Re: UPDATE :-(

2001-04-25 Thread Peter Skipworth
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Re: mySql and trigger/transaction support

2001-04-24 Thread Peter Skipworth
Like duh! =) On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Rene Tegel wrote: > RTFM=Read The Fucking Manual > > now you know. > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:37:44 +0100 (BST) > Peter Skipworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I for one vote to not bother with abbreviations from n

Re: mySql and trigger/transaction support

2001-04-24 Thread Peter Skipworth
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Re: Problem with mysql query

2001-04-24 Thread Peter Skipworth
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Re: Newbie frequency question

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Skipworth
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Re: Inserting data to multiple table at once

2001-04-18 Thread Peter Skipworth
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Corrupt tables after long queries (fwd)

2001-04-18 Thread Peter Skipworth
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Corrupt tables after long queries

2001-04-18 Thread Peter Skipworth
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'Sending data' takes > 40 seconds ?

2001-04-17 Thread Peter Skipworth
--+ | 7568 | hot | localhost | hot | Query | 67 | Sending data | select count(distinct(cookie)) from tbl_webevents where event_time >= from_unixtime(983833200) and e | +--+--+---+--+-+--+-- -- ----

RE: Select

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Skipworth
select * from blah where fieldname in (1,3,4) On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jim Zarvis wrote: > What is good clean sql syntax to accomplish the following with MySQL: > SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE value is in array of values > > i.e. (psudocode) > > Assume I have a field called ID in my table, and t

Re: BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK

2001-04-10 Thread Peter Skipworth
**READ THE MANUAL BEFORE POSTING TO THE LIST** http://www.mysql.com/docs On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Bruno Roselli wrote: > Hi. How to use Begin, Commit and Rollback in my tables type MyISAM ? > > mysql> BEGIN; > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) > > mysql> UPDATE tabgral set codigo=2 where cod

Re: select(count(distinct(status))

2001-04-06 Thread Peter Skipworth
It should work fine as printed...but you'll need mysql 3.23.xx On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Temeschinko, Michael wrote: > > hi, > > I need to make a select like above in the subject count distinct (I need the > count of the different values of a coloumn) > > Hope you guys won't let me die silly! > :-)

Re: Visual C++

2001-04-06 Thread Peter Skipworth
Nicholas, Is this anything to do with mysql ? P On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I am getting an error > > c:\development\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\excpt.h(37) : error > C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier '_STDAFX_H' > c:\development\micr

Re: turning logging on/off while server is running

2001-04-06 Thread Peter Skipworth
Agreed - I'd love to be able to turn it on/off on demand. regards, P On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:13:22AM -0400, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Roel Vanhout wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Is there a way to turn the query logg

Re: HELP me!

2001-04-06 Thread Peter Skipworth
The error log in ~mysql/var should give you a hint as to your problem. P On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, François Grenapin wrote: > I have a little matter for begin my server mysql... > When I want to connect to mysql, it happends that : > RROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > '/

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Skipworth
I think William mentioned MS-SQL - as opposed to mysql - on the NT box... P On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Gerald Clark wrote: > Perl/DBI, or any mysql client on Linux should connect to mysql on NT > with no problem. Why would you need ODBC? > > > > William Goedicke wrote: > > > > Dear Y'all - > >

Re: "YourName.BEST321.com" FREE §K¶O°ì¦W !!!!!

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Skipworth
That's it! One more like this and I'm unsubscribing - this is driving me insane!! P On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Water wrote: > Dear Webmaster, > Does your homepage address look long and difficult to remember like this: >http://www.myhomepage.com/entertainment/w/love/index.html? > Wouldn't you like it

Re: Storing pictures in mySQL

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Skipworth
> I am not sure what you explained. You mean that place PATH/filename.jpg to > picture field. isn't it? If yes, it is just a text. How can we explore that > picture thru web browser such as IE or Netscape? Thanks for the answer Your image would be in, say /usr/local/apache/htmldoc/images/simpleto

Re: Perl-MySql DBD Errors

2001-04-04 Thread Peter Skipworth
Eric, Download the source tarball for mysql from the website and reinstall using that - the necessary include files do not come with the redhat rpm. regads, P On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Eric Fegraus wrote: > > Hello, > > I have redhat 7.0 with Mysql Ver 8.8 Distrib 3.23.22-beta. This was the > M

Re: Please help with MYSQLDUMP syntax errors

2001-04-04 Thread Peter Skipworth
mysql --username=xxx --password=xxx -e "SELECT * INTO OUTFILE "/root/cTable-data.dump" FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"' FROM cTable WHERE myfield='1'" dbname On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, James Salinas wrote: > Hi, > > My problem is specifically concerning syntax for mysqldump. > I can succe

Unexpected server shutdown

2001-04-04 Thread Peter Skipworth
I just had my mysql server go down - the processes still appeared to be running, but were not accepting connections. The only entry in my hostname.err log was as follows... 010404 11:12:07 Aborted connection 31 to db: 'unconnected' user: 'root' host: `localhost' (Got an error writing commun

Re: Antwort: Storing pictures in mySQL

2001-04-04 Thread Peter Skipworth
Ouch! I don't know if many people would recommend this method - that's a fair bit of unnecesary overhead to place ony our server...depending, of course, on how often these images are created/modified/read. P > > Here's how I do b) in PHP: > > 1) Get the MIME type of the image. > 2) Read the b

Re: Virtual Domains ?

2001-04-03 Thread Peter Skipworth
I think what Kris needs answered is... If mysql.a.com and mysql.b.com are two virtual hosts on the same physical server, can mysql -h mysql.a.com dbname and mysql -h mysql.b.com dbname be differentiated. I'm fairly sure that mysqld has an option so that the IP to bind to can be specified to

Re: Image in Mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Peter Skipworth
Read the archives of this list. P On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Sheikh wrote: > Respected Sir > i want to know how i store a image in mysql.i sue perl for scripting on linux. > please help me > thanks > allah hafiz > > - Before post

RE: NT installation

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Skipworth
You do not need telnet to access a mysql server - mysql has it's own client-server protocol, accessible via the means described by Jean-Claude. regards, P On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Chad Nielsen wrote: > Thanks Jean - Claude, > > NT Workstation comes with a built-in client. but from what I can te

Re:pulling audio out of a blob and playing it. => just a questionabout performance

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Skipworth
(I think) most people figure that the disadvantages of having images and most other binary files stored within the DBMS far outweigh any advantages. From the top of my head... Advantages -- - tidiness - ease of backup - all data is in one respository. Disadvantages - - DB

Re: Best way to generate laser-printed reports from mysql

2001-03-27 Thread Peter Skipworth
This may help - I use 'htmldoc' from easysw.com to convert from HTML to Postscript - it means I can write reports etc in HTML and them simply convert them to GS and throw them at the printer. htmldoc adds a couple of custom HTML tags which you can add to your HTML, including a page break tag, whic

Re: Any ideas on how to optimise this ?

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Skipworth
Thanks heaps...as long as I can use distinct(count..)), i'm happy going back to .33 :) Cheers! P On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Fred van Engen wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:30:43PM +0100, Peter Skipworth wrote: > > Eeps...I'm running 3.23.35..I gather you&

Re: Any ideas on how to optimise this ?

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Skipworth
; was added ? I know it didn't used to work, but I thought I'd try it again this morning and lo and behold, it was supported... Cheers, P On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Fred van Engen wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:04:29PM +0100, Peter Skipworth wrote: > >

Re: Any ideas on how to optimise this ?

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Skipworth
l of this on a dev server! On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Fred van Engen wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:20:14PM +0100, Peter Skipworth wrote: > > I've got a table which is basically a log of traffic on one of my websites > > - I have a seperate table per month

Any ideas on how to optimise this ?

2001-03-26 Thread Peter Skipworth
Hi peeps, I've got a table which is basically a log of traffic on one of my websites - I have a seperate table per month, all of which are MERGED for queries which need access to more than a month's worth of data. select count(distinct cookie) as c,dayofmonth(event_time) as d from tbl_webevents

Re: Q: How to recreate lost .MYI files

2001-03-23 Thread Peter Skipworth
Try copying your .MYD and .frm files to a directory and running 'restore table [tablename] from '/this/directory' regards, P On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Carsten Gehling wrote: > I have to MYISAM tables where I... ahem... have lost the corresponding .MYI > files. When I try to repair the tables, myis

Re: Wanted: Script to store files i DB

2001-03-23 Thread Peter Skipworth
All you need is a single SQL function - have a look in the docs. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, roger westin wrote: > Hi, > Anyone got a small script to store a file in a BLOB. > Nothing fancy, just so that I dont need to think that much today. > > /roger > > -

*sigh* Re: Is it a bug?

2001-03-23 Thread Peter Skipworth
This may well be a point which has been raised in the past, but has there ever been any talk of splitting this list into a "mysql-for-dummies" and a "mysql-for-people-who-read-the-manual" list ? I'm getting close to unsubscribing due to the enormously large noise ratio - to be frank, questions suc

Re: Is email unique?

2001-03-21 Thread Peter Skipworth
Strictly speaking, they're not unique - there's a lot of many to one mappings- eg my work email address and my home email address - and a hell of a lot of one to many mappings - ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] As long as you're happy with that, most people end up being happy assuming that a user's email add

Re: MySQL and XML?

2001-03-21 Thread Peter Skipworth
Bryan, You've given no indication of what "this structure" is - the fact that your data is rarely read or updated will have little bearing on whether an RDBMS is suitable for your needs. It would be a very rare case, however, where a simple flat text file gave you quicker access to a search of a

Re: MySQL 3.23.35 is released

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Skipworth
I'd love to see some benchmarks soonish if anyone has/is about to compare each of the table handlers for speed and stability. Personally I'd love to have row-level locking, but don't want to do it if it means lower stability and/or slower basic select/insert queries. regards, P On Sat, 17 Mar 2

I don't ask for help very often *but*...

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Skipworth
Since upgrading to mysql 3.23 and using MYIAM tables, I'm experiencing a problem which is becoming more and more common. When conducting queries which take more than about 15 seconds to run (ie mass deletes, mysqldumps, check table etc), I end up with corrupt tables. The database server is the bac

Re: MySQL doesn't support PAM but Radius instead... why Radius?

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Skipworth
If you're looking for PAM modules that authenticate from a mySQL database, I know they exist - although I can't comment on them as I haven't used them before. regards, P On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Roberto Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > We're trying to "unify" the authentication system in our Linux. > > PA

Re: Setting a specific default value on a field

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Skipworth
Jamie, mySQL doesn't support triggers, and you'd need them (or a stored procedure). Surely you could just set both A and B explicitly in your application logic to the same value though ? Or am I missing your point ? P On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jamie S Buchanan wrote: > Hello all, > I'm a third year

Re: Date query problem (hard one)

2001-03-08 Thread Peter Skipworth
Antione, What's your definition of a week number ? A week number in the range 1..52 is not in itself enough to calculate a precise date from.. regards, P On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Adams, Antoine A SSI-ISES-56 wrote: > I've been strugling with a query for some time now and I can't get the > desired

Re: Version No

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Skipworth
Sounds like it installed to a different directory than the previous version - try /usr/local/bin/mysqld --version or /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --version It would be a good idea to remove any previous binaries to avoid confusion, as well. Cheers, P On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Cal Evans wrote: > I

Re: Bug in 3.23.33? Or design decision?

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Skipworth
fulltext is now a reserved word - either change the name of the field, or use quotes when refering to it. regards, P On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! I just upgraded from 3.22.26a to 3.23.33. We've got a database > that has a table that has a column with the name: Full

RE: XML support under mySQL

2001-02-26 Thread Peter Skipworth
> How is this superior to SQL? It includes the letters "XML", which, apparantly, can do everything from butter your toast to giving you an orgasm like no other you've had before. Don't you just *love* buzzwords! Sorry...I had to say it =) And no, I'm not at all the cynical type...not I! P Why

RE: mysql process running

2001-02-26 Thread Peter Skipworth
Oh... Isn't ModAuthMySQL used for HTTP authentication against a mysql database ? I can't see how that could influence queries running from within a mod_perl/CGI script... P On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Simon Green wrote: > Hi there Kiran > We had the same problme and we found that updating ModAuthMy

Re: mysql process running

2001-02-26 Thread Peter Skipworth
As far as I know, this is on the wishlist, but has not been implemented - ie, a thread should die if the client disconnects. You'll probably need to run mysqladmin kill xxx, where is the offending thread id. regards, P On 26 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Everybody, > I am a

Re: MySQL question to ask

2001-02-26 Thread Peter Skipworth
select Name,Income,Out,(Income-Out) as Balance from tblname On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > Sorry to ask question again, or maybe i am just a beginner. > > I wanna ask: > If there are 2 records > Name Income Out > Data1 1000 700 >

Re: can sorting be avoided

2001-02-26 Thread Peter Skipworth
Edd, mySQL, like any other RDBMS, does (and can not) not insert data in a guaranteed order into a table. While mySQL might usually insert the most recent record "last" in a table, you should never rely upon the fact. Refusing to sort your data on the basis of system load sounds a little strange

Slightly offtopic...

2001-02-24 Thread Peter Skipworth
Sorry for going slightly off-topic...I realise this is more a Perl question , but suspect someone here might know the answer. I'm halfway through writing a module (it's at alpha stage) to cache mysql/DBI query results, either within RAM using shared memory or to disk using Storable. Testing alrea

Re: 3.23 "Online Table Maintenance"?

2001-02-23 Thread Peter Skipworth
Look up "repair table" in the on-line manual. regards, P On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Hardy Merrill wrote: > In the 3.23 news article, at the bottom it says this: > > > > Online Table Maintenance > > MySQL 3.23 now incorporates many of the table maintanence > features of the (previ

Re: Saving pictures in MySql

2001-02-23 Thread Peter Skipworth
Agreed I generally set aside a directory for any images, etc, per table, and simply save any images as [primary_key].jpg. That way you can write simple GetImage([table_name], [primary_key]) functions to return the location/URL of the matching image. regards, P On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Mikel Ki

Re: COUNT(DISTINCT some_column)

2001-02-23 Thread Peter Skipworth
Oops...apologies...my mistake =) *blush* P On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Fred van Engen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:13:20PM +0900, Sam Joseph wrote: > > > > however on the MySQL versions I currently have access to (3.22.32 & > > 3.22.34) I get this: > > > > mysql> select COUNT(DISTINCT SOME_C

Re: COUNT(DISTINCT some_column)

2001-02-23 Thread Peter Skipworth
This feature isn't available in current versions of mySQL, but is on the TODO list. regards, P On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Sam Joseph wrote: > Hi there, > > Doesn't seem to be a FAQ so here goes with a question > > My MySQL manual has the following to say about how to count the number > of distinc

Re: running safe_mysqld errors with "010222 17:25:00 mysqld ended"

2001-02-22 Thread Peter Skipworth
check your error log in ~mysql/var On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Matthew P. Marino wrote: > exact command is "./safe_mysqld --user=mysql &". The error "010222 17:25:00 > mysqld ended" happens immediately. > > - > Before posting, please

RE: ReisserFS

2001-02-22 Thread Peter Skipworth
I'd heard that even in general use, some users had a noticeable increase in disk reads/writes under ReiserFS...it sounds like you haven't experienced this (?). I'm thinking about moving over to ReiserFS as well, shortly, and am looking for as much feedback from people using it as possible... rega

Re: maximum number of characters

2001-02-22 Thread Peter Skipworth
Matt, Before posting to a mailing list, you should ensure you RTFM! Have a look at www.mysql.com and you'll find tha answers in the documentation. regards, P On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Matt Davis wrote: > Hi Can anybody tell me what the maximum number of characters I can have in > one field. > >

Re: Comparing dates

2001-02-19 Thread Peter Skipworth
Can you just not use... ...WHERE myDateField > '1997-10-04 22:23:00' ...WHERE myDateField > '1997-10-04' ? regards, P > > You get the idea... thoughts? > > Best, > Nick > > > - > Before posting, please check: >ht

Re: Creative solution with XML,PHP,MYSQL

2001-02-17 Thread Peter Skipworth
XML is all about data definition - not being able to dynamically change the display of the data on a webpage. Browsers don't even understand XML natively - you need to write it out as HTML before you can display it in IE or Netscape. P On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Siim Einfeldt aka Itpunk wrote: > >

Re: Creative solution with XML,PHP,MYSQL

2001-02-17 Thread Peter Skipworth
I'm afraid XML isn't going to help you - you need to investigate DHTML options, although you'll be lucky to find a solution which is compatible across both Netscape and IE. regards, P On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Siim Einfeldt aka Itpunk wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I want to implement ordering somethi

Funny characters....

2001-02-17 Thread Peter Skipworth
Hi all, All of a sudden, some of my data (originating from a web form) is showing content such as the following... Sailing & Windsurfing Instructor – training given-(Mediterranean Coast)This is a fantastic opportunity to work for the UK’s leading children’s adventure holiday co

Re: problem in tar

2001-02-17 Thread Peter Skipworth
Solaris tar has bugs - download and install GNU tar from www.gnu.org Cheers, Pete On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, HASAN farooq wrote: > I have GNU tarbut still when i decompress the the > mysql i get > mysql-3.22.32-sun-solaris2.7-sparc/sql-bench/Results/ATIS-Adabas-Linux_2.0.35_ > i686-cmp-adabas,mysql

Re: Display information

2001-02-16 Thread Peter Skipworth
isn't it as simple as... select id,lot_id,lot_type from scrap_table where id >= 1932 and id <= 1942 order by id limit 10; ? cheers, P > > which should give me records 1932 - 1942 like this... > > +--+--+--+ > | id | lot_id | lot_type | > +--+

Re: difference of two datetime values

2001-02-16 Thread Peter Skipworth
select if(columnname > now(), "future", "past") from tblname On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Vyacheslav Chukin wrote: > Please, tell me, > how could I determine, > which one of two datetime values is greater? > > In other words, > how could I determine, > is stored on db datetime value in future or pas

Re: Excel->MySQL

2001-02-15 Thread Peter Skipworth
Save to a CSV (comma-delimited file) from Excel, and take a look at the "load data infile..." command within the mysql documentation. regards, P On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Joe Ferrara wrote: > I am not a Perl Guru. How would I set up this environment? Or is there > another way to go from excel

Re: Duplication Question

2001-02-15 Thread Peter Skipworth
mysqladmin create newdatabasename mysqldump olddatabasename | mysql newdatabasename Of course you'll need the usual username/password parameters as well. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Joe Ferrara wrote: > I want to make an exact duplicate (differenet name) of my entire DB for > test purposes. My DB

Re: special characters messing me up

2001-02-13 Thread Peter Skipworth
Or a handy one-liner... perl -pi -e "s/[\012\015]//" *.sql On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Pat Sherrill wrote: > When ftp'ing the file use the ASCII mode instead of the BINARY mode. All > CR/LF conversions will take place automagically. Alternatively some linux > distributions have a utility to strip C

Re: Caching Bug with AUTO_INCREMENT columns

2001-02-13 Thread Peter Skipworth
While the output you've shown could well be considered eroneous, surely you shouldn't be relying on this sort of logic in a decent piece of code ? Or am I missing something ? If you're trying to work out which row was inserted most recently, shouldn't you be using your db handle lastinsert_id pa

Re: Need help with Install of MySQL

2001-02-09 Thread Peter Skipworth
There'll be a .err file in your ~mysql/var directory - have a look at it, and it should give you a pointer as to the precise problem. regards, P On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Matt Davis wrote: > I am new to MySQL and have just installed the MySQL rpm files to my Linux > box. > > I have run "mysql_insta

Re: MySQL vs Access; you'd *think* the choice is obvious...

2001-02-08 Thread Peter Skipworth
Re your second query - without looking at the docs, unix_timestamp(field1) - unix_timestamp(field2) would give you the difference in seconds - I;m sure there's a cleaner way though! On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Quickling wrote: > Hi, > > Question 1: > --- > We've got a server app that does a

Re: Is WHEN a reserved word in MySQL?

2001-02-08 Thread Peter Skipworth
As of 3.23.xx, WHEN is a reserved word. regards, P On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Andy Woolley wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone know if a field called WHEN could cause trouble with queries? > > Many Thanks > > Andy Woolley > www.databasewatch.com > > > ---

Re: table too big to dump?

2001-02-07 Thread Peter Skipworth
Use mysqldump -q ... This will prevent buffering of the table content in RAM. regards, P On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Brian Reichert wrote: > I apologize if this has been discussed already, but I quick poke > at the archives didn't reveal anything. > > We have a table that iamchk says is fine. We ar

Re: Mysql over NFS

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Skipworth
Nope... It's stated explicitly in the docs that this is a *Bad Idea* (with caps, even! *grin*). You'll need to look at other options - replication, possibly, either on to the same machine with your db on a different drive, or (probably preferable) onto a seperate box. regards, P On Tue, 6 Feb

Re: MS Access Checkbox equivalent format in MySQL

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Skipworth
Take your pic - personally, I usually use a tinyint, and assign a 0 or 1 - I suspect the options you describe would work just as well. regards, P On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, John Halladay wrote: > If I am using MS Access and linking to tables in MySQL through MyODBC, what > is the equivalent format of

Re: I have a question ?

2001-01-22 Thread Peter Skipworth
password() encrypts the password - it's a one-way encryption with no possibility of regaining the plain-text value. On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Opas Suteppratanwong wrote: > Now i use the Miscellaneous functions PASSWORD() , how can i decypt the > values for use to show in true value . what function