[BUG] SHOW INDEX bug for fulltext indexes in MySQl 4.0.17

2004-01-23 Thread Dave Rolsky
Here's a recipe: create table foo (foo text, bar text); create fulltext index foo on foo (foo, bar); mysql> show index from foo; +---++--+--+-+---+-+--++--++-+ | Table | Non_unique |

RE: relational is relational is relational, but ...

2002-12-05 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Jon Frisby wrote: > However, from a DB design standpoint, it is generally considered > MASSIVELY unwise for your PRIMARY KEY value to have any > "business-meaning". If it has no "business-meaning", it never needs to > change. Ever. Really, the issue is that you don't want a

ANSI mode determination?

2002-06-02 Thread Dave Rolsky
Is there any programmatic way (SQL, C-level API) way to determine whether or not a given mysql server is running in ANSI mode or not? If not, this would be most helpful, as otherwise it is impossible to know how to quote identifiers (` or "). -dave /*== www.urth.org we await th

RE: INSERTing into joined tables?

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Rick Emery wrote: > First, you are describing a "one-to-many" relationship, bceasue one "file" > record can be referenced by many "people" records. If this is the case, you > may wish to re-design your tablse such that a "people record" contains a > "file_id" field. You can

RE: 3-letter stop words in FULLTEXT

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Chris Lott wrote: > How is full-text working for you otherwise? Is it excruciatingly slow to > generate indexes and optimize tables as some have said? Oh god, yes. Running 3.23.46 on Linux with a 1Ghz PIII and 4 GB of RAM it _still_ takes a heck of a long time to do optimize

Re: Selecting unknown columns

2001-12-17 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Alex Kirk wrote: > I've got a 700-question multiple choice quiz that I've got imported into > MySQL, with one small problem: the answers to the quiz are not a separate > column. I have three columns for each of the possible answers; the correct > answer is denoted by a "*" in

Re: Problem with GROUP BY ... DESC

2001-12-04 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, AJ wrote: > Ver 11.15 Distrib 3.23.46, for pc-linux-gnu (i686) > > The problem that has cropped up I have is that in all GROUP BY column DESC > statements, the DESC is now not being recognized, and the query is being > returned in ascending order. If I use ORDER BY... DESC th

RE: insert BLOB in perl

2001-10-29 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jindo Soul wrote: > Why this error exists is beyond my knowledge though. > I am guessing that Perl DBI escapes ' \ in bind_param call. > And MySQL escapes the data again when using big5 charset, > which ultimate causes an error because of double escaping. Well, its not that

RE: SELECT .. OR from multiple tables

2001-08-14 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Bruce Stewart wrote: > How about a UNION query...? Too bad MySQL doesn't support them yet ;) -dave /*== www.urth.org We await the New Sun ==*/ - Before posting, please ch

Re: Data modeling tool

2001-02-14 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Moving back and forth is a manual process, which is a bit frustrating. > Since dia stores everything in XML, I'm considering what it would take to > make some sort of syncronization. > > I've been planning on looking into Alzabo too, which was alread

Re: Data modeling tool

2001-02-10 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Cal Evans wrote: > As much as I love creating models by hand, my databases are growing to the > point where I need a tool to help me "see" them. Does anyone know of a tool > like ERWin or ER/Studio that supports MySQL? I have a project called Alzabo (alzabo.sourceforge.net)