Re: Best practice on table design

2004-04-13 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Carsten, Thanks for the answer (and other thanks go to the other guys that answered me). I think normalization is the way to go. I think it is the right thing to do (in theory). The problem is that theory doesn't fit all. Basically I have some tables with only 2 fields (ID and name), and a

Best practice on table design

2004-04-08 Thread Ciprian Trofin
| | 4 | Madrid | C| | 5 | Berlin | C| --- where central_data.type is P for people and C for cities. Do you think it is a good ideea ? -- Best regards, Ciprian Trofin -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql

String functions for GROUP BY clause

2003-11-12 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Is there a way to use a string concatenating function in connection with a GROUP BY clause? I mean, for a one-to-many relation (like firm-stockholders relation), to catch a structure like: firm | stocholders f_1 | s_1; s_2; s_3 f_2 | s_4; s_5 f_3 | s_6 instead of firm |

Dillema: LIKE vs MATCH - AGAINST

2003-11-07 Thread Ciprian Trofin
I'm building a financial-like web site (PHP - MySQL). I was requested to build a search engine for IT. Everything works OK, w/ the exception of a certain component. The owner of the web site will write, each day, a report for the customers. I use TEXT fields to record each section of the report

Limit queries

2003-10-08 Thread Ciprian Trofin
I have 2 tables: currencies and quotes currencies == id currency - quotes == id date id_currency value --- Index (date, id_currency - UNIQUE) In order to find the most recent value for a currency I use the following logic: 1. SELECT

Re[2]: Bug or am I missing something ?

2003-02-04 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Nothing. I fixed the problem w/ the indices, but it still doesn't work. Same probl. g You have some unnecessary indicies. g What happens if you remove them? I am using MySQL 3.23.47-nt on Windows 2000 Pro SP3; I have the following DB's: # Host : localhost # Database : test CREATE

Bug or am I missing something ?

2003-02-03 Thread Ciprian Trofin
I am using MySQL 3.23.47-nt on Windows 2000 Pro SP3; I have the following DB's: # Host : localhost # Database : test CREATE DATABASE test; USE test; # Structure for table users : CREATE TABLE `users` ( `id` smallint(4) NOT NULL auto_increment, `user` varchar(8) NOT NULL default '',

Self Join on temporary tables in MySQL 3.xx

2003-01-29 Thread Ciprian Trofin
A understand that a problem with temporary tables is that you can't do a self-join in MySQL 3.xx using temporary tables. I have a situation that requires exactly this (the alternative is not algorithm-effective). I wonder if the following is a practical solution: to create a copy of the

Join or smth.

2002-05-28 Thread Ciprian Trofin
I have a table that looks smth. like this: id product price store -- 1 p1100s1 2 p1120s2 3 p1100s3 4 p2120s1 5 p2 95s2 6 p2300s3 7 p3100s1 8 p3120s2

Re[2]: Join or smth.

2002-05-28 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Doesn't work the way I want to: I want the result to be like: id | product | price | store 1 | p1 | 100 | s1 3 | p1 | 100 | s3 5 | p2 | 95 | s2 7 | p3 | 100 | s1 CL select * from table_name where product like 'p1' order

Re: returning top two values

2002-05-22 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Hi, R Alternatively, you can compute your order statistic explicitly by joining R the table against itself, and then filter based on that: Why did you use max(curEntry.family) and max(curEntry.member) ? I tried the query w/out max, and it works just the same. The

Re: Max 127 records

2002-04-19 Thread Ciprian Trofin
A closed mouth maintains a happy mind. It could be that you specified signed TINYINT as type for the PRIMARY KEY. Signed TINYINT goes from -127 to 127, hence your problem. HO INSERT INTO `kontakt` (`id`, `navn`, `adresse`, `postnummer`, `by`, HO `telefon`, `kommentar`) VALUES ('',

Optimization

2002-04-18 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Confucius say: Man who kisses girl's behind gets crack in face. Hi All ! I made a virtual stock exchange using PHP + MySQL. I'm not a programmer, so I don't know how well the sistem behaves itself when it comes to performance. Now, the project: 2 databases: stock players Tables

Re: How to do regular backup in MYSQL

2002-04-04 Thread Ciprian Trofin
Jack Daniel's Law of Motion: 'You can't fall off the floor'! Try using Task Scheduler. KHC I am using MySql version 4.0.0-alpha in Windows 2000. KHC Everytime when I want to backup the database,i do it in MS-DOS. KHC Using this command: mysqldump --opt mydatabasename mybackup.sql KHC