Re: auto_increment

2008-04-22 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Sebastian Mendel wrote: Sebastian Mendel schrieb: Hiep Nguyen schrieb: hi list, reading manual on mysql regarding auto_increment with multiple-column index: CREATE TABLE animals ( grp ENUM('fish','mammal','bird') NOT NULL, id MEDIUMINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT

auto_increment

2008-04-21 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi list, reading manual on mysql regarding auto_increment with multiple-column index: CREATE TABLE animals ( grp ENUM('fish','mammal','bird') NOT NULL, id MEDIUMINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, name CHAR(30) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (grp,id) ); INSERT INTO animals (grp,name) VALUES

database design

2008-04-17 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, after a little 'research' and consultation with friends, i come up with these tables for my database project. table Item(ItemID,warehouse,ShapeID,weight,category,description) table Shape(ShapeID,physical shape) table Dimension(DimensionID,dimension) table

Re: grant user privileges

2008-04-16 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i have an existing database (internal) with a user named 'admin', everything works fine as far as privileges concern. i just created a new database (test) and want to grant

grant user privileges

2008-04-15 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, i have an existing database (internal) with a user named 'admin', everything works fine as far as privileges concern. i just created a new database (test) and want to grant admin's privileges on test as same as internal. how do i do this??? i tried (as root): grant all on test.* to

Re: insert select

2008-04-04 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a question on insert ... select statement. tbl_1(fld1,fld2,fld3, ) fld1 int primary key auto_increment not null tbl_2(fld_a,fld_b,fld_c,...) how do i construct my select statement so that fld1 is auto increment? insert into tbl_1

insert select

2008-04-03 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, i have a question on insert ... select statement. tbl_1(fld1,fld2,fld3, ) fld1 int primary key auto_increment not null tbl_2(fld_a,fld_b,fld_c,...) how do i construct my select statement so that fld1 is auto increment? insert into tbl_1(fld1,fld2,fld3) select xxx, fld_b, NOW()

Re: insert select

2008-04-03 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Johan Höök wrote: Hi Hiep, you can put in either xxx = NULL or you can skip it completely: insert into tbl_1(fld2,fld3) select fld_b, NOW() from tbl_2; Regards, /Johan Hiep Nguyen skrev: hi all, i have a question on insert ... select statement. tbl_1(fld1,fld2

select *

2008-04-01 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, how do i select all fields in tbl1,tbl2, and only fld1,fld2 in tbl3? is this possible??? select *,*,tbl3.fld1,tbl3.fld2 from tbl1,tbl2,tbl3; the reason for this is b/c there are hundred of fields in tbl1 tbl2 that i don't want to type them all. thanks, t. hiep -- MySQL General

Re: select *

2008-04-01 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Tim McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Rob Wultsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i select all fields in tbl1,tbl2, and only fld1,fld2 in tbl3? select tbl2.*, tbl1.*, tbl3.fld1, tbl3.fld2 from tbl1

mysqlimport load data infile

2008-03-18 Thread Hiep Nguyen
i read about mysqlimport load data infile for mysql, but i can't find a way to import text file using length of column, instead of delimiter my text file contains fixed length column: -- i can use ms excel to convert all files to .csv format and import, but it would

revisit data structure

2008-03-13 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, i come up these tables for my project and i'm looking for advice/suggestion how to improve/optimize the structure further. table item(itemid,warehouse,category,shapeid,) table shape(shapeid,physical_shape,...) table dimension(dimensionid,itemid,shapeid,characteristic,...)

log changes

2008-03-12 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, i have a table (not my design) with a lot of fields and users have access to insert/update/delete record from this table. is there a way that mysql can log all transactions who change what on this table??? or do i have to create a seperate table to keep track the changes? for

Re: change pw

2008-03-04 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Daniel Brown wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mysql select user,host,password from mysql.user; +--+--+--+ | user | host | password

Re: change pw

2008-03-04 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Dan Rogart wrote: You should definitely consider getting rid of them, otherwise people can log in to MySQL from any host with no credentials. They are created during installation by the mysql_install_db script. This tells you how to remove them:

Re: change pw

2008-03-04 Thread Hiep Nguyen
where user = '' or password = ''; Those are the users you should consider dropping or assigning passwords to. Hope that helps, Dan On 3/4/08 9:57 AM, Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Dan Rogart wrote: You should definitely consider getting rid of them, otherwise people

grant user

2008-03-03 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, i have a user that can only access localhost, how do i grant this user permission so that can also be accessed from 192.168.1.50? thanks t. hiep -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grant user

2008-03-03 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a user that can only access localhost, how do i grant this user permission so that can also be accessed from 192.168.1.50? i got it. thanks t. hiep -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql

change pw

2008-03-03 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, i just installed mysql and started mysqld. it suggested i change pw for root, so i did: mysqladmin -u root password my_pw; but i can't do: mysqladmin -u root -h dev.jss.com password my_pw; how do i change pw for [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks, t. hiep -- MySQL General Mailing List For list

Re: change pw

2008-03-03 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Daniel Brown wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i just installed mysql and started mysqld. it suggested i change pw for root, so i did: mysqladmin -u root password my_pw; but i can't do: mysqladmin -u root -h

Re: select

2008-01-18 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Sebastian Mendel wrote: Hiep Nguyen schrieb: hi all, i have a table looks like this: ID sDate 1 1997-03-21 2 1997-04-30 3 1997-05-30 4 1998-01-29 5 1998-02-24 6 1998-03-21 7 1999-05-10 8 1999-07-12 9 1999-10-20 10 2000

select

2008-01-18 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, i have a table looks like this: ID sDate 1 1997-03-21 2 1997-04-30 3 1997-05-30 4 1998-01-29 5 1998-02-24 6 1998-03-21 7 1999-05-10 8 1999-07-12 9 1999-10-20 10 2000-01-01 11 2000-02-15 12 2000-03-20 13 2000-05-18 how do

import from exel into mysql

2008-01-14 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi everyone, i have a large ms excel data (text) file that i need to import to my table in mysql. does any one have a suggestion how to do this? i'm try to export to csv file, then import to my table, but i have so much problems with delimeters thanks -- MySQL General Mailing List For

possible combine update statement

2007-12-05 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi list, i have a loop to update my table: update tbl_idea set col1 = 'text1', col2 = NOW() where ideaID = 1; update tbl_idea set col1 = 'text2', col2 = NOW() where ideaID = 5; ... update tbl_idea set col1 = 'textzzz', col2 = NOW() where ideaID = XXX; my question is can i combine above

help with select

2007-12-05 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi list, i have two tables: idea(iid int not null primary_key auto_increment, completed_by int, submitted_by int); employee(eid int not null primary_key auto_increment, first varchar(20), last varchar(30)); table idea data: 1 | 4 | 10 2 | 3 | 7 table employee data: 3 | john | Doe 4

speical characters in text column

2007-12-03 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi friends, i searched on google but not file a solution. is there a way that i can store special characters (return, new line, tab, etc) into mysql (ver. 4.1.12) table with text type? i use textarea tag for user to enter the text. my goal is to store/display EXACTLY what user entered in

repost timestamp for update insert

2007-11-29 Thread Hiep Nguyen
i asked this question before, but when i tried what D.Vin suggested, i got an error. mysql version is 4.1.12 i tried: CREATE TABLE tbl_spdate( spdate_ID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT , spdate_date date NOT NULL , spdate_notes varchar( 100 ) , spdate_created timestamp default 0,

select sum order

2007-11-13 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi there, this seems so easy, but i'm out of sql for a long time and need help i have: id,amount,state 1,2.00,il 2,2.00,oh 3,1.00,il 4,1.00,ks 5,3.00,ks 6,4.00,oh how do i construct a sql statement that results as following: il,3.0 oh,6.0 ks,4.0 sum (amount) all the same state. thank

Re: select sum order

2007-11-13 Thread Hiep Nguyen
thanks, T. Hiep On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Baron Schwartz wrote: Hi, Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi there, this seems so easy, but i'm out of sql for a long time and need help i have: id,amount,state 1,2.00,il 2,2.00,oh 3,1.00,il 4,1.00,ks 5,3.00,ks 6,4.00,oh how do i construct a sql statement

load data

2007-11-13 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi there, i have a text file that i prepare: insert into `sa2007` (`id`,`amount`,`state`) values ('','1.00','oh'), ('','2.00','il'), ('','4.00','ks') how do i import this file to sa2007 table from the command line? i tried via phymyadmin, but it doesn't work (300 seconds timeout). thnx, T.

timestamp for update and insert

2007-09-04 Thread Hiep Nguyen
Hi list, i tried to create a table with inserted lastupdated timestamp fields: create table temp ( id int not null primary ke auto_increment, data varchar(100), inserted timestamp default now(), lastupdated timestamp(8)); how do i get mysql to put in the current timestamp for inserted

Re: timestamp for update and insert

2007-09-04 Thread Hiep Nguyen
, Olaf Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would use a trigger (at least for the update) The first insert should work with now() and you can leave lastupdateted empty Olaf On 9/4/07 3:01 PM, Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, i tried to create a table with inserted lastupdated

Re: timestamp for update and insert

2007-09-04 Thread Hiep Nguyen
to any half-way reasonable database engine but, as in all things IT, do whatever best meets your circumstances. - michael On 9/4/07, Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to do without trigger? i google and found this link: http://sql-info.de/mysql/examples/CREATE-TABLE

zipcode to timezone

2007-07-06 Thread Hiep Nguyen
Hi there, 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? Thanks T. Hiep -- MySQL General Mailing List For list

Re: zipcode to timezone

2007-07-06 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, David T. Ashley wrote: 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

RE: zipcode to timezone

2007-07-06 Thread Hiep Nguyen
] www.nisc.coop -Original Message- From: Hiep Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 10:51 To: David T. Ashley Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: zipcode to timezone On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, David T. Ashley wrote: On 7/6/07, Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we have

RE: database structure

2007-07-03 Thread Hiep Nguyen
: Mogens Melander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 3:45 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: database structure On Mon, July 2, 2007 21:10, Hiep Nguyen wrote: take your advice, i looked in to JOIN and i got the idea. but i noticed that in order to use JOIN, don't you

database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on how to create relationship for this scenario: I have one table (tag) with the following fields: tagid, location, weight, grade, heat, shape, diameter, length, width, height, ... (and many other fields) what i want to do is move the shape field

database structure (fwd)

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
is this list working? my last post failed? re-try. T. Hiep -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:53:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiep Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: database structure Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on how to create

RE: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
- Experts in Healthcare Learning (516) 478-4100, x105 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Hiep Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:53 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: database structure Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on how to create

Re: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
] -Original Message- From: Hiep Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:53 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: database structure Hi all, i'm seeking for help/suggestion on how to create relationship for this scenario: I have one table (tag) with the following fields: tagid

Re: database structure

2007-07-02 Thread Hiep Nguyen
would select data from these tables by using JOIN's. A bit difficult to grasp if you're an absolute beginner, but you'll never want to go back afterwards. Greetz, boro Hiep Nguyen schreef: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Borokov Smith wrote: Or: Tag ShapeDimension (type enum('height', 'thickness', etc

Re: indexes and size

2007-03-20 Thread Hiep Nguyen
i believe date is a reserved word for mysql. don't use reserved word for the column name. it's confused. On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Peter wrote: Hello, I have a a large a table which a field called date, type date. When I select a smaller range e.g 3 months system uses the index 'date'. That

Re: Distinct select over 2 fields?

2006-09-12 Thread Hiep Nguyen
select * from table where . limit 1 that would do it if you don't care which one it returns JC On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Brian Dunning wrote: I'm searching a database of geopoints, and when two records have the same latitude and longitude, I only want to return one of them - basically