RE: Must use '#' in fieldnames

2001-06-28 Thread Brian Kaney
Here's a messy hack that would let you use your column names like 'a35#70' to select and insert. Set up a table like this: col1a35#70 col2a35#71 col3a35#72 ... Then make a routine in your middleware that select * from this table and returns the results in a named array or hash array

Mysql AB question

2001-06-07 Thread Brian Kaney
Just reading that MySQL AB has a new CEO http://www.mysql.com/news/article-67.html. I was wondering if anyone has any info. regarding the future direction of Mysql with respect to the open source community. The news release mentions stuff like value-add services and the pursuit of sound business

RE: Access Database into mysql

2001-06-07 Thread Brian Kaney
If you are familiar with perl, try using DBD::ODBC module to pull the data out of Access and use the DBD mysql modules to write the data to mysql. You will have to set up the table structure in mysql to match your Access. -Original Message- From: Ute Hoffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Importing spreadsheet data into MySQL

2001-06-06 Thread Brian Kaney
If you are going to be processing Excel files regularly and don't want to manually export each one into CSV, try the perl method. The module is called Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, I needed to manually install IO::Scalar first to get it to work though. -Original Message- From: Artem Koutchine

RE: characters - URGENT!!

2001-05-24 Thread Brian Kaney
I've noticed some people seem to be forgetting about their middleware when approaching a programming challenge. In many cases, information to and from the database is processed using C, java, perl, php, etc. These languages can do pre and post processing of data. I have found this approach is e

RE: win to linux

2001-03-14 Thread Brian Kaney
I don't think that works across platformsits better to use the mysqldump command. Brian -Original Message- From: René Tegel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 5:09 PM To: rozakdemir; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: win to linux use ftp to copy your database/t

RE: MySQL-Excel data correlation

2001-02-19 Thread Brian Kaney
You may also want to check CPAN for Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. I haven't dug into it too deep yet, but it looks like it can parse native .xsl data. Brian -Original Message- From: Ken Menzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:08 AM To: Joe Ferrara; [EMAIL PROTECT

searching the online manual

2001-01-17 Thread Brian Kaney
I noticed a little quirk when searching the manual...it seems that sometimes when doing consecutive searches, the root directory disappears in the "href" tags for the results: for example resulting link will look like this: http://p/e/Perl_support_problems.html instead of something like

RE: SELECT WHERE fieldtype

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Kaney
lause. -Original Message- From: Scott Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:34 PM To: Brian Kaney; mySQL Mailing List Subject: Re: SELECT WHERE fieldtype You have to select a certain row, there is no way to say all rows that are NOT an int. At 04:33 PM 1/16

SELECT WHERE fieldtype

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Kaney
Is there a way to SELECT FROM table WHERE field_type IS (NOT) 'something'. For example, 'something' could be TIMESTAMP, INT, FLOAT, AUTO_INCREMENT, etc...I looked through the manual and archives to no avail.

Re: Moving Fields Around

2001-01-14 Thread Brian Kaney
You can specify field order with the LOAD DATA command...then you'll never have to worry about the order of the table columns. LOAD DATA INFILE 'x' INTO table (field3,field1,field2) double check the LOAD DATA syntax in the manual. Brian --- Marcus Ouimet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I am re

Re: Moving Fields Around

2001-01-14 Thread Brian Kaney
You can specify field order with the LOAD DATA command...then you'll never have to worry about the order of the table columns. LOAD DATA INFILE 'x' INTO table (field3,field1,field2) double check the LOAD DATA syntax in the manual. Brian --- Marcus Ouimet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I am re

RE: Please read the manual

2001-01-11 Thread Brian Kaney
If the manual was written any better, you'd put all those book publishers out of business. The reason this list has such a high volume of traffic might not be ambiguity of the online manual, rather the popularity of MySQL. The contents of the manual are more than sufficient, but the search could