Re: Lost connection to MySQL server - need help.

2013-10-12 Thread Chris McKeever
We had a similar issue a bit back - and although it sounds similar - based on your followups it probably isnt, but will just toss this out there anyhows. We were experiencing connection timeouts when load would ramp up. Doing some digging we learned that our firewall between the servers

Re: Best Practice: Timezones and web development

2007-03-06 Thread Chris McKeever
Wanted to thank everyone for the insights for some of this date/time issues! Pretty much what I was looking at, just wanted a little confirmation! I will also need to research that PHP function - Thanks - Chris On 3/6/07, Marcus Bointon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Mar 2007, at 17:12, David

[X-POST] PHP script to make sure MySQL is up?

2007-03-01 Thread Chris McKeever
On 3/1/07, Brian Dunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there such a thing as a PHP script that I can put on a cron job to run every minute and make a test query, and upon failure, restart the service and maybe send an email to Rackspace support? I don't know how you'd check that the query was

Best Practice: Timezones and web development

2007-02-28 Thread Chris McKeever
Does anyone have any resources, guides, insight into the best practice for storing date/time information when developing a custom web app? I am mainly concerned with how the TZ should be stored? Should it go in as UTC and the code accounts for the user TZ? How does one handle tracking the

Re: load sharing

2007-02-26 Thread Chris McKeever
On 2/26/07, Chris W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone here give some insight and suggest other options I could look into? you could replicate all the data between web/application servers, and use the local store as a read-only database, and push all your updates to a central update

Re: Duplicating contents of DB within same DB with different prefix

2007-02-22 Thread Chris McKeever
On 2/22/07, Istvan Hubay Cebrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Say I have a DB named... well... database1, this db has the following tables: What I want to do is copy each of the tables (exactly as they are, including primary keys, data, etc) but at the same time change the

multiple nistances at boot with mysqld_multi or other

2007-02-20 Thread Chris McKeever
I am trying to get a few instances of mysql running at boot time - and I have come across the command mysqld_multi. Seems to have a lot of documentation about kicking those off via command line - but not much on setting it up to start at boot. anyone have any insight into this? Either using

Saving Image in Database [again]

2006-07-30 Thread Chris McKeever
Starting to build a new schema, and one of the items is image storage In the past I have always used filesystem storage. Was wondering if I could get a conversation started on the pros/cons of database storage verse filesystem Thanks! -- -- please respond to the

Re: Persistent Corruption [UPDATE]

2005-08-04 Thread Chris McKeever
thanks for everyone help/suggestions -- I wound up swapping the media, and what was corrupt prior, seems to be all nice and happy now -- so - as suggested, looks to be that the drive was starting to fault On 7/31/05, Chris McKeever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the help - I tried

Re: Persistent Corruption

2005-07-31 Thread Chris McKeever
the same problems running on the old RH 7.3 kernel (2.4.17 was it?) After upgrading to RH9 it was fine. Chris McKeever wrote: MySQL 4.0.16 I am having this annoying persistent corruption issue, and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I have two tables that refuse to stay clean

Persistent Corruption

2005-07-28 Thread Chris McKeever
MySQL 4.0.16 I am having this annoying persistent corruption issue, and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I have two tables that refuse to stay clean. After a myisamchk (below) they show corruption. I run a myisamchk -r, they get fixed, and the next day, they are once again corrupt.

Re: Persistent Corruption

2005-07-28 Thread Chris McKeever
as the dump - reinsert On Thursday 28 July 2005 17:45, Chris McKeever wrote: MySQL 4.0.16 I am having this annoying persistent corruption issue, and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I have two tables that refuse to stay clean. After a myisamchk (below) they show corruption

Re: Persistent Corruption

2005-07-28 Thread Chris McKeever
? RedHat 7.3 Dan T On Jul 28, 2005, at 8:45 AM, Chris McKeever wrote: MySQL 4.0.16 I am having this annoying persistent corruption issue, and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I have two tables that refuse to stay clean. After a myisamchk (below) they show corruption

Re: A new Machine

2004-08-22 Thread Chris McKeever
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:40:24 -0700, Mike Wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris McKeever wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:18:06 -0700, Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After 2 days in Microsoft HELL with my SQLsvr databases, I'm ready to rob the piggy bank and build a new linux mysql server

Re: Using Soundex

2004-08-22 Thread Chris McKeever
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:25:36 -0500, Debbie Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building a search feature with Cold Fusion and need to have similar string matches included in the search results. I have a search form field called hsname. I am trying to use the SOUNDEX function in my query like

Re: A new Machine

2004-08-21 Thread Chris McKeever
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:18:06 -0700, Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After 2 days in Microsoft HELL with my SQLsvr databases, I'm ready to rob the piggy bank and build a new linux mysql server. Here's my problem: I have, at present, two rather large databases. (A: 4Million records in one

my.cnf

2003-06-11 Thread Chris McKeever
I have been plowing through the mysql.com resources for something regarding the run-time configuration options as well as the my.cnf. In particular, I am trying to move the entire information store to a separate hard-drive. This line confuses me: --- Note that this is the directory that was

configuration questions - newbie getting up-to-speed

2003-06-11 Thread Chris McKeever
Sorry from the low-level posts, but I am trying to get my grips around some simple set-up configuration. - What exactly does basedir do? It defauts to / which to me means it is at the 'base' of the filesystem. Why/when would you need to change it (since you would only be moving it up levels -

RE: configuration questions - newbie getting up-to-speed

2003-06-11 Thread Chris McKeever
I also found out that mysqld --help provides a whole lot more of the information that I was looking for than just mysql --help! whoops -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:15 PM To: Chris McKeever; [EMAIL PROTECTED