Re: NOW() is stuck...

2013-06-26 Thread John Meyer
Well, if you want to get unstuck in time, maybe you need to call Billy Pilgrim ;-) Andy Wallace wrote: We've been having some issues with one of our MySQL servers lately, and currently the dang thing is stuck. For at least the last hour, NOW() is returning the same value: mysql select now();

Re: how to view all acounts in a database

2010-02-05 Thread John Meyer
On 2/5/2010 5:15 AM, Suresh Kuna wrote: In the mysql prompt, execute the below use mysql ; select user from user ; will show all the accounts in a MySQL database. Alternatively, you can use myphpadmin. I guess it all depends upon what you need the information for and to what purpose.

Re: 50 things to know before migrating from Oracle to MySQL

2010-01-28 Thread John Meyer
On 1/28/2010 3:21 AM, changuno wrote: Hi folks, Read a blog which states 50 things to know before migrating from Oracle to MySQL. Any comments on this? would it have been too much to just link to it? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Re: Good source for sample data?

2010-01-28 Thread John Meyer
On 1/28/2010 4:52 PM, Brian Dunning wrote: Hey all - I need a few million sample contact records - name, company, address, email, web, phone, fax. ZIP codes and area codes and street addresses should be correct and properly formatted, but preferably not real people or companies or email

Re: Good source for sample data?

2010-01-28 Thread John Meyer
If I may recommend: http://www.generatedata.com/#download On 1/28/2010 8:11 PM, Carlos Proal wrote: Google for data generator, there are free and commercial solutions available. Carlos On 1/28/2010 5:52 PM, Brian Dunning wrote: Hey all - I need a few million sample contact records - name,

Re: Record old passwords ?

2010-01-21 Thread John Meyer
On 1/19/2010 7:49 AM, Mark Goodge wrote: On 19/01/2010 14:44, Tompkins Neil wrote: Hi All, Following on from my earlier email - I've the following question now : I can enforce that the user can't use the same password as the previous four - when they change their password. However, the user

Re: Record old passwords ?

2010-01-18 Thread John Meyer
On 1/18/2010 5:52 PM, Colin Streicher wrote: On January 18, 2010 01:34:15 pm Tompkins Neil wrote: Hi I'm in the process of designing a login system to a secure web page using MySQL. One of the features is we need to record and ensure that the user password is different from any of the last

Finding users who haven't posted in a week

2009-11-08 Thread John Meyer
I want to get a list of all users who haven't posted in a week. But when I use the following function. select user_id, max(tweet_createdat) from tweets where datediff(now(),max(tweet_createdat)) 7; Is producing the error: Invalid use of group function

RE: Finding users who haven't posted in a week

2009-11-08 Thread John Meyer
[mailto:mdyk...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:35 AM To: John Meyer Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Finding users who haven't posted in a week the function max(), among others, makes no sense in the absence of a GROUP BY clause. try adding GROUP BY user_id - michael dykman

RE: Finding users who haven't posted in a week

2009-11-08 Thread John Meyer
having datediff(now(),max(tweet_createdat)) 7; -Original Message- From: John Meyer [mailto:johnme...@pueblocomputing.com] Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:45 AM To: 'Michael Dykman' Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Finding users who haven't posted in a week Thanks, morning coffee

Re: Questions on Database Design

2009-10-03 Thread John Meyer
Mark Phillips wrote: I am new at database design, and my question relates to the trade-offs between putting all data in one database or several for mysql. For example, say I have an application where a users login from their mobile phones and read/write data to a database. Say there are roughly

Re: Questions on Database Design

2009-10-03 Thread John Meyer
John, Thanks. The data is private to each user; there is no sharing of data. I am not sure what you mean by are the actions related Each user is reading/writing independently of each other. Would that argue for separate databases? Mark Are the actions of a similar nature (i.e. they're

Re: Questions on Database Design

2009-10-03 Thread John Meyer
Mark Phillips wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Martin Gainty mgai...@hotmail.com wrote: depends on the relationship of the Data Tables and the Users that use them for instance if I was to setup a table of outgoing calls from 2 distinct individuals : Me calls to

Re: What should it be in MySql? In C, it's an array of integers.

2009-09-17 Thread John Meyer
Johan De Meersman wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:46 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively, you can skip the A_ID and have a compound key of USER_ID and A_NUMBER on the ASSOC_NUMBERS table. I prefer the A_ID, though. Note that this would be marginally faster

Datediff function

2009-09-16 Thread John Meyer
I'm trying to pull up a list of users who haven't tweeted in 7 or more days, and I'm trying to use this statement: SELECT USER_NAME, MAX(TWEET_CREATEDAT) FROM USERS NATURAL JOIN TWEETS WHERE DATEDIFF(NOW(),MAX(TWEET_CREATEDAT)) 7 GROUP BY USERS.USER_ID But it says invalid group function. How

Re: Datediff function

2009-09-16 Thread John Meyer
Gavin Towey wrote: Hi John, You can't use aggregate function in the WHERE clause, because they aren't evaluated until after the WHERE clause is applied. Wouldn't it be much easier to simply keep a last_tweet_date field updated somewhere then simply do SELECT USER_NAME FROM USERS WHERE

Re: What should it be in MySql? In C, it's an array of integers.

2009-09-16 Thread John Meyer
Pete Wilson wrote: Hi folks -- What would be the right approach in MySql 5.0? My table, USERS, has columns NAME and IP. Associated with each user is also a collection of from 0 to 50 INTs. What's a reasonable way to put these 50 INTs in the table without using 50 separate columns,

Re: What should it be in MySql? In C, it's an array of integers.

2009-09-16 Thread John Meyer
Pete Wilson wrote: Break them out into a separate table linked via the primary key. How elegant! Thanks. -- Pete it's nothing not taught in Database Design 101. Typically you would have a setup like this USERS USER_ID --primary key USER_NAME USER_IP ASSOC_NUMBERS A_ID

Right Date format mask

2009-09-14 Thread John Meyer
I'm pulling in a date with the following format 9/14/2009 2:12:48 PM And using this mask to convert it using the str_to_date() function: %e %m %Y %r but it keeps giving me an error. Do I have the right mask? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Re: Right Date format mask

2009-09-14 Thread John Meyer
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 14), John Meyer said: I'm pulling in a date with the following format 9/14/2009 2:12:48 PM And using this mask to convert it using the str_to_date() function: %e %m %Y %r but it keeps giving me an error. Do I have the right mask? Nope

Natural join problem

2009-09-10 Thread John Meyer
Two tables: USERS: USER_ID (PK) . . .etc TWEETS: TWEET_ID (PK) USER_ID (FK) Trying to get the user information and the number of tweets each person has: SELECT USERS.USER_NAME, COUNT(TWEETS.TWEET_ID) AS 'TWEETCOUNT' FROM TWEETS NATURAL JOIN USERS; But it seems to be just rolling up all the

Re: Natural join problem

2009-09-10 Thread John Meyer
Thanks. That worked. Jason Trebilcock wrote: Methinx you need a GROUP BY in there. See below. -Original Message- From: John Meyer [mailto:john.l.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:48 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Natural join problem Two tables: USERS

Re: Database design - help

2009-08-31 Thread John Meyer
BobSharp wrote: As a complete newbie in MySQL, I need a database to store URLs related to Tenpin Bowling. There are several Categories ... Equipment Manufacturers, Organistations, (UK) ProShops, (UK) Bowling Centres, Personal Websites, Misc., Coaching Instructional websites, etc. There

Re: Viable alternatives to SQL?

2009-08-27 Thread John Meyer
Kelly Jones wrote: Many sites let you search databases of information, but the search queries are very limited. I'm creating a site that'll allow arbitrary SQL queries to my data (I realize I'll need to handle injection attacks). Are there other viable ways to query data? I read a little on

MySQL query working directly but not through .NET connection

2009-07-25 Thread John Meyer
Here's the query: INSERT INTO USERS(USER_ID,USER_NAME,USER_SCREENNAME,USER_DESCRIPTION,USER_FOLLOWERS,USER_IMAGE,USER_FRIENDS,USER_LOCATION,USER_CREATEDAT) VALUES('31264066','Justin Wienkers','BabyVegaz','I’m your secondhand news/yeah. That and an (aspiring) screenwriter, trained journalist,

Re: What OS is the best platform for MySQL ?

2009-07-08 Thread John Meyer
Ken Menzel wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 06), Blog Tieng Viet said: I have been using MySQL on FreeBSD for 3 years and encounterd a lot of problems related to thread management. And 1 year ago, I found that my FreeBSD box does not go well with any MySQL revision after

Re: What OS is the best platform for MySQL ?

2009-07-08 Thread John Meyer
Carlos Williams wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:21 PM, John Meyerjohn.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: Do we really need to bash OS's for MySQL. Rather than questioning what OS is best for MySQL we should ask how we can optimize MySQL for each OS. Did I mis-read an email or can someone please

Re: Date Time

2009-05-22 Thread John Meyer
Janek Bogucki wrote: Hi John, http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-types.html includes some information about acceptable literal forms for dates and times. 'Thu May 21 03:15:28 + 2009' is not an acceptable literal form but this is how to parse it APART from the time zone

Re: Date Time

2009-05-22 Thread John Meyer
Janek Bogucki wrote: Hi John, http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-types.html includes some information about acceptable literal forms for dates and times. 'Thu May 21 03:15:28 + 2009' is not an acceptable literal form but this is how to parse it APART from the time zone

Date Time

2009-05-21 Thread John Meyer
Is Thu May 21 03:15:28 + 2009 a valid date/time string? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org

Re: A good US Hosting Site?

2009-04-20 Thread John Meyer
I haven't had a problem with Hostgator yet. Prices are fair and reasonable Also I've installed web apps through their portal and on my own and haven't had a problem yet. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread John Meyer
I'm wondering what the DOJ is going to think of that deal. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org

Re: Sun bought by Oracle

2009-04-20 Thread John Meyer
Yep. In particular the anti-trust division of the DOJ. Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:14 PM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com mailto:john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering what the DOJ is going to think of that deal. -- MySQL General Mailing List

Re: freeware tools for repairing myisam tables

2008-11-11 Thread John Meyer
Yep. Per Jessen wrote: John Meyer wrote: I'm trying to help out a friend with repairing myisam tables. Does anybody know the best freeware solutions if CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE don't do the job? Did you try myisamchk ? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- Pueblo Bicycling http

freeware tools for repairing myisam tables

2008-11-07 Thread John Meyer
I'm trying to help out a friend with repairing myisam tables. Does anybody know the best freeware solutions if CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE don't do the job? -- Pueblo Bicycling http://www.pueblobicycling.com Actually looking forward to the daily commute -- MySQL General Mailing List For

Re: Automatic email to database member on X date?

2008-07-07 Thread John Meyer
Or, you can use cron/at to schedule the task Mauricio Tellez wrote: Hi Aaron, I'm not sure if what you want can be done with MySQL, but what you can do is a little script in python, php, etc, that query your database for the members that expire at a given date, and then email them. Then you tell

Mysql Connection/NET and Visual Basic.NET 2008

2008-06-25 Thread John Meyer
I'm trying to start a connection to a mysql database, but even though I've installed the connector I don't see where the option to choose that data type of connection exists. I'm using Connection/NET v 5.1, btw -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Re: OT: Sun to buy Mysql

2008-01-16 Thread John Meyer
Brett Harvey wrote: http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSWNAS661820080116 No offense, but this is definitely not off topic when it comes to MySQL -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MySQL Server not running

2007-10-12 Thread John Meyer
Given that FEHLGESCHLAGEN means failed and coupled with the proceding text, I would assume that you don't have mysql installed in the first place. If you are on an rpm based system, try the following: rpm -q mysql If you don't get anything back, you need to reinstall. Ananda Kumar wrote: if u

Re: do I need two tables or one will do just fine?

2007-10-06 Thread John Meyer
Afan Pasalic wrote: hi, I have a employees table (first name, last_name, address, city, state, zip, phone,...). though, I got a requested to add additional info about people, like phone_extension, zip+4, nick, DOB... that will not be used very often. what would be better solution: a) add

Re: Document archiving

2007-06-28 Thread John Meyer
David T. Ashley wrote: Also, I have to say this to be complete ... You were aware, of course, that nearly every modern copyright for books prohibits digitizing the book and using it in any kind of document retrieval system? In fact, I believe a violation has occured even if it is scanned

Re: Document archiving

2007-06-28 Thread John Meyer
Eddy D. Sanchez wrote: Hello Everyone. I want to scan a large quantity of books and documents and store these like images inside or outside a database, I want use mysql, anyone have any experience with this kind of systems, can you suggest me an opensource solution ?? First question I would

Re: Document archiving

2007-06-28 Thread John Meyer
Eddy D. Sanchez wrote: Thanks for your answer. I'm searching an opensource project (based on mysql obviously) that I can hack for my needs, but if I can't find anything, I must make one, my intention for technology is: -Java for application server and framework Might I ask why you need Java

Re: about the username and hostname

2007-06-28 Thread John Meyer
Weiqi Wang wrote: Dear everyone: I start mySQL by a shotcut in windowsXP so that I don't have to input my username, just password is required. That brings in a problem: I don't know my user name(I suppose it to be root) and the server host, etc. Is there anyway I can find it out? (I

Re: restore one database.

2007-05-27 Thread John Meyer
Ananda Kumar wrote: Hi Pelle, I dont have enough space on any other storage, so i was thinking if we would just restore one database from dump that would save lot of time , rather than restoring all the database. regards anandkl Well, if only one database is important enough to back up,

Tellico and MySQL

2007-05-26 Thread John Meyer
I'm still searching online, but does anybody know of a script that will input a tellico database into MySQL? -- The NCP Revue -- http://www.ncprevue.com/blog -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL

Re: Database design

2007-05-23 Thread John Meyer
Officelink wrote: Hi everyone, I¹m trying to set up a database with information that will be used in a garment slideshow in flash. The information to be included as part of the slideshow would be: code, optional title, description, colours, sizes, garment image, fabric swatch image Each

Re: Scheduled backups

2007-05-14 Thread John Meyer
J Trahair wrote: Hi Everyone I have set up a scheduled backup using MySQL Administrator. Stored connection, database, dates and time, even the Windows user password (in fact, blank). It doesn't start at the correct time, or indeed any time. Have I missed something? Thanks for your help.

Re: Scheduled backups

2007-05-14 Thread John Meyer
Mike Blezien wrote: Hello, - Original Message - From: John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL General mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Scheduled backups J Trahair wrote: Hi Everyone I have set up a scheduled backup using MySQL Administrator

Re: Replace, Substitute, Delete

2007-05-09 Thread John Meyer
John Kebbel wrote: For years, I've been using FileMaker Pro to generate a staff photo gallery and staff phone directory from the same table of staff information. I'm switching to PHP/MySQL for the year ahead. In STEP 1 below, I concatenate a name for the teacher/staff person image and in

Re: Which is a better design?

2007-05-09 Thread John Meyer
James Tu wrote: The database server and the web server are on separate machines. Table A contains a record for each user. Let's say Table B contains 'relationship' information. They can be of type 'friend' or 'family'. If a user knows another user, this relationship would be kept in this

Re: Millisecond time stamp

2007-04-18 Thread John Meyer
John Comerford wrote: Thanks for the replies guys, banging my head against the wall for not thinking of using an auto increment integer to handle the sequence, I've got to cut back on those Friday night beers Okay, color me confused, but what exactly are you wanting to do anyway?

Re: How can I do something like this in mySQL...

2007-04-07 Thread John Meyer
John Kopanas wrote: I have a query that looks something like this: SELECT (c_o_w_inst_rev - c_o_w_estcost)/c_o_w_inst_rev FROM tmpGovernmentSummaries The problem is that sometimes c_o_w_inst_rev is 0 and dividing by zero returns a NULL. If c_o_w_inst_rev == 0 how can I return 0 for the SELECT

Re: Problem with authentication

2007-04-04 Thread John Meyer
Mahmoud Badreddine wrote: Hello to all I had an old MySQL 4.0 running on a Windows Machine. I removed that version and I installed the MySQL 5.0 . When I went to run phpMyAdmin this is the error I receive. #1251 - Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider

Re: Speed of queries in a MySQL database

2007-03-04 Thread John Meyer
Jonathan Trahair wrote: Hi Everyone. I have just upgraded a Visual Basic 6 project which used an Access database as a data back end, using DAO and SQL strings. The Access database was exceedingly slow, and prone to glitches. I have changed the VB code to ADO, and set up a MySQL database in

Re: Query Two Databases

2007-02-13 Thread John Meyer
Neil Tompkins wrote: Following on from the email below, if I run the query SELECT * FROM database1.table, database2.table I get the data back, but all the data is in the same row. How can I seperate the records ? Regards Neil Barring an upgrade, it seems your best bet would be to

Re: myISAM Max File Size?

2007-02-08 Thread John Meyer
Phil Butterworth wrote: Can anyone please tell me what the Max size a myISAM file can grow too? Thanks Best Regards Phil Butterworth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/204119 Funny what google can do for you, wot say? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list

Re: Visual Basic 6 + MySQL

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
Anybody in here think of http://www.vbmysql.com? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Visual Basic 6 + MySQL

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
Nuno Vaz Oliveira wrote: Hello John, Anybody in here think of http://www.vbmysql.com? The site is not working correctly :( I've found a lot of references to that site but the articles are all missing. This article isn't missing:

Re: Setting Up MySQL Administrator

2006-10-07 Thread John Meyer
David Blomstrom wrote: I just downloaded MySQL Administrator and am now trying to set it up. Can anyone tell me what stored connection and Server Host mean? I'm using Apache on Windows XP, but I'm not sure what they mean by Server Host. 3306 is listed under Port by default. Also, what are the

Re: Setting Up MySQL Administrator

2006-10-07 Thread John Meyer
David Blomstrom wrote: OK, I'm halfway there. But I don't understand what you mean by saved settings. Is there some sort of default value I can try? Also, if I can't recover my password, is there a file I can open and retrieve it from? I tried it with localhost, Port 3306, Username: root and

Re: [PHP] switch()

2006-08-29 Thread John Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have something like this: ?php $query = mysql_query( SELECT col_1, col_2 FROM table ); $result = mysql_fetch_array($query); if ($result['col_1'] == 'value_1') { // do something } if ($result['col_2'] == 'value_2') {

Re: [PHP] switch()

2006-08-29 Thread John Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you want to use a switch in this particular instance. You're comparing apples and oranges (in this case, col_1 and col_2). You use swithc to evaluate one variable against a number of choice, not multiple variables against variable choices. I'm not

Re: mysql naming convention

2006-08-11 Thread John Meyer
, but it's what I've worked with so far. That and naming the primary key on a table with the suffix ID. Foreign Keys have the same name as they do on primary keys. Simple, strong, ugly, and dignified -- John Meyer http://pueblonative.wordpress.com http://pueblonative.110mb.com/board -- MySQL

Re: Can a row be refered using row number?

2006-08-10 Thread John Meyer
, maybe that's what Ravi was referring to. In which case, I'd direct ravi to the auto_increment attribute for an INT and the primary key. -- John Meyer http://pueblonative.wordpress.com http://pueblonative.110mb.com/board -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql

RE: Database design question

2006-08-07 Thread John Meyer
One table, USERS Another table MESSAGES With a foreign key referencing users. Maybe a second foreign key referencing the destinating user as well. -Original Message- From: James Tu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 1:56 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject:

RE: Backup SQL

2006-08-04 Thread John Meyer
If you're using Myphpadmin, you can turn this option off when generating the dump file. -Original Message- From: Chris White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:14 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Backup SQL On Friday 04 August 2006 10:35 am, Daniel da

Re: Check out this Free software I found to document your IT infrastruct

2006-08-03 Thread John Meyer
I think equating a tagline indicating something's been spam-checked with a full out message for a web product is a little absurd. On 8/3/06, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You say you hate spam then spam the list with an advert for McAfee! Ian -- I'm American, fatboy. What's your excuse? --

Re: AW: Query problem

2006-08-03 Thread John Meyer
SELECT DISTINCT username, time, download FROM table ORDER BY time DESC GROUP BY username André Hänsel wrote: Hi Dan, hi Obed, of course I have no specific username, I want the last 5 downloads of each distinct username in the table. :) Regards, André -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-

Re: AW: Query problem

2006-08-03 Thread John Meyer
of usernames, how can that be of any help? all right, here's how this goes. Create a stored procedure WHERE YOU SELECT DISTINCT username. Then for each user, retrieve the five 5. Put them in a union, enjoy. -- John Meyer http://pueblonative.wordpress.com http://pueblonative.110mb.com/board

RE: Database Return Errors

2006-08-02 Thread John Meyer
Have you checked out MyConnector/NET and the MySqlException class? -Original Message- From: Asif Lodhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:17 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Database Return Errors Hi, I am developing a VB6 app with a MySQL-5.0.22/WinXP

Doing a join

2006-08-02 Thread John Meyer
I have two tables: MEMBERS: MEM_ID ... GROUPS: GRO_ID: ... And one joiner MEM_GRO: MEM_ID, GRO_ID I want to print out a list like this GROUP_NAME, NUMBER_OF_MEMBERS Even when the number of members is 0, how do I do that? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

RE: Check out this Free software I found to document your IT infrastructure

2006-08-02 Thread John Meyer
You know this might be a little bit more convincing if you gave the name of the product and a little bit more personal reason why you recommended it other than check out brand x product I vote this is spam. -Original Message- From: itguy321 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Is this query possible?

2006-08-02 Thread John Meyer
I've dealt with this in terms of Books and Titles. Those two are separate: one title can have many book editions published in it. Also, you can have a book with multiple titles (anthology, for instance). I suppose it is possible for album not to be the same as cd title, particularly if you have

RE: Doing a join

2006-08-02 Thread John Meyer
Yeah, I just figured it out ten minutes ago, one of those stupid little oversites on my part. -Original Message- From: Martin Jespersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:40 PM To: John Meyer Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Doing a join select

RE: Doing a join

2006-08-02 Thread John Meyer
Sorry, but that's how I was normally trained to use SQL and to name variables. I know netiquette, it's just how I was trained on the system. -Original Message- From: Jay Pipes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:35 AM To: John Meyer Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com

Re: MySQL 4.1.21 has been released

2006-07-28 Thread John Meyer
on of mysql 4? -- John Meyer Programmer, Database author Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline titled Psychic Wins Lottery---Jay Leno -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL

Re: database back up

2006-07-20 Thread John Meyer
Joko Siswanto wrote: Dear All if myqsl service can't start, where can i found the file and back up it? [under windows and linux] Thanks, Joko Siswanto What file are you looking for? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: PostgreSQL or mySQL

2006-07-03 Thread John Meyer
Chris White wrote: On Sunday 02 July 2006 12:22 pm, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: I have very little knowledge of either PostgreeSQL or mySQL. Please advise me as to which of these two software package to use? I need some specific examples as to superiority of one package over the other. I prefer using

Re: Re-importing a mysqldump file

2006-06-25 Thread John Meyer
Ian Barnes wrote: Is this possible? Or would the best way be to import the dumped file into a temp table and then select out of the temp table into my correct table ? Anyway to use a trigger? -- Online library -- http://pueblonative.110mb.com 126 books and counting. -- MySQL General

Re: Sad, I know...

2006-06-07 Thread John Meyer
tomáz rezistänz wrote: I wish I could uninstall mySQL and start over but I don't know how.. On 6/7/06, tomáz rezistänz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know how to dump your mySQL databases? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: MySql GUI

2006-05-31 Thread John Meyer
Chris Sansom wrote: At 19:44 +1000 31/5/06, Logan, David (SST - Adelaide) wrote: I would agree, I have found it useful as well. It does have a few limitations (well the versions I've used) BTW, what are the limits on OpenOffice's Base being used as a front end? -- MySQL General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] corrupt pdfs

2006-05-31 Thread John Meyer
tedd wrote: Yes, I was wondering that myself considering the onslaught of no-no's one gets by suggesting placing images into a dB. A PDf file is really not that much different and probably better served via file system. tedd On the other hand, you get control of the images, as opposed to

Query problem

2006-05-30 Thread John Meyer
Setup TITLES: TITLE_ID AUTHORS: AUTHOR_ID TITLE_AUTHOR: (TITLE_ID,AUTHOR_ID) Problem: Given a title, I need to find all the authors who aren't connected with that particular book. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: Query problem

2006-05-30 Thread John Meyer
Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List: MySQL mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:09 PM Subject: Query problem Setup TITLES: TITLE_ID AUTHORS: AUTHOR_ID TITLE_AUTHOR: (TITLE_ID,AUTHOR_ID) Problem: Given a title, I need

Kinda OT: Book database question

2006-02-01 Thread John Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to develop my own book database, and I have a question about ISBN: Is that number linked to a book or to a title? That is, can one title (say, Huckleberry Finn) have several ISBNs associated with it through several book releases?

Re: script error in program.

2006-01-11 Thread John Meyer
Jon Miller wrote: Having an error in a script that I cannot figure out why it's not working. The problem is on line 15 while ($row = mysql_fetch_object ($result)). What, exactly is the error? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: working w/UK postcodes

2006-01-09 Thread John Meyer
Mike Blezien wrote: Yes, after some further research, I found a Perl Modules that handles this queit nicely. thx's Please tell me where this module is, if you would. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL

Re: Force max query time, or max records returned

2005-12-30 Thread John Meyer
On Friday 30 December 2005 3:31 pm, Scott Baker wrote: How can I prevent this? Scott You know when I deal with users like this, I like to think about what Dennis Leary said about spanking children; I don't need to spank them, I find that waving the gun around works just as well. --

Re: Need Help Writing a Trigger

2005-12-27 Thread John Meyer
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 2:34 pm, Jesse wrote: I'm trying to write a trigger that will update the age of a camper when ever a record is updated or inserted. I have a table named Campers which contains basic information about the camper as well as their birthday. I have another table named

Re: New to MySQL

2005-12-24 Thread John Meyer
On Saturday 24 December 2005 1:05 pm, James Lumb wrote: Hi, I am new to mySQL and have mac OS X. Please could any other Mac users or anyone for that matter tell me the best way of connecting to a mySQL database? Should I use terminal or a program like PHPmyAdmin? Cheers, James James,

Re: I'm new to mySQL

2005-12-24 Thread John Meyer
On Saturday 24 December 2005 1:05 pm, James Lumb wrote: Hi, I am new to mySQL and have mac OS X. Please could any other Mac users or anyone for that matter tell me the best way of connecting to a mySQL database? Should I use terminal or a program like PHPmyAdmin? Cheers, James James,

OT: Two more Gmail invites

2004-09-23 Thread John Meyer
Just to let people know. And BTW, you have to say that you want the account. Reply off list. Onlist, I'd like to know how most people back up their Mysql dbs? XML or direct SQL file? I prefer the latter, although I'd like to hear from proponents of the former. -- MySQL General Mailing List

Ot: GMail invites

2004-09-22 Thread John Meyer
Still have GMail invites, for anybody that is interested. E-mail me. (reply off list) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: General questions

2004-08-04 Thread JOHN MEYER
1. What is the user or connection limit for both versions of MySQL (Database Server and MaxDB)? Search the web site 2. How much memory does MySQL take when started up? Search the web site 3. Does MySQL take advantage of dual CPU systems? Search the web site 4. Define referential integrity. Do a

Re: Server Startup

2004-06-19 Thread JOHN MEYER
Go into the bin directory and startup winmysqladmin.exe That will give you a graphical control over the server. - Original Message - From: Andrew McHorneymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 4:20 PM Subject:

Database design question

2004-04-07 Thread JOHN MEYER
Hi, I'm writing a database for an online candle store. Here's the situation. This store sells all sorts of items including candles. Now the gist is that some of the candles can be made in different types of waxes and some only have one wax. My question is how do I resolve this when I write

Re: I need support

2004-04-05 Thread JOHN MEYER
BTW, when I start Winmysqladmin from a new installation, it always asks me for a username and password. Since this is a single-user machine I simply use root and a password. Does this setup those passwords in MySQL? From: Egor Egorov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I

Re: need reference for a good book

2004-03-29 Thread JOHN MEYER
Try MySQL/PHP Database applications by Jay Greenspan and Brad Bulger. It's a great buy and gets into a lot of the practical applications you'll be doing a lot of coding for. At 13:41 3/28/2004, A Mathias wrote: Preferably one that is for begginers to medium and thats covers both mySQL and

RE: ORDER BY WITH NO PRINT

2004-03-27 Thread JOHN MEYER
This may sound a little bit off, but what programming language are you using to print this. It might be easier to simply use a language like perl to print out the output that you are suggesting. From: Seena Blace [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ORDER BY WITH NO PRINT Date:

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