No delivery of list mail

2009-02-01 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi all, I use Gmane (http://gmane.org) to read/post to mailing lists as news groups. Is there any way of switching off delivery of mail from this list whilst remaining subscribed? I've had a look around and there doesn't appear to be... Regards, Sebastian -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without

mysqld memory usage

2009-02-01 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi all, I recently installed MySQL (version 5.0) on my Debian Lenny VPS and mysqld uses 14.3% of memory when idle. Is this a known issue? I'm aware that version 5.0 is not the latest version but it's the one currently shipped by Debian Lenny (testing) so I'm loathe to 'manually' install a later

Re: questions about merging

2009-02-01 Thread Walter Heck
Might be a bit late, but on the naming issue: why not rename the tables on the old database before doing the dump? that would save you from potentially messing with your data due to parsing problems. Just a thought :) Walter OlinData: Professional services for MySQL Support * Consulting *

Re: Need to pivot rows into columns

2009-02-01 Thread Attila
Hey, Thanks a lot! I didn't see this response until now. I did not try it as I went with the column based solution. However this looks like it will work. I will implement and let you know. Thanks again, On 1/23/09, Peter Brawley peter.braw...@earthlink.net wrote: Attila, I would like to

Re: mysqld memory usage

2009-02-01 Thread Walter Heck
You could bring it down, but the real question is if you really want to do that? Making the buffers and caches smaller will reduce the memory used, but it also reduces performance. Could you tell us what you are hoping to use MySQL for and why you wanna bring the memory usage down? Walter

Certification Feedback?

2009-02-01 Thread Daniel Lahey
I'm considering MySQL certification, and I'm wondering which certifications I should target. I've been developing using MySQL for about 4-5 years, but am looking to get out of development and into a DBA role. I've worked with various database engines for about 20 years, so it would seem

Re: questions about merging

2009-02-01 Thread Robert D. Crawford
Walter Heck li...@olindata.com writes: Might be a bit late, Better late than never. but on the naming issue: why not rename the tables on the old database before doing the dump? that would save you from potentially messing with your data due to parsing problems. A good idea, but it

Trying to work out why a join query is so slow

2009-02-01 Thread Simon Kimber
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to run a very simple query on two joined tables but it's taking a long time to run. I have two tables, users and sites, both of which have an email address field that I'm querying. here's my query: SELECT * FROM sites INNER JOIN users ON sites.userid = users.ID

RE: Certification Feedback?

2009-02-01 Thread Martin Gainty
Dan- I would concentrate on SQL certification first To know package foo does bar method for MySQL is a good extra tool to have in your toolbelt but more important for the bigger companies to be able to use your skillset for MySQL AND DB2 AND Oracle Martin

Re: Trying to work out why a join query is so slow

2009-02-01 Thread Sangeetha
My guess is that the OR is searching the whole table for each element of the other table. It compounds the select statement. You may try a Union.Im new to Mysql so im not sure it will work, but you might try it out. SELECT * FROM sites INNER JOIN users ON sites.userid = users.ID WHERE sites.email

Re: questions about merging

2009-02-01 Thread Walter Heck
then: dump, import locally, rename and dump again. Still feels a bit safer then parsing though it might be a bit more work. OlinData: Professional services for MySQL Support * Consulting * Administration http://www.olindata.com On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Robert D. Crawford

Re: questions about merging

2009-02-01 Thread Steve Holmes
Robert, I know you have had other answers, but as to the database name, yes, you can remove the CREATE DATABASE statement and change the USE statement to the right database name. N.B. In our environment the students have only one database each, and will install blogs and wiki's etc. using that

RE: Trying to work out why a join query is so slow

2009-02-01 Thread Martin Gainty
UNION all does a cartesian join ..maxiumum number of results will be delivered SELECT * FROM sites INNER JOIN sites.userid = users.ID; -- INNER JOIN users ON sites.userid = users.ID --ALSO put (hopefully UNIQUE indexes) on sites.userid and users.id Martin