RE: mysql disaster recovery

2003-12-03 Thread JHDrexler
This information may not be current, but I seem to remember hearing some really nasty stories about people putting MySQL data dirs on NFS exports. I would research the appropriate documentation before attempting such a configuration. -Original Message- From: mysql-digest-help

RE: URGENT! Hard Disk Space limition and Symbolic link

2001-07-02 Thread JHDrexler
Once you moved the files, did you check the ownership and permissions? I have had the same error after restoring databases from a backup, only to find the files were owned by root and the permissions were munched. Something that I have been known to do is to add another, larger disk drive,

RE: MySQL dead during an Access/Odbc query

2001-05-24 Thread JHDrexler
Your english is understandable so please don't apologize. The way Access/ODBC works during a 'find' operation is that Access will ask the MySQL Server for each record, one at a time, until it finds a match. This is very resource intensive and I try very hard to avoid finding records in this

RE: Having success with 20 million rows

2001-05-10 Thread JHDrexler
I would be very intested in finding out more about the hardware being used here, as well as load on the server (queries/sec, etc.), and maybe the amount of data (Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes). Twenty million records is a lot but that number in itself may not give the application the

RE: myODBC

2001-05-07 Thread JHDrexler
I am going to assume that you are on a windows platform and tell you about what I did. I developed a large ERP system using MSAccess for the front end and MySQL for the backend. Because MSAccess doesn't notice changes to the table structure of a MySQL (ODBC) table, I wrote a routine that

RE: Provider claims 'it's normal that mysql crashes', is that true?

2001-04-05 Thread JHDrexler
If its a hosting PROVIDER, the table locking issue should really only be a factor for your database. If your design is good, then the rest shouldn't matter. Machine memory and processing power are another issue entirely. Other users could drag the machine down with poor design issues. One

RE: Mysql and MS Access

2001-04-02 Thread JHDrexler
Verify that you have a primary key and a DateTime Stamp field for your table. I do this with a Serial field {Serial int(11) not null Primary Key auto_increment} as the first field and {DateChanged (TimeStamp)} as the second field for each table that I intend on accessing from MSAccess.