Re: Limit characters in a long text

2006-03-22 Thread CodeHeads
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Adams wrote: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html > I recommend "LEFT( )". > > If you are looking to do it in PHP then this is the wrong email list. > > Good luck. Sorry about that I realized I picked the wrong mailing

Limit characters in a long text

2006-03-22 Thread CodeHeads
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Have a question: I would like to limit the amount of data viewed. I searched but did not find anything. Here is my code: $get_c = "select * from $table ORDER BY news_id DESC LIMIT 5"; $get_c_res = mysql_query($get_c) or die(mysql_error());

Re: data backup

2006-03-07 Thread CodeHeads
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:54:02 -0500 Mathieu Bruneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kalin mintchev a écrit : > > hi all... > > > > what's the best way to periodically back up mysql data? > > so that databases and tables can be still usable even after a

Re: file permission

2006-02-28 Thread CodeHeads
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 23:41, Joshua Kugler wrote: > You can't do that. The mysql server runs as user mysql, so it cannot > create files owned by another user. If you run the mysql server as root > (don't!), you might be able to do that, but I do not believe mysql has a > facility for changi

Re: file permission

2006-02-28 Thread CodeHeads
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:55, unplug wrote: > Hi, > When I use a query "SELECT * into outfile '/tmp/report.csv' fields > terminated by ',' lines terminated by '\n' FROM table;", it will > create a file with the following permission and owner. > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 mysql mysql 2489 Mar 1 11:30 r

Re: email to db

2006-02-24 Thread CodeHeads
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 10:49 +0800, Mark wrote: > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to send an email from outlook to a DB so > it updates a record. I have a php tipping script hosted with a mysql DB but > would like users to email their tips instead of loggin on the site. > > Mark Wouldn't b

RE: Number Searches

2006-02-24 Thread CodeHeads
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:02 -0600, John Trammell wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:49 -0600, Ariel Sánchez Mora wrote: > > > So far i've been able to store ip addresses as strings like > > you would > > > type them in DOS, for ex, '192.168.0.1'. This serves me > > great since my > > > applicati

Re: Permissions

2006-02-23 Thread CodeHeads
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 21:46 -0600, Walter Johnson wrote: > >> #chown mysql:mysql /var/mysql-data > >> #chmod 770 /var/mysql-data Try this, assuming the files are in there for the database. $chown -R mysql:mysql /var/mysql-data/* $chmod -R 770 /var/mysql-data/* Hope that helps. -- Best regards

Re: Number Searches

2006-02-23 Thread CodeHeads
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:04 -0500, Mathieu Bruneau wrote: > Ok I got 2 informations for you: > > 1) IPv4 address are actually 32 bit integer, easily store in 32 bits > fast search etc etc etc (You can google for more on this storage > format). Normally you could find a way to goes from the string

RE: Number Searches

2006-02-23 Thread CodeHeads
-+--+--+-+ > | 1 | 192.168.1.0 | x | x| x | x | x > | x| x > | x| x | x | x| x| x | 0 | x | x > | > +-+-+-+--+---+---+--+--+--+--+-+ > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > > -Men

RE: Number Searches

2006-02-22 Thread CodeHeads
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:49 -0600, Ariel Sánchez Mora wrote: > So far i've been able to store ip addresses as strings like you would > type them in DOS, for ex, '192.168.0.1'. This serves me great since my > application uses IP addresses as strings in all cases. I've done > queries with the IP colu

Number Searches

2006-02-22 Thread CodeHeads
Hello all, I have searched but cannot find what I am looking for. I have a full index index on a table and on of the fields is a number field (IP Address). Can MySQL search for numbers?? Thanks, Will -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: