Re: Getting data from 2 tables if records have same date!

2012-03-01 Thread David Giragosian
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Shawn L Green shawn.l.gr...@oracle.comwrote: On 2/29/2012 5:54 PM, LUCi5R wrote: JW, I'm trying to understand LEFT JOIN as we go - but it's not working. This query SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS LEFT JOIN CALLS ON CUSTOMERS.PHONE = CALLS.PHONE WHERE

Re: credit where due

2011-10-19 Thread David Giragosian
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote: While we have him online, I think we could all take a moment and be grateful for the contributions of Shawn Green. When I see the Oracle-bashing on this list, I am often reminded that we still have a hard-core MySQL

Re: MySQL Enterprise support now at Oracle?

2011-03-10 Thread David Giragosian
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Jim McNeely j...@newcenturydata.com wrote: Shawn Green works for Oracle and has been very helpful, and I am happy to eat a little bit of shoe leather! Thanks Shawn! Jim Check the archives for Shawn's posts. IMNSHO, they are unparalleled in clarity and

Re: GRANT ALL error - newbee

2010-09-15 Thread David Giragosian
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.netwrote: I'm attempting to set up a Linux Apache Mysql PHP (LAMP) system for the first time. On my internal network (behind firewall) I have a computer (cruncher) that is acting as the web server. Another computer

Re: how things get messed up

2010-02-11 Thread David Giragosian
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Martijn Tonies m.ton...@upscene.comwrote: Hello John, About 5 years ago, I was asked to write a php app for my department. The app keeps track of graduate school applicants to my department at the university. The main data elements are the scores each

Re: Is anything ever equal to NULL?

2009-12-28 Thread David Giragosian
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, D. Dante Lorenso da...@lorenso.com wrote: Will anything ever be equal to NULL in a SELECT query? SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE somecolumn = NULL; I have a real-life query like this: SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE somecolumn = NULL OR somecolumn =

Re: Is anything ever equal to NULL?

2009-12-28 Thread David Giragosian
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Carsten Pedersen cars...@bitbybit.dkwrote: David Giragosian skrev: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, D. Dante Lorenso da...@lorenso.com wrote: Will anything ever be equal to NULL in a SELECT query? ... What's so special about NULL? http

Re: inserting sets of data

2009-12-12 Thread David Giragosian
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.comwrote: Hi; I have a column defined as a set. How do I insert data into that column? Please give me an example. TIA, Victor Lots of examples here: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-set-datatype.html

Re: Another Join Problem

2009-10-02 Thread David Giragosian
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.comwrote: Hi; I get the following error: *SQL query:* SELECT ID, Item FROM products JOIN categories ON categories.ID = products.Category LIMIT 0 , 30; *MySQL said:* #1052 - Column 'ID' in field list is ambiguous

Re: Create Syntax (easy)

2009-09-29 Thread David Giragosian
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.comwrote: Hi; Please give me the syntax below such that I can force the insert statements to use only selected values (item1, item2, item3): create table (field SOMETHING_HERE item1 item2 item3, ... ) TIA, Victor

Re: Resetting MySQL Root Password

2009-04-27 Thread David Giragosian
On 4/27/09, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi All, CentOS 5.3 I installed MySQL Server via yum and started it. I tried entering: mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword But I

Re: A good US Hosting Site?

2009-04-20 Thread David Giragosian
I would recommend PilotPig http://www.pilotpig.net/ Good service, good support, reasonably priced, and integrity to boot. David

Re: how do I select multiple conditions from 1 table column?

2009-04-01 Thread David Giragosian
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:27 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I am trying to select all books whose authors last names begin with I, J or K. I have 3 tables: book, author and book_author. The following query works with one condition but not with three. SELECT * FROM book WHERE id

Re: why is this happening?

2009-03-19 Thread David Giragosian
On 3/19/09, Jim Lyons jlyons4...@gmail.com wrote: I have a rather odd problem with a replication slave. The slave has been down for a number of hours. Of course, both io and sql threads are stopped - from SHOW SLAVE STATUS: Slave_IO_Running: No Slave_SQL_Running: No

Re: [PHP] Because you guys/gals/girls/women/insert pc term here are a smart lot

2009-01-07 Thread David Giragosian
On 1/7/09, Jim Lyons jlyons4...@gmail.com wrote: There are other factors. If a table is completely fixed in size it makes for a faster lookup time since the offset is easier to compute. This is true, at least, for myisam tables. All books on tuning that I have read have said the CHAR makes

Re: Trying to Create a Trigger

2008-12-05 Thread David Giragosian
On 12/5/08, Lola J. Lee Beno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to create a trigger (5.0.45) and I've read the documentation at mysql.com. I keep getting a syntax error, but can't figure out what the error is. Here's the trigger I'm trying to create: delimiter // create trigger

Re: MySQL Server 5.1.30 has been released

2008-12-01 Thread David Giragosian
On 12/1/08, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monty Widenius (MySQL co-founder who recently left Sun)... What's the news on this? David

Re: Monty left sun...

2008-12-01 Thread David Giragosian
Thanks. Just finished the blog, and I think I'm getting the drift. On 12/1/08, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a quick google search for Monty Widenius left sun and behold... On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 13:45 -0600, David Giragosian wrote: On 12/1/08, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Displaying information from table graphically

2008-11-21 Thread David Giragosian
On 11/21/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PHP application that accesses data from MySQL. There is table called rooms, and table called beds. There is another table called patients. Patients are being placed into beds, and beds are in the rooms. PHP application

Re: What is the user account's password, Why is most of the things in the reference manual does not work as stated?

2008-10-04 Thread David Giragosian
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Varuna Seneviratna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the user account's password.I used the command C:\mysql -u user -p Enter password: ** ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'user'@'localhost' (using password: Y ES) How can I find it?

Re: MySQL and SAN storage - a request for comments

2008-09-26 Thread David Giragosian
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Aaron Blew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, Overall and most of the time, SANs are a good thing. They have several advantaged over dedicated directly attached storage arrays: 1.) They're generally a lot smarter about how and when they write and read to

Show Master Status

2008-09-17 Thread David Giragosian
Hurricane Ike has caused our replication set-up to misbehave. I've stopped the (one and only) application that inserts data into the master, but show master status's 'position' field continues to increment. Have I missed something or is this unexpected behavior? version 5.0.22 on CentOS 5.

Re: Show Master Status

2008-09-17 Thread David Giragosian
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Martin Gainty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave- we havent had a hurricane since up here since 1938..if you want to relocate your servers just give a holler and i'll lend you mine! Martin __ Thanks, Martin. Wish

Re: Show Master Status

2008-09-17 Thread David Giragosian
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, What's in the bin-logs? (mysqlbinlog log) cheers, Doug Doug, We capture time-sensitive data, and after checking all the counts on tables known to accept inserts, I restarted the server. That stopped the

Re: Selecting a column with a regular expression applied to it?

2008-09-11 Thread David Giragosian
On 9/11/08, Ryan Stille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the link Darryle, but I don't think you read through my whole question. I have already read through that page, and I see how to use regex as a condition for a select. What I am interested in is applying a regex to a column as I

Remove form feed characters from a text field

2008-08-28 Thread David Giragosian
I've extracted text from approx 1600 pdf files using pdftotext.exe and inserted it into a table. Now I see there are form feed characters in the field, and I would suspect other special characters, also. I'm not having much luck trying to remove them. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks, David

Re: can some please help me -- REPLICATION

2008-08-10 Thread David Giragosian
On 8/10/08, Jim Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should probably just resync your slave. If it hasn't run for over a month then there's not a lot of point in trying to start it up. Even if you did start the slave (which seems doubtful) you'd have over a month's worth of commands to make

Re: MySQL Administrator Login Error

2008-08-08 Thread David Giragosian
On 8/8/08, AndrewMcHorney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I tried to login using localhost and root as user id with no password since I temporarily did not enter one when I installed the software. I am getting the following error message: MySQL Error Number 1045 Access denied for user

Re: MySql Administrator Tool Login

2008-08-07 Thread David Giragosian
On 8/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I successfully installed the mysql database on my pc. I also installed the mysql administrator tool. I am trying to login and I need some assistance. It is asking for stored connection, server host, username and password. I am not

Re: Why people don't use engine named BDB?

2008-07-21 Thread David Giragosian
On 7/21/08, Moon's Father [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reply is appreciated . -- I'm a MySQL DBA in china. More about me just visit here: http://yueliangdao0608.cublog.cn Maybe something to do with this: *BDB support will be removed. * Note that, as of MySQL 5.1, BDB isn't supported any

Re: unescaping strings with the C api

2008-06-12 Thread David Giragosian
On 6/12/08, Tim Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2008, Warren Young wrote: Tim Johnson wrote: Not sure what you mean by directly usable. I mean directly usable. :) If I do an insert statement with a backslash, for example: headline\one, I will retrieve