Re: Database Cleaner

2008-01-02 Thread David T. Ashley
Can you say codefendant? David T. Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] (This e-mail was sent from a handheld wireless device.) On Jan 2, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do it anyways. Release it as Open Source. IBM is big into the FOSS

Re: Maybe a bit OT: MySQL forum recommendation?

2007-12-03 Thread David T. Ashley
On 12/3/07, Chris Sansom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies in advance if this is a bit off topic, but... On a rather old site we have a dreadful old bulletin board system based on Matt Wright's WWWBoard - all horrid text files and ancient Perl code. We want to replace that with a decent

Re: Incrementing a Private Integer Space

2007-11-25 Thread David T. Ashley
On 11/25/07, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David T. Ashley wrote: I have a table with two integer fields (call them p and q). When I insert a record with a known p, I want to choose q to be one larger than the largest q with that p. What is the best and most efficient way to do

Re: Incrementing a Private Integer Space

2007-11-25 Thread David T. Ashley
On 11/25/07, Chris W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stut wrote: insert into test1 set p = 2, q = (select max(q) + 1 from test1 as tmp where p = 2) Probably not very efficient, but it works. -Stut Auto increment is much easier to do. If your primary key is made up of two fields and

Re: Incrementing a Private Integer Space

2007-11-25 Thread David T. Ashley
Hi Martin, The easiest way to restore context in this conversation is to go to the MySQL home page (www.mysql.com), then go to Community, then Lists, then to look at the archives of the main MySQL mailing list (this one). I believe at this point that Chris and Stut answered my question

Incrementing a Private Integer Space

2007-11-24 Thread David T. Ashley
I have a table with two integer fields (call them p and q). When I insert a record with a known p, I want to choose q to be one larger than the largest q with that p. What is the best and most efficient way to do this? For example, let's say the table contains (p,q): 1,1 1,2 1,3 2,1 2,2 2,3

Designing Table for Both Global and Local Indices

2007-11-23 Thread David T. Ashley
Hi, I am developing a large database where the web interface may be shared among many companies, but the data will generally not be shared. For the purposes of example, let's call it a bug tracking system such as Bugzilla. Each company has their own private software bugs. Many companies may

Re: Giant database vs unlimited databases

2007-11-19 Thread David T. Ashley
On 11/19/07, Mohammad wrk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on a web 2.0 project that targeting small to medium size companies for providing business services. Companies simply register to the site and then start their business by loading their data, sharing and discussing them with

Re: secure mysql port

2007-11-13 Thread David T. Ashley
On a *nix box, it is also traditional to configure IPTABLES or similar to restrict TCP/UDP connections based on IP and/or adapter. It seems likely based on your description that the box has two network connections. Dave. On 11/13/07, Michael Dykman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my.cnf, you can

Re: Corrupting MySQL on purpose for testing

2007-11-06 Thread David T. Ashley
On 11/6/07, mos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:18 PM 11/6/2007, Richard Edward Horner wrote: Hi, I'm working on a program that will run in the event that tables are crashed or corrupt. Can anyone recommend a good method for crashing my tables or corrupting them so I have some test cases?

Re: Database architecture and security

2007-08-23 Thread David T. Ashley
On 8/23/07, Jason Pruim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning on having the database open to customers of mine to store their mailing addresses on-line, and be able to manage the records. Is it safe, to have 1 database with lots of tables? Or am I safer setting up separate databases for

Re: Database architecture and security

2007-08-23 Thread David T. Ashley
On 8/23/07, Jason Pruim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b)Terminating TCP connections and ensuring that each PHP script runs to completion, anyway, and that the database isn't left in an indeterminate state due to this. Dave. What do you mean by b? If all the connections come from the

Re: Password storage

2007-08-19 Thread David T. Ashley
On 8/18/07, C K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, I have one question - How to store passwords in MySQL database table in a secure way so that no one can see the password(understand the password string)? It is considered bad security practice to store passwords using reversible encryption.

Re: recommend a good database book

2007-08-13 Thread David T. Ashley
On 8/13/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i finally have a real need that i need to sit down and learn the basics of databases. i need to learn to create a database that i can use to track assets at my company, and have it be readable/updatable from a web interface (and hopefully

Re: recommend a good database book

2007-08-13 Thread David T. Ashley
On 8/13/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i finally have a real need that i need to sit down and learn the basics of databases. i need to learn to create a database that i can use to track assets at my company, and have it be readable/updatable from a web interface (and hopefully

Re: 2007 MySQL Community Survey - Got Ten Minutes to Spare?

2007-08-07 Thread David T. Ashley
You are more altruistic than I can ever be. Every time I go through a nameless fast-food drive-through (too often, based on my girth), they offer me a chance to win $1,000 if I complete a survey. I never take those surveys. Reasons: a)If, for example, 10,000 people take the survey and the

Re: Fwd: auto increment format

2007-08-07 Thread David T. Ashley
You might not need to do this in the way you are suggesting (depending on your application). I'm not sure why you feel you need to combine the autoincrement with the hash into the same field. Does it really do harm if two records have the same hash? It might work as well to have two separate

Re: auto increment format

2007-08-07 Thread David T. Ashley
On 8/7/07, Boyd Hemphill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggestions to use a hash are a problem because once you have a few million rows the likelihood of a collision is quite high if you cannot afford an error stopping your application. This means that if you write a trigger (the obvious way to

Re: error

2007-07-10 Thread David T. Ashley
On 7/10/07, Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have exported a database using mysqldump from MySQL 5.0.27, and I have tried importing it in a MySQL 5.0.41, but it gives the following error: ERROR 1071 (42000) at line 483: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

Re: Recursive queries

2007-07-09 Thread David T. Ashley
On 7/8/07, Steffan A. Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up a forum where there are main posts with replies and replies to replies. Rather than using nested queries in my middleware I am thinking there has to be some kind of recursive query where I can output the results in a

Full Text Search, Storage Engines

2007-07-07 Thread David T. Ashley
I'd like to do full text search on some fields of some tables, but I'm a bit confused by the documentation. Questions: a)How do I set that up? b)What storage engines are required? c)Are there any restrictions on mixing and matching tables? d)Do table locking and transactions work the same?

Full Text Search, Storage Engine Types

2007-07-07 Thread David T. Ashley
I'm sending this again, because the server seems to have been down for several hours, and I'm not sure if it went out. - I'd like to do full text search on some fields of some tables, but I'm a bit confused by the documentation. Questions: a)How do I set that up (i.e. do I need to use

Re: zipcode to timezone

2007-07-06 Thread David T. Ashley
On 7/6/07, Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we have warehouses all over U.S. and i just wonder what is the best way to find out their timezone base on zipcode. Should i buy a database or is there any function in mysql or php to get timezone base on a zipcode? I looked at the zipcode

Re: zipcode to timezone

2007-07-06 Thread David T. Ashley
On 7/6/07, John Trammell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Hiep Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 10:51 AM To: David T. Ashley Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: zipcode to timezone i don't think there is any state got 2 timezones

Many:Many Relation Between Database Tables

2007-07-05 Thread David T. Ashley
I'm an old Microsoft Access user, so I just need to double-check on this with MySQL: I want to relate two tables (let's call them users and priveleges) in a many:many way. That is, each user may have multiple priveleges, and each privelege may have multiple users with that privelege. Here are

Re: Many:Many Relation Between Database Tables

2007-07-05 Thread David T. Ashley
On 7/5/07, David T. Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a)I'm assuming that under MySQL I have to create a third table that maps between them? (Let's call it users2priveleges.) b)I'm assuming that there is nothing special I need to do to get, for example, all the priveleges with a user (just

How to Query by First Part of a VARCHAR?

2007-07-04 Thread David T. Ashley
If I have a table with rows like this, all varchar: DOG_LUCY DOG_CHARLIE DOG_LASSIE DOG_XRAY CAT_MR_BIGGLESWORTH CAT_SCRATCHER CAT_WHISTLER what is the form of a query that will return the rows where the first part of the string matches? For example, what if I'd like to return the rows that

Re: How to Query by First Part of a VARCHAR?

2007-07-04 Thread David T. Ashley
On 7/4/07, gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SELECT column FROM table WHERE column LIKE CAT\_%; Would it be reasonable to assume that if column is indexed, the query would execute quickly, i.e. I would assume that the indexing would facilitate this kind of query?

Re: How to Query by First Part of a VARCHAR?

2007-07-04 Thread David T. Ashley
On 7/4/07, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jul 04), David T. Ashley said: On 7/4/07, gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SELECT column FROM table WHERE column LIKE CAT\_%; Would it be reasonable to assume that if column is indexed, the query would execute quickly

Re: How to order a string as integer

2007-06-28 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/28/07, Magnus Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got strings in the format integer+(char)^0..1, ex 3456, 2323, 2324A, 2324B, ... I want to order them as they where integers, like: order by cast(STING as unsigned) desc But when using that query resulting in error 1292. And the result

Re: Geographic math problem

2007-06-28 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/28/07, M5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not being very strong at math, I have a little problem that I'm not sure how to solve. Maybe someone can help me. Basically, given a point (latitude, longitude) and a radius (100 meters) (think circle), I need to compute an equivalent square: That is,

Re: optimization help

2007-06-27 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/27/07, Dave G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Queries on this table when it gets large is slow as molasses. I'm thinking about making a new table for anything with a different test_id any opinions as to whether this is good or bad? Hi Dave G., We need to know how: a)How large the table

Re: optimization help

2007-06-27 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/27/07, Dave G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: select payload_time,HEX(processed_data) from data__ProcessedDataFrames where test_id=18 AND top_level_product_name=DataProduct AND payload_time 11808.74704 AND payload_time 1180564096.24967; What I'm concerned about is with how much data I will

Re: Document archiving

2007-06-27 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/27/07, Eddy D. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone. I want to scan a large quantity of books and documents and store these like images inside or outside a database, I want use mysql, anyone have any experience with this kind of systems, can you suggest me an opensource

Re: Document archiving

2007-06-27 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/27/07, Eddy D. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone. I want to scan a large quantity of books and documents and store these like images inside or outside a database, I want use mysql, anyone have any experience with this kind of systems, can you suggest me an opensource

KEY vs. INDEX

2007-06-19 Thread David T. Ashley
In reading the syntax of the CREATE TABLE statement, I'm a little confused by the two keywords KEY and INDEX. What does one use when one wants MySQL to arrange the column so that it can find a given record WHERE column=whatever in approximately O(log N) time? This is a key, right? MySQL uses

Best Database Representation of a Chain of Command

2007-06-19 Thread David T. Ashley
I'd like to represent our organization's chain of command (i.e. who is whose boss) in a database. The reason is that in some contexts, my database application needs to know who can view whose time and project records (and the rule is that anyone above in the chain of command can, anyone at the

Re: determining if tables are being used

2007-06-11 Thread David T. Ashley
Just speaking as a newbie who has no idea what he is talking about ... If nobody suggests anything better ... I've noticed that there is a clear correspondence between table names and the files that MySQL keeps, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dashley]# ls -al /var/lib/mysql/fboprimedevel/ total 7832

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-11 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/11/07, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all... from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/features.html: Handles large databases. We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 60,000 tables and about

Arbitrary Boolean Functions as Relational Database Structure?

2007-06-08 Thread David T. Ashley
Hi, I'm implementing a software release database. Users may aribtrarily be members of groups (a many-to-many mapping), and each software release may contain multiple files. I'd like to allow users the maximum flexibility in deciding who may view what software releases. The most obvious

Re: Lock Tables Question

2007-06-05 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/5/07, Brent Baisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're missing the concept of a transaction in the database sense. The idea behind a transaction is that you can perform multiple steps and if you don't complete all steps, any changes are reversed. The reversal process is handled by the

Re: Lock Tables Question

2007-06-05 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/5/07, Baron Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David T. Ashley wrote: There is no concept that I'm missing. I understand what a transaction is. But I just don't want to bothered. My application is simple enough that bogarting the database until all necessary modifications have been

Lock Tables Question

2007-06-04 Thread David T. Ashley
I decided to go with a simple paradigm for my web-based database. Rather than transactions, each process locks the entire database while it is changing something, then unlocks it. This just serializes access (all other processes will block until the one modifying the database has finished).

Re: Lock Tables Question

2007-06-04 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/4/07, Gerald L. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David T. Ashley wrote: LOCK TABLE thistable, thattable, theothertable, goshthislistcangetlongtable; Do whatever is needed; UNLOCK TABLES; You could use a string lock for this. Thanks for the suggestion. It looks logically correct

Re: Lock Tables Question

2007-06-04 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/4/07, Jerry Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever you do, make sure that every bit of code that locks multiple resources locks them in the same order. That's the only way to avoid deadlocks. Hi Jerry, I really appreciate the good advice. However, my original question is still

Re: Lock Tables Question

2007-06-04 Thread David T. Ashley
Once you issue a LOCK TABLES command, you may not access any tables not in the LOCK statement. You must lock *ALL* tables you will use, perform your updates, and then UNLOCK TABLES. I didn't know that. I reviewed the documentation. Thanks. OK, then my only remaining question is how many

Re: Data security - help required

2007-05-15 Thread David T. Ashley
On 5/15/07, Ratheesh K J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have a requirement of maintaining some secret information in the database. And this information should not be visible/accessible to any other person but the owner of the data. Whilst I know that encryption/decryption is the

Re: Memory Problems

2007-05-15 Thread David T. Ashley
On 5/15/07, Mathieu Bruneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, yeah, apparenlty you're running into the 32 bits memory liimt. Note thta some memory is allocated for the OS so you don't even have the full 4GB of ram you can technically adressesed. The 64 bits os would increase this limit to 64gb++

Re: Which is a better design?

2007-05-10 Thread David T. Ashley
On 5/9/07, James Tu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The database server and the web server are on separate machines. Table A contains a record for each user. Let's say Table B contains 'relationship' information. They can be of type 'friend' or 'family'. If a user knows another user, this

Re: Which is a better design?

2007-05-10 Thread David T. Ashley
On 5/10/07, James Tu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think b/c of the way the tables are designed, I have to perform multiple queries, unfortunately. Hi James, My suggestion to you would be that if you have a situation you don't believe you can handle in one query, post all the details to the

Re: Which is a better design?

2007-05-10 Thread David T. Ashley
On 5/10/07, James Tu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David: I definitely can get the result set using one query, but what I do with the result set has me thinking about breaking it up into two queries. Technical Details Omitted Ah, OK, I misunderstood. You want to (get two results, each of which

Re: FW: MySQL patches from Google

2007-04-25 Thread David T. Ashley
On 4/25/07, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A co-worker sent this to me, thought I'd pass it along here. We do tons of failover/replication and would be eager to see mySQL implment the Google patches in the stock distribution. If anyone needs mission critical, scaleable, and failover

Re: FW: MySQL patches from Google

2007-04-25 Thread David T. Ashley
On 4/25/07, mos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:36 PM 4/25/2007, you wrote: On 4/25/07, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A co-worker sent this to me, thought I'd pass it along here. We do tons of failover/replication and would be eager to see mySQL implment the Google patches in the

Re: Millisecond time stamp

2007-04-18 Thread David T. Ashley
On 4/17/07, John Comerford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, A) One character string contain a string I build with the date and milliseconds tagged onto the end b) Two separate fields Field1 TimeStamp Field2 Milliseconds I am leaning towards approach B, but saying that it's more gut

Re: Millisecond time stamp

2007-04-18 Thread David T. Ashley
On 4/18/07, Tim Lucia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: John Comerford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:50 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Millisecond time stamp Hi Folks, I am putting together a table to hold log entries. I was going

PHP 4.X with 64-Bit Integers From MySQL

2007-04-11 Thread David T. Ashley
I have a box where I'm forced to use PHP before 64-bit integers became standard ... If I run a MySQL query where one of the fields returned is 64-bit integer, how do I get this into PHP as a string? My recollection is that in the PHP result sets it auto types so that it is an integer, and

Collation Order in MySQL?

2007-04-10 Thread David T. Ashley
I'd like to have a table in MySQL with the key field being a 12-character text string consisting of digits and upper-case letters (minus the vowels and Y, to prevent accidental bad words), i.e. something like: XM39C6B4... When I do queries and get back result sets sorted on this text string, is

Re: Best Practice: Timezones and web development

2007-03-06 Thread David T. Ashley
On 2/28/07, Chris McKeever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any resources, guides, insight into the best practice for storing date/time information when developing a custom web app? I am mainly concerned with how the TZ should be stored? Should it go in as UTC and the code accounts

Re: Global Unique Identifiers

2007-01-04 Thread David T. Ashley
On 1/4/07, Daniel Kiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm designing a database where it is required for each row in a table to have a unique identifier accross a bunch of running MySQL servers on a network. I'm considering two options: 1. Have a two-column primary key, where the first

Re: Interview questions?

2006-12-18 Thread David T. Ashley
On 12/18/06, Peter Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello MySQLers, Since I'm mildly technical and I know how to spell orakle, I've been asked to write up some technical interview questions for a MySQL position at a startup. Can any of you help me out? Your apparent focus on doing what is

Re: Recommended Hardware Configurations

2006-12-17 Thread David T. Ashley
On 12/17/06, Mike Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure this question has probably been asked in this group before, but I would like to get an updated answer. If you were building your own boxes to run clustered MySQL servers, how would you configure the boxes? (This would of course be for

Re: Book Recommendation

2006-11-27 Thread David T. Ashley
On 11/27/06, Nicholas Vettese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a book that will help me understand PHP/MySQL, and the way that they work together. My biggest problem is multi-valued selections, and INSERTING them into the database. A book with great examples like that would be a huge

Compiled C-language CGI-BINs with MySQL

2006-11-10 Thread David T. Ashley
Has anyone ever written C-language CGI-BIN programs (to be executed from Apache) and which use the C-language interface of MySQL? Does it work OK? Thanks.

mysql_server_init(), C API, And Dying Processes

2006-11-10 Thread David T. Ashley
What happens if I use the C API of MySQL and the process dies (maybe a pointer error or something)? a)Will the connection be killed automatically? b)What about LOCK TABLES and similar statements that were issued ... will the locks clear automatically? Thanks.

Searching Fields for a SubString

2006-11-04 Thread David T. Ashley
Hi, I'm a little bit lost on MySQL statements. I am implementing a many:many relationship using a string (wrong way, I know, but I'm trying to keep the design simple and this is a trivial application). In a VARCHAR field, I will store a comma-delimited set of integers corresponding to the

Re: Searching Fields for a SubString

2006-11-04 Thread David T. Ashley
it should work. Dan On 11/4/06, David T. Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a little bit lost on MySQL statements. I am implementing a many:many relationship using a string (wrong way, I know, but I'm trying to keep the design simple and this is a trivial application). In a VARCHAR

Re: Database design question

2006-08-07 Thread David T. Ashley
On 8/7/06, James Tu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I create a table for each user (I can potentially have hundreds of thousands of users), will MySQL be able to handle this? If I just have one table, I could potentially have millions of records in one table. Will MySQL be able to handle this?

Re: SELECT with Result Ordered by Minimum of Fields

2006-08-06 Thread David T. Ashley
On 8/6/06, Chris W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David T. Ashley wrote: Can I just write something like: SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE fieldofinterestvalue ORDER BY MIN(field1, field2) ASC; I think this will work.. SELECT *, IF(a-b 0,a, b) as SortField FROM table WHERE whatever ORDER

SELECT with Result Ordered by Minimum of Fields

2006-08-05 Thread David T. Ashley
Hi, I have a table and I'd like to do a SELECT query with the result ordered by the minimum of two fields. I might also like to query by the minimum (but that is an easier problem, as I can just rephrase it as an OR). Can I just write something like: SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE

RE: Newbie Locking Question

2006-04-25 Thread David T. Ashley
Nigel wrote: mod_php will persist the MySQL connection holding open any lock or syncronisation token obtained through any of the three methods : begin/commit, lock/unlock tables or get_lock/release_lock. PHP does ensure that even in the event of timeouts or fatal errors any shutdown

Newbie Locking Question

2006-04-22 Thread David T. Ashley
Hi, I'm doing a PHP application, and there are just a few instances where I need to do atomic operations on more than one table at a time and I can't express what I want to do as a single SQL statement. What I'm trying to guard against, naturally, is race conditions when more than one process is

RE: Newbie Locking Question

2006-04-22 Thread David T. Ashley
Nigel wrote: If you can't or won't do this properly by using a transactional table and begin/commit at least look at using get_lock() based guard conditions which only lock a string leaving the database accessable. Whatever you do if you client is php install a shutdown handler to clean up

How to Find Most Recent Autoincrement Index Assigned???

2006-04-21 Thread David T. Ashley
I'm using PHP, and I sometimes INSERT new records in a table. MySQL assigns a new autoincrement int field on each INSERT ... nothing surprising there. It goes 1, 2, 3, etc. What query can I use to find out what value this int autoincrement assigned field was? I could of course SELECT based on

RE: Working out Square Footage with Feet and Inches

2006-04-20 Thread David T. Ashley
There is a technique called unit cancellation that may serve you well. The technique is essentially to treat each unit as an orthogonal vector (orthogonal to all other units), so one unit can't be mixed with any other unit. The only way to convert is to multiply by various forms of 1. 1 is a

RE: Should we petition GoDaddy?

2006-04-15 Thread David T. Ashley
I am slowly considering leaving GoDaddy, who has a very good bandwidth and ok tech support (I have seen better but much much worse) and acceptable prices, but unfortunately does not support MySQL 5 and PHP 5 either. SNIP Who think we could make them make the right move and pretty quickly?

[NEWBIE] How To Trim Database To N Records

2006-04-12 Thread David T. Ashley
Hi, I'm a beginning MySQL user ... I have a table of log entries. Over time, the entries could grow to be numerous. I'm like to trim them to a reasonable number. Is there a query that will, say, trim a table down to a million rows (with some sort order, of course, as I'm interested in

Re: Number Searches

2006-02-22 Thread David T. Ashley
, i.e. 192.168.0.10 would become 19216810. b)Store the IP as a 64-bit integer. I think MySQL will key on strings, right? Dave. --- David T. Ashley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thousand Feet Consulting, LLC -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http

Query Complexity Limit Question [Newbie Question]

2006-02-07 Thread David T. Ashley
. --- David T. Ashley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thousand Feet Consulting, LLC -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Query Complexity Limit Question [Newbie Question]

2006-02-07 Thread David T. Ashley
On Tue, February 7, 2006 10:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David T. Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/02/2006 14:03:04: a)Will MySQL allow joins that involve more than two tables (in my case, perhaps as many as 5)? b)Can limits on a key field be included in the join in the same SQL

AUTOINCREMENT / UNIQUE Behavior [Newbie Question]

2006-02-06 Thread David T. Ashley
the integer field reaches 2^32-1 or whatever the upper limit is, what happens then? Will it try to reuse available values from records that have been deleted? Or is it always an error? Thanks, Dave. --- David T. Ashley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thousand Feet Consulting, LLC

Problems with Left Join query

2004-09-17 Thread David T.
I am building a database with permissions for different modules. The permissions table contains a separate row for each module/user combination, and lists the add/mod/del permissions for that module. So, for example, user 'bob' might have add and del rights for 'module1', add only rights for

Re: please explain why this query isn't optimized

2004-09-06 Thread David T-G
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db design for hosting site

2004-08-31 Thread David T-G
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Re: db design for hosting site

2004-08-31 Thread David T-G
structure. Good enough... % % With regards, % % Martijn Tonies Thanks HAND Still listening... :-D - -- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD

created user but access denied

2004-03-23 Thread David T-G
HAND :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg

Re: php script for new database and user

2004-03-23 Thread David T-G
and then give the user permissions on it (thereby creating the user record). % % Any help would be appreciated. % % Thanks, % BGLefty HTH HAND :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work

created user but access denied

2004-03-23 Thread David T-G
denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) and, similarly, the web script cannot get in. Yet when I select the user record from mysql.user and mysql.db they appear complete. What glaringly obvious omission have I failed to see? TIA HAND :-D -- David T-G

Re: sorry for the dupe post (was Re: created user but ...)

2004-03-23 Thread David T-G
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again, all -- ...and then David T-G said... % % I have just moved my web site from one server to another (whew!) and I am % having a problem with a mysql user definition for a calendar program. ... Sorry for the duplicate post; I only realized

Re: created user but access denied

2004-03-23 Thread David T-G
a password properly asks me for one (so I'm not showing it on the command line to anyone with ps tools :-) % % /OFF TOPIC Thanks HAND :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL

Re: created user but access denied

2004-03-23 Thread David T-G
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Egor, et al -- ...and then Egor Egorov said... % % David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % I have just moved my web site from one server to another (whew!) and I am % having a problem with a mysql user definition for a calendar program

Re: Linux access question

2003-12-03 Thread David T-G
HAND :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg

Re: Mysql backup problem

2003-11-28 Thread David T-G
for each database . % is it possible to copy the particular folder(database) to 3.23.58 and then running it smoothly ... Probably. Back up your .58 system, try it, and see! % % Any body got any idea ??? % % Please help me out.. % % Thanks in advance % % Binay HTH HAND :-D - -- David T-G

Re: Please analyze my project table design

2003-11-28 Thread David T-G
, there is, indeed. CF normalization :-) HTH HAND good luck Paul :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http

Re: Backup question.

2003-11-13 Thread David T-G
. Is there any way to do What about, on machine two, mysqldump -hmachine1 -uuser -ppassword --opt --all-databases backup or so? % this besides using ftp. Definitely. There's scp, for instance ;-) % % Any help would be appreicated. % % Richard HTH HAND :-D - -- David T-G

Re: secure automated access (was Re: Backing up all databases)

2003-11-12 Thread David T-G
in the script file for all to see, how do you keep all from seeing them? And those of you who don't, what are you doing to stay secure? And those of you who have a different approach, what is it? TIA HAND :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play

Re: secure automated access

2003-11-12 Thread David T-G
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike -- ...and then Michael Stassen said... % % Mikael Fridh wrote: [And thank you to Mikael, too.] % % On Wednesday 12 November 2003 17.15, David T-G wrote: % % What if one user connects to the database as different users (as I do

Re: database permission

2003-11-10 Thread David T-G
. Read this once at % least. Agreed. It has everything you need. HTH HAND :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health http

Re: Secure way of storing passwords in the database

2003-11-07 Thread David T-G
password? Why not instead save the encrypted password and then when checking always encrypt what you're given and compare it? Not only is it more secure, it's easier :-) % % thanks, Sure thing. % % Luis R. Lebron % Sigmatech, Inc HTH HAND :-D - -- David T-G

Re: Ftp of Mysql Files

2003-11-06 Thread David T-G
% corrupt the database files? Very probably. % % Thanks, Sure thing! % % % Keith HTH HAND :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy

Re: Column Types Changing

2003-11-01 Thread David T-G
to speak :-) Could you afford a little bit of extra load time at startup to have your un-split, all-RAM, fast table? HTH HAND :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL

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