Re: mysql_safe just ends

2004-07-28 Thread Richard Clarke
Cameron, Take a look in the data directory for a .err file. This error log will almost certainly contain the reason why Mysql failed to load and will make fixing it much easier. Richard On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:15:34 -0600, Cameron Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Rory, > > I did go throu

Re: ARGH - Mysql won't stop eating RAM and finally it SEGV's

2004-07-21 Thread Richard Clarke
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have switched to the mysql standard binary and it helped in no way > > at all. If anything it made the situation worse. It seems that mysql > > grows even worse than before. > > Mysql us

Re: ARGH - Mysql won't stop eating RAM and finally it SEGV's

2004-07-20 Thread Richard Clarke
I have switched to the mysql standard binary and it helped in no way at all. If anything it made the situation worse. It seems that mysql grows even worse than before. Mysql uses an extra 1MB roughly every 5-10 seconds. Richard On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:44:39 +0100, Richard Clarke <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ARGH - Mysql won't stop eating RAM and finally it SEGV's

2004-07-20 Thread Richard Clarke
es and disable statistical operations depending on the above functions temporarily. I am using gcc-3.3.3-r6 and glibc-2.3.3.20040420 gentoo packages. Richard. On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:57:17 +0300, Egor Egorov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

ARGH - Mysql won't stop eating RAM and finally it SEGV's

2004-07-20 Thread Richard Clarke
Mysql won't stop eating RAM!! :( Machine is a quad xeon 2.4 with 4 gigs of RAM. Linux db2 2.6.7-rc3 #1 SMP Thu Jun 17 12:51:21 UTC 2004 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Mysql is 4.1.3-beta Compile options are, ./configure --enable-thread-safe-client --enable-assembler -

Re: GET_LOCK(str,timeout) behaviour

2004-06-01 Thread Richard Clarke
ot;gerald_clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:39 PM Subject: Re: GET_LOCK(str,timeout) behaviour > GET_LOCK is just a string lock, and has nothing to do with tables. > Use L

GET_LOCK(str,timeout) behaviour

2004-06-01 Thread Richard Clarke
The manual indicates that a GET_LOCK expires automatically when a new GET_LOCK is issued. Can someone explain to me how this behaviour could possibly be the most useful? I wish to use GET_LOCK in my applications to provide advisory locking on which tables should be used for certain operations. I t

Re: Perl arrays into MySQL

2004-06-01 Thread Richard Clarke
Crap sorry about the double post.. where's that damn undo send e-mail button :( A 'better' way imo would be, my %record; #full of my stuff my $table = "MyTable"; my $sql = join ',', map {"$_=?"} keys %record; $dbh->do("insert into $table set $sql",undef,values %record); Richard - Origina

Re: Perl arrays into MySQL

2004-06-01 Thread Richard Clarke
A perhaps more perlish way would be, my $table = "MyTable"; my $sql = join ',', map {"$_=?"} keys % - Original Message - From: "Daniel Kasak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nik Belajcic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:15 AM Subject: Re: Perl arrays in

Re: Password displayed in process list

2004-05-30 Thread Richard Clarke
Alek, Create a file of any name, e.g. script.cnf. Put the following in it, [client] user = dba password = dba_pass Run mysql with the --defaults-file arg mysql --defaults-file=script.cnf So long as the cnf file is only readable by the the cronjob owne

Re: MySQL 4.0.7 is released

2002-12-29 Thread Richard Clarke
Just think, one more click and you wouldn't have had to send an e-mail. http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-max-4.0.html http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-standard-4.0.html Richard. - Original Message - From: "Ray Kiddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lenz Grimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: 4.1 questions: subqueries which use dual

2002-12-24 Thread Richard Clarke
set (0.00 sec) Richard. - Original Message - From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Victoria Reznichenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MySQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 24,

Re: 4.1 questions: subqueries which use dual

2002-12-24 Thread Richard Clarke
Victoria, I pulled that latest updates to the 4.1 tree to make sure I had the most recent version and I still have the same problem. Here is a log of my actions. # cd /usr/local/mysql-4.1 mysql-4.1 # bin/mysql --defaults-file=etc/my-small.cnf -u root Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end

Re: Return every Nth row in a result set

2002-12-22 Thread Richard Clarke
. > I can't do it by ID because what if a row in the middle somewhere gets > deleted? I need to do it by the position in the table, and a static > numbering column won't work. This is a solution someone on EFNet came up > with: > > SET @rowcount=0; > select docid,@rowcount:=@rowcount+1 as num

Re: 4.1 Download

2002-12-20 Thread Richard Clarke
http://www.mysql.com/newsletter/2002-10/a79.html - Original Message - From: "Anthony W. Marino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 1:14 PM Subject: 4.1 Download > Where/how can I get a copy of 4.1? > Thanks, > Anthony -

Re: SQL Query

2002-11-18 Thread Richard Clarke
Gurhan, The outlined method is unnecessary if you are using Mysql. The same output can be achieved by using, select @a:=substring_index(val,',',3), substring_index(@a,',',-1) as value_i_want from test; Richard. - Original Message - From: "Gurhan Ozen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "P

Re: Mysql Innodb performance slow

2002-10-25 Thread Richard Clarke
Jeroen, Two things are likely to make this umpteen times faster. a) Commit the insert transaction every.. say 1000 records? b) use mysql's extended insert statement, insert into mytable values (row1_field1,row1_field2),(row2_field1,row2_field2),(?,?),(?,?) etc etc Ric. - Original M

Re: "Calendar" database

2002-10-22 Thread Richard Clarke
Uhm, huh? What use are these other products to him if his calendar is part of a bigger application? What's he gonna do, plonk his webcalendar.sourceforge.net instance into the middle of his current application? How exactly is he reinventing the wheel? You comments clearly indicates that these other

Re: normalization question

2002-10-21 Thread Richard Clarke
Except in the case that cars aren't held at the dealers and any one car can be purchased from a range of dealers. In which case you will need a seperate table like, Dealer_Car_Map (dealer_id,car_id). Ric. - Original Message - From: "Artem Koltsov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how do you define a relationship?

2002-10-20 Thread Richard Clarke
Randy, > I think I've firmed my "theoritical" understanding of relationships enough > to be dangerous. Now for the logical parthow do you actually define a > relationship in mysql? For instance... > http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SEC447.html > table movies > columns (movie id(pk) , movie ti

Re: Stored Proc

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Clarke
I believe your only choice is to move this stored procedure into client side routines. Ric - Original Message - From: "Pradana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 8:37 PM Subject: Stored Proc > > > OK, > > MySQL does not support the Stor

sql replication, fault tolerance, sql-relay

2002-07-15 Thread Richard Clarke
Have any of you guys come across this, http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html, as a way of managing fault tolerance from clients accessing mysql databases? Richard - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manu

Re: 4.0.2 Bugs

2002-07-13 Thread Richard Clarke
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: >On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:25:32AM +0100, Richard Clarke wrote: > >>Heikki & Others, >> >> I read through the 4.0.2 Changelog but I couldn't find indication of >>the following bug fixes. >> >>1. Was the bug with drop/

4.0.2 Bugs

2002-07-13 Thread Richard Clarke
Heikki & Others, I read through the 4.0.2 Changelog but I couldn't find indication of the following bug fixes. 1. Was the bug with drop/create tables causing assertaion errors fixed. I think that the latest 3.x release has this bug fixed but I know 4.0.1 certainly doesn't. 2. Do Unions

NATURAL JOIN

2002-07-12 Thread Richard Clarke
So this works as expected, mysql> create table test_1 (id int,value char); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> create table test_2 (id int,val char); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into test_1 values (1,a),(2,b),(3,c); ERROR 1054: Unknown column 'a' in 'field list' m

Re: Web Buttons and Command Line Instructions

2002-06-04 Thread Richard Clarke
Would it not be better to suggest that the poster gets a clue and goes buy a book. I dare say there are hundreds that are useful. In all honesty should the poster of a question like this not just give up? http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/y/MySQL-Books.html I'm sure one of these books would give some i

Re: I need 50.000 inserts / second

2002-06-02 Thread Richard Clarke
> > > INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (foo, foo), (bar, bar), (z, z)... > >From my own experience, by using this method, that is doing one insert per 200 or more rows I can increase the insert speed from between 5x - 10x. A couple more performance improvements where made as well so that value isn

Re: Unions

2002-06-01 Thread Richard Clarke
They are bugged in 4.0.1 (apparently fixed in 4.0.2) so I wouldn't rely on them too much. Richard - Original Message - From: "Victoria Reznichenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: Re: Unions > Arul, > Saturday, June 01, 2002,

Re: Finding holes in autoinc sequences

2002-05-31 Thread Richard Clarke
perfect if you are doing any statistical calculations which involves gathering the top 100 (or n) rows per id. Richard - Original Message - From: "Kevin Fries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Richard Clarke'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Finding holes in autoinc sequences

2002-05-30 Thread Richard Clarke
Or another approach could be (using same example tables) mysql> set @a:=0; set @b:=0; set @c:=0; mysql> select id,@b:=IF(id=@a+1,id,concat(@a+1,"..",id-1)),@a:=id,@flag:=IF(@b=id,id,"MISS ING") from seq; ++---++- --+

Re: Can I remove innobd binarie files?

2002-05-29 Thread Richard Clarke
sql> reset master; Ric - Original Message - From: "Iago Sineiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySql Mail List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 6:14 PM Subject: Can I remove innobd binarie files? > Hi all. > > In the innodb directory I have these files (prototipo is the n

Re: @INC

2002-05-28 Thread Richard Clarke
This is OT, perhaps post to comp.lang.perl.*? Ric p.s. try use DBI or use lib qw(/path/to/module) - Original Message - From: "Amy Zediak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySql List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: @INC > > > I'm a little confused on ho

Re: Re[2]: Join or smth.

2002-05-28 Thread Richard Clarke
I'm sure this question should be put in the docs. It's asked at least once a fortnight. Welcome to the wonderful world of Mysql variables. create temporary table productorder select *,(@a:= IF(@b=product,@a+1,1)) as cnt, @b:=product from products order by product,price; mysql> select * from produ

Re: 4.0.1 Bugs

2002-05-23 Thread Richard Clarke
gt; > > Heikki > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Heikki Tuuri > > > Innobase Oy > > > --- > > > Order technical MySQL/InnoDB support at https://order.mysql.com/ > > > See http://www.innodb.com for the online manual an

Re: mysql crashed and created huge .MYI files. All data lost?

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Clarke
Andy, I believe that that file is an on disk temporary file that was created during the query. I would suggest you wait for the recover to finish as I think (hope) your data will be returned to a fairly normal state when it does. Ric. - Original Message - From: "andy" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 4.0.1 Bugs

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Clarke
"Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: Re: 4.0.1 Bugs > Richard, > > the assertion failure below is very probably caused by the SHOW CREATE TAB

Re: HELP - Insight into dates, please

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Clarke
Pierre, I'm not so sure what you are asking here but from this statement, More importantly are there functions in mySQL I can call to convert a standard date, ie "mmdd" to the expected mySQL value?. I can tell you that mysql is quite happy to accept mmdd formatted dates without any

Re: Database and all backups lost at same time

2002-05-18 Thread Richard Clarke
Not a direct answer to your question here, but why keep backups on the same server and in the same storage medium? Ric. - Original Message - From: "kibserv-FtS Setiqueue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 9:44 PM Subject: Database and

Re: 4.0.1 Bugs

2002-05-18 Thread Richard Clarke
give tables and queries here since they form a large set of statistical analysis queries. Only information I can helpfully give is that the same set of roughly 30 queries is run every 5 seconds 24/7. After about 5-7 days the db server segv's on both our 4.4-release machines. Ric. - Ori

4.0.1 Bugs

2002-05-18 Thread Richard Clarke
List, I wondered if any movement has been made to determine the cause of the following "bugs" that I have come across using Mysql 4.0.1. 1) selectunion causes a temporary table full type error when the datasets aren't even that large and when there is bags of disk space. 2) Under FreeBSD

Re: MyISAM -> Innodb

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Clarke
Or goto http://www.innodb.com of course. Ric. - Original Message - From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sherzod Ruzmetov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Edilson Vasconcelos de Melo Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MYSQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:49 PM Subject: Re:

Re: Re: unkown table is full

2002-04-12 Thread Richard Clarke
This is mysql 4.0.1-alpha. Ric - Original Message - From: "Sinisa Milivojevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Re: unkown table is full > Richard Clarke writes: &

Re: Re: unkown table is full

2002-04-12 Thread Richard Clarke
There is plenty of space. In excess of 5 gigs. Ric - Original Message - From: "Victoria Reznichenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 2:02 PM Subject: Re: Re: unkown table is full > Richard, > Friday, April 05, 2002, 12:29:44 AM, you wrote: > > R

Re: TIMESTAMP(14) or Bigint ??

2002-04-09 Thread Richard Clarke
David, I could be wrong but since bigint isn't a date or time oriented data type I imagine this would be completely useless to you unless you are storing unix timestamps. You also have the option of using datetime data types. I'm not quite sure what you are asking nor what difference it makes

Re: InnoDB tables

2002-04-09 Thread Richard Clarke
Luke, How exactly will the foreign keys save you time? Please explain. Ric. - Original Message - From: "Luke van Blerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:17 AM Subject: InnoDB tables > Hi everyone, > > I've been reading up about InnoDB tab

Re: Do any of your applications work?

2002-04-06 Thread Richard Clarke
Hello Mr CEO, Hmmm... go away? Ric - Original Message - From: "Hugh O'Loughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 1:31 PM Subject: Do any of your applications work? Responsible Person, We have been asked by a client, to use your products

Re: unkown table is full

2002-04-04 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, --- In MySQL Version 3.23, in-memory temporary tables will automatically be converted to a disk-based MyISAM table after the table size gets bigger than tmp_table_size. --- It also says this though. I'm using mysql 4. Is the above not true for mysql 4? Ric - Original Message - From:

unkown table is full

2002-04-03 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, create table test select * from summary_rts union select * from summary_rts_old; ERROR 1114: The table '#sqld70c_b4_0' is full Can someone please help me figure out what is wrong with this. It was working fine up until a few hours ago. The only reason I really choose to use Mysql 4.0 was

Re: How to sum only nest N values?

2002-03-11 Thread Richard Clarke
age - From: "Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anzej Becan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:26 PM Subject: Re: How to sum only nest N values? > create temporary table usertempcnt > SELECT *,(@a:= IF(@b=id,

Re: How to sum only nest N values?

2002-03-11 Thread Richard Clarke
create temporary table usertempcnt SELECT *,(@a:= IF(@b=id,@a+1,1)) as cnt, @b:=id from user order by id,points desc; select *,sum(points) from usertmpcnt where cnt<=2; where 2 is your N Regards, Richard - Original Message - From: "Anzej Becan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL P

Re: extra max() function possibly very useful?

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Clarke
Correct. Richard - Original Message - From: "DL Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Christopher Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 6:34 PM Subject: Re: e

Re: extra max() function possibly very useful?

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Clarke
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: Re: extra max() function possibly very useful? > On Monday 04 March 2002 10:50 am, Richard Clarke wrote: > > > > create t

extra max() function possibly very useful?

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, What would the plausability of a function like this being implemented in the future. create table mytable (id int, val char(255), hits int); insert some data... select max(5,hits) from mytable group by id; This would allow selecting of the top 5 rows for each id according to the hit column

Deadlock found when trying to get lock;

2002-03-02 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, I'm running mysql 4.0.1.max on freebsd 4.4-stable. I have a fairly high volume db server which is user to processe approx 200 apache hits/sec. After previously having problems with 4.0.0 I changed to 4.0.1 and everything seemed fine for about 4 days. The exact same queries happen almost ev

Re: Mysql dies with Signal 11

2002-02-24 Thread Richard Clarke
l_size=100M set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=20M set-variable = innodb_file_io_threads=4 set-variable = innodb_lock_wait_timeout=50 Richard - Original Message - From: "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ""Richard Clarke"" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Mysql dies with Signal 11

2002-02-23 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, I seem to be getting intermittant crashes of mysql. The error log prints the following, mysqld got signal 11; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary or one of the libraries it was linked against is corrupt, improperly built, or misconfigured. This error

Re: database/table performance

2002-01-30 Thread Richard Clarke
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 7:11 AM Subject: Re: database/table performance > Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either spam or > simply off to

Re: innodb won't allocate the memory i ask it to

2001-12-08 Thread Richard Clarke
Yeh I forgot to originally state that I was using freebsd. You were correct, freebsd is compiled by default to not allow processes bigger than roughly 500megs. I recompiled the kernel, changing the limit to 1.5 gigs and now it runs fine using all my memory. For anyone else who needs the howto for

innodb won't allocate the memory i ask it to

2001-12-07 Thread Richard Clarke
I have a system with 1gig of ram and i am trying to get the innodb buffer to be about 750megs. Whenever I set the value in the database config file it won't start with an error along the lines of, 011207 21:02:42 mysqld started InnoDB: Fatal error: cannot allocate 67108864 bytes of InnoDB: memor

unable to assign desired memory

2001-12-04 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, I have a box with 1gig ram which i am using as my mysql server. however when i try to assig about 600megs to the innodb buffer pool it reports that, InnoDB: Fatal error: cannot allocate 524304384 bytes of InnoDB: memory with malloc! Total allocated memory InnoDB: by InnoDB 211

table full

2001-11-30 Thread Richard Clarke
DBD::mysql::st execute failed: The table 'ip_src' is full at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd/Mysql.pm line 172. I get this error when running a query on my database. According to the documentation, in later versions of mysql this problem should be bypassed due to the automatic d

bin files

2001-11-22 Thread Richard Clarke
So I have found out that mysql creates bin logs of all queries so that it can do rollbacks and such. But is it really necessary for it to maintain these logs forever so that they end up to be 10gigs + for only a few thousand current rows. Ric

insert/delete locking with innodb

2001-11-20 Thread Richard Clarke
If I have a process inserting into an innodb table in 200 insert chunks. i.e. it commits after every 200 inserts, must another process, which wants to delete data from this table, wait for the next commit on the insert end? If not is there any reason why my process is doing this. Ric --

Re: database slow down

2001-11-19 Thread Richard Clarke
There is definitly something to do with this row count that is causing a problem. My table uses no blobs. CREATE TABLE `raw` ( `cid` int(11) default NULL, `agent` char(255) default NULL, `referer` char(255) default NULL, `addr` char(15) default NULL, `via` char(255) default NULL, `forw

database slow down

2001-11-18 Thread Richard Clarke
This is a followup to my previous messages indicating database slow down. After noticing the queries start to slow down earlier i decided to try and get some debug info. a show table status had one interesting thing. | raw| InnoDB | Fixed | 169681 | 1030 | 174817280 |

truncates

2001-11-18 Thread Richard Clarke
I thought truncates were supposed to be really fast. I don't really notice any difference in speed between a truncate query and a delete query. What is actually involved in a truncate. The docs says its faster because a drop and recreate occurs but how is this actually faster. Ric -

what is - ric-bin.001, for

2001-11-17 Thread Richard Clarke
Can anyone explain to me what these files are for. If they are related to innodb why don't they go in my specified ibdata directory. I set innodb to use 4gig's and when i start mysql it creates this file in the specified location so why does it need to create bin files when i insert rows into my d

mysql magically restarts of its own accord

2001-11-16 Thread Richard Clarke
06 13:38:46 mysqld restarted InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally. InnoDB: Starting recovery from log files... InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at InnoDB: log sequence number 5 778892274 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 5 778957312 InnoDB: Doing re

crashed queries cause big database slowdown - using innodb

2001-11-15 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, I'm building an application which uses Innodb. It is very imperative that all data is processed as quickly as it possibly can and so the problem I have is quite a concern. My perl script executes the queries however if if make an error in the code and the script crashes half way through th

Re: innodb inserts/select crash

2001-11-13 Thread Richard Clarke
What does this mean. How can I fix it. It seems silly that I have to read data out just to write it back in again instead of using the create...select command. Rich - Original Message - From: "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:1

innodb inserts/select crash

2001-11-12 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi there. Can anyone offer a solution to this problem. CREATE TABLE `raw` ( `cid` int(11) default NULL, `agent` char(255) default NULL, `referer` char(255) default NULL, `addr` char(15) default NULL, `via` char(255) default NULL, `forward` char(15) default NULL, `ctime` datetime def

creating/dropping index - plz help

2001-06-14 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, I have a database with 14 million rows which contains 3 indexes. I am trying to drop two of these indexes and create another one. However each operation takes about 12 hours. Is there anyway I can make this a lot faster by changing runtime variables and similar things. Thanks in advance,

Indexes - Yes I know people ask this hundreds of times

2001-03-31 Thread Richard Clarke
an 30%. Or is that then gonna seriously affect other queries which go over the 30%. Should I just always add a limit 1 statement since our queries are always based around the sum total of the rows. Can someone more experienced with index's please suggest to me the best way to