Re: My.cnf

2003-11-24 Thread Peter Sap
You could install version 3.23 under a different username (like mysql323) than the 4.0 version (like username mysql40). Then put each .my.cnf in the ~ directory. Regards, Peter Sap - Original Message - From: "Arnoldus Th.J. Koeleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMA

Re: My.cnf

2003-11-24 Thread Peter Sap
When you do a mysqld -? it will say: Default options are read from the following files in the given order: /etc/my.cnf /var/lib/mysql/my.cnf~/.my.cnf So that's the reason you can not start it anymore. (I'm using 4.1.0-alpha.) Hope this helps. Peter Sap. - Origin

Re: How to 'customize' GROUP BY?

2003-11-21 Thread Peter Sap
Hi Chris, Please tell me why a group by with a having shouldn't work in this case. I tested it with a small table and it works fine, at least in this case. Peter Sap. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - > Van: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Aan: "List: MySQL&

Re: Transaction newbie question

2003-11-20 Thread Peter Sap
, try switching to InnoDB (row locks in stead of page locks) and take another look at the tranactions themselve like the sequence of insert/delete/update/select. Hope this helps. Peter Sap. - Original Message - From: "Mike Gollub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to 'customize' GROUP BY?

2003-11-20 Thread Peter Sap
Hi Yves, You can use a having clause to work with groups: select grp, max(id) as maxid from tbl group by grp having maxid = max(id) Regards, Peter Sap - Original Message - From: "Yves Goergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "List: MySQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: Birthday calendar

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Sap
an extra condition to the where clause. Please check the use of < and >, I didn't pay much attention to that. Hope this helps -- Peter Sap - Original Message - From: "Olaf van Zandwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Sap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMA

Re: Merging duplicate rows

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Sap
handling this. -- Peter Sap - Original Message - From: "Nathan Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 4:16 AM Subject: Merging duplicate rows > How do you merge duplicate rows? All rows involved contain identi

Re: Birthday calendar

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Sap
Hi Olaf, try something like this: AND gebdatum between now() and date_add(now(),interval 7 day) However, I have no idea if this can be done with 3.23.49a. -- Peter Sap. - Original Message - From: "Olaf van Zandwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sen

Re: rollback error

2003-11-16 Thread Peter Sap
You start a transaction but you insert into a non-transactional table (probably MyISAM). Change your table type into InnoDB or DBD and it will work. Peter Sap - Original Message - From: "Victoria Reznichenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Frida

Re: Problem about the maximum isze of MYISAM table

2003-11-16 Thread Peter Sap
You could try to use MERGE tables to get around this problem. Put all your data in several MyISAM tables and create a merge table on top of them. Peter Sap. - Original Message - From: "Niran Angkawattanawit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL

Re: MYSQLD Dump - Locks Database

2003-11-16 Thread Peter Sap
As far as I know no locking will be done, unless you use the --lock-tables flag: the tables in a database are locked before the dump starts. When using InnoDb, use the flag --single-transaction to get a consistent snapshot of your database. Peter Sap - Original Message - From: "Paul

Re: Creating statistics

2003-11-16 Thread Peter Sap
Try something like this: select Screen_Name,count(*) from MBoard where Message_Date>='2003-11-00' group by Screen_Name order by 2 desc limit 5; Peter Sap - Original Message - From: "Daniel Harik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: Analytic database?

2003-11-16 Thread Peter Sap
Sybase sites and everybody says that the query performance is very good. You can run into problems when loading data: only one session at a time can update a single table (many readers but only one writer) Peter Sap - Original Message - From: "Chris Nolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]