Re: a newserver would be better than this mailing list , 1 more time

2002-08-01 Thread Pete French
p.s. PLEASE can you put a [mysql] tag on the list??? Please not, it wastes space on the screen. not a lot of space - and does have the great advantage that we can then filter out the mysql stuff into a separate mailbox whihc (on standard UNIX mail) isnt possible without it. -pcf.

Re: groupadd

2002-07-30 Thread Pete French
You need to create a new user and group for mysql. Open your OSX manuals and start reading. Additional hint - nidump and niload will do the trick (assuming it works like alll other NeXT systems, which it seems to). -pcf. -

Re: hebrew/arabic language

2002-07-25 Thread Pete French
am running mysql 3.44 at RHL7.2, how can i setup up mysql to store/show characters of language such as hebrew/arabic? My best suggestion would be to store all your test in Unicode UTF-8 format and use the type BLOB in the table in order to store it. We do this and can quite happily mix

Re: Very minor buglet

2002-07-24 Thread Pete French
We are discussing the 'mysql' client which is often used to write scripts that run under the UNIX shell. ... If you write a script that has two semi-colons in a row, the second one is ignored and no error message is given. Err, not true (in amysql script anyway) I think you are trying

Re: MySQL databases lost?

2002-07-23 Thread Pete French
mysql show databases; +-+ | Database| +-+ | CarbonUFSVolumeInfo | | mnta| | mntb| | vi.recover | +-+ 4 rows in set (0.04 sec) Umm, those look very much like files from a

Re: Re: Table types in replication

2002-07-19 Thread Pete French
Yeah, just go with InnoDB. :-) any good ? I took a look at the documentation, but it all seemed somewhat heavyweight for my liking... I have an application that runs very nicely at the moment - we have one minor problem which is that we have one insert into two tables which may not hapen

Table types in replication

2002-07-18 Thread Pete French
If I have amast/salve pair where the slave is replicating from the master then do the table types have to be the same ? Specifically can I have a myisam table on the master and replicate to a bdb table on the slave ? The reasoning behind this is to try and find a *fast* was to convert a MYISAM

Re: Table types in replication

2002-07-18 Thread Pete French
CREATE TABLE new_table (all like your current one, besides indexes) TYPE=BDB; INSERT INTO new_table SELECT * FROM old_table; CREATE INDEX ... ON new_table;... ALTER TABLE new_table ADD PRIMARY KEY (...);... RENAME old_table TO old_table_bak; RENAME new_table TO old_table; That should