Re: South American timber products.

2006-09-14 Thread Renato Golin
Martijn Tonies wrote: This sounds great. Could you please post some of your timber products here to the list? Many of us are really looking for a break from this boring MySQL stuff. Thanks, and our kind regards to you too. Unless they offer a new table-type that allows us to store real

Re: South American timber products.

2006-09-14 Thread Renato Golin
Paul McCullagh wrote: ?!:( A license to SPAM: On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:57 AM, Agrapin S.A. - Timber Industry and Trading wrote: This message is in full compliance with U.S. Federal requirements for commercial email under bill S.1618 Title lll, Section 301, Paragraph (a)(2)(C) passed by the

Re: Decimal versus Float Point Type

2006-09-08 Thread Renato Golin
Jerry Schwartz wrote: An employee of a financial institution realized a similar vulnerability in their systems. It was common to calculate batch totals, which were cross checked to make sure that no transactions went astray, but he realized that so long as the batch totals came out right you

Re: Decimal versus Float Point Type

2006-09-07 Thread Renato Golin
Bruno Rodrigues Silva wrote: Dear all. The MySQL Manual inform that Decimal Data Type is used for represent exact-number, but like Float Point Data Type, Decimal use rounding case the fractional part is not sufficient. Therefore, what the difference? Hi Bruno, FLOAT rounds as floating point

Re: Decimal versus Float Point Type

2006-09-07 Thread Renato Golin
Jerry Schwartz wrote: The difference is that, for example, .01 can be represented exactly in decimal; but float types are binary, so .01 cannot be represented exactly. This can lead to all kinds of trouble when doing arithmetic, the errors accumulate. Yes! but that can also lead to some other

Re: Decimal versus Float Point Type

2006-09-07 Thread Renato Golin
How do you expect to split a dollar 3 ways? Sorry, I should have added more smiles, it was supposed to be a joke about the dollars... ;) But still, I could win a lot of money by distributing people's money to their three kids and getting 1 cent out of every operation. :D It is not the math

Re: How to find the top most member in a hierarchy of subcategories

2006-09-04 Thread Renato Golin
Peter Lauri wrote: Yes, and this shows that you can not do it will MySQL purely :) But a scripting language like php can do it for you with a recursive function as the best option. IMHO, the best option would do it with a procedure as you don't get out of the database and don't have any

Re: Weird SELECT bug in 5.0.21

2006-08-31 Thread Renato Golin
Renald Buter wrote: Odd, eh? But what's worse, the JOIN between this column and other columns *also* uses this truncated values and the result is bogus. I wouldn't say odd, as you didn't specified any order I wouldn't rely on the order of the output. Try ordering things for what you want and

Re: MySQL NOW() function producing 0000-00-00 00:00:00

2006-08-25 Thread Renato Golin
Jeremiah Foster wrote: Hello all, We are using an NOW() function in our database and occasionally it produces odd results. There are entries where it states: -00-00 00:00:00 instead of the current time. Is this a bug, or are we using the function incorrectly? MySQL version info: mysql Ver

Re: MySQL NOW() function producing 0000-00-00 00:00:00

2006-08-25 Thread Renato Golin
Chris Knipe wrote: After patiently injecting at about 400 queries per seconds, a couple of hours later, I had about 5 million records in a table. Not a single one of them experienced the above It's one every 5 million and 1 entries... try again ;) Also, maybe (very improbable) it can be

Re: Testing Email

2006-08-25 Thread Renato Golin
Nicholas Vettese wrote: I have been having problems with my email, and I wanted to test to this list. Will let you know when I receive it... --renato -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MySQL NOW() function producing 0000-00-00 00:00:00

2006-08-25 Thread Renato Golin
Chris Knipe wrote: Doh.. Wrong email ;) INSERT INTO a VALUES (NOW()) ? Sorry, it was not for you, I wanted Jeremiah's query... replied the wrong mail... my fault! ;) --renato -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: Search Engine type search

2006-08-24 Thread Renato Golin
Chris wrote: The most common next search becomes the did you mean. Yes, that might work well, but I wouldn't use it out of the box. I would send a report to a human first to use that information instead of doing it automatically. Imagine someone searching for cous (instead of cows) and

Re: Chemistry search

2006-08-24 Thread Renato Golin
Rhino wrote: What do you mean by mols - molar weights? yup... i mean, probably... ;) And why would anyone search for anything to do with chemicals based on smilies? How would :-) or symbols like that help? Or is this some other sense of the word smilies than the customary Internet one?

RE: Search Engine type search

2006-08-23 Thread Renato Golin
OK, I appear to be getting somewhere with the FULL TEXT search. Does anyone have any good resources about producing search engine type results ? for example if some enters a search phrase like londn how would I suggest the word london ? Hi Neil, That's a completely different thing, but

Re: Search Engine type search

2006-08-22 Thread Renato Golin
Neil Tompkins wrote: I have a number of different database fields. Does anyone have any recommendations about how I can perform a search engine type search including the text fields. Full-Text Search: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html cheers, --renato -- MySQL

Re: returning username/pass from 2 tables

2006-08-15 Thread Renato Golin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I check two tables is it? Username and userpass are submitted through a from and are unique $sql = SELECT username, userpass FROM mytable, mytable2 WHERE username = '$username' AND userpass = '$userpass'; This way you'll have an ambiguous error as username

Re: comunication between Oracle and MYSQL

2006-08-14 Thread Renato Golin
balaraju mandala wrote: In my application there is a situation is arising, where i need to take some data to MySql from a table which is in Oracle database (i am planning to maintain that data in MySQL also). And from MySQL my application will use it. This whole thing should be happen

Re: how to store quotes in mysql?

2006-08-10 Thread Renato Golin
thanks for your response. I'm already working on the php part but just wondered how bad is to have backslash in front of quotes. It's bad in the sense that you will have to predict every single event (character) from the input and act accordingly. The API writers had predicted them all and

Re: MySQL 5.0.24 hard time with VB 3.5.4 and 3.6

2006-08-09 Thread Renato Golin
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Invalid SQL: INSERT IGNORE INTO session (sessionhash, userid, host, idhash, lastactivity, location, styleid, languageid, loggedin, inforum, inthread, incalendar, badlocation, useragent, bypass, profileupdate)

Re: how to store quotes in mysql?

2006-08-09 Thread Renato Golin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi to all. battling this problem on several forums and mailing lists, I got confused: when store string that contains quotations (ie afan's php shop) in mysql does it have to be stored with backslashes (afan\'s \php\ shop) or just the way it is? my login's telling me

Re: MySQL Load Balancing

2006-08-08 Thread Renato Golin
Ed Pauley II wrote: Continuent's m/cluster will not work for me as it does not allow replication across a WAN. Yeah, known problem... We have an offsite backup that needs to be in the replication (2-way to make switching back and forth easy) chain. Why do you need a backup site to write

Re: MySQL Load Balancing

2006-08-08 Thread Renato Golin
Ed Pauley II wrote: This is another geographical location with automatic failover if there is a problem, network, hardware etc. with the primary location. When the problem is corrected, or corrects itself the traffic is automatically sent back to the primary location. Without 2-way replication

Re: Help with Duplicate Key (32-bit Solaris MySQL 4.1)

2005-04-11 Thread Renato Golin
On Monday 11 April 2005 16:00, mysql helppp wrote: Error - Duplicate key '444642', -1 (The syntax of the error message is not exact) probably index error, run myisamchk on the table, or repair table inside MySQL command line. Should fix without loose any data. --rengolin -- MySQL General

Re: CSV-to-SQL?

2005-04-08 Thread Renato Golin
On Friday 08 April 2005 06:14, Richard Miller wrote: I didn't know the CSV table-type existed -- sounds really cool! As I understand it, it will save table data in a flat CSV file, but if I already have a CSV file, can I trick MySQL into thinking it's a table? That wasn't clear from the

Re: recovery of a very large table?

2005-04-06 Thread Renato Golin
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 20:05, jon wrote: Normal recovery seems to grab 490 rows... but, originally there were some 22 million rows in there. Seems your data file was corruped too not only the indexes. and probably broke when updating the 491st registry... try use myisamchk -e -e,

Re: CSV-to-SQL?

2005-04-05 Thread Renato Golin
You could use the CSV table type: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/csv-storage-engine.html Or use the LOAD DATA INFILE to import all data: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/LOAD_DATA.html --rengolin --- Richard Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dozen, very large CSV files that I would

Re: Making Slave a Master

2005-03-31 Thread Renato Golin
Hi Jalil, I had the same problem more than once. I solved it with a (not-so) simple perl script but the idea is very simple: swap the machines! scenario #1: master and slave running - master is used for writes, slave for reads, replication goes well. you have a DNS entry for MASTERDB.domain

Re: power loss scenario

2005-03-30 Thread Renato Golin
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 10:49, Brent Baisley wrote: Wow, you are asking a lot, especially since an inexpensive UPS could be had for less than $50. You don't need one to keep the system up for a long time, just long enough for writes to finish. A few minutes should be plenty. Yeah, remember

Re: load data from master

2005-03-29 Thread Renato Golin
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:26, Shamim Shaik wrote: Can I run load data from master on myisam tables where my table size is approx 30G? - stop slave - on master do: - lock tables - tar cpf - /var/lib/mysql/tbl | ssh -C slave tar xpf - -C /var/lib/mysql/tbl - start slave - on master again: -

Re: load data from master

2005-03-29 Thread Renato Golin
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:44, Shamim Shaik wrote: I cannot stop or lock tables on the master webapps write data to it constantly. I am copying over the binlogs and applying them to the slave. It is taking a long time so I just want to know if load data or copying tables over would bring

Re: Infinity as field value

2005-03-29 Thread Renato Golin
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 20:51, Scott Klarenbach wrote: Is there a way to represent infinity in mysql? I could make infinity default to 100,000,000 or some other number I know will never be reached, but it seems less elegant a solution... probably not the best but you could have two fields:

built in HA

2003-03-13 Thread Renato Golin
Hi, is there any built in high availability issue on mysql today? Or even plans to do it? I mean, I made my own HA perl script running on both master and slave replication servers to set up a HA but it could be a plugin of mysql, couldn't? In fact i want to rewrite it in C or Java but i