Re: Death of MySQL popularity?

2010-11-04 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Christoph Boget christoph.bo...@gmail.com wrote: I think it might be time to start seriously looking at Postgres... Even though all the info you provided is extremely exaggerated...switching all my databases to PostgreSQL has been the best thing I've done in

Add Arrange New Column

2010-09-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
I have an existing table with a few columns I created a few months ago. Sadly I left out the column I would like to use for my Primary Key and wanted to know what is the best way to add a column to an existing table but also I want the column to appear first before any other columns since it's the

Capitalize Input via Auto Complete?

2010-09-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
I am new to MySQL coming from PostgreSQL noticed a really annoying issue. When I select a database, and try to auto complete in MySQL, it doesn't capitalize the MySQL statements. It's irritating to me to only be able to auto complete statements like 'SELECT', 'ALTER', 'INSERT' only if I hold

Re: Capitalize Input via Auto Complete?

2010-09-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com wrote: Get this tool: http://sqlyog.com/ it rocks. There is also http://www.quest.com/toad-for-mysql/ which is pretty great. I can't use any graphical or 3rd party add-on's. I was hoping MySQL had this native / built in. I guess

Searching For Modules In a DB

2010-08-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
I have a database called 'gaming' and with in that database there are several tables and data. I was asked to find a module called 'ako ldap' and disable it (setting it from 1 to 0). My question is how in MySQL do I search for a string if I don't even know what table to search in? I know how to

Re: Allowing Connections From Remote Clients

2010-07-26 Thread Carlos Mennens
Guys - I am no expert but I don't think this is a DNS or rDNS issue. All resolution appears to be working fine. When my PC (tuna) attempts to connect to the MySQL server via MySQL Workbench, it says Failed to Connect to MySQL at mysql.iamghost.com:3306 with user root Host 'tuna.iamghost.com' is

Re: Allowing Connections From Remote Clients

2010-07-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Prabhat Kumar aim.prab...@gmail.com wrote: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO username@'tuna.iamghost.com' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'password'; *.* ie for all databases , if want on particular DB GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON MyDATABASE.* TO username@'tuna.iamghost.com'

Allowing Connections From Remote Clients

2010-07-13 Thread Carlos Mennens
I am trying to connect to MySQL server [192.168.0.100] from my PC [10.1.10.222] using MySQL Workbench and when I test the connection, I get the following error: Host 'tuna.iamghost.com' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server. Can someone please tell me what I need to do so I can allow

Tab Ahead Doesn't Work As User

2010-05-28 Thread Carlos Mennens
Is it normal behavior for MySQL command type ahead not to work unless you have a database selected? I notice that using the tab 'type ahead' has no response unless I use a specific database. Is this normal behavior? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Verify User Privileges

2010-05-27 Thread Carlos Mennens
I would like to know how I can verify what privileges have been granted to a specific user on MySQL. I don't remember if my user 'carlos' has specific privileges on 'mydb' database. I am sure I could simply re-run the following command: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mydb.* TO 'carlos'@'localhost' -

Re: Verify User Privileges

2010-05-27 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:26 PM, win.a win@gmail.com wrote: Maybe phpmyadmin is a choice No I am only allowed to have MySQL installed. No GUI for DBA. I am sure there is a way to verify the privileges via CLI, I just can't locate it on the site / documentation. -- MySQL General Mailing

Recommend A Backup User / Privileges?

2010-04-29 Thread Carlos Mennens
I downloaded a MySQL script that backs up all my databases automatically which looks to work amazing. My question is in this particular script (linked below) there is a section to add a user name and password for someone who has access to the databases I am attempting to backup with the script.

Recommend A Backup User / Privileges?

2010-04-28 Thread Carlos Mennens
I downloaded a MySQL backup script today since I have 3 or 4 relatively small databases. The script can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ Now I was wondering if I can create a local database user 'backup'@'localhost' grant him a level of permissions needed to

Re: Secure Install Removed Root Accounts

2010-03-31 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Johan De Meersman vegiv...@tuxera.be wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: hearing from many admins that MySQL expects and needs there to be three accounts for root. Them being 'localhost', 127.0.0.1, and hostname

Secure Install Removed Root Accounts

2010-03-30 Thread Carlos Mennens
Today I installed MySQL 5.1.45-1 on my production server and it recommended that I run the following: /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation When I ran this, it simply guided me to do the following: - set root password - disable remote login for root - remove 'anonymous' user accounts - delete

Error Removing Anonymous Accounts

2010-03-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
I installed MySQL 5 today and started by setting up root passwords for all three root accounts: mysql select User, Password, Host, Create_priv from user; +--+---+---+-+ | User | Password | Host |

Re: Error Removing Anonymous Accounts

2010-03-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Rolando Edwards redwa...@logicworks.net wrote: DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE user=''; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; That worked and I thank you however I am wondering why the MySQL guide was incorrect? Perhaps it's right but I did something wrong. Any thoughts? -- MySQL

Properly ALTER Column Data?

2010-03-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
I know this is very basic for most on the list but I need some MySQL help. I am logged into my database and I successfully changed a 'field type' from INT to VARCHAR. Now I need to modify the actual data I inserted into those specific fields. I checked the manual and could not really gather

Re: Properly ALTER Column Data?

2010-03-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Gavin Towey gto...@ffn.com wrote: Please read the tutorial, let us know if you have questions on the information in it: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/tutorial.html Thank you very much for the link... I did: UPDATE sun SET serial = '0123456789' WHERE

Front End Application For MySQL

2010-03-09 Thread Carlos Mennens
I am looking for a front end application that will allow me to enter in all my server / workstation data into a MySQL backend running on Linux. I have been told that I need to take all 75 servers we have in our server room and keep a database of the following: - Make - Model - O.S. - I.P. -