Re: Using = in WHERE vs HAVING clause

2005-02-22 Thread SGreen
Rene Churchill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/22/2005 04:23:47 PM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rene Churchill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/22/2005 03:39:05 PM: Hi Shawn, This is what I wound up going with: SELECT b.id, if(a.a = b.a, NULL, b.a), if(a.b

Re: Subquery problems

2005-02-17 Thread SGreen
Joppe A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/17/2005 09:45:31 AM: hello all, I am a newbe working with MySQL. I have a problem that I can't figure out how to do. I have 2 tables that I want to take out data from, the tables looks like below. tableA == ID VARCHAR(12) NAME

Re: JOIN Problem

2005-02-17 Thread SGreen
Albert Padley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/17/2005 12:08:31 PM: I have the following 2 tables: CREATE TABLE `division_info` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `division` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', `spots` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY

Re: JOIN Problem

2005-02-17 Thread SGreen
Michael Dykman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/17/2005 12:20:44 PM: On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 12:08, Albert Padley wrote: I have the following 2 tables: CREATE TABLE `division_info` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `division` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', `spots`

Re: Multiple record Insert limit

2005-02-16 Thread SGreen
Ed Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/16/2005 02:13:40 PM: Can anyone tell me the limit for the number of records that can be inserted in a single call? I'm trying to insert multiple records like this, INSERT INTO t1 (f1, f2, f3, f4) VALUES (test, 1, some data, Done), (testing, 21, some

Re: auto_increm, forced step back

2005-02-15 Thread SGreen
Gaspar Bakos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/15/2005 04:28:26 PM: Hi, My understanding is that with mysql = 3.23 versions the last value of an auto_increm column is stored, thus even if records are deleted, when a new one is inserted (as NULL), values will not be re-used. This is a fine

Re: LOAD DATA INFILE using 4.0.17

2005-02-15 Thread SGreen
shaun thornburgh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/15/2005 04:53:54 PM: Hi, I have a table with 26 fields, each row in this table must be unique. I can't define all of the fields to be primary keys as the limit is 16. Therefore before I insert data I have to check that each row is unique.

Re: slow query, how can i imporve it?

2005-02-11 Thread SGreen
YES, I need a LOT more information. Please provide ALL the information I asked for in my previous post (especially questions 1, 2, and 3). To compare with my automobile analogy: You told me that your auto is towing a lot of identical trailers and that if you use a different vehicle on a

Re: slow query, how can i imporve it?

2005-02-11 Thread SGreen
Normally I do not reply to myself but I just realized that in my previous response I confused COUNT(*) (which is slow for InnoDB because it always does a table scan to resolve the version lock of each and every row) with SHOW STATUS (which computes table sizes based on the average of 1 random

Re: Special Characters

2005-02-11 Thread SGreen
Asad Habib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/11/2005 04:03:32 PM: Does anyone know where I can find a list of characters that cannot be inserted into a MySQL database as part of a string? I know that MySQL does not accept single and double quotes and that these have to replaced by their name

Re: slow query, how can i imporve it?

2005-02-10 Thread SGreen
See below Shailendra Soni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/10/2005 01:43:18 AM: Thank , But i can't create multipal index it will not useful for my tabels. I tryed to set GLOBAL keycache1.key_buffer_size = 128*1024 but it gives error that unknown system varible ' keycache1' . can you

Re: MySQL as Email database [sort of OT]

2005-02-10 Thread SGreen
Brent Baisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/10/2005 12:21:38 PM: I am looking to store all incoming emails into a MySQL database. I've looked into dbmail, but can't get it to compile under Mac OSX (I posted a message on that list). I was wondering if anyone could point me in another

Re: Merge vs multiple innodb performance

2005-02-09 Thread SGreen
Marcin Lewandowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 05:29:39 PM: Chuck Herrick napisa(a): 200 - 400 tables is too many. Is it too many for merge, innodb or both? Try having one CUSTOMERS table. You know who is logged in, so you can use that information in a WHERE clause. Yes,

Re: Problems installing MySql...

2005-02-09 Thread SGreen
Steve Grosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 06:04:48 PM: I already have a version of MySql 4.1.17 running on a different server, but am trying to setup v.4.0.23 to see if it will allow me to use PHPBB's software. I'm finding that 4.0.23 isn't as easy to set up as the later versions.

Re: Multiple table join help

2005-02-09 Thread SGreen
E SA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 06:40:40 PM: All, I have done some reading and research; however, I seem to be at a loss... And this time, I am not sure how to ask Google... Here is the problem: Table A: id INT valuevarchar (10) Table B: id

Re: slow query, how can i imporve it?

2005-02-09 Thread SGreen
Shailendra Soni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/09/2005 08:28:36 AM: Hi, I have a question regarding speed of the query. In my application i am useing Mysql 4.0.20a-nt. I have 10 tables and each table contains 400 records and also 61 columns. I already created indexs on six column which

Re: breaking session start/stop datetime records on time/day bounds

2005-02-09 Thread SGreen
Dean Karres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/09/2005 12:46:46 PM: Hi, I have a table full of activity records. Each record has a DATETIME field for when the activity started and one for when it ended. I want to post process this table and produce billing records from it. Billing records

Re: Problems installing MySql...

2005-02-09 Thread SGreen
reconstituted from a munged response (original post) Steve Grosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 06:04:48 PM: I already have a version of MySql 4.1.17 running on a different server, but am trying to setup v.4.0.23 to see if it will allow me to use PHPBB's software. I'm finding that

Re: Problems installing MySql...

2005-02-09 Thread SGreen
Steve Grosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/09/2005 03:43:22 PM: I downloaded the MySql Administrator and simply run that. and dragged the icon to the startup menu so it loads MySql on startup. Not entirely sure how to load MySql as a 'service' on Win2003 Server. The only message I get, and

Re: Syntax for Compound IF Statements?

2005-02-08 Thread SGreen
Sue Cram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 01:18:48 AM: Thanks to the people who helped me with my IF statement question last night. Now I need to carry it one step further to a compound 'IF' statement. Again, can't find much information in the manuals -- Several people sent me IF

Re: Mysql permissions

2005-02-08 Thread SGreen
Nupur Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 01:26:06 PM: I have problems with access permissions on a Solaris 9 installtion of MySql-max 4.1. My user table shows this select * from user; | Host| User | Password | Select_priv | Insert_priv | Update_priv | Delete_priv |

Re: Selecting first non-null values from a set of rows

2005-02-08 Thread SGreen
Eli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 02:26:41 PM: Hello, Say I get these rows in a regular query: col1 col2col3 --- NULLB1NULL NULLNULLNULL A3 B3 NULL A4 NULLC4 A5 B5 C5 NULLB6 C6 (It's important

Re: Selecting first non-null values from a set of rows

2005-02-08 Thread SGreen
Eli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 03:27:42 PM: Eli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 02:26:41 PM: Hello, Say I get these rows in a regular query: col1 col2col3 --- NULLB1NULL NULLNULLNULL A3 B3 NULL A4

Re: How do I Put a 'Literal' Value in a Report Column?

2005-02-07 Thread SGreen
Sue Cram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/07/2005 02:57:59 AM: This is a pretty basic question, but I'm learning SQL from a book and it's very very frustrating! I'm writing a report listing animals from our shelter and whether they have been adopted. I am selecting the animal name field

Re: SELECT and UPDATE together, with LIMIT? (incremental external indexing)

2005-02-07 Thread SGreen
Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/07/2005 02:06:30 PM: I'm considering the best strategy for updating large tables that I'm indexing with Lucene. I'm indexing in chunks of 5000 items at a time, which I select with LIMIT statements and an incremental multiplier (SELECT blah FROM

Re: Indexes

2005-02-04 Thread SGreen
A Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/04/2005 07:21:35 AM: MySql 4.0.14 I understand that the most effective way of speeding up SELECT statements is to have column level indexes. Are there any other level indexes exist? I have been told that there are but I have no idea, looked through

Re: developing an interface

2005-02-04 Thread SGreen
Winn Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/04/2005 10:30:54 AM: I have taken on a job replacing an old AS400 RPM database with four thin clients. They really like the feel of the thin client interface, no point and click, no graphics, just green text on a black background. I could use any

Re: Help with date query

2005-02-04 Thread SGreen
Jack Lauman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/04/2005 11:57:37 AM: I want to run a nightly cron job where you iterate throught each row of a single table and reset a field depending on the conditions specified. In this case I want to take a date field (RenewalDate) and compare it to the

Re: MySQL 5 ODBC error on Win2K

2005-02-03 Thread SGreen
Whil Hentzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/03/2005 11:02:48 AM: 1. Windows 2K and MySQL 5 2. Downloaded the 3.51.9 driver (I've seen a number of issues reported with the .10 driver, so avoided it to begin with) and installed it. It shows up in the ODBC admin nicely. 3. Created a new file

Re: Nested query bug

2005-02-02 Thread SGreen
matt_lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/02/2005 08:50:16 AM: Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] No, it isn't ignored...it just returns a FALSE for the IN statement [/snip] More info The word IN is an alias for = ANY. Thus these two statements are the same: SELECT s1 FROM

Re: Pulling a database schema out of a unknown MySQL database?

2005-02-02 Thread SGreen
Dan Stromberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/02/2005 01:31:17 PM: I have a system with set of web pages that use PHP and a MySQL database. Apparently the old webmaster has disappeared, and a new webmaster has been hired. She needs to know the schema of the database. So my question is:

Re: case select

2005-02-02 Thread SGreen
Ferhat Bingol webmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/02/2005 03:31:00 PM: Hi all, I have case like this. 200312211750 14.65 0 14.65 14.65 6 200312211800 118.9 119.41 14.65 697.17 200312211810 1324.1 122.6 697.17 1502.3 2 Last field is MODE. That case

Fw: case select

2005-02-02 Thread SGreen
Always include the list in your responses. It will get you more results faster than if you have to wait on just me. - Shawn - Forwarded by Shawn Green/Unimin on 02/02/2005 04:53 PM - Ferhat Bingol webmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/02/2005 03:55:36 PM: Hi, This is a mode

RE: embedded server for 4.1.9

2005-02-02 Thread SGreen
Yep, you seem to have a good handle on the authentication issue. Have you tried compiling a DEBUG version and tracing through the code? Maybe you can catch the GPF when it happens and figure out what's messing up. Since it's failing early (during a connection) this should be rather easy to

Re: Column Permissions?

2005-02-01 Thread SGreen
I have seen this type of security implemented through multiple VIEWs but not directly by the storage engine. You will need to create a view for your user that exposes only out those rows designated for that user. The drawback to this is that you will need to issue one view for each user or

Re: mysqld ended Can't get mysql running

2005-02-01 Thread SGreen
We need more details in order to help: What operating system are you on? Which version of MySQL are you attempting to run? How are you attempting to start the MySQL server? Has it worked before or is this a new installation? What errors are being reported to your error log? The default location

Re: Problem with SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS

2005-02-01 Thread SGreen
Matt Babineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/01/2005 03:20:49 PM: Hi All- I'm running a query that uses SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS for my search engine on a real estate site. The problem is that I get an error when I run my query: Warning mysql_query(): Unable to save result set in

Fw: Res: Re: mysqld ended Can't get mysql running

2005-02-01 Thread SGreen
Forwarded to the list - Shawn - Forwarded by Shawn Green/Unimin on 02/01/2005 03:49 PM - Debora Gomes.unitech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/01/2005 06:33:43 PM: The operating system is Red Hat 7.3 The MySQL version is 4.1.9 The error appears when i run ./configure in mysql/

Re: ERROR 1071: Specified key was too long. Max key length is 500

2005-02-01 Thread SGreen
Jon Wynacht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/01/2005 03:33:13 PM: Hi, I'm wondering if anybody can help me decrypt what this error code is referring to: ERROR 1071: Specified key was too long. Max key length is 500 This is the offending table creation script: CREATE TABLE `APPROVAL`

Fw: MySQL - install failure on XP Toshiba laptop

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
This was sent to me, off list. I am just forwarding it to it's original targets. -- Shawn - Forwarded by Shawn Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 01/28/2005 09:00 AM - Kyle Elmblade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/27/2005 04:59:28 PM: Hello Simon, I ran accross the post below in the MySQL

Re: Export database to XML/UML/Webpage?

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
Mike Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/28/2005 07:57:06 AM: Hello, I am looking to export a mysql database to a gui type interface. Basically i'm looking at a big database and I wanna dump it to a webpage/uml where I can add notes on what each table is and what it does, even

Re: FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables (looking for a workaround)

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
symbulos partners [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/28/2005 11:14:00 AM: On Friday 28 Jan 2005 15:41, you wrote: As you have noticed - you cannot. So, all you can do is creating a MyISAM table and copying the column contents. Are you suggesting to have a full copy of the table in MyISAM

Re: COMPLICATED UPDATE

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
Diana Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/28/2005 11:53:20 AM: how do I make a query that does this? update tbl_a set location_code=0 where tbl_a.country_id = (select id from countries where has_zones=0) The UPDATE statement (as of 4.0.4) allows you to update multiple tables at once.

Re: Why MySQL is very slow in dropping indexes?

2005-01-28 Thread SGreen
Homam S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/28/2005 02:27:51 PM: Dropping an index on a MyISAM table should be instantaneous. It should only take as long as deleting the idx file from the file system. But it's taking almost as long as creating the index itself! Here's my queries and time they

Re: A problem of structure

2005-01-27 Thread SGreen
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/26/2005 03:49:50 PM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After the good comments I've got on this mailing list, I think I have the structure more or less complete. In some cases I follow the comments, in some

Re: Creating indexes

2005-01-27 Thread SGreen
Ângelo M. Rigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/27/2005 03:04:15 PM: Hi I have an aplication wich is opening to many connections even i am using persistent connectins and closing every connection i do open I have created indexes in all the fields i supose they are needed I would like

Re: Mysqldump unusable, bugged?

2005-01-27 Thread SGreen
This could be a case where your dump files are not split in such a way so that they honor the max_packet_length setting of the recieving server. Make sure you tell mysql dump what the maximum size of an INSERT statement will be for the server you want to read the dump into or it will put all

Re: Full text search in mulitple-table query

2005-01-27 Thread SGreen
cristopher pierson ewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/27/2005 04:01:22 PM: I'm running a query that pulls information from about six different tables in a DB. I'd like to be able to do a fulltext search on fields in several different tables. The end result should be that any row with a

Re: error in your SQL syntax

2005-01-26 Thread SGreen
Here is your original query, reformatted merely so that we humans can read it better: SELECT DISTINCT specials.specials_id , products_to_categories.products_id , categories.parent_id , products_description.products_name , products.products_price ,

Re: A problem of structure

2005-01-26 Thread SGreen
Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/26/2005 07:00:34 AM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello MySQLers, I'm trying to define a structure for my database and I'm experience some problems, any comments would be appretiated. This is for a (web) application to handle

Re: A problem of structure

2005-01-26 Thread SGreen
Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/26/2005 08:56:05 AM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Shawn Green, Je Merkredo Januaro 26 2005 15:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: If it were me, I would have separate tables for groups, songs, performances, recordings, and

Re: A problem of structure

2005-01-26 Thread SGreen
Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/26/2005 11:48:59 AM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There where two cases where I have roles: How an artist participated in a song (creating the lyrics, creating the musici, etc, etc) and how an artist participates in a group. Do you

Re: A problem of structure

2005-01-26 Thread SGreen
Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/26/2005 11:53:06 AM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Merkredo Januaro 26 2005 18:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: For instance, when Eric Clapton did his unplugged version of Layla, he was the same ARTIST as recorded the original

Re: Previous date problem

2005-01-24 Thread SGreen
Jigal van Hemert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/24/2005 03:10:40 AM: so it will be like this no date price limit 01 1/1/05 5000 100 02 1/2/05 5010 100 03 1/3/05 5020 60 ** 04 1/6/05 5010 100 ** there are 3 days difference but how do make a query to check for record no 04 with 03

RE: MYSQL + acquiring table relationships

2005-01-20 Thread SGreen
Paul Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/19/2005 06:50:48 PM: Was there a reply to this post? If so, I could have (did) missed it. Can you please resend? Rgds Paul. Sorry, but I never said (woops!) Which language I use depends on where I want to run the script and how often,

Re: SubQueries

2005-01-20 Thread SGreen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/20/2005 08:59:15 AM: Hi, Thank you. Could you please help me in writing an equvivalent query in mysql for the following oracle subquery?. update macvm set embedded='Y' where vm_server in (select a.vm_server from macvm a, component b,

Re: Need help forming SQL query

2005-01-20 Thread SGreen
Mike Zornek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/20/2005 11:01:38 AM: I have the following query which will get me all of the emails for my current membership: SELECT email.email_address FROM member, email WHERE member.member_primary_email_id = email.email_id AND member.member_standing !=

Re: sub query is extermely slow

2005-01-20 Thread SGreen
sam wun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/20/2005 11:45:40 AM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SELECT DISTINCT i.basename FROM inventory i INNER JOIN transaction t ON i.prodcode = t.prodcode AND t.date = '2004-01-01' AND t.date = '2004-01-31' INNER JOIN

Re: SubQueries

2005-01-20 Thread SGreen
You must be having a problem with your email client as this is about the ninth time I have seen this same request today. Please check your client for problems. I know because I have responded once already. Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can a subquery be used in an insert

2005-01-20 Thread SGreen
James Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/20/2005 02:44:41 PM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philippe Poelvoorde wrote: | | Insert into comments(list of you fields here ) | select 0,1,null,'testuser','testcomment',max(idx) from comments | where sourceid=1; | | but

Re: can a subquery be used in an insert

2005-01-20 Thread SGreen
James Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/20/2005 03:08:33 PM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You should already KNOW the parent comment of a comment when you create | it. Don't you? Imagine the following thread: ~ I am trying to not have to

Re: Logging Data: Should I use MyIsam or InnoDB?

2005-01-19 Thread SGreen
Martijn Tonies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/19/2005 03:33:32 AM: Hello Jeremy, I have a curious issue here, maybe someone can help. I have a single process that inserts data into tables that contain purely logging information. This table is then searched by our Care department

Re: sub query is extermely slow

2005-01-19 Thread SGreen
sam wun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/19/2005 07:02:37 AM: Hi list, The following sql statement takes 3 mintues to complete the query. How can I improve its speed? select DISTINCT i.basename from inventory i, transaction t, customer c where i.prodcode = t.prodcode and c.custcode =

Re: How do I ... SQL question

2005-01-18 Thread SGreen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/17/2005 06:45:22 PM: Hi there: I have a How do I... SQL question regarding selecting distinct values from a field not included in an aggregated query when LIMIT is in effect, illustrated by the following example: Table a contains the names of individuals,

Re: Doubt about Performance

2005-01-18 Thread SGreen
Ronan Lucio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/18/2005 01:13:10 PM: Hello, Trying to keep the database and the application fast, I´d like to clearify my mind about it. 1) Is a SELECT DISTINCT over 5,000 records a weight query? (Supposing it has about 20 different option the the

Re: Doubt about Performance

2005-01-18 Thread SGreen
Ronan Lucio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/18/2005 02:53:39 PM: Shawn, Your tips are realy good but I can´t use cache neither for queries nor for pages because our site serves hundreds of clients, each one with your own code make a different query, returning different rows. It would be

Re: Like statement help

2005-01-18 Thread SGreen
Craig Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/18/2005 04:17:30 PM: Hi There, I have web form where a user can search certain fields and then have them displayed aggregated. For example, find all the routes I climbed with partner A in area(s) ALL (% - wildcard) between date1 and date2 -- so

Re: MYSQL + acquiring table relationships

2005-01-17 Thread SGreen
Paul Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/17/2005 12:04:13 AM: Hi, How can I, if at all, acquire table relationships - in particular one-to-may/many-to-one relationships? I have looked into the DatabaseMetaData object (Java) , but have not as yet been able to acquire the said

RE: actual size of a innodb tablespace

2005-01-17 Thread SGreen
I think I can summarize what has been explained before: 1) InnoDB does not always know exactly how many rows are in the database from the point of view of each user. This is a side effect of the row-level locking system. Each user has the potential to see a different set of rows depending on

Re: counting records in 2 tables using 1 query

2005-01-14 Thread SGreen
OK, then you were on the right track with your JOINS because you wanted to know how many of each type of item (gift or event) each user had. Off the top of my head, I think you need to perform an OUTER JOIN (not the implicit INNER JOIN you create by listing table names separated by commas)

Re: select count

2005-01-13 Thread SGreen
I would think that the Jan solution should execute in a single pass through the table. The Dave (subquery) version will probably need to make 3 passes through the table get the same results. As was mentioned in another response, the inequality comparisons (=,,,etc.) are much faster than a

Re: install failure on XP toshiba laptop

2005-01-13 Thread SGreen
Your first fix failure (command prompt start) sounds like you started the CLIENT not the SERVER. CLIENT = mysql.exe SERVER = mysql-nt.exe or mysqld-nt.exe or... (there are several versions that come with each distribution) Your second fix failure matches with your installation error. There is

RE: create sequence

2005-01-13 Thread SGreen
Scott Purcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/13/2005 01:05:01 PM: I understand the auto-increment capability, but how would one share it amount three different tables? Would one have to do a rig, and create an extra table with increment in it, then get that value to update table 1, then

Re: counting records in 2 tables using 1 query

2005-01-13 Thread SGreen
There may be other ways to get at the information you want. What is the purpose of your query? Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine 2wsxdr5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/13/2005 01:57:31 PM: I have these 2 queries. SELECT count(*) gifts FROM gift g

Re: join 1 of 2 table depending on a column value

2005-01-12 Thread SGreen
I have done this numerous times. What you have to do is match 2 conditions in your ON clause. I need to make up some information to answer your question because I don't know all of the table names involved in this particular query (you didn't say in your original post). I know you have two

Re: Getting info about db columns

2005-01-12 Thread SGreen
May I introduce you to the family of SHOW commands? SHOW DATABASES - lists all databases on a server SHOW TABLES - lists all tables within your current database SHOW CREATE TABLE x - returns a table containing a SQL statement you could use to recreate the table x if you needed to

Re: can't get the order I want after inserting new rows

2005-01-11 Thread SGreen
Marcus Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/10/2005 02:00:37 PM: Hi Michael! Before the holiday you tried to help me with a problem that I had over-simplified and made more confusing than it was. I'll now try again, and also by giving the columns their right names. My table consists

RE: Putting data in seperate tables

2005-01-11 Thread SGreen
I know that your options for physical partitioning depend on your OS, your filesystem, and whether you are using InnoDB or MyISAM. I cannot speak from personal experience on the mechanics of this but I know that several others on the list have performed this particular optimization (which is

Re: can't get the order I want after inserting new rows

2005-01-11 Thread SGreen
Marcus Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/11/2005 11:05:49 AM: Thanks for helping! So you ARE having problems trying to change your sbj_count and hsp_count columns after adding information to your table your so that data is re-ranked according to some rule(s) you have. Exactly, how

Re: logical OR query problem

2005-01-10 Thread SGreen
OOPS! the ON AND was a typo. Sorry! Should have been just ON. I am puzzled why it worked but I am glad it did. That's what I get for too much cut-and-paste at the end of the day. I apologize to everyone! What actually made it work was not the ON AND (yuck!) but the LEFT JOIN. What you were

Re: creating first table

2005-01-07 Thread SGreen
Gerald Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/07/2005 01:02:04 AM: Hi! Running mysql on a XP command line. Doing dhow databases list the following; Database Club Mysql Test I did a grant all user id; How can I list the rows and columns. One of these may help: SHOW CREATE TABLE

Re: logical OR query problem

2005-01-07 Thread SGreen
Richard Reina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/07/2005 03:31:26 PM: I am having trouble with a query that gives me activities that have not been written up but if these activities are a party they whould only appear in the query if they have been held, hence date will not='-00-00' If I

Re: Retrieving partial field values

2005-01-06 Thread SGreen
After hearing both sides being suggested, I think I would recommend the more normalized approach of having one or more separate tables for the names (one name per row) and a mapping table that associates a name field (mother's maiden name, decedent's given name, decedent's surname, etc.) on a

Re: Data Dictionary

2005-01-06 Thread SGreen
As Rhino said, the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views (data dictionary) are coming in v5.x (so they are close but not here yet). Until then a more native alternative is to parse the results of either SHOW CREATE TABLE tablename or SHOW COLUMNS FROM tablename LIKE 'columnname' in whatever language you

Re: Retrieving partial field values

2005-01-05 Thread SGreen
Stephen Moretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/05/2005 07:22:18 AM: Kentucky Families wrote: Very new to MySQL and this list. Thanks in advance for your patience with elementary questions. I'm in process of converting a current web site to a mysql database. As this database will

Re: Complex joining - multiple tables to one

2005-01-04 Thread SGreen
It's probably your JOIN on shipped items producing a cross product with your JOIN on ordered items. What happens if you take the entire shippeditems JOIN out of your statement? Are your numbers still off? Since your query is not using data from that table you should be able to eliminate it

Re: AW: [PHP] How to argue with ASP people...

2004-12-31 Thread SGreen
Have you actually LOOKED at the code (global.asp, *.asp, *.aspx, etc... ) that VS produces to make an ASP.NET application? Have you EVER had to be in the position to debug and modify that by hand (without the aid of VS)? I have. I ask that you try it before you continue your high praise for

RE: Multi table update

2004-12-31 Thread SGreen
Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 05:20:49 PM: [snip] Anyhow, it has been a good discussion. No bugs were uprooted and everyone's understanding may have risen a notch. After a couple of decades using SQL I still find interesting topics to discuss. Yes, I too have

Re: use of soundex in queries

2004-12-31 Thread SGreen
Did you think to check the manual? English: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/String_functions.html German http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/de/String_functions.html French: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/fr/String_functions.html and your query would look like SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE

Re: use of soundex in queries

2004-12-31 Thread SGreen
This will give you a list of names and their soundex values. Is this what you want? What is it you are trying to do, there may be a better way to do this than by getting a list and reprocessing it somehow. SELECT nn, soundex(nn) FROM table WHERE nn '' Shawn Green Database Administrator

RE: Multi table update

2004-12-30 Thread SGreen
Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 07:59:35 AM: [snip] atomically from my applications point of view means: I have a snapshot of my data (due to InnoDB this does not change hiddenly during my session). I send a query to the database. I get the result / changed data. And

RE: Multi table update

2004-12-30 Thread SGreen
Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 11:43:43 AM: [snip] I hope I am not so naive that Kai and I are the only two who sees a problem with this behavior. Some of you may think this is a feature but I do not like it because that means that calculational errors will occur

Re: Fw: installing mysql / error

2004-12-30 Thread SGreen
David Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 12:34:31 PM: We loaded a new server with Windows XP professional, and mysql server 4.1. We can't get Mysql to run. After installing mysql and trying to execute it we get the following message: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user

Re: Fw: installing mysql / error

2004-12-30 Thread SGreen
David Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 01:32:41 PM: I'm going to the dos window on the server and typing mysql to kick it off. That's when I get the error. OK, mysql is the client that comes with the server. What you attempted to do was to login as nobody and you said you weren't

RE: Multi table update

2004-12-30 Thread SGreen
Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 01:32:20 PM: [snip] I understand that is the behavior of the assignment operator. That's why I used it. ;-) I expected the results to be 19 and 6 not 19 and 20. This is just another example of the serialization of evaluation that occurs

RE: Multi table update

2004-12-30 Thread SGreen
Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 03:50:24 PM: [snip] ... a bunch of stuff [/snip] It alomost sounds as if you're coming from a M$ campwhat you describe are VIEWS. In a way it is, an internally generated view of the source/destination tables. Anyhow, the

Re: Need advice on windows front end application

2004-12-29 Thread SGreen
When scripting for Windows you have two immediate choices: VBScript and JScript. Both are natively supported by the WSH (Windows Scripting Host) executable which comes in two flavors: command line (cscript.exe) and windowed (wscript.exe). If you want to use Perl or some other scripting

Re: MySQL and PHP

2004-12-29 Thread SGreen
I thought you were building a local application, not a web-based app?? I believe you can still use PHP through WSH (instead of IIS) but you will need to do some research, though. I know that Perl is supported by both WSH and IIS (I have seen it working before) so I think that PHP and Python

Re: Help with a join query please!

2004-12-29 Thread SGreen
shaun thornburgh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/29/2004 03:00:08 PM: Hi Shawn, Thanks for your reply, but your query seems to return everyone allocated to that project plus everyone who has ever been booked on that project. What I need is everyone who is currently allocated to that

Re: antivirus database files

2004-12-29 Thread SGreen
You are correct. The AV scan should not happen unless the database is shutdown or some kind of file locking contention could occur. It should be possible in your OS to deny your AV access to the folders that contain your database files. This may mean changing the user account your AV runs

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