timeout

2009-01-17 Thread Mosaed zamil
hello all, When I send : mysql -h address -u root -p from a distant computer I don't get connected. I think it is a timeout problem. How can I increase the timeout period. TIA mosaed

Re: timeout

2009-01-17 Thread Claudio Nanni
If you do not connect probably you have a firewall in between, and it is not a timeout problem. You should ask your network administrators to open, if possible, that port for you. Another option is to ssh to the host and do a local connection to the MySQL instance. Cheers Claudio Nanni

Re: timeout

2009-01-17 Thread Jim Lyons
First, be sure you can access the host - try pinging it. Second, if you can ping the computer so you know there's no network issue, be sure you've got the mysql permissions to connect from that host to either the server or the database (if you specify one). You may have permission to connect

RE: timeout

2009-01-17 Thread Martin Gainty
from a purely network point of view PING works if ICMP traffic is allowed do a tracert and find out which intervening node is rerouting the traffic you might have something funky on the routing tables Martin __ Disclaimer and confidentiality note

Re: help refactoring query

2009-01-17 Thread Shawn Green
b wrote: I'm having some difficulty getting my head around a particular query. I'd like to make this a view once I get something working. However, all I've been able to come up with uses a sub-query. So, no view on the horizon. I have 3 tables: users id, (etc. the usual) disciplines

MySQL v5.1 loses connection if too many updates in loop

2009-01-17 Thread mos
I updated from MySQL 5.01 to 5.1 a few days ago. My Delphi application runs on XP with 3GB ram. I have a query #1 that executes a simple Select statement that fetches 5000 rows from a single table sorted by date. (no joins) Inside a loop if any rows need to be updated, another query #2 will