Re: getting totals with data

2002-06-18 Thread Erik Price
unsubbed the list. Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive

is this query possible?

2002-06-14 Thread Erik Price
, then I'll use the value of sub2other to do what I want to do, and vice versa). But this just doesn't seem possible. I can always do it with two separate queries if need be, but it would be elegant to do it with one. Any advice? Thanks very much, Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab

Re: MySQL not starting ?

2002-06-14 Thread Erik Price
one hyphen before user? Try using two: [root]# safe_mysqld --user=root Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

Re: is this query possible?

2002-06-14 Thread Erik Price
it. Erik On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 04:05 PM, Luc Foisy wrote: How bout SELECT main.id, sub1.other, sub2.other FROM main LEFT JOIN sub1 ON main.sub1fk = sub1.id LEFT JOIN sub2 ON main.sub2fk = sub2.id Luc mysql,sql -Original Message- From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Reconstructing SQL create table statements

2002-06-14 Thread Erik Price
the CREATE TABLE statements. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com

mulitple uses of a foreign key

2002-05-29 Thread Erik Price
AND projects.canceler_id = people.people_id, or projects.finisher_id = people.people_id, depending on whether the project was finished or canceled. But I also need to be able to determine from the query whether the project was finished or canceled. Thanks! Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H

Re: MySQL on OS X

2002-04-25 Thread Erik Price
/libSystem.B.dylib I'm running 10.1.3, with the Dec2001 Developer Tools installed. Perhaps it was provided by those, do you have them installed? Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: AW: MySQL on OS X

2002-04-25 Thread Erik Price
questions please don't hesitate to ask. Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com

Re: how to get support help?

2002-04-25 Thread Erik Price
Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive

Re: how to get support help?

2002-04-25 Thread Erik Price
. Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive

Re: how to get support help?

2002-04-25 Thread Erik Price
that their problem was heard. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com

Re: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

2002-04-25 Thread Erik Price
? If so, use that. It would look something like: /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --socket=/path/to/socket Good luck Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check

Re: Order by

2002-04-25 Thread Erik Price
save the extra processing cycles by doing it in the database? Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual

Re: table-building advice requested

2002-04-19 Thread Erik Price
of null values in my table. What do you think? Thanks for reading! Thanks even more if you can help me. Erik On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 03:52 PM, Erik Price wrote: Hello, I was hoping to solicit some advice on the structure of the database I am building. Here

Re: Selecting Information Just Inserted

2002-04-19 Thread Erik Price
SELECT MAX() on that column. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com

table-building advice requested

2002-04-18 Thread Erik Price
if this is really a good idea -- when I need to query for all records in printedfiles and categorize them, will I be able to use this source column? Or is there a better way I could be going about all of this... Thanks for any insight you can provide. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp

bumping up table values

2002-03-04 Thread Erik Price
or UPDATE statements -- nothing this big yet. Is it normal to have a script that does all of this in different steps? Could I make better use of MySQL's resources? Thanks for your advice on these questions. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: another xml thread

2002-02-19 Thread Erik Price
on their point. But I did not have a second look, so I am not sure if I am mis-remembering. Yes, there was a lot of back-and-forthing. Thanks, Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before

another xml thread

2002-02-18 Thread Erik Price
Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread

INSERTing duplicate values to a UNIQUE-indexed table

2002-02-04 Thread Erik Price
Hello, everyone. I have a slight dilemma, and was wondering what the standard workaround is. I have three tables: owners (auto_increment primary key is owners_id), objects (auto_increment primary key is objects_id), and owners_objects (which is a foreign key table that I created, under

Re: INSERTing duplicate values to a UNIQUE-indexed table

2002-02-04 Thread Erik Price
I know about both options! Much appreciated, Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http

Re: [PHP] Mac OSX !?!?!?

2002-01-17 Thread Erik Price
There is a utility called daemonic which is designed to deal with this as well, but works for more than just MySQL -- it's intended to be used for all server daemons. http://daemonic.sourceforge.net/ It is Mac OS X-specific at this time, but according to the web site is designed for future

INSERTing into joined tables?

2002-01-09 Thread Erik Price
Hello, everyone -- I have received a great deal of help from many members of this list, so I'd like to acknowledge that now. Someday, when I have my head wrapped around this stuff, I hope to return the favor. In the meantime, however, I have come across my worst brainbuster yet. Any help on

Re: INSERTing into joined tables?

2002-01-09 Thread Erik Price
! Erik -Original Message- From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Etienne Marcotte Subject: INSERTing into joined tables? Hello, everyone -- I have received a great deal of help from many members

Re: Watchdog für mysql in Perl?

2002-01-04 Thread Erik Price
Well, you could use a shell script to run mysqladmin status. I.e. this bash script: #! /bin/bash # mystatus.sh is really just a simple alias for a # longer command. # Usage: 'mystatus.sh PASSWORD' # replace values of $my_hostname and $my_username if needed my_hostname='localhost'

ENUM -- integers or strings?

2002-01-04 Thread Erik Price
A quick question -- If I have a table with an ENUM column, and the possible values are (0, 1, 2, 3), does the number qualify as an integer or a string? I am working in PHP4 and intend to compare this value as such: // dbaccess.access_level is ENUM(0, 1, 2, 3) column // $user_id has been

Re: ENUM -- integers or strings?

2002-01-04 Thread Erik Price
is done, I can't test... conundrum? Erik On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 03:07 PM, Rick Emery wrote: What happened when you experimented? What were your results? -Original Message- From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL

mysqlshow expands my argument

2002-01-02 Thread Erik Price
I'm trying to use mysqlshow to display the tables of a database on a remote host. I enter the command: localhost:/usr/local/mysql$ ./bin/mysqlshow -h 555.55.5.5 -p samp_db Enter password: Wildcard: samp_db +-+ | Databases | +-+ | samp_db | +-+

an example INSERT statement

2002-01-02 Thread Erik Price
Hello, I'm having some trouble constructing my first INSERT statement into multiple tables. I'm using PHP4. I have written the following INSERT statement with no problems: $sql = INSERT INTO main (name, ext, stor_pre, stor_base, width, height, file_size, proj_id, date_cre, cre_by,

Re: are my queries bloated?

2001-12-10 Thread Erik Price
On Saturday, December 8, 2001, at 12:53 PM, Arjen G. Lentz wrote: Re-order the list of tables in the FROM, and put the subprojectweb.subproject_name = 'shoeshine.com' bit first after the WHERE, that will also make it clearer for you to read. Is this just for my own personal clarity? I

Re: just moved from windows to linux mysql

2001-12-06 Thread Erik Price
On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 02:15 PM, Curtis Gordon wrote: Hi, I have just setup a dedicated linux/php/mysql dev box in my office and I am gearing up to move my databases from a windows box to the linux box. There are a couple of things I would like to be clear on before I start.

Re: are my queries bloated?

2001-12-06 Thread Erik Price
I haven't populated this database yet. There are actually many more columns, this was kind of a rough draft -- I only featured the ones that I needed to see if my JOINs were okay. I just got a little nervous when I drafted a few sample queries and saw that much text !! That makes me feel

Re: [PHP] Mac OSX and MySQL

2001-12-05 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 12:24 AM, René Fournier wrote: I have to create a MySQL for my PHP scripts. How do I do this in Mac OSX? There are a bunch of command line tools, but I'm not sure which one[s] to use. Well, if you already have MySQL installed, then just use them as

Re: [PHP] Re: Mac OSX and MySQL

2001-12-05 Thread Erik Price
Oh, okay, you want to know how to use NetInfo. Do man niutil and read the man pages on niutil. Also very useful, in the following link is a brief description of how to use NetInfo Manager to do the same thing if you prefer GUI: http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/osdb.html It tells

Re: more than one possible column value

2001-12-04 Thread Erik Price
| +--++-+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) I hope it's what you wanted Etienne btw, if you find any mailing list ont he web for general relational DB design issues, let me know. I searched and could not find any:( Erik Price wrote: Hello, I was looking for some advice on building my

Re: more than one possible column value

2001-12-04 Thread Erik Price
On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 01:23 PM, Etienne Marcotte wrote: CREATE TABLE filetypes ( fileID smallint unsigned not null, typeID smallint unsigned not null, unique index (fileID,typeID), unique index (typeID,fileID) ) One question, though. Do I have to construct indexes in both

Re: mySQL in-memory configuration

2001-12-03 Thread Erik Price
I'm not sure, but you'd be in big trouble if your system lost power! -- Erik On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 10:50 AM, Banach, Timothy P wrote: Hello, Can mySQL be configured to run entirely in-memory? That is, can one configure it so that all the tables, data, etc. remain resident in

Re: How To Install Under MacOS X?

2001-11-30 Thread Erik Price
Also, although the standard groupadd command doesn't work for adding groups, you can use NetInfo Manager to add a group. This gives you a GUI interface to managing your groups and users. If you don't like GUI, use the command line tool niutil, which has its own man page. You would probably

Designing a database to track files

2001-11-30 Thread Erik Price
Hello, I'm designing a database, and of course I have no formal training in this area (I'm learning from DuBois's book). It's designed to keep track of files. In my organization, we have a small design studio, and the designers save their image files to CD-ROMs. As you can imagine, the

Re: Designing a database to track files

2001-11-30 Thread Erik Price
Jens, That is great news! You've made my day -- that means that the rest of my tables should work with JOIN queries, as I am building them along the same model -- using ID numbers instead of actual names to connect to the main files table. Thanks for clearing that up for me. And also for

Re: Please redo this horrible web page

2001-11-28 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 02:44 PM, john wrote: pages every day. Things on the list are no way near how easy they can be. I cannot fathom why this is not a newsgroup, and why every person/eu has to be flooded with so much email that has nothing to do with them or their

Re: Please redo this horrible web page

2001-11-28 Thread Erik Price
John, I know what you mean, to some extent. I bought a recently-published book that served as an introduction to MySQL and PHP. I thought it would be perfect -- it seemed to be engagingly written, and specifically dealt with what I wanted to learn about. The only problem was that the

PHP install w/MySQL difference question

2001-11-27 Thread Erik Price
Hello, [The contents of this email contain quite an annoying amount of output from the command line, but please note that I have deleted most of the unnecessary output and tried to comment the parts that I felt were necessary.] I am curious as to what the difference will be if I choose to

the official name of 3.23.45 source

2001-11-26 Thread Erik Price
Hello all, Can anyone tell me the official name of the MySQL 3.23.45 source code file that is downloaded from the web site (www.mysql.com)? I normally grab it with curl off of my local mirror but they didn't have it yet so I used Internet Explorer to grab the file from another (random)

Re: the official name of 3.23.45 source

2001-11-26 Thread Erik Price
://mysql.valueclick.com/pub/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/mysql-3.23.45.tar. gz I always find this FTP site with the most up-to-date files and is very reliable! :) On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:17:22 -0500, Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the official name of the MySQL 3.23.45 source

Re: Mac OS X and MySQL 3.23.45

2001-11-26 Thread Erik Price
On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 11:34 AM, Michael Collins wrote: No, it is not found on Downloads for the 3.23 version at: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html Look for: MacOS X downloads Binary packages (tar.gz) MySQL 3.23.45 MacOS X Server 1.x (PowerPC) (4.7M) MySQL

display size of integers

2001-11-26 Thread Erik Price
I have a rhetorical question. I'm learning as much as I can about MySQL. There is one little detail that I don't *have* to know the answer to, but I'm curious about. Don't waste your time replying if you're busy. It appears that the display width is an option for certain types of numeric

RE: does lmysqlclient.so exist in 3.23.44 ?

2001-11-24 Thread Erik Price
support in php? From what I've read, it's probably more trouble than it's worth on OSX... -ravi. -Original Message- From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: November 23, 2001 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: does lmysqlclient.so exist in 3.23.44 ? Well, I

does lmysqlclient.so exist in 3.23.44 ?

2001-11-23 Thread Erik Price
Well, I asked a lengthy question earlier with all kinds of extraneous information pertaining to my problem. Allow me to re-ask in a more simple fashion -- does a file called 'lmysqlclient.so' exist in MySQL 3.23.44 ? I built this distribution from source and cannot find it anywhere. I need it

RE: argument to --with-mysql option for PHP

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Price
the 'make'. And I assume that this happened because the 'make' process could not find the lmysqlclient.so . Am I very far off the mark in this guess? Thanks to any who can help with this quandary! Sincerely, Erik Price --- Ravi Raman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right. ./configure --help

argument to --with-mysql option for PHP

2001-11-21 Thread Erik Price
' , but I wanted to make sure. Thank you, Erik Price PS: Just to re-clarify about my system, it is: Darwin 1.4.1 running beneath Mac OS X 10.1.1 Apache 1.3.22 with DSO capability enabled MySQL 3.23.44 (source install) installed in /usr/local/mysql = Microsoft e[X]tra [P]roprietary

Re: Nusphere is spamming me (this is cheese)

2001-11-20 Thread Erik Price
It looks like this site is designed to fool a newcomer into thinking that they've stumbled onto the MySQL site -- there is a tiny mention on the splash page that 'if you are looking for MySQL AB, click here'. I'm sorry, but when I was first looking into MySQL, I had no idea what 'MySQL AB' was.

List Info

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Price
Bill, Actually, there *is* a digest -- send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the information about this and all other listserver commands is in the welcome message that you should have received as your first mysql@lists email. I have been using the digest. BUT... All of Bernie's comments are right

Re: Dumb Question: Listing tables in telnet

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Price
Todd, The arrow is like the PS2 prompt from your shell in Unix. That is, the first line of your command says Mysql and every line thereafter is just a greater-than. This is because the mysql client is waiting for more commands. You can enter more than one command at a time this way, and not

Re: shutdown still a problem on Darwin

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Price
] wrote: Erik Price writes: Hello all, Some of you may recognize this post somewhat, I've asked about this problem before: I am unable to execute the shutdown command with mysqladmin, running on Darwin 1.4.1 (from Mac OS X 10.1.0). Hi! Our colleague Sasha Pachev has made some

I think I have a solution! (was: mysqld shutdown)

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Price
that my database probably won't become corrupted every single time from a kill -9 command, but it is likely to happen at some point as I will be doing this daily. Does anyone think that this is a viable solution to my problem? Thanks very much for any input or thoughts! -- Erik Price PS: To all

Re: shutdown still a problem on Darwin

2001-11-16 Thread Erik Price
--- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as there are no active connections, killing mysql will not affect the database. If you kill mysql during an update, you risk corrupting any indexes on the tables being modified. If your tables are BDB or InnoDB format, you should be able to

Re: HELP - Setting up MySQL on Mac OS X 10.0.4

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Price
Has anyone successfully set up MySQL on Mac OS X 10.0.4 yet? If so, what distribution did you use? What special steps (if any) did you have to take? Every tutorial on this topic that I've found on the web so far, is either outdated or has simply has not worked for me. That's because

Re: Need A book for dynamic website

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Price
When I was just starting to consider my database-driven web site, I checked mysql.com and found this: http://www.mysql.com/portal/books/html/index.html The best-rated book is the one I chose to get: MySQL by Paul DuBois New Riders I think it's awesome. (Although neither it nor the web site

Re: mysqld shutdown

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Price
--- Bill Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One option is to use /usr/local/mysql/bin:mysql$ mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown But this one doesn't work for me, even though I am using the proper password and am the proper user. Executing this command just leaves me hanging at the prompt

Re: mysqld shutdown

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Price
--- Bill Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems like an OS bug to me. All of the things you mention in your last email should stop mysql from running. What happens if you do (where safe_mysqld is running) 'fg' and then CTRL+c? Does that just hang too? Do you need the debugging for

Re: mysqld shutdown

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Price
--- Mike(mickalo)Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried ./mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown when in the 'bin' folder otherwise typing mysqladmin, it will check the server PATH, to find the mysqladmin Mike(mickalo)Blezien Hmm... isn't this the same thing as

Re: mysqld shutdown

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Price
--- Sergei Golubchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What OS do you use ? The behaviour you're describing I've seen two-three years ago on FreeBSD due to some bug/deficiency in FreeBSD threads. Since then it was fixed (in FreeBSD I mean). Regards, Sergei Interesting! I'm using Darwin

Re: mysqld shutdown

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Price
Dan, Thanks for that comprehensive answer. It doesn't seem like the FreeBSD solution will be one that I will try to implement into my installation of Darwin, as it draws on skills and knowledge that I definitely don't have -- though it would be educational to take a look into Darwin's threading

mysqld shutdown

2001-11-13 Thread Erik Price
All, Well, I solved the mystery of the missing Unix socket. It needs to be defined at the time the daemon is started with: --socket=/path/to/socket. Well, at least in my installation it does. But now I'm having the OPPOSITE problem -- shutting down the server (the daemon). I've searched

Re: failer to start the mysql server

2001-11-13 Thread Erik Price
I had this same error message yesterday when I first set up MySQL. Two possible reasons: 1) Is mysqld running? I used bash2.05$ ps aux | grep mysqld to see if there is a process called mysqld. 2) In my installation (which I compiled from source, with the Unix socket path option in

creating a Unix socket

2001-11-12 Thread Erik Price
Hello, Despite hours plumbing the MySQL documentation and Paul DuBois' book MySQL (New Riders), I can't figure out what exactly creates the Unix socket for local connections. For some reason no socket was created during my setup, and I'm not sure how to go about making one. I compiled 3.23.44

Re: creating a Unix socket

2001-11-12 Thread Erik Price
? -- Erik PS: the documentation at mysql.com is incredible. --- Bill Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Price wrote: for some reason I assumed that the socket would be created dynamically when I started the mysql daemon. It does. Try chown mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql/run