Re: MySQL 5.0.51a and SHOW ENGINES

2008-04-17 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hello Jim, sounds like you are using the wrong value for the length of a utf8 field, where the number of characters is being divided by the max character length. (10 / 3 = 3, 80 / 3 = 26) or it could be the server returning the wrong length. use mysql --column-type-info to see

[ANN]: MicroOLAP DAC for MySQL 2.6.2 released

2008-04-17 Thread Mikhail Oleynik
Greetings, Microolap Technologies is happy to announce that the version 2.6.2 of MicroOLAP DAC for MySQL is available. This release brings several optimizations and bugfixes. TmySQLUpdateSQL component supports BLOB parameters now, so it can be used with Image, Memo and RichText DB controls.

viewing passwords as root

2008-04-17 Thread Pam Astor
Hi, Is there a way to view mysql user passwords once logged in as the MySQL root user in v 5.0.22? Or are they encrypted even from the MySQL toot user? _ More immediate than e-mail? Get instant access with Windows Live Messenger.

Can't get a login shell for some databases

2008-04-17 Thread Pam Astor
Hi, I have about a half dozen small databases associated with a couple of small shopping carts, discussion forums, etc. All six databases have usernames and passwords associated with them, and all the databases are connected to the php based forums and shopping carts, no problems

Re: viewing passwords as root

2008-04-17 Thread Paul DuBois
At 12:49 PM -0400 4/17/08, Pam Astor wrote: Hi, Is there a way to view mysql user passwords once logged in as the MySQL root user in v 5.0.22? Or are they encrypted even from the MySQL toot user? It's one-way encryption. You cannot see them.

database design

2008-04-17 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, after a little 'research' and consultation with friends, i come up with these tables for my database project. table Item(ItemID,warehouse,ShapeID,weight,category,description) table Shape(ShapeID,physical shape) table Dimension(DimensionID,dimension) table

Re: Query OK in localhost, error on ISP server

2008-04-17 Thread contiw
Complementing the post above: I have found that SUM(DISTINCT xxx) is valid with v.5x, not so in v.4x. While I am trying to convince my ISP to switch the database to a v.5x server, I would like some help with a workaround - please excuse my newbness. I have tried : (select

Re: Query OK in localhost, error on ISP server

2008-04-17 Thread contiw
Complementing the post above: I have found that SUM(DISTINCT xxx) is valid with v.5x, not so in v.4x. While I am trying to convince my ISP to switch the database to a v.5x server, I would like some help with a workaround - please excuse my newbness. I have tried : (select

A SQL Query Question

2008-04-17 Thread samk
See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=32975 Posted on behalf of a User Hello everyone, I have a table A: userId long picture MeduimBlob datePosted DateTime A userId can have many pictures posted. I want to write a query that returns a distinct userId along with the most

Re: A SQL Query Question

2008-04-17 Thread samk
See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=32975 Posted on behalf of a User select userId, picture, MAX(datePosted) from A order by datePosted; In Response To: Hello everyone, I have a table A: userId long picture MeduimBlob datePosted DateTime A userId can have many

optimize mysql table's physical storage

2008-04-17 Thread tech user
Hello, My mysql table has been created for long time, it increases day by day, and become huge. Right now a full scan to the table for the first time is very slow. So I was thinking to optimize it. This table is stored in many non-sequential disk fragments I think. I want to make this table to be