Re: Complicated SQL Query

2010-08-25 Thread Jacob Steinberger
I found an answer without having to worry about complicated SQL statements - it's more about managing the tables than the SQL. Jacob Quoting Jacob Steinberger : I have a requirement to keep track of a set of data, and all changes that might occur. In order to do this, for each field of the d

Complicated SQL Query

2010-08-25 Thread Jacob Steinberger
I have a requirement to keep track of a set of data, and all changes that might occur. In order to do this, for each field of the data set, I've created a table that keeps track of the version, the value, the time the change was made, and a linking number that links all the different tables

Re: calculating memory size (again)

2010-08-25 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi Geoff, > This server has 6GB of RAM and no swap.  According to some reasearch I was > doing I found this formula for calculating memory size: > > key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_connections = > (in your case) 384M + (64M + 2M)*1000 = 66384M > > That come directly fro

Re: How many pager command within mysql command line client?

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 25), Moon's Father said: > Hi. >For example, entering mysql command line client, >mysql> pager more ( or pager md5sum and so on.) > >I want to know how many command the 'pager' follows? Any reply will > be big appreciated. Any command can be used as a pager.

Re: Calculating table standings

2010-08-25 Thread Tompkins Neil
Travis Do you think it would be better if I stored the information in a separate table, rather than using unions etc - to make the searching, counting etc easier ? Or is this method a standard way of dealing with this sort of data. Cheers Neil On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Travis Ard wrote:

To join or not to join?

2010-08-25 Thread Chris W
I need a single row from 2 different tables. It is rather trivial to create a join that will join these two tables and give me all the information I want in one query. It is also fairly easy to just execute two different queries with out any join and get the data I need. Since the both singl

Table design question

2010-08-25 Thread Tompkins Neil
Hi, I'm creating a application which hosts football matches and I want to record the player appearances, goals etc. I was thinking of having a record for each player as follows : appearance_id season_id player_id team_id competition_id appearance goals yellow_card red_card date_played Is this t

Re: Retrieve three columns in sub query

2010-08-25 Thread Tompkins Neil
Hi M, This appears to do exactly what I require. Thank you ! Cheers Neil On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:43 PM, misiaQ wrote: > select ci.*, ct.* from (select name, countrycode from city) ci, country ct > where ci.countrycode = ct.code > > Regards, > m > > -Original Message- > From: Tompkin

Re: Retrieve three columns in sub query

2010-08-25 Thread Jo�o C�ndido de Souza Neto
Not tested, but i think it could work for you: SELECT student_age, (SELECT student_subjects_id FROM student_subjects ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1) as subject_id, (SELECT random_mark FROM student_subjects having student_subj

RE: Retrieve three columns in sub query

2010-08-25 Thread misiaQ
select ci.*, ct.* from (select name, countrycode from city) ci, country ct where ci.countrycode = ct.code Regards, m -Original Message- From: Tompkins Neil [mailto:neil.tompk...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:23 PM To: [MySQL] Subject: Retrieve three columns in sub qu

Re: Retrieve three columns in sub query

2010-08-25 Thread Tompkins Neil
I thought as much, if anyone else can shed some light that would be great. If not, I'm going to have to write an additional query. 2010/8/25 João Cândido de Souza Neto > As far as I know sub-queries intends to be an only one column and row > result. > > -- > João Cândido de Souza Neto > > "

Re: Retrieve three columns in sub query

2010-08-25 Thread Jo�o C�ndido de Souza Neto
As far as I know sub-queries intends to be an only one column and row result. -- João Cândido de Souza Neto "Tompkins Neil" escreveu na mensagem news:aanlkti=djkujcsg=kf29sjsp0yllhmhb02mqzdvzd...@mail.gmail.com... > Hi > > Is it possible in MySQL 5.1 to retrieve three columns in a select >

Retrieve three columns in sub query

2010-08-25 Thread Tompkins Neil
Hi Is it possible in MySQL 5.1 to retrieve three columns in a select sub-query like below : SELECT student_age, SELECT (student_subjects_id, random_mark, subject FROM student_subjects ORDER BY RAND(), LIMIT 1) FROM students WHERE student_age > 10 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 I've looked and tried eve

Re: calculating memory size

2010-08-25 Thread Jangita
On 25/08/2010 8:23 a, Geoff Galitz wrote: Hello, We are having issues with one of our servers sometimes hanging up and when attempting to shutdown the DB, we get "cannot create thread" errors. This server has 6GB of RAM and no swap. According to some reasearch I was doing I found this formu

Re: Always corrupted after restart server

2010-08-25 Thread Jangita
On 25/08/2010 8:05 a, Michael Dykman wrote: How are you shutting down the server during the restart.. have you checked the logs? Might you be issuing a kill and crashing it? MyISAM doesnot dealwith crashes very elegantly. Also, what is some reason? Might thereason you need to restart be relat

Re: Complex Select Query

2010-08-25 Thread Ashish Mukherjee
Alternatively, you could just code a recursive function to do the same instead of doing it in SQL or stored procs. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Peter Brawley > wrote: > > > >What I'm trying to accomplish is to order the results such th