Re: Fastest way to log IP's

2006-02-02 Thread Asad Habib
Storing the IP addresses as integers requires less memory but incurrs the cost of a call to these functions for every IP address. If you are going to use these addresses in string comparisons it's best to store them as varchars. - Asad On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Brian Dunning wrote: I'm logging I

max_connections

2006-01-25 Thread Asad Habib
Are there any statistics that I can use to determine how high or low I should set max_connections? I am using MySQL as the backend for a Java web application that will need to accommodate a moderate amount of traffic. Also, if max_connections is set too high relative to the needs of the applica

Re: Linking to documents on another server

2005-12-15 Thread Asad Habib
Hi. If you place these documents in the appropriate directory on the remote machine, a directory in which they can be served over the internet, then you should be able to link to them using a hyperlink reference (i.e. http://). The other option is to have PHP grab these documents for you using

Re: Phone Number Column Advice

2005-07-29 Thread Asad Habib
Hello. I posted a similar question a while back and received a bunch of responses. It depends on how you plan to use the numbers. If you plan to use them in calculations, then storing them as INTs is best. Also, breaking a number into separate components makes sense if you plan to use these compone

Phone Number Storage

2005-07-25 Thread Asad Habib
Is it better to store phone numbers as strings or as integers? Offcourse, storing them as integers saves space but this requires extra processing of the user's input (i.e. CPU time). Are there any other advantages/disadvantages of doing it one way or the other? - Asad -- MySQL General Mailing Li

MySQL Character Set

2005-06-29 Thread Asad Habib
I need in depth information on the character set used by MySQL including invisible/escape characters/codes. Is there online documentation that I can read on this? Thanks. - Asad -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.co

Re: Primary and Foreign Keys (Follow Up)

2005-06-15 Thread Asad Habib
ld be one table. Only with a one-to-many relation two > tables make sense, but then your FK can't be unique. > Stefan > > Am Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:41 schrieb Asad Habib: > > As a follow up to my question, I did want to mention that the foreign key > > I am using i

Primary and Foreign Keys (Follow Up)

2005-06-15 Thread Asad Habib
As a follow up to my question, I did want to mention that the foreign key I am using is unique. - Asad -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Primary and Foreign Keys

2005-06-15 Thread Asad Habib
Is it good practice to have a primary key for a table even though the table has a foreign key that is the primary key of another table? If so, why is this the case? I would appreciate if you point me to some resources that point out the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. Thank you. -

Year Data Type

2005-05-25 Thread Asad Habib
For purposes of comparison, is data of type Year treated the same as integers? I think this is the case because a year is represented using either 2 or 4 digits, but I am not absolutely certain. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. - Asad -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: htt

RE: Strange Error in MySQL

2005-05-10 Thread Asad Habib
Hello. Yes, there are. In fact, other records have more data for this field in them and inserts for those records never threw an error. - Asad On Tue, 10 May 2005, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > Hello. I am receiving the following error when trying to insert into a > field of type text: > > #1

Strange Error in MySQL

2005-05-10 Thread Asad Habib
Hello. I am receiving the following error when trying to insert into a field of type text: #1030 - Got error 139 from storage engine The data to be inserted should fit easily into a text field. In fact, this error only occurs for a particular record and other records with much larger data sets ar

Re: Setting up a Chemical database

2005-04-04 Thread Asad Habib
One table should be sufficient to handle this with one record for each product. - Asad On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem wrote: > I have a customer who has sent my close to 300 chemical products > in word format? How do I translat

Re: GROUP BY, ORDER BY clauses

2005-03-30 Thread Asad Habib
Sorry for the confusion. In this case I am using the * to denote a field name instead of the wild card character. - Asad On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Asad Habib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/30/2005 10:53:38 AM: > > > Does MySQL 4.1 support the use of GRO

GROUP BY, ORDER BY clauses

2005-03-30 Thread Asad Habib
Does MySQL 4.1 support the use of GROUP BY and ORDER BY used in conjunction with one another? I have tried to execute several queries with both these clauses but the result set I get is different from what I expect. My queries read as follows: SELECT *, *, * FROM * WHERE * GROUP BY * ORDER BY * A

MySQL and phpMyAdmin

2005-03-19 Thread Asad Habib
I just installed phpMyAdmin, made the appropriate changes in the config.inc.php file, and got the following error when accessing it via both IE and Safari on Mac OS X Panther client. #1251 - Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client I am

Authenticating a User to MySQL

2005-03-17 Thread Asad Habib
I just installed MySQL 4.1 on Mac OS X Panther Client. I am now having trouble authenticating users(root, admin) to MySQL. I am able to start MySQL but not using a specific user name and password. When I type ./mysql in /usr/local/mysql/bin, I am able to access MySQL. However, I have no privileges

GROUP BY Clause

2005-02-25 Thread Asad Habib
I am trying to use GROUP BY with a field of type text that is set to NOT NULL by default. However, in practice this field does not always contain a string for every record and defaults to the empty string in this case. When I try to use GROUP BY with this field in a SELECT statement, only 1 record

Installation Instructions for MySQL for Mac OS X Panther

2005-02-16 Thread Asad Habib
Does anyone know where I can find in-depth, precise instructions to install MySQL on Mac OS X Panther client? - Asad -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MySQL/InnoDB-4.1.10 is released

2005-02-15 Thread Asad Habib
Are foreign key and other constraints enforced by the db server in this version or is this something that the programmer has to ensure via application logic? - Asad On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Heikki Tuuri wrote: > Hi! > > InnoDB is the MySQL table type that supports foreign keys, transactions, > non-

Special Characters

2005-02-11 Thread Asad Habib
Does anyone know where I can find a list of characters that cannot be inserted into a MySQL database as part of a string? I know that MySQL does not accept single and double quotes and that these have to replaced by their name code equivalents. Are there any other characters that are unacceptable?