Re: Unicode

2001-10-26 Thread Philip White
Hi You can store Unicode text in a binary column (BLOB) and convert it to/from native Unicode format in your application. The most efficient form is likely to be UTF-8 format, which has a variable character length (the lower 128 characters are the same as ASCII). I have such a database that is

Re: how to run sql script in NT

2001-10-26 Thread Philip White
You don't need to be at the mysql prompt to run it, just run this from the DOS prompt: mysql temp.sql and that will run mysql.exe and read everything from your temp.sql file. - Original Message - From: Barbara Ferrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: barbara [EMAIL

Re: Weird Error Inserting

2001-10-25 Thread Philip White
Chris Are those columns really character types, or integers ? The values you list are quoted, which suggests they're character based, but 'id' suggests integers, ie. insert into match (league_id,round_id,team_id_1,team_id_2) VALUES (1,3,2,3); Phil - Original Message - From: Chris

Slow multi-column index

2001-10-24 Thread Philip White
Hello all Grateful for any help on this - I have a table (definition for MAIN below) with a number of indexes corresponding to various frequently used queries. A SELECT statement using one of the multi-column indexes is running very slow if it retrieves data that is not in in the index itself.

Re: Slow multi-column index

2001-10-24 Thread Philip White
are variable length, does MySQL have to do a linear scan through the database to find the row ? That's what I'm wondering because of the reference manual warning about variable length rows. Thanks On Wednesday 24 October 2001 06:52 am, Philip White wrote: Hello all Grateful for any help