DROP TEMPORARY TABLE waiting for table???

2006-06-30 Thread Nick Arnett
that I get this problem even when the temporary table doesn't exist, on a brand-new connection. I've had this code running for a couple of weeks and just noticed the problem, so I'm not sure if it cropped up right away or not. Haven't had a chance to bounce the server yet.

Re: ANN: Database Workbench 2.8.5 released!

2006-03-27 Thread Nick Arnett
ut the stored procedure debugger -- does all the functionality in the documentation work with MySQL? Anybody used this with MySQL, who could describe their experience with it? I would really love a good SP debugger! Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198

Can't materialize a view -- bug?

2005-11-21 Thread Nick Arnett
ll let me use the function. I hit a problem using functions in stored procedures, too, and I'm wondering if these are related. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198

Bug? Date insert comes out zero on Solaris using Python MySQLdb?

2005-03-17 Thread Nick Arnett
I have Python code that I run on Windows and Solaris. It works properly on Windows. However, on Solaris, when it inserts records, datetime columns end up with a value of zero. I suspect that this began happening after we upgraded the MySQL server to 4.1.10 from a 4.0.x version (I think we we

Can't get table lock (4.0.23 and InnoDB)

2005-02-18 Thread Nick Arnett
We have something I can't figure out happening on one of our servers. It's running 4.0.23 on OSX. One of the InnoDB tables is locked even though we can't see any process that is even active that could have locked it. SHOW OPEN TABLES doesn't show it as in use or locked. We've tried all sorts

Re: SELECT and UPDATE together, with LIMIT? (incremental external indexing)

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Arnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your solution is as good as any I can think of. If your source tables are InnoDB you could wrap your SELECT/UPDATE processing in a transaction to help make it even more robust. It might speed things up if you omit the offset to your LIMIT clause and just do: Yes, they ar

SELECT and UPDATE together, with LIMIT? (incremental external indexing)

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Arnett
I'm considering the best strategy for updating large tables that I'm indexing with Lucene. I'm indexing in chunks of 5000 items at a time, which I select with LIMIT statements and an incremental multiplier (SELECT blah FROM foo LIMIT 0, 5000; SELECT blah FROM foo LIMIT 5000, 5000; etc.). After

Re: Social Networking querys

2005-02-02 Thread Nick Arnett
Peter Brawley wrote: is, there is some method to iterate in this relation to avoid joining the table in itself each time ? Exactly the problem with trying to model an anything-goes network, a "world of ends", in a relational model of a directed graph. I think you need an XML layer in there, eg

Re: Social Networking querys

2005-02-02 Thread Nick Arnett
listsql listsql wrote: Since I read about Foaf [ http://www.foaf-project.org/ ], I become interested with Social Networking, What you're doing is often called link analysis -- searches on that term may yield more for you to chew on. There are software tools and visualization tools for answerin

Table scan in join on primary keys??

2005-01-31 Thread Nick Arnett
I'm updating one table with data from another and finding that the server is doing a table scan on the second table, even though it's a simple join on the primary keys. This doesn't seem right. The query looks liket this: UPDATE a SET a.y TO b.a WHERE a.primary_key = b.primary_key and if I do

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables (looking for a workaround)

2005-01-28 Thread Nick Arnett
symbulos partners wrote: Is there any other workaround? The reason because we are using InnoDB is because there s full support - for foreign keys, - for joint queries - for rollback on commit Does anybody know any other way of indexing the table in a way, which would allow full text search?

Re: Fixed with Fields

2005-01-28 Thread Nick Arnett
Dathan Pattishall wrote: Use char And use fixed-length types for *all* columns... one variable-length column makes all records variable-length. Nick -Original Message- From: Marc Michalowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:28 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com S

Re: MySQL/InnoDB-4.1.9 is released

2005-01-14 Thread Nick Arnett
27;s what I was just reading! So... is this the equivalent of using BEGIN and COMMIT, for which I have methods in the Python MySQLdb module? Or is there an advantage to the latter? Thanks again, Nick Arnett Director of Business Intelligence Services Liveworld Inc. -- MySQL General Mailing List Fo

Re: MySQL/InnoDB-4.1.9 is released

2005-01-14 Thread Nick Arnett
Heikki Tuuri wrote: * Do not acquire an internal InnoDB table lock in LOCK TABLES if AUTOCOMMIT=1. This helps in porting old MyISAM applications to InnoDB. InnoDB table locks in that case caused very easily deadlocks. Could you explain a bit more about how this relates to MyISAM? Is it just tha

SELECT or SHOW full table name?

2004-11-03 Thread Nick Arnett
I don't see a way to ask MySQL what the "full" name of a table is... the equivalent of this: SELECT CONCAT(DATABASE(), ".", "table_name") which would return something like this (assuming the current database is called "my_database": my_database.table_name The reason I want this is to ensure tha

RE: Really slow shutdown with Innodb, db not accessible?

2003-07-29 Thread Nick Arnett
no longer a transaction. The culprit was some table locking that improved performance quite a bit when the tables were MyISAM. Gotta go look for more of those lurking in the corners, I guess. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > Fr

RE: Really slow shutdown with Innodb, db not accessible?

2003-07-29 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Heikki Tuuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:58 PM > crash recovery is usually much faster than purge and merge. > > Killing the mysqld process is a legal (and the fastest :)) way of shutting > down InnoDB. That's good to hear. W2

RE: Basic Database Design Question

2003-07-29 Thread Nick Arnett
n to find out who uses a given application, the query would be along these lines (this uses the column 'app_id' as the key: SELECT used_by FROM nms_apps, user WHERE nms_apps.app_id = user.app_id AND app_name = "Application Foo" Hope that helps. If you grasp this, you'll

Really slow shutdown with Innodb, db not accessible?

2003-07-29 Thread Nick Arnett
e future? Thanks for any info... -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Inserting HTML page to TEXT fails... syntax error?! (Python MySQLdb)

2003-07-17 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:38 PM > To: Nick Arnett; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, Paul, just knowing you were on the job inspired me and I finally realized the dumb thing I'd done. The list I'm

Inserting HTML page to TEXT fails... syntax error?! (Python MySQLdb)

2003-07-17 Thread Nick Arnett
ght near the beginning of the HTML, where it has lots of (annoying, I suppose) backslashes, quotes and other stuff that is a pain to encode properly by hand. Any help will be most gratefully accepted. My hair will thank you, too. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTE

RE: MYSQL DB PROBLEM

2003-06-02 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Adam Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 10:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MYSQL DB PROBLEM > > > > I am trying to insert a table ibf_posts > > into a localhost database using the MYSQL control center every > time i try to i

RE: Insert query

2003-06-02 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Braithwaite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:05 PM > To: 'Ulterior'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Insert query > > > Hi, > > I would use mediumint rather than int for the ID column (int has > support for > up to 2.1 Bill

RE: Why doesn't this query work?

2003-06-01 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Mikey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Why doesn't this query work? > > > OK, first of all thanks for the pointers, however, the query I now have > doesn't seem to work. If I run the query up unt

RE: Insert query

2003-06-01 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Ulterior [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 7:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Insert query > > > sow what would you suggest, Jerry? > > ( I need a very FAST search on this table's filename field) > > Ulterior > > > Don't use va

RE: Problem starting mysql server

2003-05-30 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Rehaz Golamnobee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:41 AM ... > I have just upgraded my MySQL from version 3.23 to 4.0.13. > > However I cannot start the server. When I type mysqld_safe & I > get the following : > > [1] 1730 > Linux:/#

RE: Pre parsing

2003-04-04 Thread Nick Arnett
You could pre-pend "EXPLAIN" and see if it generates an error. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Jerry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 5:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subjec

Fulltext search -- no wildcards in phrases?

2003-03-27 Thread Nick Arnett
yone confirm that wildcards, indeed, can't be used in phrase searches. I'm doing these in Boolean mode because I need exact counts of occurrences. This is on MySQL-4.0.12-nt. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives

Stopword file format?

2003-03-27 Thread Nick Arnett
I've searched and searched, but I can't find anything that describes the format of a custom stopword file for fulltext indexing in MySQL. Anybody have a pointer or a description of the format? Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailin

RE: Speed of SELECT ... LIMIT #,#?

2003-03-25 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:48 AM ... > Just noticed something odd, though, with the MySQLdb SSCursor. > When close() > is called, it does a fetchall(), getting any records that you hadn't

RE: Speed of SELECT ... LIMIT #,#?

2003-03-25 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Joseph Bueno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:36 AM .. > If you want to speed it up, you have to make it use an index. > You need to add a WHERE or an ORDER BY clause. > Have you tried : > SELECT Message_ID, Body FROM Body_etc ORDER

RE: Speed of SELECT ... LIMIT #,#?

2003-03-24 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:17 PM > Please post the query and the output of running it thru EXPLAIN. > > It is likely sorting the results without an index and having to weed > thru more and more records the farther

RE: Your professional opinion Please...

2003-03-24 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > I have a client with approximately 2 gigabytes of un-indexed > document files > (includes text and graphics). > > He wants to be able to enter a few parameters and bring up a list of all > documents that fit, and then be a

Speed of SELECT ... LIMIT #,#?

2003-03-24 Thread Nick Arnett
dropped tremendously. I'm guessing that that's where index caching was no longer sufficient...? I've optimized, analyzed and defragmented the disk, all of which seemed to help a bit. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General M

RE: Creating fulltext index never completes...?

2003-03-23 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 1:39 PM At the risk of talking to myself too much... I've tried creating a table that has about 100 records with lots of characters with ASCII > 126 and have no problem bu

RE: Creating fulltext index never completes...?

2003-03-23 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > It dawned on me that perhaps the problem had to do with double-byte > characters, Actually, what I think I meant to say was "unprintable" characters with ASCII > 122. Does this break

Creating fulltext index never completes...?

2003-03-23 Thread Nick Arnett
expertise in that area -- I used to be the product manager for advanced technology at Verity. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Interesting

2002-07-15 Thread Nick Arnett
That syntax will always report zero rows affected, but it is very fast. If you want to know how many rows were deleted, use something like "DELETE * FROM Sqs WHERE 1=1". The latter query will be much slower, as it examines each record. Nick > -Original Message- > From: Bhavin Vyas [mai

executemany & UPDATE (MySQL & Python)

2002-06-14 Thread Nick Arnett
Can anyone confirm that it is *not* possible to pass a list to the Python MySQLdb module in UPDATE operations? In other words, this kind of thing works: self.dbh.execute("INSERT INTO Foo (blah, blorg,snork) VALUES (%s,%s,%s)",myList) ... But this kind doesn't appear to work for me: self.dbh.ex

Strategies for maintaining tables calculated from other tables?

2002-05-02 Thread Nick Arnett
I'm finding that it's not quite as simple as I had imagined to maintain a table whose values are calculated by analyzing other tables. The source tables contain time series data, which can is updated several times a day. To calculate totals by day, week, month, etc., I don't want to have to start

Update a table with data from another table?

2002-04-28 Thread Nick Arnett
I'm wondering if there's a way to use the results of a SELECT in an UPDATE operation, the way that it's possible to do so with INSERT and REPLACE. This seems like it should be possible, but as far as I can tell, it's not. This comes up for me repeatedly, but the problem at hand is identifying the

RE: MySQLdb and DateTime objects

2002-04-26 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick Arnett [snip] > What seemed to be the obvious solution was to use > MySQLdb.times.format_TIMESTAMP() or MySQLdb.times.format_DATE()-- but that > doesn't work, it retur

MySQLdb and DateTime objects

2002-04-26 Thread Nick Arnett
I'm have a bit of trouble figuring out how to use a date field retrieved from MySQL when updating a record in another table. Rather than a date string, MySQLdb returns a DateTime object. At first, imagining that since it came out of a field, the date object would also then match the field in a s

RE: How to speed up mods to large table?

2002-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to speed up mods to large table? > > > I haven't been able to dig up any specific information about how to g

How to speed up mods to large table?

2002-04-21 Thread Nick Arnett
I haven't been able to dig up any specific information about how to get maximum performance when making changes to large tables. I have a table that's close to 4 GB, which I'm altering to come up with the best trade-off between performance and speed. Dropping a column or an index seems exceeding

RE: Table statistics

2002-04-03 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Doug Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Table statistics > > > Try: > > mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "password"); ... Might be helpful to the original

RE: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-03 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Russell E Glaue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:15 AM ... > Does anyone on this list have a suggestion as what might be the best > language to embed into MySQL? Be sure to consider memory efficiency, > threadding, speed of th

RE: Database Design Question

2002-03-28 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... > Which begs the questions: > - in what way are you analyzing "behavior"? and > - in what way are you analyzing this list-community? "There's too much to read," is the simple answer to the first question. Over the las

RE: Database Design Question

2002-03-28 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Ben Holness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 7:43 AM > Have I understood the two table concept correctly? > How does the third table fit in? > > I guess that if two (or more) of the entries overlap, I could make things > even

RE: Database Design Question

2002-03-28 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Ben Holness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > My question is this: Would it be more efficient to have each entry in the > list stored in this table in the database, or would I be better > off having a > reference to a file tha

RE: Warnings after LOAD DATA statement

2002-03-24 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Maribel Piloto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 10:24 AM [snip] > The data is loading fine and the NULL values are in fact > correctly entered > as NULLs but I'm getting this warning after the LOAD statement: > > Records: 3 Deleted

RE: Extra return in last field in LOAD DATA INFILE?

2002-03-21 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: Roger Baklund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:03 PM [snip] > It looks like you have the CRLF problem... Python on win platform outputs > CRLF for '\n', because that is normally the wanted line ending on windows > systems... ope

Extra return in last field in LOAD DATA INFILE?

2002-03-21 Thread Nick Arnett
I have something odd happening with a bulk insert file and haven't been able to find anything in docs or archives that gives me a clue what's going on. I'm creating a bulk insert file programmatically with Python. Everything seems to work fine, except that in the last field of each record, a retu