Re: data file too big

2004-01-22 Thread Gregory Newby
I believe that this will flush those logs: mysql reset master; -- Greg On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:23:07PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote: Hi All My data file has all these files (root)@webrt:/usr/local/mysql/data# du -sh * 25K ib_arch_log_00 3.0Kib_arch_log_02 3.0K

Re: MySQL slowness on querying indexed columns

2004-01-20 Thread Gregory Newby
Don't forget to run optimize table after you build the combined index or make significant changes. -- Greg PS: Sorry to hear of MySQL's gender issues ;-) On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:20:12AM -0500, Balazs Rauznitz wrote: I saw surprisingly slow query results on columns that were indexed.

Re: 100,000,000 row limit?

2004-01-19 Thread Gregory Newby
There is an issue in ISAM/MyISAM tables of needing to have correctly sized row pointers. I submitted this as a bug report (it's really a documentation bug), but don't know if it will be fixed. I was happy to get an answer, though, so will share it with you :-) If you get an error like this:

Re: mysql load

2004-01-16 Thread Gregory Newby
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:14:08AM -0800, Andrew Kwiczola wrote: I was wondering how many records A mysql table can comfortably handle.. and which table type supports the greatest amount of record capacity. Can I have a few million records in 1 table? Over 10 million? Thanks ! Hi, Andrew.

large table performance for WHERE queries

2004-01-15 Thread Gregory Newby
I'm using MySQL for an information retrieval application where word occurrences are indexed. It seems that performance is not as good as I would expect (it seems nearly linear with the number of rows). Any advice would be welcome. I'll lay out a lot of detail. Some details follow. The basic

Re: large table performance for WHERE queries

2004-01-15 Thread Gregory Newby
, at 1:53 PM, Gregory Newby wrote: I'm using MySQL for an information retrieval application where word occurrences are indexed. It seems that performance is not as good as I would expect (it seems nearly linear with the number of rows). Any advice would be welcome. I'll lay out a lot

Re: newbie - connect error

2004-01-15 Thread Gregory Newby
Hi, Tait. It sounds like your server is never actually starting properly. There could be any number of reasons for this - it's best to work through the installation instructions that came with the package. To see what failed, chances are good there is an entry in the error log (it will probably

Re: newbie - connect error

2004-01-15 Thread Gregory Newby
- this is where the mysql db itself is. ta tait On 16/01/2004, at 10:36 AM, Gregory Newby wrote: Hi, Tait. It sounds like your server is never actually starting properly. There could be any number of reasons for this - it's best to work through the installation instructions that came