Re: sequences and auto_increment

2007-01-02 Thread Ken Brown
I had a similar problem a while ago and I got round it by using a trigger - called a function on an insert to read a value from a table (use for update when selecting) update with incremented value then use the return value from the ffunction to "set" the new value - you can do all your login or

Newbie: Rewriting A Query- How?

2004-03-09 Thread Ken Brown
Anyone any idea how I could rewrite this as a join - all the indexes are in place and each of the components of this work fine - its only when the combined subqueries are passed to the root query does it appear to go wrong (Takes around 1.5 mins to complete and causes 100% processor utilisation whi

RE: MySql and Oracle Forms 6i

2004-02-03 Thread Ken Brown
iffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 February 2004 23:42 To: Ken Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MySql and Oracle Forms 6i Someone posted an answer: "Oh wow... I can't think of how you'd get that to work without a ton of custom. For starters, you'll have to write

MySql and Oracle Forms 6i

2004-02-02 Thread Ken Brown
Is there any way of using MySql as a back end to Oracle Forms? Ken Brown

RE: Passwords and ODBC - what am I missing

2004-01-31 Thread Ken Brown
Oh, and one other thing, you have to create the passwords AFTER you use the switch! That was probably obvious to you but it took me a while to figure out. Randy Randy Chrismon wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: > >> Just installed 4.1.1 on windows 2000 with current odbc layer >> >

Oracle Question

2004-01-31 Thread Ken Brown
Anyone managed to get oracle forms 6i to talk to MySQL - if so how? I've got ODBC working but it will not connect and the ODBC trace is less than useful Ken

How do I - upgrade client libraries to 4.1.1 on Windows?

2004-01-31 Thread Ken Brown
I need to do this to get round password issues as -old-passwords doesn't work Anyone any ideas? Kwn

RE: Passwords and ODBC - what am I missing

2004-01-31 Thread Ken Brown
uld advise otherwise - or at the very least how to switch on a security log Ken -Original Message----- From: Ken Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 January 2004 15:56 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Passwords and ODBC - what am I missing Just instal

Passwords and ODBC - what am I missing

2004-01-31 Thread Ken Brown
Just installed 4.1.1 on windows 2000 with current odbc layer Connects fine with root and no password But if I set a password on root or create a user with a password odbc fails with "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by the server - consider upgrading MYSql Client"

Newbie - from Oracle

2004-01-14 Thread Ken Brown
Oracle has "Dual" does MySql have something similar? In Oracle I use SYSDATE and USER a lot as default column values when creating a table. Can you do something similar in MySql and how? Does MySql support sequences? How? Relationships - can the code be interfered with or do I have to w