Re: normalised designs: customer database

2008-11-15 Thread metastable
Martijn Tonies wrote: The notion of a variant record exists in many programming languages. Typically you have a selector to indicate which variant it is. There is nothing at all wrong with using the same sort of construct in a database table. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_record

Replication Failed - Error 1205

2008-11-15 Thread Johnny Withers
I'm running replication between two MySQL servers. This has been working fine for a while; howver, as of yesterday replication keeps failing because of a lock wait timeout exceeded on one of my tables. I thought I could use the mysqlbinlog utility to figure out what queries were being executed

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Creating table syntax error with mysql 5.0!

2008-11-15 Thread jean claude babin
I'm new with MySQL server 5.0 ,I tried to create a table MemberDetails from the mysql command shell, I got an error 1064 (42000): *You have an error in your SQL syntax*; Here is my code: mysql CREATE TABLE memberDetails - *(* -memberId INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, -

Re: Creating table syntax error with mysql 5.0!

2008-11-15 Thread Peter Brawley
mysql CREATE TABLE memberDetails - *(* -memberId INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, -PRIMARY KEY(memberId), -first_name varchar(100), -last_name varchar(100), -Email varchar(60), -phoneNum varchar(25) - *);* Works without the

Re: Server Setup Question

2008-11-15 Thread Jake Maul
I see that you've already decided on 64-bit anyway, but here's a more explicit reason to do so: in 32-bit (PAE-mode), no single process can allocate more than 4GB of memory- that's all the address space there is. The *system* can see it all, but each process can only work with a single 4GB chunk

Re: Server Setup Question

2008-11-15 Thread Jake Maul
I don't have any links, but in general we don't do very much as far as tuning is concerned. Here's a few things I can think of off the top of my head that we sometimes do if we're worried about performance: blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/sda (substitute an appropriate readahead amount and device

Re: normalised designs: customer database

2008-11-15 Thread Jujitsu Lizard
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:54 AM, metastable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may just have had an insight over my morning coffee. How about turning things around and adding a FK -to the customers table- on each of the customer type tables (companies, people, charities, etc) ? The customers table

Re: Row before and after?

2008-11-15 Thread Waynn Lue
Yeah, so a UNION would work, would this solution be faster than using a subquery (my instinct says yes) but thought I would ask. They both execute fast on my system so it's hard to say under load. Thanks, Waynn On 11/12/08, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Nov 12), Waynn