Re: how to Get file modified time and date of file by using builtin function or procedure in sql?

2008-07-24 Thread John Hicks
Sivasakthi wrote: Ananda Kumar wrote: which file are u talking about. regards anandkl Ordinary temp file.. say example in C:\output.txt Actually i have given that file as input to some procedure, based on that modification time we have calculate some details. It sounds like you are usi

Re: Table Design

2008-07-15 Thread John Hicks
Neil Tompkins wrote: Hi, I've the following table design (attached txt file, for some reason the content was being blocked) and I'd like any advice if this is the correct method/design. TableName:ProductMaster ProductMasterID FriendlyProductName TableName:ProductContent ProductContentID P

Re: which query solution is better?

2008-07-08 Thread John Hicks
Lamp Lists wrote: hi, I would like to get your opinions regarding which query you think is better solution and, of course - why. I have (very simplified example) 3 tables: orders, members and addresses I need to show order info for specific order_id, solution 1: select ordered_by, order_date,

Re: fulltext search optimization

2006-07-12 Thread John Hicks
Svilen Spasov (Ancient Media) wrote: Hello, I have a website with a MySQL database and I have a table with ~2 millions row (usernames, filenames; ~120MB db data file and ~230MB db index file) with I would like to search using the fulltext indeces. Unfortunately the server get loaded pretty m

Re: enum query results strange.

2006-07-04 Thread John Hicks
Tanner Postert wrote: so i am doing a query on an enum field: when i do this query: select *, id as vid, user_id as uid from video where (file_complete = 'true') order by undt desc limit 0,10; the results are 0.16 or 0.17 seconds. instead of saying file_complete = 'true. if i say file_complete

Re: MySQL Denormalized

2006-07-03 Thread John Hicks
h response time you are trying to keep to .01 or lower. If it's end to end, you probably want to look at your network. Network latency can be the biggest culprit. - Original Message - From: "Jan Gomes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mysql" Cc: "johnlist&q

Re: MySQL Denormalized

2006-06-28 Thread John Hicks
Jan Gomes wrote: Hy Guys, I needed denormalized my table to obtain high performance, but i want best appropriate the space. I joint two column (of the JOIN) intro one column with two separadores (# and ;) Example: ID | column_1 | column_denormalized 1 | Test | 1#20202;5#1000101; I

Re: QUERY

2006-06-24 Thread John Hicks
Karl Larsen wrote: I and a friend have written SQL to big Oracle DB but not much to MySQL on our own computers. I find that there is a QUERY in the list for MySQL but it does nothing much. Also I was glancing through the mamouth MySQL reference manual and saw there are a bunch of tools that

Re: help with locate() function and index

2006-06-23 Thread John Hicks
kevin vicky wrote: Hi, I am trying to use locate() function to get position of a substring in a text field which on average has 2000 characters and the search substring is 30 -50 characters long. The table has around 2 million records and looking for a efficient way to do the search. I tried ful

Re: FULLTEXT index help

2006-06-19 Thread John Hicks
Horst Azeglio wrote: I'm trying to do a MySQL Query but it doesn't work. MySQL version: 4.0.26 When I put only one argument in MATCH, it shows no error but doesn't return anything [quote] SELECT * FROM item WHERE MATCH (nom) against ('Huile');[/quote] or [quote]SELECT * FROM item WHERE MATCH (n

Re: sort-index on geometry always fails

2006-06-19 Thread John Hicks
Gaspar Bakos wrote: Hi, I have a table that stores geometry information in one column in "point" type. After freshly uploading the table, myisamcheck --sort-index reports an error: - Sorting index for MyISAM-table 'TEST_I14_GEOM' myisamchk: Unknown error 126 myisamchk: error: Can't read key bl

Re: Join 2 tables using specific fields

2006-06-19 Thread John Hicks
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I have 2 table. Zones(Z1..Z20) and Radius(R0..R4) where R0 is equivalent to Z1 R1 " Z5 R2 " Z9 R3 " Z13 R4 " Z17 How can I make the query to join them in such ways? eg: select A,B,C,D from Zone inner join radius on R1 = Z5 on R2 = Z9 on R3 = Z13 on R4 = Z17 or do I have

Re: CRM: Labels instead of specific atributes

2006-06-16 Thread John Hicks
Bruno-- I am not an expert, but... I would think most contact systems probably have separate tables for organizations and individuals. And usually additional tables to allow multiple addresses and telephones to be linked to the organizations and individuals. Yours seems rather novel in havi

Re: Looking for free MySQL Administrator

2006-05-20 Thread John Hicks
mos wrote: At 10:10 AM 5/20/2006, Keith Roberts wrote: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php I think phpmyadmin will allow you to make changes to multiple columns at once. Sorry, I should have mentioned I was looking for a MySQL Administrator running on Windows. Going through PHP see

Re: Is This A Redundant Info Example?

2006-05-19 Thread John Hicks
Mark Sargent wrote: Hi All, I am looking at OSCommerce for design comparisons and wonder what others think about the below table design, CREATE TABLE `customers` ( `customers_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `customers_gender` char(1) NOT NULL, `customers_firstname` varchar(32) NOT NUL

Re: than you for your answer but...

2006-05-18 Thread John Hicks
Steve wrote: thank you for the clue of double quoting the html when inserting into the database but I still get the error. the problem seems to be that I have quotes INSIDE the html code as well (links and pix) so, i still get this error. " Database Selected: candlecatalog Query: insert in

Re: duration query: how to ?

2006-05-18 Thread John Hicks
Bedford Bob wrote: I'd like to retrieve the total amount of time the articles have been in the site from 2005-01-01 to 2005-01-31 and divide them by 365 (or 366 if leap year). if an article has been online from 2004-10-01 to null (meaning the article hasn't been sold yet) then I may count 365 da

Re: #1191 - Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list

2006-05-11 Thread John Hicks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. Got it. And, since the able is already created and with tons of products inside, how can I change the FULTEXT index? I'm using phpMyAdmin. Just create a new index. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/create-index.html --J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all!

Re: #1191 - Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list

2006-05-11 Thread John Hicks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all! I have "products" table: CREATE TABLE `products` ( `prod_id` int(8) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `prod_no` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', `prod_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', `prod_description` text, `prod_colors` text, `prod_inclu

Re: novice on SQL

2006-05-08 Thread John Hicks
way Tony "tony yau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi John, I didn't know you can do that! (such a novice indeed!) Thank you for your reply, I will put it to the test first thing when i get back to the office tomo. Cheers "John Hicks&quo

Re: novice on SQL

2006-05-07 Thread John Hicks
tony yau wrote: Hello, I can get a select result like the following: (SELECT ID,Changes FROM mytable WHERE somecondition;) IDChanges - 1 10.0 1 10.3 1 12.2 2 31.0 3 1.02 3 4.9 how can I get the above result sets into

Re: query of a query?

2006-05-04 Thread John Hicks
Bing Du wrote: The following are Cold Fusion code. It's interesting that previously defined queries can be used as 'tables' to pull data from. === SELECT db_entry_num, title FROM account_info SELECT projectID

Re: Matching fields from two different tables

2006-04-28 Thread John Hicks
-Patrick wrote: John Hicks wrote: -Patrick wrote: Folks, I could really use your assistance. Take a look here: http://pastebin.com/687889 How can I manipulate totalRows_numberComments so that I get the number of blg_comment_com.idart_com PER blg_article_art.id_art? Right now, it produces

Re: Matching fields from two different tables

2006-04-28 Thread John Hicks
-Patrick wrote: Folks, I could really use your assistance. Take a look here: http://pastebin.com/687889 How can I manipulate totalRows_numberComments so that I get the number of blg_comment_com.idart_com PER blg_article_art.id_art? Right now, it produces every blg_comment_com.idart_com in existe

Re: [PHP] Possible?

2006-04-28 Thread John Hicks
René Fournier wrote: Simple problem: Many client apps need to send data to a server. By default each client will open a persistent TCP socket connection to a common IP address:port (10.10.10.10:1234) and write to it (which the server will save/log, etc.). My question is, what should be ready

Re: Fulltext 3 letter words

2006-04-23 Thread John Hicks
words? Thanks in advance. From: John Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What version of MySQL are you running? The ability to specify the minimum length for fulltext search was not always supported. Taco Fleur wrote: Hi, that would be version 5.0.18 - thanks Then your version is not the pr

Re: MySQL select query - newbie

2006-04-23 Thread John Hicks
Nanu Kalmanovitz wrote: Hi! System is Novell SBS 6.5 sp1 with Apache 2.0.48, MySQL ver. 4.0.15a, PHP 4.2.3. We try to define a select query that takes the values of the variables 'varKoshi' and 'varKvish' based on the following 4 tables: 'varKoshi' >>vv<<< 'varKvish'

Re: Fulltext 3 letter words

2006-04-23 Thread John Hicks
Taco Fleur wrote: Hi all, I know I asked this question before and I do apologise for having to ask again, but I have not been able to get this to work for us. I modified the config file (there were many in the folder, not sure whether I modified the right one) restarted the whole machine since t

Re: If exists query.

2006-04-23 Thread John Hicks
Paul Halliday wrote: I am trying to formulate a query that will increment if a condition is true. For example, if I do a select (just let me know if there was data on this day, if so increment count by 1 and check the next day) where timestamp between jan and feb. Could you be a bit more speci

Re: please help, can not delete database

2006-04-22 Thread John Hicks
Randy Paries wrote: Hello, Not sure what is going on i have mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.17, I have a database that i can not delete. i do this #mysqladmin drop billmax -u admin --password Enter password: Dropping the database is potentially a very bad thing to do. Any data stored in the databa

Re: Run Apache/PHP/MySQL from CD?

2006-04-20 Thread John Hicks
Jay Paulson wrote: I have no idea if this is possible or not but is there a way to run Apache, PHP, and MySQL from a CD? I'd like it to be possible to run it on Windows, Mac OSX and *nix. If it is possible could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! XAMPP is a distribution of Apa

Re: Easy normalization how-to?

2004-07-06 Thread John Hicks
I was hoping someone could improve on my suggestion. But, not seeing any further replies, I guess my solution must be optimal (troll, troll :) --John On Saturday 03 July 2004 03:34 am, John Hicks wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2004 11:40 pm, Your Name wrote: > > ... I now realize the impo

Re: Datatype question - Whether int(11) or char(11) ?

2004-07-05 Thread John Hicks
On Monday 05 July 2004 12:54 pm, Ying Lu wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a datatype question. > > When there is column named ID, users are able to > give it either char(11) or int(11). > > Please advise, which type is better such as more > secure, save space, etc? Or it dose not matter at > all? It

Re: another left join question - multiple "left join" statements

2004-07-05 Thread John Hicks
On Monday 05 July 2004 12:28 pm, bruce wrote: > my test tbls > > cattbl dogtbl birdtbl > namename name > id ---> catid ---> dogid > id id > > so > dogtbl.catid = cattbl.id > birdtbl.dogid = dogtbl.id > > my question is how i can use "

Re: basic question about joins....

2004-07-04 Thread John Hicks
On Sunday 04 July 2004 11:36 pm, bruce wrote: > hi... > > i'm trying to figure out how to deal with joins > (left/right).. > > i have the following test tbls... > > create table universityTBL( > name varchar(50) not null default '', > ID int(10) not null auto_increment, > pr

Re: mysql sql question

2004-07-04 Thread John Hicks
On Sunday 04 July 2004 07:16 pm, bruce wrote: > quentin/emmett... > > my question > > it appears that mysql essentially take the two > values returned from the select, and inserts them > into the (name,collegeid) that i specified... > > if this is the case, then i'm cool Yes, this is the

Re: mySQL LIMIT and ORDER BY Problem???

2004-07-04 Thread John Hicks
On Sunday 04 July 2004 02:52 am, Gary Mack wrote: > Hi there, > > I recently learned about LIMIT so that I can page > through records on a web page I am creating. > However, when coupled with ORDER BY, the sorting > does not work anymore. Can someone look at my below > query and point out what I

Re: Easy normalization how-to?

2004-07-03 Thread John Hicks
On Friday 02 July 2004 11:40 pm, Your Name wrote: > ... I now realize the importance of normalizing my > data, >... what [is] the easy way... of getting > it done now that I already have a database set up. > > Suppose I have a table "books", consisting of "id", > "title", and "publisher"; the "pu

Re: general qn

2004-06-16 Thread John Hicks
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to install mysql on linux and it's giving > me trouble. I'm new to linux and new to databases so > my downfall isn't too surprising. I've been going by > the readme file in the package but I can't seem to > get

Re: indexing text

2004-06-11 Thread John Hicks
s "where myfield like 'cson%' ") Regards, John --- John Hicks Gulfbridge, Inc. "Putting the Web to work for your business." http://gulfbridge.com 561-586-8116 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dumping sql commands

2004-03-25 Thread John Hicks
On Thursday 25 March 2004 03:11 pm, Erich Beyrent wrote: > Is there any way I can show all > the sql commands for creating and populating a table > from within mysql? Here's the first half of your task: SHOW CREATE TABLE MyTableName; --John On Thursday 25 March 2004 03:11 pm, Erich Beyrent wro

Re: MySQL multiple query in php script. (newbie)

2003-07-25 Thread John Hicks
On Friday 25 July 2003 02:02 am, Fred van Engen wrote: > > $sql = "SELECT Realtor, HouseAddress, Bathrooms, > > Bedrooms, YearBuilt, Garage, Location, Basement, Info > > FROM properties WHERE Bathrooms =='".$a."'", "Bedrooms > > =='".$b."'", "Garage =='".$c."'", > >         "Basement =='".$d."'"; >

Re: FW: Relationships in Mysql

2003-07-24 Thread John Hicks
I would just add a few words to Nils' excellent reply: In the most general sense, a foreign key is just a primary key value that occurs outside of its native table (i.e. in a "foreign" table, get it?) in order to point to the record in its native table with that value as its primary key. You c

Re: problem with searching mysql in php

2003-07-24 Thread John Hicks
Looks like you really want to be doing full-text searching: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Fulltext_Search.html As you are doing it now, your users will only get a hit if they enter the target keywords in the same sequence they are stored in. --John On Wednesday 23 July 2003 04:24 am, Ercan Yurt

Re: Working with the text datatype in Mysql

2003-07-19 Thread John Hicks
> | How are they typing in the information? From a web > | page? From the command line? From a custom program? > They type the information from a web page. What web programming language are you using to receive the post request from the web page and form the sql query to insert the data into the

Re: Best practice column type for storing decimal currency amounts?

2003-07-16 Thread John Hicks
ary values is putting > them into floats if I can live with rounding problems or > put them into in ints and multiply them by 100 (or 1000) > before putting them there (thus taking care of the > decimal point myself). > > Cheers > /rudy > > ps: I wish DECIMALS would be s

Best practice column type for storing decimal currency amounts?

2003-07-15 Thread John Hicks
Is there an accepted best practice on whether to store decimal currency amounts (e.g. dollars and cents) in MySQL decimal column types? Certainly, the most straightforward way is to use decimal columns. But it appears that such values are stored as ASCII strings, which would be inefficient fo

Re: How can a single row with a single column represent 2 values without bitwise data representation

2003-06-28 Thread John Hicks
> So, my question is how can multiple values for a single > field get represented in a single row and receive the > benefits of an index? How can this data be represented? Nice puzzle. At first I thought it couldn't be done, given all your constraints. But there is one way. You will have to bui

Initializing primary key values for existing table

2003-06-24 Thread John Hicks
I needed to add a new, autoincrementing, primary key column to a table and have been struggling to figure out how to assign an initial, unique value to each row. I finally accomplished my task, but feel sure there's an easier way. Here is my solution: 1. Add the column: alter table mytable ad

Re: fastest DB engine

2003-06-16 Thread John Hicks
> second, i have followed some discussions here about > foreign keys but i still have not managed to create > foreign keys > > so i want userTypeID in tblUsers to be a foregn key > referencing the userTypeID col in userTypes . . . > what is wrong? Nothing is wrong. Sounds like a perfect fine use

Re: problem with subquery

2003-05-30 Thread John Hicks
> WHERE TAB2_ID 2 > is the problem. > Do you want = or <> or what? Except that if you check the original post you'll see: SELECT * FROM TAB1 WHERE TAB1_ID IN (SELECT TAB2_ID FROM TAB2 WHERE TAB2_ID > 2) The ">" was at a line break and got swallowed up in the replies with the >>s at the beginni