Re: AW: creating databases in different folders

2009-06-02 Thread Foo JH
Benedikt Schackenberg wrote: You can configure it in the my.cnf file: there you can set the data directory. Thanks for the quick reply. My concern is that setting the data directory puts ALL databases in that folder. What I plan to do is to put databases in separate folders. Is that possible?

Re: AW: creating databases in different folders

2009-06-02 Thread Foo JH
John Daisley wrote: MySQL represents each database by means of a database directory located within the data directory. You can move a database directory to a location outside the datadirectory and replace it with a symlink. Thanks for the tip John, esp. the detailed steps to take. It sounds

Re: AW: AW: creating databases in different folders

2009-06-02 Thread Foo JH
were to use Innodb, there is NO way to separate the files used by different databases? Benedikt Schackenberg wrote: I think, that will not work with one database daemon. Then you have to install for every database one daemon ;) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Foo JH [mailto:jhfoo

creating databases in different folders

2009-06-01 Thread Foo JH
Hi all, I'm using MySQL 5.0 on Windows 2003. Problem background: We use the same server for different applications. All the applications share the same server as the database server. Each application uses their own database. In MSSQL we put each database in the corresponding application folder