Re: underscore character?

2003-06-14 Thread Chris Webster
Becoming Digital wrote: The error is in FLOAT(1). Think about that for a moment. What's a float with one-digit precision? It's an integer. :) While I agree with your analysis the error was a missing comma. The float(1), which I originally thought was array size of 1, appeared to work fine.

Re: soft real-time database

2003-06-13 Thread Chris Webster
Curtis Maurand wrote: What's the client running on? Not the same machine as the server. Could either be a windows or linux box across ethernet. --Chris Curtis Maurand wrote: I'd write a perl script to pool the device and send the data to the database. Sorry for not being clearer. I can get

soft real-time database

2003-06-12 Thread Chris Webster
Greetings, I'm new to databases, but I am considering one for soft real-time data recording of scientific data. Then any client/display program can grab data. I'll be recording 300-500 variables/columns per second for about 10 hours at a stretch. All variables are floats. a) Is there a

Re: soft real-time database

2003-06-12 Thread Chris Webster
Curtis Maurand wrote: I'd write a perl script to pool the device and send the data to the database. Sorry for not being clearer. I can get the data into the database fine. Assuming new values or rows are added once per second, how would a client program go about polling the database to see

underscore character?

2003-06-11 Thread Chris Webster
I'm getting an error with create table, appears that field names cannot have the underscore character. Is this correct? It would be quite fatal for us, as we need some sort of delimeter character, so we can group variables by instrument. You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'A2DEE1_RWO