many queries versus big joins

2004-01-20 Thread Stephen Fromm
In general, is it more efficient to do many queries or one large query with many joins? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Join only the latest entry...

2003-12-03 Thread Stephen Fromm
- Original Message - From: Ville Mattila [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:07 AM Subject: Join only the latest entry... Hello there, I have a table including information about my projects, the structure has each id and name. Then I have

Re: Query Help

2003-12-02 Thread Stephen Fromm
- Original Message - From: Chris Boget [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:32 AM Subject: Re: Query Help Access. However, when I run it against MySQL I get an error. select l.ltsysid,l.lientraknum, c.name from

Re: HELP!

2003-11-30 Thread Stephen Fromm
- Original Message - From: Andy (da man) Rosenblatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: HELP! hi I bought a book with your mySQL program and seemed to have installed it worng and i cant stop it. I never set a user name or a

php and passing implicit connection identifiers

2003-11-17 Thread Stephen Fromm
The connection identifier returned by mysql_connect() need not be passed to calls to MySQL-related functions. What is the scope of this claim? In particular, if I open a connection and then call a function I wrote myself, which then calls a MySQL related function, can I still omit the connection

Re: The correct way to deal with name_1, name_2, name_3

2003-11-17 Thread Stephen Fromm
- Original Message - From: Paul Fine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:37 AM Subject: The correct way to deal with name_1, name_2, name_3 Greetings, I would be greatful for any advice on the correct way to do this. If I have something

Re: The correct way to deal with name_1, name_2, name_3

2003-11-17 Thread Stephen Fromm
- Original Message - From: Paul Fine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Stephen Fromm' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:49 AM Subject: RE: The correct way to deal with name_1, name_2, name_3 Thanks. I do mean Do you mean one column for each name, in which

Re: mysql: not found

2003-11-17 Thread Stephen Fromm
- Original Message - From: Kelley Prebil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:33 PM Subject: mysql: not found When I try to start the database with : mysql -h host -u user -p I get the response : mysql: not found What does this mean?

newlines and carriage returns in string data

2003-11-11 Thread Stephen Fromm
Is it OK to have actual newline/carriage return characters in string data? E.g. consider the insert statement INSERT into table t1 ( ) VALUES('Here is a newline:\nThere it was!'); Now consider the statement, typed as INSERT into table t1 ( ) VALUES('Here is a newline: There it was!'); Is the

Re: Foreign Key

2003-11-11 Thread Stephen Fromm
- Original Message - From: Shravan Durvasula [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL HELP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:48 PM Subject: Foreign Key Hi all: I have a table A(Id, Type). Primary Key is Id I have another table B(Id, State). Primary Key is Id I also have

Re: Multiple Self Joins and Left Joins ?

2003-09-17 Thread Stephen Fromm
- Original Message - From: Gary Huntress [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:14 PM Subject: Multiple Self Joins and Left Joins ? I'm stumped by this query that I think will involve multiple self joins and left joins. My data looks like:

Sobig.F on this list

2003-09-06 Thread Stephen Fromm
I got a bounced email with an attachment entitled macex.mex.scr, about 72.3 KB, which if IIRC is probably the Sobig.F virus. It appears to have been sent to people on this list (even though the list wasn't in the to: line) because the body of the email discussed MySQL. Since Sobig.F forges the

Re: how to code an 'IS - A' relationship ?

2003-09-02 Thread Stephen Fromm
Morten, I'd like to help you with actual code, but I can't, because the version of MySQL I use doesn't implement foreign key constraints. In my own code (written in the C API), I plan on checking these constraints myself. But I can't implement them in the tables themselves. Best, Steve Fromm

Re: how to code an 'IS - A' relationship ?

2003-08-28 Thread Stephen Fromm
Hello MySQL programmers, suppose we have an Enhanced ER diagram, with entities as classes/ subclasses connected through some IS-A relationship. How can this be Coded in MySQL Please? My prerequisites are the basic database texts from http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html

Re: punctuation in fulltext searching

2003-08-20 Thread Stephen Fromm
hmm well sorry to be unclear i know this works but it would return more results than needed also i cant expect users to add this themselves, like i would have to add the astrerix to every word in that case like i do to get all words ;\ I don't know the MySQL issues (I'm now using some

Re: Books advice

2003-08-01 Thread Stephen Fromm
It depends on what you want to know. I used _Fundamentals of Database Systems_ (Elmasri and Navathe) when I took a DB course. It was pretty good, though my impression is that there might be a classic which is better. The problem with the more MySQL-specific books is that you might not learn the

Re: XML in MySQL

2003-06-23 Thread Stephen Fromm
- Original Message - From: Jon Haugsand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:57 AM Subject: Re: XML in MySQL * [EMAIL PROTECTED] geez mysql is an open source product you cannot expect so much too soon over a very expensive commercial product which

inserting illegal values into INT field

2003-05-31 Thread Stephen Fromm
It appears that if I try to insert an illegal value into an INT field, the value is set to 0 instead of NULL, even though the field has NULL as a default. Is this documented behavior, and if so, what's the rationale? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql