Re: anyone using subversion to sync mysql dbs ?

2006-09-13 Thread Graham Anderson
yep, your're right thanks for clearing that up :) How do most mysql folks sync live and development databases ? As an alternative, I could use a PHP script on a late-night crontab. g On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:11 AM, Chris wrote: Graham Anderson wrote: Is anyone using subversion to

anyone using subversion to sync mysql dbs ?

2006-09-12 Thread Graham Anderson
Is anyone using subversion to sync live and development databases? If so, how? Is this desired or a best practice? Everything except my databases are under version control. In theory, I would like my databases to sync with the same subversion 'svn update' command. That way, all web content up

Re: 3 Table Join question

2006-06-25 Thread Graham Anderson
Solved it with Union :) SELECT images.id,images.name, playlist.title FROM images,playlist WHERE playlist.image_id = images.id UNION SELECT images.id,images.name, media.title FROM images,media WHERE media.image_id = images.id ORDER BY id ASC On Jun 23, 2006, at 6:44 PM, Graham Anderson

3 Table Join question

2006-06-23 Thread Graham Anderson
I am trying to build a query to 1) Get all the results from one table, 'images' 2) For each entry in the 'images' table, find the correct title from the 'playlist' OR 'media' table where images.id = which_table.images_id images table id, filename playlist table title images_id media table t

Re: Noob: Converting to Inner Join

2006-05-24 Thread Graham Anderson
many thanks Chris :) g On May 24, 2006, at 1:19 AM, Chris Sansom wrote: At 23:17 -0700 23/5/06, Graham Anderson wrote: Are there any advantages to converting this 'working' query below to use INNER JOIN ? If so, what would the correct syntax be ? Many thanks SELECT cat

Noob: Converting to Inner Join

2006-05-23 Thread Graham Anderson
Are there any advantages to converting this 'working' query below to use INNER JOIN ? If so, what would the correct syntax be ? Many thanks SELECT category.name, page.name, content.title, content.body FROM category, page, content WHERE content.page_id = page.id AND page.category_id = category

Re: Making ORDER BY RAND() more random [resend]

2005-10-03 Thread Graham Anderson
In the below query, the results first row is usually the same 3-4 tracks out of 30. so should I use PHP to generate a random seed, $r, and pass that to the query ? ORDER BY RAND($r) or, can it be done just with mysql many thanks g On Oct 3, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Michael Stassen wrote: Graham

Making ORDER BY RAND() more random [resend]

2005-10-03 Thread Graham Anderson
is there a way to make ORDER BY RAND() at bit more spontaneous ? I am using it in a php statement: $sql = "SELECT media.id, artist.name as artist, artist.spanish as bio, artist.purchaseLink, artist.picture, media.sp

Making ORDER BY RAND() more random

2005-09-30 Thread Graham Anderson
is there a way to make ORDER BY RAND() at bit more spontaneous ? I am using it in a php statement: $sql = "SELECT media.id, artist.name as artist, artist.spanish as bio, artist.purchaseLink, artist.picture, media.spa

Re: mysql random function strangeness

2005-05-10 Thread Graham Anderson
got it to work thanks On May 10, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Graham Anderson wrote: I have an ORDER statement like: ORDER BY playlist.order_id ASC,RAND(playlistItems.playlist_order) I am trying to get a random result very time the query is run ... Unfortunately, this statement gives the SAME random

mysql random function strangeness

2005-05-10 Thread Graham Anderson
I have an ORDER statement like: ORDER BY playlist.order_id ASC,RAND(playlistItems.playlist_order) I am trying to get a random result very time the query is run ... Unfortunately, this statement gives the SAME random result each time how can I get mysql to randomly jumble the playlist items for a r

Newbie:number of hits per day query

2005-05-06 Thread Graham Anderson
how do I get the average number of hits per day I have a table like: DateTimeid ip 20050506190723 1 121.198.262 what I have so far SELECT DateTime , count( * ) FROM userLog GROUP BY DateTime LIMIT 0 , 30 I assume that DateTime would have to be converted to a specific da

how to use row total in aggregate query ?

2005-04-27 Thread Graham Anderson
I have a query: I am trying to get a percentage of the total for each city SELECT userLog.city,userLog.region, COUNT(*), /* Count(userLog.id) is always 1 was hoping to get the total row returned */ COUNT(*)/COUNT(userLog.id), media.name,artist.name FROM userLog,media,artist WHERE userLog.medi

Re: Newbie: Help with Match without using a subQuery

2005-04-14 Thread Graham Anderson
Shawn :) g On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/13/2005 01:46:35 PM: Hi I am trying to set up my Match statements to filter the result of the main query [which works] If 'chris' does not exist in the first MATCH sta

Newbie: Help with Match without using a subQuery

2005-04-13 Thread Graham Anderson
Hi I am trying to set up my Match statements to filter the result of the main query [which works] If 'chris' does not exist in the first MATCH statement [AND MATCH (media.name, media.product)], then the results get a bit screwed up :( If the first match statement finds something, then the quer

Re: Newbie: MYSQL nested query question

2005-04-01 Thread Graham Anderson
how keys from tbl_properties.php: Missing parameter: table huh ? On Apr 1, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Graham Anderson wrote: In the simple query... the city field showed the result 'Los Angeles' in every row the distance field showed incorrect results to :( City|

Re: Newbie: MYSQL nested query question

2005-04-01 Thread Graham Anderson
PM, Peter Brawley wrote: What was wrong with Graham's simpler query? PB - Graham Anderson wrote: I upgraded my local mysql version to 4.1.10a and the below query finally works :) How can I now amend the query so it works on my remote server running mysql 3.23.58 ? From one headache to ano

Re: Newbie: MYSQL nested query question

2005-04-01 Thread Graham Anderson
N ON C.CityID = N.PrimaryCityID WHERE C.City = 'Los Angeles' AND N.Distance <20 many many thanks to all those that replied :) g On Mar 31, 2005, at 11:49 PM, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Graham Anderson wrote: What is the proper way to say this ? SELECT C.City, N.Distance FROM

Newbie: MYSQL nested query question

2005-03-31 Thread Graham Anderson
What is the proper way to say this ? SELECT C.City, N.Distance FROM Cities C JOIN Nearbycities N ON C.CityId = N.PrimaryCityId WHERE N.CityId = (SELECT Cities.CityId FROM Cities WHERE Cities.city = 'Los Angeles') AND N.distance < 20 I am trying to enter in a city and get all the nearby cites with

Syntax problem: mysql 3.23 vs 4.13

2005-03-29 Thread Graham Anderson
this sql works on mysql version 3.23.58...my remote server SELECT c.City, r.Region, co.Country FROM subnets s, cities c, regions r, countries co WHERE c.CityId = s.CityId AND c.RegionID = r.RegionID AND c.CountryID = co.CountryId AND s.SubNetAddress = '24.24.172' LIMIT 0 , 30 but the same syntax fa

Newbie: Average Time on Server query

2005-03-29 Thread Graham Anderson
I am trying to determine the average time that a Distinct IP address is using the server If I have 15 thousand records of ip addresses and access times like: IP Now() media.id -- 10.1.7.205 20

Newbie: is this Query Reasonably Efficient ?

2005-03-23 Thread Graham Anderson
I have 3 different tables I need data from And, the tables have the potential to get fairly large I am using mysql 4.1.3 This working query below pulls up all media requests for 'Yolanda Perez' in Los Angeles Is there a appreciably speedier way to say the below ? I have begun dipping my toe

Newvbie:TO_DAYS Question

2005-03-23 Thread Graham Anderson
stupidly My DateTime field is in this format: March 23, 2005,  3:49 pm If I want to run this sql SELECT TO_DAYS(MAX(DateTime)) - TO_DAYS(MIN(DateTime)) AS record  FROM userLog I gather I need some extra function like.. SELECT TO_DAYS(MAX(Convert _Function(DateTime))) -  TO_DAYS(MIN(Conv

Newbie: Searching for empty fields

2005-03-23 Thread Graham Anderson
how do you search for an empty field ? I want to filter out records where the ipAddress field is empty SELECT * FROM 'userLog' WHERE 'ipAddress' IS [empty] ? many thanks g -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAI

Newbie: mysql syntax error question

2005-03-19 Thread Graham Anderson
My server has mysql: version 3.23.58 // Performing SQL query SELECT cities.city, regions.region, countries.country FROM cities JOIN subnets on subnets.cityid=subnets.cityid JOIN regions on subnets.regionid=regions.regionid JOIN countries on subnets.countryid=countries.countryid where subnets.

Newbie: making a proper subquery

2004-11-30 Thread Graham Anderson
I am trying to make a proper subqueryjust not sure bout the syntax I use this this basic query to connect all of my tables: # here is the basic query that connects all the tables..this works :) $sql = 'SELECT playlist.name as playlist_name, artist.name as artist,' . ' artist.'.$language.' as

Re: Newbie: How to deal with multiple languages

2004-11-29 Thread Graham Anderson
36 AM Subject: Re: Newbie: How to deal with multiple languages Hello. You can find an answer here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Charset.html MySQL supports column character sets on columns of some types (char,varchar,text). Probably if I were you I would use Unicode in my application. Graham A

Copy/Paste text from Ms Word into mysql

2004-11-26 Thread Graham Anderson
I am copy/pasting text from a microsoft word doc into phpmyadmin are there any special tricks to avoid strange characters...most of my text is in Spanish The only thing that seems to work is converting the text to ASCII which ditches all the Spanish formatting :( is there some process to make t

Re: change field names in a query

2004-11-26 Thread Graham Anderson
many thanks :) that was exactly what I needed g On Nov 26, 2004, at 4:27 PM, Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: "Graham Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 6:28 PM Subject: change field names in a query what is t

change field names in a query

2004-11-26 Thread Graham Anderson
what is the proper mysql syntax to change field names after the query is done if I have a table with: id englishText spanishText picture And I query the table with: select id, spanishText from myTable limit 30 how do I change the 'spanishText' field name to say 'language' ? many thanks g -- MyS

Newbie: How to deal with multiple languages

2004-11-26 Thread Graham Anderson
I have a mysql db that contains tables with multiple language fields for example... Artist_id 'PK' Artist_name Artist_pictLink Artist_purchaseLink Artist_bio_Spanish Artist_bio_English Artist_bio_German I have other tables with a similar layout...Is this needlessly complicated ? track_id 'PK'