RE: Unable to install 4.08 or 4.09

2003-01-13 Thread JamesD
I have seen this error when untarring a gz file with: tar -xvf 'file.gz on the 4.08 distr. that was just my mistake, and when i did tar -xvzf mysql-4.0.9-gamma.tar.gz everthing went smooth Jim -Original Message- From: Defryn, Guy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13,

RE: Has anyone managed to get 4.0.8 Win32 working properly?

2003-01-11 Thread JamesD
MY EXPERIENCE WITH MYSQL GAMMA 4.08 on win2000 professional SP 3 was not too bad: PREPARE A shutdown mysqlmax-nt (3.23.53) running as NT service, B downloaded mysql-4.0.8-gamma-win.zip to desktop C extracted zip to e:\mysql408 D installed to e:\mysql408\install E opened the html manual F skimmed

RE: May I raise a question?

2003-01-10 Thread JamesD
If it was me I would simplify the problem: A. tear out apache and php and B. Get mysql installed and working C. shut down Mysql and install apache and get it working D. shut down apache, keep mysql shut down and install Php and get it working. then start up each, and test as you bring up the full

RE: MySQL Database Design

2003-01-10 Thread JamesD
i was playing around with ideas below, so they may be worthless chatter :-) what i was thinking I'll just assume the wine world is not wildly un-uniform... and see where that gets me... :-) and wine is just an object... but the wine has many grape varieties sounds a hell of a lot like one to

RE: What MySQL is

2003-01-07 Thread JamesD
and proprietary and can run on a multitude of operating systems. Larry S. Brown Dimension Networks, Inc. (727) 723-8388 -Original Message- From: JamesD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:20 PM To: Michael T. Babcock; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: What MySQL

RE: Hiding the password

2003-01-04 Thread JamesD
In perl, a. setup dsn in a separate module (sep.pm) with a method connect(parameters to setup db...) make sure the directory is not under the webserver doc path sub connect { return (DBI-connect ($dsn, $user,$pass,

RE: What MySQL is

2003-01-03 Thread JamesD
take out the last two sentences. scares people away. suggest last sentence: MySql's CLI tools give you full access and control to all the the power of MySQL. If you prefer a visual tool to manage your data in MySQL, like Access Paradox tools see the downloads/links page, as you learn MySQL's

RE: An Idea

2003-01-01 Thread JamesD
-Original Message- From: Stefan Hinz, iConnect (Berlin) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 5:31 AM To: JamesD; David T-G; mysql users Subject: Re: An Idea James, something that can be based upon pages of htm and emails that exists, and that can sit under a few

RE: An Idea

2002-12-31 Thread JamesD
we find people just like to ask questions, and no matter how good our FAQ's and help are, many people have circumstances that make it more efficient to push the question into the queue, and wait for an answer to pop back later. lists work, and faq's work, some like to call...etc. personally, I'd

RE: An Idea

2002-12-29 Thread JamesD
while Paul probably wouldnt say it, I would: his book: MySql and Perl for the Web ISBN 0-7357-1054-6 New Riders Publishing answers the questions you are getting at below, and IMHO the book is excellent as a how do i get started... and more... $44.99 SRP - a low cost compared to the 'deep breath

RE: An Idea (really: MySQL and Perl for the Web)

2002-12-29 Thread JamesD
we are all in sales, 24/7. :-) Jim -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:24 PM To: JamesD; Peter Lovatt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: An Idea (really: MySQL and Perl for the Web) At 17:35 -0800 12/29/02, JamesD wrote: while

RE: Fulltext search of words 3 chars in 3.23

2002-12-28 Thread JamesD
You need to use the REGEXP capability instead of Like in a where clause select 'field(s)' from 'table' where 'field' REGEXP '^[a-z]{1,3}$'; Jim -Original Message- From: Frank Peavy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Fulltext search of words 3 chars in 3.23

2002-12-28 Thread JamesD
in sql use perl regular expression: select 'field(s)' from 'table' where 'field' REGEXP '^[a-z]{1,2}$'; Jim -Original Message- From: JamesD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 9:48 PM To: Frank Peavy; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Fulltext search of words 3

RE: Fulltext search of words 3 chars in 3.23

2002-12-28 Thread JamesD
thanks Mike, I think i'll go climb another learning curve :-) ... Jim -Original Message- From: Mike Hillyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 9:49 PM To: JamesD; Frank Peavy; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Fulltext search of words 3 chars in 3.23 He wants

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-21 Thread JamesD
and stuffing results into variables that can be called in an instant, saves us all time and money... Jim -Original Message- From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:28 PM To: JamesD Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can MySQL handle 120 million records

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-21 Thread JamesD
Thanks Dean. -Original Message- From: Dean Harding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 12:46 AM To: 'JamesD'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records? It's just that the number of rows in a table is stored directly in the .MYD file (I

RE: Return every Nth row in a result set

2002-12-21 Thread JamesD
seems like it would be easier to write a perl script #repeated SQL selects $count=0; $sth = $dbh-prepare(qq(select * from table LIMIT ?,?)); while ($sth){ $sth-execute($count,1); $ref =$sth-fetchrow_arrayref(); print FILEHANDLE my item is $ref-[0],$ref-[1]...etc\n; $count+=5; } #or use modulo

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-20 Thread JamesD
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:28 PM To: JamesD Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can MySQL handle 120 million records? On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:05:46PM -0800, JamesD wrote: i like mySQL, but it has a long way to go to gain the level of 'confidence' that oracle

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-18 Thread JamesD
i like mySQL, but it has a long way to go to gain the level of 'confidence' that oracle, db2 or mssql or sybase have when it comes to frontline mission critical stuff. I think it will in time...thats why i stick with it. besides, confidence is often just a synonym for 'knowledge' select count(*)

RE: remote tcp connection failure

2002-12-17 Thread JamesD
yea, me too. but being second just isnt as good... but did you grant the user permissions on the database they want to connect too? can you connect to anything listening on 3306? htttp? when i connect from remote over tcp its mysql -h hostIP -p -u someuser somedatabase the firewall accepts the

RE: Mysql command not found

2002-12-17 Thread JamesD
do this at the prompt... echo $PATH whereis mysql and compare the results. when in the bin directory type ./mysql as root... without ./ the shell wont find it... Jim -Original Message- From: Gary Hostetler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-17 Thread JamesD
I've read limits are based on the filesize your OS can handle, the HDD size, memory, how fast your RISC or CISC processors are...and how the stars are aligned... i think 4 billion records will need some horses pullin... 8 x 2.4 XEON/2 at least. I've run simple queries on 80 million records and it

RE: Using MS Access as front end to mysql database

2002-12-14 Thread JamesD
they can do it. they just dont want to. firewall rules can be established to allow connects to the mysql port from only the ip's assoc with your remote offices, etc etc the answer is you can do what you want. You just need a business partner who can service his customer properly. mysqlODBC can

RE: Getting timestamp to work with Perl CGI

2002-12-14 Thread JamesD
A timestamp is just a scalar. Perl could care less about field types, because everything is ultimatly just a scalar or a list to perl. there may be module on cpan.org that handles intricacies of mySQL timestamps... #perl -MCPAN -e shell cpani mySQL or cpani timestamp etc Jim -Original

RE: tutos and mysql

2002-12-11 Thread JamesD
grant all on somedatase.* to user@host identified by somepassword needs to be run on your database, it appears, by a user with authority. Jim -Original Message- From: Matthias Dorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: REGEXP email address query

2002-12-10 Thread JamesD
Hello, BTW the ^ symbol means search at the very beginning of the string or maybe SELECT * FROM `table_name` WHERE Email REGEXP (^[a-z0-9]+)\@(.*) this puts the name in $1 and the domain in $2, if you are running the select from a perl script - :-) Jim -Original Message- From: Robert