How to use paramerters in stored procedures

2006-01-20 Thread DGeorgie
Hi, I am trying to do something like this in MySQL 5.0 create function myfunc(param_name varchar(100)) returns int begin .. if exists(select 1 from my_table where name = param_name) then return -1; end if; .

Can I change the password of a user on the server without interupting the user's existing connections?

2006-01-20 Thread Jacob, Raymond A Jr
I have three(3) instances of an application inserting data into a MYSQL (4.X) database. I have to change the password. I would like to know, if I can change the password of the application on the server without disrupting existing connections then modify the password in the startup file for the

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Ian Klassen
Hi Dan, It would be a pretty large table of changes, but this solution would work, if as you say, I don't mind making those sacrifices. Something to think about. Thanks. Ian At 03:59 PM 1/20/2006 -0600, Dan Buettner wrote: Perhaps you could use database triggers to keep track of these chan

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Buettner
Perhaps you could use database triggers to keep track of these changes. I also think there's a way you could make the change tracking a little neater if you don't mind sacrificing some SQL functionality and storing everything as text. If you create a table "product_changes", with 4 columns

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Ian Klassen
Rhino, I appreciate your comments. This wasn't meant to be a real world example. My actual application keeps track of changing data in a gas network. I wanted to simplify the problem to help in finding an answer to my dilemmas. Ian At 04:45 PM 1/20/2006 -0500, Rhino wrote: Ian, If I'm

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Rhino
Ian, If I'm not mistaken, you started this conversation yesterday. I've been watching the back-and-forth haphazardly and not really absorbing the full details so forgive me if someone has already asked this and you've answered it. My concern, in hearing you state your problem, is that some o

Re: DATE field key depends on value?

2006-01-20 Thread gerald_clark
sheeri kritzer wrote: Hi folks, I'm attempting to optimize a query -- it's quite a simple one, actually. SELECT uid from Bill_Sales WHERE startDate > '[some date]'; mysql> show create table Bill_Sales\G *** 1. row *** Table: Bill_Sales Cre

Re: Database design help

2006-01-20 Thread Ian Klassen
Marco, Thanks for your help. I created this example to try to simplify my real world problem. Clearly I didn't provide enough detail. Keeping with my example, essentially I'm looking at product details that change over time. Let's say I'm keeping track of boxes. Over time, the color or si

Import File / Insert Optimization Help

2006-01-20 Thread Scott Klarenbach
I am importing records from a text file into my DB. Each record in the text file corresponds to six tables in the DB due to normalization. So for example, an inventory record containing a part, vendor, contactPerson, mpn etc...in ONE line of a text file, requires 6 inserts into the DB. Further m

Re: DATE field key depends on value?

2006-01-20 Thread sheeri kritzer
Realized I should probably show the Bill_Sales table. . . ls -lh Bill_Sales.* -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 104M Jan 20 15:11 Bill_Sales.MYD -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 97M Jan 20 15:11 Bill_Sales.MYI -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 9.2K Jan 3 13:43 Bill_Sales.frm mysql> show table status like "Bill_Sales"

DATE field key depends on value?

2006-01-20 Thread sheeri kritzer
Hi folks, I'm attempting to optimize a query -- it's quite a simple one, actually. SELECT uid from Bill_Sales WHERE startDate > '[some date]'; mysql> show create table Bill_Sales\G *** 1. row *** Table: Bill_Sales Create Table: CREATE TABLE

Re: Right platform for huge db with huge RAM

2006-01-20 Thread JamesDR
Martins wrote: Hi! I'm trying to figure out which platform to use on my new server. Server's primary and almost only role is mysql, huge databases (can grow up to terabyte or so), so I'm considering enough big ammount of RAM which probably allso will grow over 4GB, so at this point I think x86

corruption possible with replication?

2006-01-20 Thread N.J. Thomas
Given two MySQL database on two separate boxes in the same rack, one is a master and the other is a slave. Is corruption on either db possible in the case of a power outage that affects both boxes? What is the best way to avoid this? Is it possible to "roll back" the last N transactions to a known

Re: mysql Digest 18 Jan 2006 15:44:18 -0000 Issue 3622

2006-01-20 Thread mwilliams
Hi all, Having a bit of mysqldump trouble again. I've looked over the documentation (again) and can't seem to find the flag to make 'mysqldump' output "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS". Any ideas? Keep in mind, I never want to 'DROP IF EXISTS'. . .I simply want to CREATE if it doesn't exist s

Right platform for huge db with huge RAM

2006-01-20 Thread Martins
Hi! I'm trying to figure out which platform to use on my new server. Server's primary and almost only role is mysql, huge databases (can grow up to terabyte or so), so I'm considering enough big ammount of RAM which probably allso will grow over 4GB, so at this point I think x86 32bit becomes pr

Installed CompleteMySQL 4.0.21 - now cant login to terminal

2006-01-20 Thread Mike Stathopoulos
I installed MySQL, which runs an initialize script everytime I launch the terminal, and it automaticlly logs me out, so I cant use the terminal locally. I uninstalled MySQL, now I need to get rid of the script and what calls it. I get the following when I launch the terminal: Last login: Fri Jan

Re: convert help

2006-01-20 Thread David Godsey
Thank you. I tried this outside of the procedure and it works. However In MYSQL 5 I get: ERROR 1314 (0A000): PREPARE is not allowed in stored procedures Is there a way without needing to use prepare? Any idea why CAST(fdata AS UNSIGNED) doesn't work? David Godsey > Hello. > > You can use this

Re: Selecting based on serialized field...

2006-01-20 Thread SGreen
"Subscriptions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/19/2006 06:13:06 PM: > I'm not sure if this falls under a PHP topic or a MySQL topic, but I have a > table that contains a field that stores serialized data. Is there a way to > order a recordset by a piece of the serialized data? For example,

Re: mysqldump

2006-01-20 Thread gerald_clark
Giandomenico Sica wrote: Hi, I've a little problem with mysqldump. I'm using wordpress in localhost. Now I'd like to put online my wordpress website, including the related mysql database. In order to make this operation, I've used the command: "mysqldump database name" This will dump to the

Re: problem with using CONSTRAINT declaration

2006-01-20 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. MySQL doesn't support this yet. The CHECK clause is parsed but ignored by all storage engines. Ferindo Middleton Jr wrote: > I have the following table where I have a CHECK CONSTRAINT to check for > logical data values but for some reason it's not working on INSERTs to > the table. MySQL

Re: question about "CONTAINS SQL"

2006-01-20 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "wangxu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "mysql" Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 2:20 AM Subject: Re: question about "CONTAINS SQL" At 8:29 -0500 1/19/06, Rhino wrote: I am copying the rest of the l

BLOB to UNSIGNED, can you do it?

2006-01-20 Thread David Godsey
I posted this earlier, however it has a nasty SPAM tag attached to it, so I thought I would resend it. My end goal is to select arbitrarily large data from a BLOB column use SUBSTR to pull out certain pieces of data and do some bit shifting and masking on that data. I believe you can only do bit s

Re: convert help

2006-01-20 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. You can use this technique: drop procedure if exists test20; DELIMITER $$ create procedure test20() BEGIN DECLARE fdata BLOB; DECLARE foffset INT UNSIGNED; DECLARE flength INT UNSIGNED; DECLARE tmp_int BIGINT UNSIGNED; SELECT 0xAB

Re: Error from mysqldump

2006-01-20 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. If you switch to the debug binary of the mysqldump, you will be able to find the query which causes 1064 error. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/debugging-client.html Rhino wrote: > Just as a followup to my own remarks, I've tried running my backup > script with the new synta

Re: Best Configuratuion ( my.cnf ) for a DB with many users and largecolumns ( Images in BLOB Columns ) on a Website

2006-01-20 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. A lot of depends on the type of your queries. Find out which of them make the maximum load on the server and then tune your configuration. ESV Media GmbH wrote: > Hey, > > what do you think is the best configuration ( my.cnf ) for running a > database, > which many users access at the s

Re: Import from another db....

2006-01-20 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. In case it is an 'Access denied error' see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/error-access-denied.html ESV Media GmbH wrote: > Hi everyone, > > how can i import a database export from another database. > I´ve got alway a permission error... > I used mysqlimport & mysqldump... > >

Re: INSERT encrypted data

2006-01-20 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. What data type are you using to store the result of AES_DECRYPT? Please, send the CREATE statement for your table. sharif islam wrote: > On 1/19/06, Gleb Paharenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello. >> >>What doesn't work? In case you want more help please, provide the >>results you wa

Re: question about recovery with binlog

2006-01-20 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Just a possible workaround - you can parse the output of mysqlbinlog and replace the buggy statement with the correct one. wangxu wrote: > My mysql version is 5.0.16. > > My problem is similar to the bug. > > My sql mode is ANSI and TRADITIONAL > > If mysql can't do recovery with mysql

Auto-increment & indexes

2006-01-20 Thread Adrian Bruce
Hi, im hoping to solve a problem that is bugging me! I just moved a database from a development server to production (test), several of the fields have auto-increment ticked but as it is mainly a data warehouse i thought nothing of it. I then found that a lot of my queries were running slow

convert varchar/char to integer

2006-01-20 Thread morten bjoernsvik
Hi Gents Is it possible to sort char/varchars that only contains integers as integers and not as characters. I can't use integer because the standard says it may contain characters aswell. Currently I do this outside mysql in a perl-procedure. Whatever I try I get this order: | 2000651

Re: convert varchar/char to integer

2006-01-20 Thread morten bjoernsvik
morten bjoernsvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: Hi Gents Is it possible to sort char/varchars that only contains integers as integers and not as characters. I can't use integer because the standard says it may contain characters aswell. Currently I do this outside mysql in a perl-procedure.

Re: mysqldump

2006-01-20 Thread Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
On Friday 20 January 2006 11:19, Giandomenico Sica wrote: > Hi, > > I've a little problem with mysqldump. > I'm using wordpress in localhost. > Now I'd like to put online my wordpress website, including the related > mysql database. > In order to make this operation, I've used the command: > "mysql

mysqldump

2006-01-20 Thread Giandomenico Sica
Hi, I've a little problem with mysqldump. I'm using wordpress in localhost. Now I'd like to put online my wordpress website, including the related mysql database. In order to make this operation, I've used the command: "mysqldump database name" The work seems correct, but the problem is that I'm n

Re: question about "CONTAINS SQL"

2006-01-20 Thread wangxu
Hello Paul, If it like your mean,these parameters aren't beneficial to help user to ensure the correctness with their code. On the contrary,mysql depend on these parameters to ensure the integrality and security. If it like this,these parameters increase use difficulty about user. Should mysq