WANTED: lots of data

2003-11-08 Thread Mark Horton
I'm working on some software that will generate all sorts of statistics on large volumes of data. I'm looking for data to experiment on. I'd like 100 million - 1 billion records. These records can be anything from log files to database records, or whatever. I just need tons of data. If you

concurrent_insert with 4.0.x

2002-08-12 Thread Mark Horton
Hello, Does anyone know how to enable concurrent_insert with mysql version 4.0.x. I can't seem to turn it on no matter what I do. Mark - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)

Re: Load Data Command

2002-03-21 Thread Mark Horton
If the table has a unique key then add the REPLACE keyword. This will update the columns with new values if the key already exists and add the row if it doesnt. --Mark Michael Kaiser wrote: Using the following inserts data from a text file into a particular MySQL table: LOAD DATA LOCAL

Re: Inserting files from command prompt

2002-03-20 Thread Mark Horton
I do this from the command line sometimes: mysql -h HOST -pPASSWORD DATABASE statements.sql The statements.sql file should contain full sql statements. This will read in the file and execute the sql 1 line at a time. The opposite would be to use mysqldump like so: mysqldump -h HOST

kudos to the mysql team

2002-03-18 Thread Mark Horton
I just wanted to say that MySQL absolutely rocks! We are using Mysql with a very large database and it's working beautfully. Needless to say we will be buying licenses to further support mysql. Here are some rough stats on what we were doing: Inserts: 13,000,000 per day Updates: 12,000,000