RE: How do you allow external computers to access server instance?

2007-06-22 Thread Tim Lucia
Don't forget to allow port 3306 (or whatever port you're server listens on) through any Windows firewall... Tim > -Original Message- > From: Carlos Proal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:40 PM > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: How do you allow external c

RE: Administrative Tools

2007-06-04 Thread Tim Lucia
I'm partial to SQLYog. http://www.webyog.com/ -- community and enterprise editions are available. Former is free, latter is cheap. Tim > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 2:17 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Ad

RE: Avoiding TIMESTAMP

2007-05-26 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Miguel Cardenas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 8:21 AM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Avoiding TIMESTAMP > > Hello list > > I need to solve a little problem but don't mind how, maybe you could > suggest > something. > > I hav

RE: time taken by mysqldump

2007-05-24 Thread Tim Lucia
I can give you a rough estimate: My /data partition is 67G. The gzipped output of mysqldump is 20G. It takes about 53 minutes. Extrapolating to 100G would give (50% more) about 78 minutes. On a Dell 2950 running Xeon 5160/3GHz (4 cores), 8Gb memory, RAID 10 15K rpm drives (Perc 5/I SAS I belie

RE: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Baron Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:55 AM > To: Ofer Inbar > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: expire_logs_days > > Hi, > > Ofer Inbar wrote: > > There's a system variable called expire_logs_days that lets you set

RE: My bin.log directory is getting full

2007-04-28 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Pete Harlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 5:15 PM > To: Tim Lucia > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: My bin.log directory is getting full > > Perhaps the "expire_logs_days" variable doe

RE: My bin.log directory is getting full

2007-04-26 Thread Tim Lucia
# cat /etc/cron.mysql/20-purgemasterlogs #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/mysql --defaults-file=/root/.my.cnf -e 'show master logs; purge master logs before date_sub(now(), interval 30 day); show master logs;' >/var/log/20-purgemasterlogs.log 2>&1 This purges anything older than 30 days. HTH, Tim > -Origi

RE: advice for blob tables?

2007-04-22 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Dan Buettner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 3:16 PM > To: Michael Higgins > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: advice for blob tables? > > At any rate - based on my experience with the Sybase system I managed, I > would advise y

RE: Millisecond time stamp

2007-04-18 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: John Comerford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:50 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Millisecond time stamp > > Hi Folks, > > I am putting together a table to hold log entries. I was going to index > it on a field with a

RE: MySQL slave error when creating view

2007-04-13 Thread Tim Lucia
Nobody has any idea(s) on this? > -Original Message- > From: Tim Lucia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MySQL slave error when creating view > > > I ran the following DDL on our master today: >

MySQL slave error when creating view

2007-04-05 Thread Tim Lucia
I ran the following DDL on our master today: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW REF_TRANSFER_PREFERENCE ( IORG_UID, TDISTRICT_NAME, IORGDISPLAY, IORG ) AS SELECT 0, TDISTRICT_NAME, IORG_UID, IORG_UID FROM REF_PREFERENCE ; The master happily created the view. The slave however dies with: 07

FYI - SQLyog527 fixes recent AV false positive

2007-03-27 Thread Tim Lucia
FYI - Monday AM, Norton A/V started reporting the uninst.exe and the sqlyog525.exe files as infected with 'Virus Burst'. This is due to a NullSoft installer signature problem. SQLyog527 has been released, built with a newer NullSoft installer, AND the virus definitions from today no longer quaran

RE: Why doesn't the InnoDB count() match table status?

2007-03-27 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Maciej Dobrzanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:46 AM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Why doesn't the InnoDB count() match table status? > > MyISAM and InnoDB (and there are plenty more). RDBMS is not an Office > spreads

RE: What does NOW() return: linux time or something else?

2007-03-21 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: murthy gandikota [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:05 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: What does NOW() return: linux time or something else? > > Hi > I tried to look up the time functions specifically for the disparity >

RE: How does one transpose a group of columns into rows?

2007-03-17 Thread Tim Lucia
I don't know if this is optimal or not, but it does work... DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `x`; CREATE TABLE `x` ( `id` int(11) default NULL, `path1` varchar(10) default NULL, `display` varchar(10) default NULL, `value` varchar(10) default NULL ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; insert into x va

RE: Is there a professional quality mySQL GUI for Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Tim Lucia
I have upgraded to 5.25 today and it is true. Outstanding! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:16 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: RE: Is there a professional quality mySQL GUI for Linux?

RE: Is there a professional quality mySQL GUI for Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Tim Lucia
I trade between SQLYog and SQL Exporer plugin for Eclipse. The former only shows 1 result set at a time (boo) while the latter shows more than one (yeah!) The former doesn't let you sort columns from your own query, only the table preview. The latter doesn't let you sort the columns. Neither on

RE: Breaking Up Tables

2007-03-01 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:57 AM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Breaking Up Tables > > Hi; > I have an unusual problem. My current production server's OS is corrupt > and I'm building a new one. Howe

RE: Backing up large dbs with tar

2006-11-14 Thread Tim Lucia
Is mysqlhotcopy still considered "beta"? We steered clear of it for production use for that reason. Tim -Original Message- From: Dan Buettner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 12:39 PM To: Van Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Backing up large dbs with tar

RE: Find foreign key for a table

2006-11-14 Thread Tim Lucia
I've use MS Visio's "Reverse Engineer" database feature to find the FK relationships between tables. I'd bet there are other tools which do something similar, probably even free ones. Tim _ From: Peter Brawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:36 PM To:

RE: MAX() and GROUP BY question

2006-11-11 Thread Tim Lucia
How about select ID, X, Y, Z from USERS order by ID desc limit 1 Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 5:47 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: MAX() and GROUP BY question Hello everybody Can you explain me please ho

RE: Delete one record, automatically delete other records...

2006-08-07 Thread Tim Lucia
You want cascade deletion via foreign keys. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ansi-diff-foreign-keys.html is one such place to learn more. Tim > -Original Message- > From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:11 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com

RE: Searching through an alphabetical range

2006-07-21 Thread Tim Lucia
Not quite... mysql> select 'zebra' >= 'm' AND 'zebra' <= 'z'; +---+ | 'zebra' >= 'm' AND 'zebra' <= 'z' | +---+ | 0 | +---+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> select 'seal'

RE: Incremental Backup

2006-07-18 Thread Tim Lucia
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqlhotcopy.html > -Original Message- > From: Kaushal Shriyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:45 AM > To: Tim Lucia > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Incremental Backup > > On 7/18/06,

RE: Incremental Backup

2006-07-18 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 2:43 AM > To: Dan Trainor > Cc: Kaushal Shriyan; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Incremental Backup > > Dan Trainor wrote: > > Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > >> Hi ALL > >> > >> I would like to kno

RE: problem with double data

2006-07-17 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Obed Soto Déctor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 7:28 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: problem with double data > > Hi, i'm sorry for my english, i'm from México and i'm gonna do my best, > > i've made a store procedure but i

RE: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-14 Thread Tim Lucia
s and binlogs and data together? TIA, Tim > -Original Message- > From: Tim Lucia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:41 PM > To: 'Chris White'; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: RE: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred. > >

RE: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Chris White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:15 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred. > > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 01:13 pm, Tim Lucia wrote: > > I&

RE: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Tim Lucia
I've seen whitepapers from MySQL's web site, co-authored with Dell, that recommend the hardware optimization be: 1. More Memory 2. Faster Drives (15K RPM is better the 10K) 3. Faster CPU. Based on this, we're spec'ing 2950s with 16Gb, dual 2.8 dual-core Xeons, and 146Gb 15K (times 6) drives. The

RE: Recommended backup scripts for mysql databases

2006-06-29 Thread Tim Lucia
nded? Tim > -Original Message- > From: Dan Buettner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 6:01 PM > To: Tim Lucia > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Recommended backup scripts for mysql databases > > That's a good thought, Tim - file grep

RE: Recommended backup scripts for mysql databases

2006-06-29 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Dan Buettner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:26 AM > To: Tim Lucia > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Recommended backup scripts for mysql databases > > Hi Tim - those are all important consideratio

RE: Recommended backup scripts for mysql databases

2006-06-29 Thread Tim Lucia
t? I accidentally deleted student Tim Lucia... can you get him back"). Mysqldump is slower to back up, slower to restore, but allows for selective restores. Are those the only things to consider? I know that piping mysqldump into gzip results in disk space savings of the dump file, whereas my

Replication / LOAD DATA FROM MASTER / secondary network interface

2006-06-22 Thread Tim Lucia
Hello List, Has anyone seen any problems using LOAD DATA FROM MASTER on a second slave using a secondary network interface? I have: mysql-master / {172.25.7.20 / eth0, 192.168.7.20 / eth1} / Red Hat EL V.4 / MySQL 5.0.22 mysql-slave1 / 172.25.1.58 / Windows XP / MySQL 5.0.18 mysql-slave2 / 19

RE: Mysqlhotcopy / Perl / DBD::mysql on RHEL 4 x86_64

2006-06-20 Thread Tim Lucia
Solved -- After upgrading to 5.0.22, DBD::mysql builds without any problems. -Original Message- From: Tim Lucia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 4:17 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Mysqlhotcopy / Perl / DBD::mysql on RHEL 4 x86_64 I'm running on a Xeo

Mysqlhotcopy / Perl / DBD::mysql on RHEL 4 x86_64

2006-06-19 Thread Tim Lucia
I'm running on a Xeon 3.8 under RHEL V.4. I wanted to try out mysqlhotcopy, but it says I need DBD::mysql. Cpan gets it for me, but make DBD::mysql dies with the below error. I am using 5.0.18 standard (MySQL-server-standard-5.0.18-0.rhel4). Attempting to install perl-dbd-mysql off the RPMS dir

RE: Join help

2006-06-14 Thread Tim Lucia
You want a LEFT (OUTER) JOIN, which will return nulls for the columns if no match on the join expression. -Original Message- From: Paul Nowosielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:44 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Join help Dear All, I'm working on a

RE: UPDATE from one server to another

2006-06-06 Thread Tim Lucia
Ask our mutual friend, Google. It has lots of answers for you. -Original Message- From: Peter Lauri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:09 AM To: 'Tim Lucia'; 'Jason Dimberg'; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: UPDATE from one server to anothe

RE: UPDATE from one server to another

2006-06-06 Thread Tim Lucia
rsync is a *nix utility that synchronizes two file systems, one local and one remote (typically). It is used to produce mirrors / backups / etc. You would not want to use it to synchronize database (raw) files via the file system. If you include a timestamp field, you can use that to copy across

RE: How do I get off this list that I do not remember joining in the first place!!!!

2006-05-24 Thread Tim Lucia
There may be a clue at the bottom of every message ;-) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http

RE: viewing data using MySQL Administrator tool

2006-05-18 Thread Tim Lucia
When I do this, the query browser pops up with a select * from table query which is executed on my behalf revealing my data. All I have to do is press the edit button (assuming the result set is editable, of course.) Can you be more specific about 'nothing shows up'? Tim -Original Message-

RE: Connection Pooling

2006-05-08 Thread Tim Lucia
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 4:33 PM To: Tim Lucia Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Connection Pooling What i meant by implementing connection pooling i meant if i need to do any code changes other than changes in connection string. Thanks, Romy On 5/8/06, Tim Lucia <[EM

RE: Connection Pooling

2006-05-08 Thread Tim Lucia
I don't hear "you need to implement connection pooling". Maybe, but I think you might still have errors under load, as you approach the maximum connection count in the pool. Tim -Original Message- From: romyd misc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 2:37 PM To: mysql@l

RE: constraining unique values across columns

2006-05-01 Thread Tim Lucia
How about this? CREATE TABLE `test`.`test` ( `x` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, `y` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, `Z` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, UNIQUE `Index_1`(`x`, `y`, `Z`) ) ENGINE = InnoDB; Tim -Original Message- From: Scott Purcell [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: How to select the last entry per item

2006-04-27 Thread Tim Lucia
Invert the problem ;-) Sort descending by the time_stamp field and limit the result to 1, i.e. SELECT * FROM table_xyz ORDER BY time_stamp DESC LIMIT 1 Tim -Original Message- From: Brian J. Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:37 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.co

RE: Datatype MEDIUMTEXT

2006-04-25 Thread Tim Lucia
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/blob.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-requirements.html -Original Message- From: Tommy Nordgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:27 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Datatype MEDIUMTEXT do MySQL store

RE: Calculate LONG/LAT from ZIP+4 (positve vs. negative longitude)

2006-04-25 Thread Tim Lucia
Read these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattitude And no, you cannot drive my yacht ;-) -Original Message- From: Gmail User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:05 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Calculate LONG/LAT f

RE: mysql query browser- editing resultsets

2006-04-24 Thread Tim Lucia
In this case, the result set is not editable. It needs to have some way to uniquely identify the row(s) under edit so it can perform an update. Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:42 AM To: J.R. Bullington; mysql@list

RE: Working out Square Footage with Feet and Inches

2006-04-20 Thread Tim Lucia
I read this as a SQL syntax question, not a math word problem. As in SELECT ..., (some expression equaling sq ft) AS sqft... -Original Message- From: David T. Ashley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:15 AM To: Jay Blanchard; Shaun; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject

RE: Document / Image (Blob) archival -- Best Practices

2006-04-20 Thread Tim Lucia
- From: Daniel Kasak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:35 PM To: Tim Lucia Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Document / Image (Blob) archival -- Best Practices Tim Lucia wrote: > Hi all, > > > I am considering moving some archival records which largely c

Document / Image (Blob) archival -- Best Practices

2006-04-18 Thread Tim Lucia
Hi all, I am considering moving some archival records which largely consist of blobs (PDF Image files) out of an Oracle DB and onto MySQL. Has anyone done this (not necessarily the Oracle part) who can relate their experience(s)? I can go with MyISAM or archive storage engine, from the looks

RE: Right column type for OLE objects

2006-04-16 Thread Tim Lucia
unday, April 16, 2006 8:33 AM To: Tim Lucia Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Right column type for OLE objects But what about size. I reffered MySQL manual for 5.0, but didn't find that what is he maximum size of binary data we can store in such column. Please help Thank

RE: mySQL Backups

2006-04-11 Thread Tim Lucia
Would you not lock tables on the slave? The idea of catching it up implies this is way it is done. Catching up means once replication can proceed once the tables are unlocked (on the slave). At least that is the way I read it... Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[E

RE: Student question answer schema

2006-04-10 Thread Tim Lucia
Haven't you answered your own question? From my reading of this question, there are four entity tables (student, module, question, answer) and three or more relation tables (association tables) student-module, module-question, question-answer. There are probably two of the last one - one which ho

RE: Create a constraint over 3 columns.

2006-03-25 Thread Tim Lucia
CREATE TABLE `test`.`A` ( `X` INTEGER, `Y` INTEGER, `Z` INTEGER, UNIQUE `unique_x_y_z`(x,y,z) ) ENGINE = MYISAM; insert into a (x,y,z) values (1,2,3); insert into a (x,y,z) values (1,1,3); insert into a (x,y,z) values (1,2,3); 3 Duplicate entry '1-2-3' for key 1 #1062 -Original Mes