Have a look here as well: > http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=15151 > > Most probable you will have to install the latest development source, > which has this bug fixed: > htt

Re: CONCAT() And Columns

2006-01-18 Thread SGreen
"Shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/18/2006 10:57:49 AM: > Hi, > > I am trying to update a field so that it retains its contents plus the > contents of another column like this: > > UPDATE MyTable SET Comments = CONCAT(Comments, 'Old_ID_Field = ', > Old_ID_Field) WHERE Table_ID = 1; > > H

Re: MySQL 5.0 error after upgrade

2006-01-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. > ALTER TABLE `filos`.`settings` MODIFY COLUMN `IntVal` INTEGER >CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_general_ci; This seems like a bug. MySQL Administrator should not assign character set to integer columns. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/bug-reports.html Kerry Frater wrot

Re: Unknown problem with backup restore

2006-01-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. > MyISAM table of about 1.8 GB it stops restoring with no error output. It looks strange. Get the debug binary of mysql command line tool and create a trace file to find out the place where if fails. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/debugging-client.html Jose Maria de Dios w

Re: relaying mysql datas

2006-01-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Start solving the locking issues with reading this part of the manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/locking-issues.html Xor wrote: > Hi, > > Recently i think sqlrelay is a solution for me, but now i don't know. I > try to explain what I would like to do. I have written a sof

Re: --replicate-rewrite-db fails when attempting to drop a table

2006-01-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. You should not use a cross database syntax for you queries. Instead of 'DROP TABLE `livedb`.`test_replication`' use use livedb; DROP TABLE test_replication Ian wrote: > Hi List, > > I have been asked to setup replication between two customers servers for one > p

Re: Droping multiple tables by a pattern in the table name

2006-01-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. My advice doesn't solve your issue, but if you had a 5.0, you would have been able to use INFORMATION_SCHEMA to retrieve the table names and assign them to variables. Then using prepared statements and variables you can dynamically drop a table. And at the end, you can put all this stuff in

The CSV Storage Engine question

2006-01-18 Thread Mikhail Berman
Hi everyone, Could you let me know if there is a way to enable CSV storage engine after MySQL was built. Below is my current configuration and output of "show engines" mysql> show engines; ++-+ + | Engine |

Re: using SET time_zone for localization

2006-01-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Perhaps this can resolve some queries: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/177314 John Lauck wrote: > I'm using SET time_zone = 'US/Hawaii' to convert timezones and it's not > working. > > What am I doing wrong? > > I have verified that the session.time_zone var is set correctly. > > > if(

Re: a question about "innodb log file"

2006-01-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Some information you can find here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-parameters.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-checkpoints.html Have a look to innobase/log/log0log.c file in MySQL source distribution. wangxu wrote: > There are many information about di

RE: OLD_PASSWORD and PASSWORD whats these

2006-01-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a way i can convert the strings converted from old password to passwords one.So that it become compatible to the passwords one. -- Abhishek jain Original Message: - From: Ryan Stille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:03:14 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

Re: Migration of DB from MySQL 4.0.20 to 4.0.24

2006-01-18 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. My fault - it is a typo, instead of dealer_type_name, I should have written PRIMARY KEY (`dealer_type_id`,`dealer_type_id`). I don't know how it was possible to import this table to the same version, but it is not a right syntax. Change it to PRIMARY KEY (`dealer_type_id`). cybermalandr

OLD_PASSWORD and PASSWORD whats these

2006-01-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Friends, I had an application built using MySQL where i stored mine customers passwords encrypted using password function of mysql, now i changed mine servers and do find a new function old_password and password. I believe that old_password is equivalent to password. Actually i do not want to

Re: MySQL View Optimization Help

2006-01-18 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi! Daniel Kasak wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Views differ from tables in that they cannot be indexed. I've just started experimenting with derived tables under 4.1.14, and I had a hunch this was so. Is there any plan to include index support for views / derived tables? An index is a s

error 1064 after upgrade to 5.0 from 4.1

2006-01-18 Thread Kerry Frater
Sorry I should have said. I get error 1064 whenever I am working with an integer or real column. char's are fine. Kerry Can someone help me. I was running v4.1 and just upgraded the version to v5.0. Most of my tables are MyISAM with some InnoDb. Most of the My

a question about "innodb log file"

2006-01-18 Thread wangxu
There are many information about different logs in manual but innodb log file. Please tell me where can i find it? What's innodb log file different to binlog? Where can i find data about redo and undo? thanks

Re: question about "CONTAINS SQL"

2006-01-18 Thread wangxu
But what is INSERT OR UPDATE need? > - Original Message - > From: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "wangxu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:49 PM > Re: question about "CONTAINS SQL" > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "wangxu" <[EMAIL PROTECT