RE: MySQL 4.0.18 has been released

2004-02-13 Thread John Griffin
Hi, Can anyone tell where to find documentation on myisam_ftdump? I would like to know what myisam_ftdump is and how it differs from mysqldump. John -Original Message- From: Lenz Grimmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 4:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

RE: How do I convert MDF (MS SQL) to MySQL w/o having MS SQL?

2003-12-05 Thread John Griffin
Ask the person who gave you the file to do the work. Give them a list of formats you can read (i.e. SQL, csv, etc.) and let them decide which of those formats they want to export into. John -Original Message- From: Mark Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003

RE: New Microsoft Critical Patch

2003-12-04 Thread John Griffin
Can we do anything about these? I am getting several ofthem a day. -Original Message-From: Microsoft Corporation Technical Services [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:07 AMTo: ConsumerSubject: New Microsoft Critical Patch

RE: New Microsoft Critical Patch

2003-12-04 Thread John Griffin
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:17 AM To: John Griffin Subject: RE: New Microsoft Critical Patch Yes. Stop using email :-) or use procmail to send them to a safe place.. I don't really understand why you send this to a MySQL list.. B. At 11:11 04-12-2003 -0500, John Griffin

RE: mysql disaster recovery

2003-12-02 Thread John Griffin
Hi Andrew, I am not a Guru. I would suggest that you look at MySQL's excellent replication facility rather than NFS mount a drive. Having your data on an NFS mounted drive will significantly degrade the performance of your database. Replication will not. John Griffin -Original Message

RE: Export in XML

2003-12-01 Thread John Griffin
Look at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/mysql.html. The -X option may give you what you need. -Original Message- From: Dan Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:57 AM To: Todd Cary; Jay Blanchard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Export in XML I think that to

RE: MySQL on Win32 vs Linux ?

2003-11-17 Thread John Griffin
I have been developing with Windows2000, Apache, MySQL and PHP (WAMP ?) platform for about two years now and have had no problems. However, I have been deploying onto a Linux server so my observations may not be valid for your purposes. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Paul Fine

RE: periodic corruption problem

2003-11-10 Thread John Griffin
I had a similar problem with an Oracle database once. It turned out to be some memory in the process of going bad. John -Original Message- From: Jon Wagoner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: periodic corruption problem

RE: Need help comparing MySQL to MS SQL Server

2003-11-07 Thread John Griffin
that do very nicely without them. Why are you different? John Griffin -Original Message- From: KEVIN ZEMBOWER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need help comparing MySQL to MS SQL Server Nestor, thanks for your question

RE: Foreigner keys in MySQL?

2003-10-28 Thread John Griffin
will find that MySQL fits this definition nicely. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Martijn Tonies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Foreigner keys in MySQL? Nevertheless, I received the information that MySQL don't

RE: Slow results with simple, well-indexed query

2003-08-21 Thread John Griffin
Can you post your DDL to go along with your DML? -Original Message- From: Allen Weeks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:51 PM To: Jesse Sheidlower; Cybot Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Slow results with simple, well-indexed query The only thing I can add is

RE: What is a good benchmark?

2003-07-23 Thread John Griffin
On my 1.8GHz p4 with 512Gig of RAM I get: mysql SELECT BENCHMARK(100,ENCODE(hello,goodbye)); +--+ | BENCHMARK(100,ENCODE(hello,goodbye)) | +--+ |0 |

RE: array/pointer question

2003-06-09 Thread John Griffin
on relational databases and the relational model first suggested by Dr. Codd and then come back and ask questions. Anyone on this list would be happy to answer them. Anybody got any good titles or URLs for Ioana? John Griffin -Original Message- From: Ioana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Duplicate records

2003-06-06 Thread John Griffin
Hello Steve, Do a select on the record before you insert it. If the record does not exist in the database (i.e. mysql_num_rows () == 0) than it is safe to do the insert. John -Original Message- From: Steve Marquez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:41 PM To: MySQL

RE: copying

2003-06-04 Thread John Griffin
Hi Darryl, Why not use mysqldump --no-data [database] [table1] [table2] ... John Griffin -Original Message- From: Darryl Hoar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: copying Greetings, in my last email nobody tackled the schema

RE: Suggestions for choosing GUI Language that has a MySQL DB backend

2003-04-03 Thread John Griffin
Hi David, check out http://gtk.php.net/ It is a GUI toolkit with a PHP interface to allow you to build client applications. John Griffin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

RE: fail-safe queries

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffin
way of finding logic errors in code. Please don't take these suggestions as sarcasm. Relying on your tools to catch anything other than syntax errors is a bad idea. It builds in a false sense of security. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Dave Dyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: PL/SQL, Views, Functions, Proceedures

2003-04-01 Thread John Griffin
Hi, PL/SQL is an Oracle proprietary language and can not be used. I know that the good people at MySQL are planning to add a language to MySQL but I do not think that there is a target release for this. Views, Functions and Procedures are also on the list of things to add to MySQL but I do not

RE: Could we make this a web discussion forum?

2003-03-31 Thread John Griffin
interface. Keep in mind that the good people at MySQL suffer from the same time and financial constraints as you do so don't ask for the moon unless you are willing to help go and get it. All appropriately tagged rants accepted. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Seth Brundle [mailto

RE: mySQL on Windows 2000 Server

2003-03-28 Thread John Griffin
what you can uninstall as MySQL on W2K is not the issue. BTW, I eventually solved my problem at work by moving MySQL over to a Linux box. That actually gave me better performance than my W2K box at home. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Egor Egorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Serial column type

2003-03-27 Thread John Griffin
Has anyone got a way to implement column type 'serial' in a innodb table? -jpg -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: InterBase vs. Mysql

2003-03-21 Thread John Griffin
Hello David, Since you were kind enough to clarify some matters on licensing I was hoping you would also be open to suggestions. Instead of charging a flat fee for each copy of MySQL that is resold why not charge a percentage up to a certain point. It might make it a bit easier for developers

RE: InterBase vs. Mysql

2003-03-21 Thread John Griffin
sale. The current pricing scheme does not support this market and I am hoping that MySQL is open to suggestions to allow it to support that market. John -Original Message- From: gerald_clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 3:13 PM To: John Griffin Cc: David Axmark

RE: InterBase vs. Mysql

2003-03-21 Thread John Griffin
- From: gerald_clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:49 PM To: John Griffin Cc: David Axmark; Damir Dezeljin; MySQL List Subject: Re: InterBase vs. Mysql Well, then I would buy a $50.00 product using MySQL, and then your $5000.00 product. Oh, and subtract the $500.00

Installing binary

2003-03-13 Thread John Griffin
Hello, First install. Acquired the mysql-max-3.23.55-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz file. Uncompressed and installed into /usr/local Would like to have Innodb tables activated and set the datadir to '/usr/local/mysql_db_files' In viewing the /usr/local/mysql/scripts/mysql_install_db file the option

RE: Looping through parent and childs

2003-03-04 Thread John Griffin
results. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Jakob Vedel Adeltoft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Looping through parent and childs I'm new to mySQL and would like to know how do a SELECT where I get all child records

RE: rollback a table?

2003-02-28 Thread John Griffin
. Unless you have a monster database containing gigabytes of data the cost of a nightly archival should be far less than the cost of your time doing a four month restore of the data. Do the math and show your boss if he needs any convincing. The numbers should speak for themselves. John Griffin

RE: rowid

2003-02-27 Thread John Griffin
MySQL supports _rowid. _rowid is defined as a synonym for the primary key if the primary key consists of one column and is an integer. Hope this helps, John Griffin -Original Message- From: geeta varu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:54 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: The Security of MySQL

2003-02-26 Thread John Griffin
and the administrator, to start or stop the MySQL server process. If it is possible, remove all user access to the box your database is running on. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Dyego Souza do Carmo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Re[2]: The Security of MySQL

2003-02-26 Thread John Griffin
it. PHP has the Zend compiler. This will keep your competitors from easily stealing your code. It will also allow you to add code to protect your application from easily being pirated. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Dyego Souza do Carmo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

RE: From Win2000/IIS to Linux/Apache ?

2003-02-21 Thread John Griffin
on Linux, at least for the Web applications we are running on the hardware we are running. If at all possible, I would suggest you do some timing tests with both Linux and Windows and see which works better for you. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Theisen, Gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Row numbers

2003-02-13 Thread John Griffin
for something use: SELECT _rowid, ... FROM my_table WHERE ... This will return a unique identifier for each row in _rowid. It is not a raw pointer like Oracle's ROWID but it will give you what you want (I think). John Griffin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-19 Thread John Griffin
the software to save you from all situations is just a bad idea. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Michael She [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:36 PM To: Michael T. Babcock Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Muruganandam Subject: Re: Can MySQL handle 120 million records

Possible date bug

2002-12-04 Thread John Griffin
Hi All, I ran the following commands: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test_date; CREATE TABLE test_date (test_date datetime); INSERT INTO test_date (test_date) VALUES ('2002-02-31'); SELECT * FROM test_date; I got the following results: mysql DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test_date; Query OK, 0 rows affected

RE: MySQL AB has reached a settlement with NuSphere Corporation

2002-11-07 Thread John Griffin
MySQL AB and Nusphere Corporation Announce Settlement07 Nov 2002 UPPSALA, Sweden and BEDFORD, Massachusetts, (November 7, 2002) - MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, and NuSphere Corporation, an independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation,

RE: Marketing materials ??

2002-09-19 Thread John Griffin
people a bit of an edge when designing databases ;) John -Original Message- From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:49 PM To: John Griffin Cc: Yuri; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Marketing materials ?? On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:15:05AM

RE: Marketing materials ??

2002-09-18 Thread John Griffin
Hi Yuri, Money talks. Point out that MySQL is an open source initiative and can save them money. As for knowing another product, such as MS-SQL, being a deciding factor; it really isn't an issue. All databases, at their core functionality, are the same. The same rules of database design apply

RE: Info on 4.0.x release date

2002-08-28 Thread John Griffin
Okay, This is getting very nasty. There is no need for harsh words. Let's take a step back and look at the problem a bit differently. The story, as I understand it, is this; Will made a decision some time ago to develop applications on MySQL. Will based his decision at least partially on the

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle (not speed)

2002-08-16 Thread John Griffin
coolness or altruistic support of the open source movement doesn't cut it with most managers. Productivity, cost, and support usually does. John Griffin -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Bogner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle (not speed)

2002-08-16 Thread John Griffin
Hi Mary, It's not a question of approval. If you are having problems with MySQL there is an entire list of people who are willing to offer support for free. Post your query and some table information and let's see if we can clear up your performance issues. John Griffin -Original Message

Slow connect under Windows2000

2002-07-31 Thread John Griffin
to the database. Here is the code PHP I am using as a test: ? $host = 142.226.186.222; $user = root; $pass = ; mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass); ? Has anyone else encountered this problem before? I am using MySQL 3.23.41, PHP 4.0.6, and Apache 1.3.20. John Griffin

Does mysqlgui depend on DNS?

2001-07-01 Thread John Griffin-Wiesner
dns. It is on a non-routable network address behind a firewall, and just static files are used for internal hosts. Does mysqlgui _have_ to verify the host via dns? If so can that be turned off somehow? Thanks -- John Griffin-Wiesner [EMAIL PROTECTED] It said, Windows 95 or better, so I