Core beta test question

2002-12-04 Thread Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS
Anybody seen a general page or study guide for the beta test yet? There used to be a section on the MySQL site (http://www.mysql.com/training/candguide/sec-core.htm) but its 404 now and taking the test here in a couple days. Looked around on the site but the information doesn't seemed to around

RE: SQL Query

2002-11-16 Thread Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS
Why not just split that field up into multiple fields. Seems ridiculous to have multiple values in a single field in a RDMS -Peter -Original Message- From: Paul van Brouwershaven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 14:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SQL

ODBC ... why even uset it? (! flame/troll..genuine question)

2002-10-03 Thread Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS
Hello, Been using mysql on w2k for a couple years now and never used the DSN ODBC connection. See a lot of articles (google/archives/etc) on how to use it .. but none on why. Any particular reason I would even want to use ODBC for a mysql connection as opposed to just directly connecting to it

Speaking of DBI -v- Net::MySQL (Was: RE: first dbi access with perl and lost)

2002-09-22 Thread Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS
Following this conversation myself (also a perl db newbie :) ... before always just used php) and curious if you know definitely what db vendor you are going to be using (mysql in this case), any reason to use dbi; as opposed to just using vendor specific or net::mysql; . Is it just a

NEWBIE: normalization question/help/lost :)

2002-09-07 Thread Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS
Hello, After a year of doing database programming, try to actually normalize. Read a couple online tutorials (phpbuilder, devshed) and the book mysql 2nd edition and it just can't seem to stick. Understanding the concept/theory but freeze up every time I try to implement. Trying to go from