Re: Slow retrieval of distinct on indexed fields

2003-02-18 Thread Peter Grigor
I grant you that, however my point was about the total count of the indexed word's appearance, which would still stay the same, regardless of the encoding of the position information. Peter <^_^> ----- Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Class

Re: Slow retrieval of distinct on indexed fields

2003-02-18 Thread Peter Grigor
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Re: CREATE INDEX is sooo slow! any ideas?

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Grigor
Well, MySql stores all its index information in one index file, so when you add another index it has to rebuild the WHOLE file. :) Peter <^_^> - Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http://www.hoobly.com - Original Message - From:

Re: CREATE INDEX is sooo slow! any ideas?

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Grigor
Yes, and better go to the one across town to get it :) Peter <^_^> - Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http://www.hoobly.com - Original Message - From: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Su

Re: CREATE INDEX is sooo slow! any ideas?

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Grigor
That body column wouldn't happen to be a fulltext index, would it? :) If so, 'ave another coffee. Peter <^_^> --------- Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http://www.hoobly.com - Original Message - From: "david" <[

Re: INSERTs getting slower with growing tabel, using no indexes?

2003-02-16 Thread Peter Grigor
I'm hoping that it's a MyIsam table. Peter <^_^> --------- Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http://www.hoobly.com - Original Message - From: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday,

Re: INSERTs getting slower with growing tabel, using no indexes?

2003-02-15 Thread Peter Grigor
What type of platform/file system are you using? Very large files on filesystems can suffer from inode indirection problems...but I wouldn't think they'd be too noticeable. Peter <^_^> --------- Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http:

Re: Delete duplicate rows

2003-02-15 Thread Peter Grigor
Make a temporary table, SELECT DISTINCT the rows from the old table to the new table, rename the old table TABLE_OLD, rename the temporary table to the original table name. Peter <^_^> - Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http://www.hoob

Re: Error No. 7

2003-02-15 Thread Peter Grigor
You probably have a permissions issue in your data or temp directory...Mysql is not able to create a temporary table when making the table alteration. Peter <^_^> - Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http://www.hoobly.com - Original M

Re: Invalid Date Bug

2003-02-14 Thread Peter Grigor
I'm with you for sure...client processing is the way to go...fat servers suck. Peter <^_^> ----- Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http://www.hoobly.com - Original Message - From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Invalid Date Bug

2003-02-14 Thread Peter Grigor
Yep, you're right. Never noticed that before :) I think that would probably be considered a bug. But possibly for efficiency's sake the check was made ultra simple. Peter <^_^> --------- Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http:

Re: New Database,

2003-02-14 Thread Peter Grigor
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Re: Error with libmyclient.a

2003-02-14 Thread Peter Grigor
You need the zlib library...that's where compress is defined. It can be found at http://www.gzip.org Peter <^_^> ----- Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http://www.hoobly.com - Original Message - From: "Ron Sorber" &

Re: mysql with subs

2003-02-14 Thread Peter Grigor
This probably isn't best handled by mysql...use associative arrays to store members of members in the hierarchy, then print out the associative array's contents in order. Peter <^_^> --------- Peter Grigor Hoobly Classified Ads http:

Re: New Database,

2003-02-14 Thread Peter Grigor
BTW, exactly how did you acquire, install and execute mysql without visiting mysql.com? :) Peter <^_^> - Peter Grigor Hoobly Classified Ads http://www.hoobly.com - Original Message - From: "Richard Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Database,

2003-02-14 Thread Peter Grigor
o build my first database, > > is there a comprehensive user manual on how to, > say in .pdf format out there ? > > if not, a on-line link maybe ? > See http://www.mysql.com/documentation/index.html Peter <^_^> - Peter Grigor Hoobly Class

Re: IP Addresses -- How to Store

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Grigor
re about space, a tinyint of how many bits are in the mask. Dood, he's not gonna be very happy storing an IP as 16 bits :) - Peter Grigor Hoobly Classified Ads http://www.hoobly.com -

Re: socket error

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Grigor
- Original Message - From: "J. A. Tovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Grigor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: Re: socket error > > yes, i ran everything again > Well, the hos

Re: socket error

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Grigor
- Original Message - From: "J. A. Tovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Grigor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:33 AM Subject: Re: socket error > ok :) > > all killed now, > > (not quite

Re: socket error

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Grigor
> i'm sorry - could you explain that for a > simpleton :-) > i have no idea what you mean :-/ > > --- Peter Grigor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "J. A. Tovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Pe

Re: SERIOUS PROBLEM

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Grigor
he database. > I have double checked my code and it runs perfectly runs on any other > database. > > Please let me know is it a bug in Mysql or the driver i am using. ??? > > Thanx and Regards, > RK > We really can't help you much unless you post your query. Peter <

Re: socket error

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Grigor
- Original Message - From: "J. A. Tovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Grigor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:34 AM Subject: Re: socket error > ah ok, yes, > > the error log says > " >

Re: socket error

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Grigor
> > and it had returned: > > [1] 3698 > [root@jt mysql]# Starting mysqld daemon with > databases from /usr/local/mysql/data > 030211 12:32:05 mysqld ended >From this last line you can tell that the mysqld has not started properly ('mysql ended'). That's

Re: exist

2003-02-11 Thread Peter Grigor
m A' at line 3 > > Try to select the student who are atleast doing one computer sciencs > subject (433123, 433252...) You'll have to rewrite your query using an inner join...not hard. Peter <^_^> - Peter Grigor Hoobly Classified