getting a " Duplicate entry" error when inserting a new record - but there is no duplicate record

2007-03-07 Thread jerad sloan
when i try to insert the string " http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2012774576";, it returns "error : Duplicate entry ' http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=' for key 3" when i check the table and do a search for the string, there

Re: Google like search string to be implemented

2007-03-07 Thread abhishek jain
On 3/6/07, abhishek jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/6/07, Nils Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > abhishek jain wrote: > > I am having a database with varchar(255) columns named title, > > extra_info1,extra_info2,extra_info3 . > > I want to search all these columns with a search

Re: How do I alter the result of a select

2007-03-07 Thread Dan Buettner
Brian, the online MySQL documentation is very complete and easy to read. That said, you do kind of have to know what you're looking for! I'm not sure what to recommend for a guide to beginning SQL, sorry, others may have some thoughts. You are going down the right road with an aggregate function

RE: How do I alter the result of a select

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Menke
I ended up figuring this out. If anyone ever needs it, this works well select module_id, GROUP_CONCAT(participant_answer SEPARATOR ' ') as answers from participants_answers where email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' group by module_id -Brian -Original Message- From: Brian Menke [mailto:[EMAIL

回复: Re: drop stored procedures in p repare statment

2007-03-07 Thread xian liu
thanks for your response! Hope engineers of MySQL AB can improve it. Nils Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写道: Hi Xian, xian liu wrote: > ERROR 1295 (HY000): This command is not supported in the prepared statement > protocol yet > mysql> drop procedure ct_tb// > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.

How do I alter the result of a select

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Menke
MySQL 5.x I have a table that looks like this: module_id question_id email participant_answer 2 2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] a 2 2.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] b 2 2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Table doesn't exist from stored function

2007-03-07 Thread Imre Palik
Hi, When I try to run this function, I receive ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'gi2.meta' doesn't exist CREATE FUNCTION get_version() RETURNS INT UNSIGNED BEGIN DECLARE exist_ TINYINT; SELECT COUNT(*) INTO exist_ FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'GI2' AND TABLE_NAME = 'Meta' L

Re: Oracle to Mysql Sync

2007-03-07 Thread David Griffiths
I'd given some thought to this a while ago. The only way you are going to be able to tell if a row changes is to have a date column on every oracle table that indicates the last time the data changed. You'll need some program to start up that knows the last time it ran, and the current date, a

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Ed
> hehe, well said and sorry for the top-posting. > I can only agree, both methods have their merits! :) > > Alec Seems I started quite a debate ;) I wanted to thank you all again for your opinion and for planting a new seed of doubt on which direction I'll go ;) I setup the db as proposed earlier

Oracle to Mysql Sync

2007-03-07 Thread Shain Miley
Hello everyone, I had a quick question...I am looking to move away from our dependence on Oracle over to using a Mysql Cluster. Due to the complexity of the move it will have to happen over a period of time, what I would like to do is keep our mysql database in sync with our Oracle DBthis w

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander Lind
Kevin Hunter wrote: Grrr. All you lazy top-posters! ;) It seems to me that a case can be legitimately made for both methods of handling BLOBs. On the one hand, where speed and/or efficiency (on many different levels) are the top priorities, it'd be good to keep the DB as trim as possible.

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Hunter
On 07 Mar 2007 at 3:57p -0500, Alexander Lind wrote: imagine a large system where pdf-files are accessed by clients a lot. say 1 pdf file is access per second on average. also say that your database is on a machine separate from the webserver(s) (as is common). do you really think its a good

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread colbey
I've built systems than stream tons of data via this method, at times into some impressive requests per second. Also I've exposed files stored in this manner via a ftp interface with servers able to deliver near wire speed data in and out of the db storage. When your into a load balanced environ

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander Lind
imagine a large system where pdf-files are accessed by clients a lot. say 1 pdf file is access per second on average. also say that your database is on a machine separate from the webserver(s) (as is common). do you really think its a good idea to pump the pdf data from the db each time it ne

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread colbey
I have to disagree with most, I would store the entire file in the database, metadata and all. Better security, if you have a backend database, it's much harder to get the data than pdf's sitting in a directory on the webserver. Plus if you ever want to scale to a multi-webserver environment, th

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread colbey
Here's a great article on how to store pdf/whatever binary as blob chunks: http://www.dreamwerx.net/phpforum/?id=1 On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Jay Pipes wrote: > Ed wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to figure out how to put a pdf file into a blob field. > > > > I guess a pdf file is a binnary file an

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Ed
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:26, Alexander Lind wrote: > I would put the pdf as a regular file on the hd, and store the path to > it in the db. > Meta data could be things like the size of the pdf, author, owner, > number of pages etc. > > Storing binary data from pdf:s or images or any other comm

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread JamesDR
Ed wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:28, Jay Pipes wrote: >> Is there a specific reason you want to store this in a database? Why >> not use the local (or networked) file system and simply store the >> metadata about the PDF in the database? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jay > > Hi Jay, > Could you ex

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread hwigoda
i think he means you store only the name of the document and the directory location of where it is located. -Original Message- >From: Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mar 7, 2007 3:15 PM >To: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: Re: binary into blob > >On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:28, Jay Pipe

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander Lind
I would put the pdf as a regular file on the hd, and store the path to it in the db. Meta data could be things like the size of the pdf, author, owner, number of pages etc. Storing binary data from pdf:s or images or any other common binary format is generally not a good idea. Alec Ed wrote

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Ed
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:28, Jay Pipes wrote: > Is there a specific reason you want to store this in a database? Why > not use the local (or networked) file system and simply store the > metadata about the PDF in the database? > > Cheers, > > Jay Hi Jay, Could you explain what you mean by me

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Ed
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:28, Jay Pipes wrote: > Ed wrote: > > I guess a pdf file is a binnary file and it will contain characters that > > will mess things up, so my question is: > > Hi, sorry for the late answer. The reason, until I come up with a better one, is that I'm doing my own basic

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Jay Pipes
Ed wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to figure out how to put a pdf file into a blob field. I guess a pdf file is a binnary file and it will contain characters that will mess things up, so my question is: can it be done? Or better, how can it be done? ;) Any pointers to documentation are a bonus!

binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Ed
Hi All, I'm trying to figure out how to put a pdf file into a blob field. I guess a pdf file is a binnary file and it will contain characters that will mess things up, so my question is: can it be done? Or better, how can it be done? ;) Any pointers to documentation are a bonus! Thanks all,

Mirror db to new name

2007-03-07 Thread Bgs
Hi all, Is it possible to mirror a db to a different name? I have multiple dbs with a proprietary software which all use the same db name. I want to mirror all of them to a single db for backup purposes, but I don't want to run multiple instances of slave mysqls. Example: db1.domain.com -

Re: mysqldump --single-transaction causes database to become unusable

2007-03-07 Thread Filip Krejci
I have few information, but i suppose that you are on performance border of your db server. So you haven't reserve for doing backup. Send some few rows of command vmstat 1, before backup process and through backup process. How are these numbers: - queries per second ? - updates / selects rate

Re: mysqldump --single-transaction causes database to become unusable

2007-03-07 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 7 Mar 2007, at 09:30, Ian P. Christian wrote: --single-transaction Creates a consistent snapshot by dumping all tables in a single transaction. Works ONLY for tables stored in storage engines which support multiversioning (currently only InnoDB does); the dump is NOT guaranteed to be consist

Re: mysqldump --single-transaction causes database to become unusable

2007-03-07 Thread Ian P. Christian
Filip Krejci wrote: Hi, you are right, option --single-transaction does not accquire any lock on your innodb tables. Backup is fully on-line due to mvcc. You should look for another reason of this behavior. 1/ What says 'show full processlist' when backup is running It shows mostly inserts

Re: mysqldump --single-transaction causes database to become unusable

2007-03-07 Thread Filip Krejci
Hi, you are right, option --single-transaction does not accquire any lock on your innodb tables. Backup is fully on-line due to mvcc. You should look for another reason of this behavior. 1/ What says 'show full processlist' when backup is running 2/ What says 'show engine innodb\G' when backu

Re: drop stored procedures in prepare statment

2007-03-07 Thread Nils Meyer
Hi Xian, xian liu wrote: > ERROR 1295 (HY000): This command is not supported in the prepared statement > protocol yet > mysql> drop procedure ct_tb// > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) > > the same, "drop function/trigger xxx" is also not supported in prepare > statment. > > Is it a

Re: Pointers about replication

2007-03-07 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 7 Mar 2007, at 06:39, Cabbar Duzayak wrote: I am particularly interested in master-to-master replication (not even sure if this is possible with mysql) and/or real-world usage scenarios/examples as to how much load it can handle, how reliable it is, etc? I've had some success with it. I fo

Re: mysqldump --single-transaction causes database to become unusable

2007-03-07 Thread Ian P. Christian
Marcus Bointon wrote: Hi Marcus :) > On 7 Mar 2007, at 08:44, Ian P. Christian wrote: > > --single-transaction doesn't _do_ the dump as a transaction, it simply > wraps the dump in begin/commit statements so it's atomic when restoring. > > If the dump is to preserve relational integrity then it

Re: mysqldump --single-transaction causes database to become unusable

2007-03-07 Thread Praj
Hi , --single-transaction will execute the same nature of mysqldump command with begin and end transaction. How ever the table is locked for the backup your site may be slow. -- Praj Ian P. Christian wrote: Recently my one and only slave went down, and stupidly I don't have a dump suitable

Re: mysqldump --single-transaction causes database to become unusable

2007-03-07 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 7 Mar 2007, at 08:44, Ian P. Christian wrote: mysqldump --master-data --single-transaction database > dump.sql This database I'm dumping has something like 17 million rows, all but 1 table (which uses FULLTEXT, and only has 3-4k rows) run innodb. There is only one table of any real size,

Re: Pointers about replication

2007-03-07 Thread Adrian Bruce
Hi Multi-master replication is safely possible with MySQL 5.0 when they introduced auto_increment_increment and auto_increment_offset variables. Before this it was possible to run into problems with auto increment columns generating non-unique numbers between servers. Try the following link

mysqldump --single-transaction causes database to become unusable

2007-03-07 Thread Ian P. Christian
Recently my one and only slave went down, and stupidly I don't have a dump suitable for reseeding (is that's the right term...) the slave, so need to make a snapshot of the master database again. This time I'll make sure I keep this datafile for future restores should I need to - you live and l