Re: InnoDB Performance

2005-04-18 Thread David Lloyd
Eko and all, The MyIsam storage engine is a non transactional engine and InnoDb is a transactional engine. That is the main difference. So I think the MyIsam engine should be faster. However, some file systems that have journals are faster than non journalling file system. It's not always

Re: book advice

2005-04-14 Thread David Lloyd
David, Can anyone recommend this book? Or, if not, what book can you recommend for a newbie. I always recommend Paul Dubois' New Riders Book: * http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-book/ Paul's probably lurking on the list. I bought the 1999 edition and I still refer to it :) DSL -- MySQL

MySQL Replication

2005-04-03 Thread David Lloyd
Hi There, I have a replication setup on my local network (so any updates can be transported at around ethernet speed). Here's the behaviour I see: * MySQL Master - I do a whole slew of drop table and create tables * MySQL Slave - It doesn't pick them up ... until ... - I restart the slave It

Re: Setting up an organization's member database

2005-03-20 Thread David Lloyd
Fafa, I am running this non-profit organization working together with various charity organizations across the world. We would like to setup an efficient member database using MySQL rather than having some ugly formatted MS Word document listing them. What would be the purest and

Re: Grant Tables problem (I think)

2005-03-20 Thread David Lloyd
Hi, I have a problem connecting to the mysql server. I installed a new server with mysql 4.1.9, apache2, php4 on freebsd5.3 and have some websites running on it using the mysql server. Last friday I had a crash of one off my other servers and I copied the websites and db's to this new

Re: MySQL

2003-11-19 Thread David Lloyd
Theresa, Knowing that MySQL is an open source software I'm in favour of this application and wldlike to try out this product, wonder why I can download this application for my necessary practice for both Client/Server application. I assume you mean How can I download the Mysql server and

Re: Daylight Savings Time

2003-10-28 Thread David Lloyd
James, We had a strange instance happen here with one of our MySQL servers. We have multiple MySQL installations, and one of the MySQL servers had a problem with daylight savings time. Basically, when we ran a select now(); MySQL reported time that was two hours ahead of the actual time.

Re: Optimal Disk Configuration

2003-07-06 Thread David Lloyd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim, What would be the ideal RAID configuration for a dedicated MySQL db server running on FreeBSD? We're also running some MySQL databases on Windows 2000 Servers. What about the best configuration for a dedicated W2k server running MySQL?

Re: *****SPAM***** confirm subscribe to mysql@lists.mysql.com

2002-11-23 Thread David Lloyd
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Re: *****SPAM***** confirm subscribe to mysql@lists.mysql.com

2002-11-23 Thread David Lloyd
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Programming APIs for MySQL

2002-11-10 Thread David Lloyd
I know that there are binding that allow one to speak SQL to MySQL for: * PHP * Perl * Java ...there must be more, all with their own idiosyncrancies, strong points and weaknesses. Rather than having a holy war about which binding is better (I prefer Perl but I certainly use PHP when it's

Re: Mysql Innodb performance slow

2002-10-26 Thread David Lloyd
Mark, Note that mysql does not support bind variables. If you think you'reusing them, whatever API you are using is filling them in beforesending the statement to mysql. Bind variables do solve quotingproblems, though, so if you use them, know why you're using them :) Rumour has it,

Re: Database Structure

2002-10-10 Thread David Lloyd
Stephanie, Does anyone know if there's a way in MySQL have the same functionality without installing the whole program on a users machine? I'm using a Java program along with Connector/J and a MySQL DB. We are trying to make it so the user doesn't have to install MySQL everytime they want

Re: Recommended Books

2002-10-07 Thread David Lloyd
Actually, I'd suggest the New Riders Book by Paul DuBois, Mysql...what was it you wanted to achieve with your book: * do you want a reference * a tutorial ...? mysql,query DSL - Before posting, please check:

Embedded MySQL

2002-09-26 Thread David Lloyd
What's the advantages of using Embedded MySQL instead of, say, Berkely's DB? [mysql, query] DSL -- Qualcuno no mi basta. Vivere cercando il grande amore. Vivere come se mai dovessimo morire. (Anastasio, Valli e Travato)

Re: speed problems (?!)

2002-09-25 Thread David Lloyd
Any reason you can't upgrade to a newer version? mysql,query DSL - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this

Re: MySQL as a desktop DB

2002-09-24 Thread David Lloyd
Adam, Obviously MySQL would have advantages if I intended to use it as a server database with concurrent users. But is it faster than Access in the single-user environment, when dealing with large databases? MySQL in a single user environment is a pain in the arse because of its lack of an

Re: first dbi access with perl and lost

2002-09-22 Thread David Lloyd
Gerald, #!perl use strict; use DBI(); # Connect to the database. my $dbh = DBI-connect(DBI:mysql:database=club;host=localhost, jwp, x, {'RaiseError' = 1}); $drh =

Re: first dbi access with perl and lost

2002-09-22 Thread David Lloyd
Gerald, Now I am getting the following: install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC contains; C:/Perl/lib C:/Perlsite/lib .) at (eval 1) line 3; I can't mysql.pm on my PC. Was it not generated when I installed MySQL? How do I fix this? No, it's separate from the

Re: transactions...

2002-09-22 Thread David Lloyd
Joao, I think I've already asked this before, but I will try again. Do I loose too much performance using InnoDB tables in autocommit mode instead of using MyISAM tables? Possibly, but too much is really relative on what your needs are. What are you trying to achieve and what is more

Re: SHOW VARIABLES bug in 4.0.3 on solaris 2.7?

2002-09-09 Thread David Lloyd
Mysql Query --- Just out of interest, do you see the equivalent of a core file when this happens? Or anything in the mysql logs? DSL - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)

Re: Need to cleanly uninstall

2002-09-08 Thread David Lloyd
Spiros, linux:/home/db/TMPOUT # rpm -q mysql package mysql is not installed linux:/home/db/TMPOUT # rpm -qa | grep MySQL MySQL-shared-4.0.3-0 MySQL-client-4.0.3-0 MySQL-devel-4.0.3-0 MySQL-4.0.3-0 linux:/home/spiros/TMPOUT # Ok. mypc@linux:~ /usr/bin/mysql ERROR 2002: Can't

Re: Need to cleanly uninstall

2002-09-08 Thread David Lloyd
Hmmm, (mysql, query) Thanks That's OK. It's 2.4.18 Sorry, I meant distribution...eg is it RedHat, Slackware ;-? So, I will try to unistall and install from the tarball, yes? It wouldn't hurt. How did you install it in the first place? DSL -- Con te partiro, su navi per mari Che io

Re: Help with WHERE string searching

2002-09-07 Thread David Lloyd
H, Suppose I have a field named title that contains one of these I am a Man I am a Woman We are Men We are Women Why not split this into two fields: pronoun enum('I','WE') gender enum('MAN','WOMAN') OR a SET title SET(I,WE,MAN,MEN,WOMAN,WOMEN) ...and then get your

Re: Need to cleanly uninstall

2002-09-07 Thread David Lloyd
You could do something like: linux:/home/db/TMPOUT # rpm -e MySQL-4.0.3-0.i386.rpm error: package MySQL-4.0.3-0.i386.rpm is not installed Don't add the RPM on the end. Also, what does: * rpm -qa | grep MySQL ...show. It will be in there. Use that name. mysql,query DSL -- Con te

Re: Select all with an excpetion

2002-09-07 Thread David Lloyd
Hmmm... Specify the fields you want in your query. example: SELECT stat_id, stat_name, stat_data FROM build_stats WHERE stat_date LIKE ... I think you miss the point of the question. What if you have table with 50 fields and you just don't want field 45, 46 and 48? It would be much

Re: A programming question

2002-09-07 Thread David Lloyd
You may want to check out CPAN for: Apache::DBIx ... (kill the mysql query spam thingo) DSL - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list

Re: How to read table names within database?

2002-09-06 Thread David Lloyd
Mark, I notice that lots of mysql gui's all can find out the contents (tables) of any given database, how do they do this? Is it an sql command? Parse the contents of SHOW DATABASES and then use the ouput of that to SHOW TABLES... mysql, query. DSL

InnoDB Question

2002-09-04 Thread David Lloyd
Hi There, (mysql, query) From the online manual I see: -- innodb_data_file_path Paths to individual data files and their sizes. The full directory path to each data file is acquired by concatenating innodb_data_home_dir to the paths specified here. The file sizes are specified in megabytes,

Re: primary/foreign key contraints

2002-09-03 Thread David Lloyd
Neal, Sorry for the MySQL newbie question ... but are there not primary/foreign key constraints in MySQL 3? In MyISAM tables or ISAM tables no. I can't imagine that this is right. Perhaps I'm just overlooking something innodb? (mysql query) DSL

Re: Problem Installing mysql-3.23.52

2002-09-01 Thread David Lloyd
( mysql, query ) Can anyone help. I'm installing (at the mo) 4.0.3 Beta, but the error message is the same which ever version.. libmysql.c: In function `mysql_real_connect': libmysql.c:1675: warning: passing arg 5 of `gethostbyname_r' from incompatible pointer type libmysql.c:1675: too

Lock Permissions

2002-08-31 Thread David Lloyd
H... ( mysql, query ) What permissions does a user need to issue: LOCK TABLES blah WRITE ??? I have a user which I have: GRANT ALL ON * TO user (blah blah) ...but that user can't lock any tables. Only the mysql root user can... Version 4.0.2, built from source on RH 7.1. DSL --

Re: mysql replication protocol

2002-08-31 Thread David Lloyd
Paul, (mysql, query) It *can* use TCP, but that's just the transport protocol through which the replication information is processed. Replication can also be done between two servers on the same host, using a UNIX socket or (on a Windows box) a named pipe. The replication protocol itself

Re: convert ms access mdb file to file that can be imported in mysql

2002-08-31 Thread David Lloyd
Andy, ( mysql, query ) you could install MyODBC to write the tables directly from MS A. to MySQL via ODBC. Works ok and did a good job for me. I've looked through the archives of this list but all methods of porting a ms access db to mysql seem to require installing additional

Re: file size limit

2002-08-31 Thread David Lloyd
Paul et al, At 18:59 -0400 8/31/02, qlarry wrote: here a file size limit in my sql What? I think that loosely should translate as Where is a file size limit in MySQL which I would then interpret as Is there a file size limit in MySQL. All MyISAM tables are stored on the local file system

Re: SQL Syntax

2002-08-25 Thread David Lloyd
David [ mysql,query ] update CompanyContacts set ByEmailAddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' where Description like '%marve%' Can you show us the output of: describe CompanyContacts ...and also what is the exact error message? Are you connected as a user who is allowed to update the

Re: *****SPAM***** Query problem

2002-08-17 Thread David Lloyd
Amit, I am trying to run the following query:- select red,green,blue from colorchanger where colorcode = select value from jobattributekit where attributekit = Color and jobnumber = 28200124RB4-001 and scenario=JN75K; It doesn't support subselects. It's having a problem with the second

Re: *****SPAM***** when I installed mysql 3.23.43

2002-08-17 Thread David Lloyd
Dave [ mysql query] when I installed mysql 3.23.43 it instructed me to be sure to add a password with the following results- : seaport2:/# /usr/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password 'new-password' Enter password: /usr/mysql/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed

Re: generating random integer id

2002-08-17 Thread David Lloyd
[ mysql, query ] could someone point me to the right direction please Are you generating it in MySQL (using sql) or are you using a programming language to do it? DSL - Before posting, please check:

Re: MySQL vs. Oracle (not speed) - not part of the rant, but real information

2002-08-16 Thread David Lloyd
Adam, [ mysql, query ] However, you can do it manually (I think) by playing around with both the order of the where clause and the order of the join clause Yes. Also, MySQL has a really wimpy default configuration (I can't figure out why). Here is my /etc/my.cnf (I don't know what the

Re: Relation Among Tables Urgent()

2002-08-14 Thread David Lloyd
l, I want to create an one to one relationship among tables using SQL. How can i do this. I creates an relation but it dose not expect my needs. For Ex they are two table say tbset nad tb tbprocess. If i set an one to one relation between the two tables in which the master table is tbset.

Re: mysql duplicate table

2002-08-02 Thread David Lloyd
Brent Don't know if that's what you are trying to do. But I can't think of any reason to permanently replicate a table in the same database. Maybe the other person is duplicating the data to do test stuff to it... mysql,query [I hope the spam thing lets this through] DSL -- We are not

Re: Sql Create a column the multiple of two other columns

2002-07-30 Thread David Lloyd
[in order to avoid the spam filter] mysql mysql sql [end avoid] (this is a test, I've got the pips with the spam filter when I'm not a spammer -- especially when MOST of the messages from this list register above 3 on http://www.spamassassin.org/) GRUMBLE James Foley wrote: Hi, If