show tables

2007-05-01 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, I want to print the list of tables (one on a line) from a database into an external file. I have tried: mysql -u user -p database -e 'show tables;' file.txt mysql -u root -p information_schema -e 'select table_name from tables where table_schema=database_name;' file.txt But the

Re: show tables

2007-05-01 Thread Stijn Verholen
Octavian Rasnita wrote: Hi, I want to print the list of tables (one on a line) from a database into an external file. I have tried: mysql -u user -p database -e 'show tables;' file.txt mysql -u root -p information_schema -e 'select table_name from tables where table_schema=database_name;'

Re: show tables

2007-05-01 Thread Mogens Melander
On Tue, May 1, 2007 09:57, Stijn Verholen wrote: Octavian Rasnita wrote: mysql -u user -p database -e 'show tables;' file.txt That one works for me, with a litle change. -s (kill's columnnames a.o.). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mysql -s -u rppt test -e 'show tables;' file.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

Re: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread Martijn Tonies
I'm having problems understanding NULL. I grasp what a NULL value is, Actually, you don't :-) NULL is not a value, it's the lack of value and a state. A column can have 2 states: NULL or NOT NULL, which is part of the reason why SQL allows for the IS NULL and IS NOT NULL clause as opposed

Re: show tables

2007-05-01 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Ok, thank you all. It was my mistake. I have quoted the SQL command with single quotes under Windows. Octavian - Original Message - From: Stijn Verholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:57 AM Subject:

best filesystem for mysql

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Pang
hello list, I saw this article for the suitable filesystem for mysql. http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/sqlbench/ From what I saw,the best filesystem for MyISAM is ext3,the best filesystem for InnoDB is Reiserfs. How about your thought on it?Thanks. 50€ AMAZON-Einkaufsgutschein bei Bestellung

RE: Research Subjects drawn randomly from databases

2007-05-01 Thread Jerry Schwartz
Well, then color me baffled. I don't know why your first query didn't work. Regards, Jerry Schwartz Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341 -Original Message- From: John Kebbel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread Lucas . CTR . Heuman
By chance when you set them as null did you use null or 'null' setting it as a string value? __ Lucas Heuman Phone 609.485.5401 Martijn Tonies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/01/2007 04:45 AM To MySQL mysql@lists.mysql.com cc Subject Re: IS NULL Question I'm having

Need help with query

2007-05-01 Thread Jesse
The following query works just fine: SELECT B.BusNum, COALESCE(CampCount.Cnt,0) As Kids, B.CamperCapacity, COALESCE(CounselorCount.Cnt,0) As Adults, B.AdultCapacity FROM Buses B LEFT JOIN (SELECT BusID,Count(*) As Cnt FROM Campers GROUP BY BusID) AS CampCount ON CampCount.BusID=B.ID LEFT

Re: Need help with query

2007-05-01 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi Jesse, Jesse wrote: The following query works just fine: SELECT B.BusNum, COALESCE(CampCount.Cnt,0) As Kids, B.CamperCapacity, COALESCE(CounselorCount.Cnt,0) As Adults, B.AdultCapacity FROM Buses B LEFT JOIN (SELECT BusID,Count(*) As Cnt FROM Campers GROUP BY BusID) AS CampCount ON

Re: Need help with query

2007-05-01 Thread Jesse
COALESCE(CampCount.Cnt,0) + COALESCE(CounselorCount.Cnt,0) as GT Duuuh. Why didn't I think of that. What is MySQL's issue with referring to the variables (As assignments, whatever you want to call them)? I've had issues like this in situations like this one, when trying to use them in the

Re: Need help with query

2007-05-01 Thread Mark Leith
Jesse wrote: COALESCE(CampCount.Cnt,0) + COALESCE(CounselorCount.Cnt,0) as GT Duuuh. Why didn't I think of that. What is MySQL's issue with referring to the variables (As assignments, whatever you want to call them)? I've had issues like this in situations like this one, when trying to

Re: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 9:06p -0400 on 30 Apr 2007 John Kebbel wrote: I'm having problems understanding NULL. I grasp what a NULL value is, A NULL value is rather an oxymoron. It'd be more accurate to say that NULL means absence of a value. but I can't get NULL to perform correctly. For instance, if I do a

RE: InnoDB table lock on INSERT

2007-05-01 Thread Power, Paul C.
Baron- Thank you for the InnoDB Lock Monitor pointer. I now have a greate deal of informaiton to digest. I will try innotop when I have a chance. :) -Paul Hi Paul, Power, Paul C. wrote: I have an INSERT waiting for a table lock, and i do not understand why. ---TRANSACTION 0

Re: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread Gerald L. Clark
Kevin Hunter wrote: At 9:06p -0400 on 30 Apr 2007 John Kebbel wrote: I'm having problems understanding NULL. I grasp what a NULL value is, A NULL value is rather an oxymoron. It'd be more accurate to say that NULL means absence of a value. but I can't get NULL to perform correctly.

RE: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread Jerry Schwartz
We use NULL all the time with MyISAM tables, and I've never noticed a problem. Well, there was one bizarre bit of business that's already been mentioned: my predecessor actually put the string NULL into a field, and since it looks the same in the MySQL client that gave me a devil of a time.

Re: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread Kevin Hunter
Caveat emptor: I haven't tested this in about a year. Are you perchance using a table type of MyISAM? I seem to recall that MyISAM has a hard time actually representing NULL internally. [ ... Thinks for a minute ... ] I remember something about spaces, like, I think I did INSERT (

Re: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread Baron Schwartz
Jerry Schwartz wrote: We use NULL all the time with MyISAM tables, and I've never noticed a problem. I think there was a bug at one point dealing with NULL and empty strings, but it strikes me that it was a bug in the new client/server protocol that was introduced in (4.1? 5.0?). So, it

MySQL Workbench

2007-05-01 Thread Afan Pasalic
Hi, I'm looking for database modeling tool form MySQL. Anybody used the MySQL Workbench? I know the Workbench is in Alpha production, though some hints? How about DB Designer? Thanks for any respond. -afan -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Re: mysqldump running out out of memory

2007-05-01 Thread Atle Veka
Have you tried this flag? -q, --quick Don't buffer query, dump directly to stdout. On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Fredrik Carlsson wrote: Hi, I have a problem with mysqldump, its exiting with the message mysqldump: Error 5: Out of memory (Needed 22042208 bytes) when dumping table

Re: MySQL Workbench

2007-05-01 Thread Mogens Melander
I've had a lot of fun using Toad on Oracle. Quest got a freeware for MySQL, that i never got around to try, but have a look at: http://www.quest.com/toad-for-mysql/ On Tue, May 1, 2007 21:36, Afan Pasalic wrote: Hi, I'm looking for database modeling tool form MySQL. Anybody used the MySQL

Re: mysqldump running out out of memory

2007-05-01 Thread Fredrik Carlsson
Hi, Yes I'm using the -q option with mysqldump, but the result is the same. This is a replicated environment and the master is running FreeBSD and the slave NetBSD and on the master which only has InnoDB tables there is no problems to run a dump but the machine is to loaded so we can not

expire_logs_days

2007-05-01 Thread Ofer Inbar
There's a system variable called expire_logs_days that lets you set a number of days to keep binary logs, and automatically delete logs older than that. I've heard rumors that using this feature is problematic. I notice that in the MySQL documentation about binary logging, it tells you to use

Re: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread John Kebbel
It looks like it was a string named NULL posing as a null value. I got 0 for ISNULL(suffix), which I assume means false. I tried this command ... update persons set suffix = 'Empty' where suffix = ''; It changed the NULLs to Empty. On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 18:12 -0700, Jeremy Cole wrote: Hi

batch mode

2007-05-01 Thread Brown, Charles
Because I am running on batch mode therefore I'm trying to direct my session output to a file -- meaning stdout. But I'm having a problem. For instance this input: use test_db gave me no output but this input show tables gave me an output. What is missing, what's the trick. Help me Y'all. Thx.

REGEXP Character Classes

2007-05-01 Thread John Kebbel
Linux Version: Linux version 2.6.15-28-386 MySQL Version: 5.0.22-Debian_0ubuntu6.06.3-log I have two queries using REGEXP character classes and their respective outputs below. The first is supposed to match an upper case character in a column, but I wind up with 4 rows out of 25 that contain

Rename or Delete Users

2007-05-01 Thread John Kebbel
I've discovered that I can type ... use mysql; show tables; describe user; update user set user='newName' where user='oldName' However, this seems to have no effect on the user name in the privileges table when I searched them. The MySQL site says the alternative way to do this has the same

Re: Rename or Delete Users

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Dykman
I trust that you realize that you can never expect related tables to be uodated in the mysql database if you using using SQL to manipulate them directly. moving on.. I can't think of any mainstream systrm that generally allows usernames to be changed.. I mean, sure, there is a trivial hack to

Re: Rename or Delete Users

2007-05-01 Thread John Kebbel
Thank you for stating something obvious that I was completely overlooking. With normal tables I had created, I would never expect related tables to be magically updated by something I did to one table. Because I was dealing with a table in the mysql database that was created by MySQL, I had

Re: REGEXP Character Classes

2007-05-01 Thread Paul DuBois
At 6:20 PM -0400 5/1/07, John Kebbel wrote: Linux Version: Linux version 2.6.15-28-386 MySQL Version: 5.0.22-Debian_0ubuntu6.06.3-log I have two queries using REGEXP character classes and their respective outputs below. The first is supposed to match an upper case character in a column, but I