RE: Conditional Insert

2006-08-29 Thread Ravi Kumar.
Hi Douglas, Thanks for your prompt reply. I read through the description of REPLACE and tested it as well. It seems just fine, but the idea that it would DELETE and then insert if a match is found, seems like a warning to me. I need to know this: can it happen that in between this delete and

Re: Conditional Insert

2006-08-29 Thread Douglas Sims
Hi Ravi You are correct. I was just sitting here thinking about this after I sent that and realized that what I said was incorrect; the REPLACE command will not do what you want, because it delete a record instead of updating it, it has no way to know what the previous value is. You

Re: Conditional Insert

2006-08-29 Thread Johan Höök
Hi Ravi, you can take a look at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-on-duplicate.html which might take care of your problem. /Johan Douglas Sims skrev: Hi Ravi You are correct. I was just sitting here thinking about this after I sent that and realized that what I said was

Re: Conditional Insert

2006-08-29 Thread Douglas Sims
Much better. Good job. Douglas Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 29, 2006, at 1:26 AM, Johan Höök wrote: Hi Ravi, you can take a look at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-on-duplicate.html which might take care of your problem. /Johan Douglas Sims skrev: Hi Ravi You are

Re: Conditional Insert

2006-08-29 Thread Chris W
Douglas Sims wrote: Hi Ravi You are correct. I was just sitting here thinking about this after I sent that and realized that what I said was incorrect; the REPLACE command will not do what you want, because it delete a record instead of updating it, it has no way to know what the

RE: Conditional Insert

2006-08-29 Thread Ravi Kumar.
Dear All, Thanks for the prompt replies. The version of MySQL we are using (4.1.14-standard-log) supports INSERT ON DUPLICATE, hence I am using this. Have a fantastic day! Regards, Ravi. _ From: Douglas Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 29 August, 2006 12:02 PM To:

replication breaks

2006-08-29 Thread Pooly
Hi, I recently upgrade our master to MySQL 5.0.24. But, I changed on option to log_bin=server-log-bin, as a result the binary log has changed from server-bin.000228 to server-log-bin.01... So now, the slave throw me an could not find first log file in binary log index. I suppose I have to do

Re: MySQL 5.1

2006-08-29 Thread Jacques Marneweck
Logan, David (SST - Adelaide) wrote: Hi Folks, Does anybody have any idea when 5.1 may come to General Release? I am particularly interested in MySQL Cluster as I have several databases (around 50) totalling 26Gb and would like to consider moving to this version because of the Cluster Disk

Doing sum's if certain conditions are true

2006-08-29 Thread Ian Barnes
Hi, I am trying to build a query that does a sum if a certain parameter is set. For example: I have a row with four fields: code1, code2, duration and bytes. My current query looks something like this: SELECT code1 as code, sum(bytes) as bin, max(bytes) as min, avg(bytes) as ain, count(bytes)

RE: Doing sum's if certain conditions are true

2006-08-29 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] +---+--+---+-+-- +-+ | code | bin | min | ain | cin | dur | +---+--+---+-+-- +-+ |

How to deal with summary data and reports

2006-08-29 Thread Matthew Wilson
I wrote a fairly large query that summarizes our sales into monthly totals by business unit, then left joins on some other information from a bunch of other tables. Running the query takes a long time. I'm considering whether to store my summary data as a table, like this: create table

Re: How to deal with summary data and reports

2006-08-29 Thread Aleksandar Ivanisevic
Matthew Wilson writes: [...] I suspect this is a universal problem. All general advice would be appreciated. Perhaps a stored procedure is not the way to go. Mysql 5.1 has CREATE EVENT, that somewhat mimics Oracle's jobs. I prefer to run a shell script in a cron job, like this: #!/bin/bash

Re: Anyone tried solidDB for MySQL?

2006-08-29 Thread Peter Rosenthal
http://www.solidtech.com/en/carrier-grade/index.asp http://dev.soliddb.com/en/index.php On 29/08/06, Ratheesh K J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this solidDB? where can i get much info on this?? Thanks, Ratheesh Bhat K J

Performance: LIMIT 1 with UPDATE

2006-08-29 Thread Robert DiFalco
Does using LIMIT 1 with UPDATE provide a performance improvement when the WHERE condition is on a unique index or primary key? R. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Performance: LIMIT 1 with UPDATE

2006-08-29 Thread Robert DiFalco
FWIW, my preliminary testing shows no performance increase for adding LIMIT 1 to the following construct: [ SELECT | UPDATE ] WHERE Table.UniqueID = N In fact, there seems to be a slight performance edge to NOT appending LIMIT 1 to the statement. R. -Original Message-

table sizes, rolling data.

2006-08-29 Thread Tanner Postert

table sizes, rolling data.

2006-08-29 Thread Tanner Postert
sorry for the double post. if i want to have a row of about 100 records. and everytime i insert a new record, it gets pushed on the top, and the bottom one gets pushed out, sort of like a heap. is this possible? i know i can just delete the record, etc, but i was wondering if there was a built

data time wrong format between mysql 5.01 and visual.net

2006-08-29 Thread Roberto William Aranda-W Roman
hello i'm developing a program on visual.net 2003 where i need to extract data from a date time format column working with mysql.net component for extract via mysqlcommands and dataadapters im fillin datagrills but the column displayed only presents the date but not the time im still

Re: [PHP] switch()

2006-08-29 Thread John Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have something like this: ?php $query = mysql_query( SELECT col_1, col_2 FROM table ); $result = mysql_fetch_array($query); if ($result['col_1'] == 'value_1') { // do something } if ($result['col_2'] == 'value_2') {

RE: Performance: LIMIT 1 with UPDATE

2006-08-29 Thread Rick James
Maybe it is the tiny extra time to parse the unnecessary LIMIT 1? -Original Message- From: Robert DiFalco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:09 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Performance: LIMIT 1 with UPDATE FWIW, my

RE: Performance: LIMIT 1 with UPDATE

2006-08-29 Thread Robert DiFalco
Yeah, seems like for a uniquely index column expression that the LIMIT 1 provides no benefit (which seems like a logical conclusion). The performance on a large data set with both approaches is close enough to call equivalent. -Original Message- From: Rick James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] switch()

2006-08-29 Thread afan
Why do you want to use a switch in this particular instance. You're comparing apples and oranges (in this case, col_1 and col_2). You use swithc to evaluate one variable against a number of choice, not multiple variables against variable choices. I'm not comparing apples and oranges - just

Re: data time wrong format between mysql 5.01 and visual.net

2006-08-29 Thread Jo�o C�ndido de Souza Neto
You tried the date_format function of mysql? Roberto William Aranda-W Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu na mensagem news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] hello i'm developing a program on visual.net 2003 where i need to extract data from a date time format column working with mysql.net component for extract

Re: [PHP] switch()

2006-08-29 Thread John Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you want to use a switch in this particular instance. You're comparing apples and oranges (in this case, col_1 and col_2). You use swithc to evaluate one variable against a number of choice, not multiple variables against variable choices. I'm not

Re: Doing sum's if certain conditions are true

2006-08-29 Thread Visolve DB TEAM
Hello Ian barnes I hope this query will resolve your problem if my understanding is correct SELECT code1, SUM(bytes) as sumofbytes, MAX(bytes) as maximum, MIN(bytes) as minimum, COUNT(bytes) as bytecount, SUM(duration) as duration, AVG(bytes) as averagebyte FROM mytable where code1'none' and

Zip Code Distance

2006-08-29 Thread Jesse
This is not necessarily SQL Specific, but it will impact my MySQL application. Using the zip code, how can you determine what's in a (say) 50 mile radius. In other words, if I'm looking for schools within a 50 mile radius of my location (Zip Code 33881), How can I determine this by the zip

Re: Zip Code Distance

2006-08-29 Thread Philip Hallstrom
This is not necessarily SQL Specific, but it will impact my MySQL application. Using the zip code, how can you determine what's in a (say) 50 mile radius. In other words, if I'm looking for schools within a 50 mile radius of my location (Zip Code 33881), How can I determine this by the zip

Re: Zip Code Distance

2006-08-29 Thread Greg Donald
On 8/29/06, Jesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not necessarily SQL Specific, but it will impact my MySQL application. Using the zip code, how can you determine what's in a (say) 50 mile radius. In other words, if I'm looking for schools within a 50 mile radius of my location (Zip Code

Re: Zip Code Distance

2006-08-29 Thread Chris W
Jesse wrote: This is not necessarily SQL Specific, but it will impact my MySQL application. Using the zip code, how can you determine what's in a (say) 50 mile radius. In other words, if I'm looking for schools within a 50 mile radius of my location (Zip Code 33881), How can I determine

Re: Zip Code Distance

2006-08-29 Thread Gmail User
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 16:30 -0400, Jesse wrote: Does anyone have any ideas? One technique is to calculate set distances (5,10,25,50) between the zip codes in advance and stick the results in a table. Enjoy, Ed -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql

RE: Zip Code Distance

2006-08-29 Thread Jerry Schwartz
That (using the zip code digits) won't work. Zip codes are assigned by population density, not by distance. A big city might have several zip codes, although they'd all likely have the same first three digits, but check Manhattan for an example. In our area, the core city (Hartford) and some of

Re: Zip Code Distance

2006-08-29 Thread barney
Jesse, Back around 1995-1996 I built a VB app with an Access database that would do much of what you want - it was for shipping and terminal locations - then ported it over to ASP SQL Server a year or two later. I found several raw data files, either CSV or TSV, which were pretty easily

SOS

2006-08-29 Thread 李彦
Dear Sir: I have some problems with mysql 5.0 binary source in Linux(RedHat).I'm able to startup the mysql process. But when i type in :mysql -u root -h localhost -p, and then put the correct password, I can not enter the database. I took almost one week to deal with this

Re: select between date

2006-08-29 Thread Penduga Arus
On 8/3/06, Penduga Arus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/06, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you look at the link David sent you? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html thanks.. I manage to do that.. below is my solution. please advice if there is any better

Re: SOS

2006-08-29 Thread Chris
李彦 wrote: Dear Sir: I have some problems with mysql 5.0 binary source in Linux(RedHat).I'm able to startup the mysql process. But when i type in :mysql -u root -h localhost -p, and then put the correct password, I can not enter the database. I took almost one week to

Re: select between date

2006-08-29 Thread Douglas Sims
You have a table containing birthdates (date field, including year) and you want to display all rows for which the birthday will occur in the next week (seven days). You tried this query: SELECT a017namaper, DATE_FORMAT(a017tkhlahir, '%e/%c/%Y') as a017tkhlahir, MONTH(a017tkhlahir) as