Re: Cannot execute query - Can't find file: (error: 9)

2005-04-06 Thread V. M. Brasseur
According to perror: perror 9 Error code 9: Bad file number This is an operating system error code: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/operating-system-error-codes.html Out of curiosity, have you tried running myisamchk or some CHECK TABLE commands yet?

Re: MySQL server disconnects when executing simple Select statements++

2005-03-23 Thread V. M. Brasseur
You say it usually crashes near the same record? Could you post the record information and also the query which is being run? Also, is there any information in your hostname.err file? If mysqld is bailing (and it appears that it is), it ought to be writing something useful to the error log.

Re: mysqldump: Got errno 5 on write

2005-03-22 Thread V. M. Brasseur
According to the output of perror: perror 5 Error code 5: I/O error Are you having problems with your disk? Maybe syncing or bad sectors or even something as simple as out of space? Best of luck, --V Mihail Manolov wrote: Have you seen this before: mysqldump: Got errno 5 on write I have

Re: Cascade problem now error:

2005-01-27 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Have you tried perror yet? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ping-300) 120 perror 150 MySQL error: 150 = Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed Cheers, --V Scott Purcell wrote: Thanks, I updated my script and all looks good. But now I get an error when tryng to issue this command. Any ideas? Thanks,

Re: calculated field

2005-01-21 Thread V. M. Brasseur
To the best of my knowledge MySQL does not have a way to do this on the fly such that a field value is contigent upon the values of other fields in the table. Does it have to be stored in the database at all? Seems to me that calculated values often are best handled at query time rather than

Illegal mix of collations with 4.1.7

2004-11-30 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Ever since we upgraded to 4.1.7, we've been seeing a lot of errors similiar to this one: ERROR 1267 (HY000): Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (latin1_swedish_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation 'locate' The query which generated this particular error is this: SELECT COUNT(*)

Re: Illegal mix of collations with 4.1.7

2004-11-30 Thread V. M. Brasseur
| | collation_server | latin1_swedish_ci | +--+---+ 3 rows in set (0.04 sec) and if are different set the collation in your my.cnf file. Santino At 8:59 -0800 30-11-2004, V. M. Brasseur wrote: Ever since we upgraded to 4.1.7, we've been seeing a lot of errors similiar

Re: C api incompatability from 3.x to 4.1

2004-11-10 Thread V. M. Brasseur
I provided the list below for our programmers, who also are dealing with a switch from 3.23 to 4.1. Perhaps it would be of some help for you. Cheers, --V - We've already hit a couple of API-related problems with the new version of MySQL. To try to make things a little easier, and

Undefined symbols compiling against 4.1.7 on Solaris 2.8

2004-11-03 Thread V. M. Brasseur
We're trying to get 4.1.7 to play nicely with our code, but something isn't cooperating. First of all, the MySQL installation: Version 4.1.7, compiled from source using GCC 3.3. The source compile is required because we need a lot of default settings to use our own paths. This is the

Re: Undefined symbols compiling against 4.1.7 on Solaris 2.8

2004-11-03 Thread V. M. Brasseur
a recent gnu configure. This link the gcc lib with your program. I don't know what you are trying to link but here is a php reference. http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16826edit=1 - Original Message - From: V. M. Brasseur [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL Listserv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

Re: Undefined symbols compiling against 4.1.7 on Solaris 2.8

2004-11-03 Thread V. M. Brasseur
libmysqlclient.la Neither seems like fun to me. Anyone have any other ideas/pointers? --V V. M. Brasseur wrote: Unfortunately, the --disable-shared is intentional. For various reasons, our programs use static libraries whenever possible rather than dynamically linking. Do you think the LDFLAGS

Re: rounding problem

2004-10-25 Thread V. M. Brasseur
This must be a bug that was fixed in the 4.1 version. I see the same thing as Tom, using both 3.23.49 and 4.0.20... Oh, wait. The ever-helpful manual comes through again: From the manual documentation on ROUND(): Note that the behavior of ROUND() when the argument is halfway between two

Re: Command that I believe should work...

2004-10-15 Thread V. M. Brasseur
If you make that column a TIMESTAMP data type and leave the default as NULL, it will automatically use the current date/time if no value is entered. Please note, this will only work this way for the first TIMESTAMP column in the table. Also, if ever you update a row containing TIMESTAMP

Connector/J Null pointer in initializePropsFromServer

2004-10-15 Thread V. M. Brasseur
I am passing on this question from a coworker: Hello -- This has been posted on the forums.mysql.com for a week with no replies. We have been using Connector J 3.0.6 for more than a year at hundreds of customer sites and on our in house servers. When I updated the jar to 3.0.15-ga we can still

Re: How to extract Particular Tables from a Dump file taken with mysqldump

2004-10-08 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Why don't you use the mysqldump program to dump only those tables you want and not the entire database? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqldump.html Cheers, --V Buchibabu wrote: Hi, Please let me know how to extract few tables from a dump file, which is taken with mysqldump. I know it

Re: How to extract Particular Tables from a Dump file taken with mysqldump

2004-10-08 Thread V. M. Brasseur
to know is there any mysql utility to extract only specified table from entire dump Thanks -Original Message- From: V. M. Brasseur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:41 PM To: Buchibabu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to extract Particular Tables from a Dump file

UTF8 pre-4.1?

2004-09-16 Thread V. M. Brasseur
*I* understand that Unicode utf8 support does not happen until version 4.1 (I can read the manual), but there are some in the office who are skeptical and somehow believe that there is support for it in earlier versions (as early as 3.23, according to them). To set all of our minds at ease,

Re: UTF8 pre-4.1?

2004-09-16 Thread V. M. Brasseur
used the collation/sorting of MySQL against the text fields. -Original Message- From: V. M. Brasseur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UTF8 pre-4.1? *I* understand that Unicode utf8 support does not happen until version 4.1

Re: RESEND: Compilation of MySQL with OpenSSL in alternate location.

2004-09-07 Thread V. M. Brasseur
OpenSSH != OpenSSL. Just because you have one installed doesn't mean that the other is. Apparently the MySQL compilation using OpenSSL requires OpenSSH for some reason. You might want to try installing it and giving the compile another whirl: http://www.openssh.com/ Also, the exact output

Re: RESEND: Compilation of MySQL with OpenSSL in alternate location.

2004-09-07 Thread V. M. Brasseur
%22btnG=Search Cheers, --V Thank you for your help! --- V. M. Brasseur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenSSH != OpenSSL. Just because you have one installed doesn't mean that the other is. Apparently the MySQL compilation using OpenSSL requires OpenSSH for some reason. You might want to try

Re: Table crashed! Please help

2004-09-07 Thread V. M. Brasseur
The manual knows all: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/REPAIR_TABLE.html Cheers, --V Monet wrote: I was working on a table, doing some simple update on table, query is like: Update temp SET Q1 = 14, REVIEWCOMMENTS = CASE WHEN REVIEWCOMMENTS='WHO2' THEN '' WHEN

Re: can not find file *.MYI

2004-09-06 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Your index files appear to have disappeared during your archive. You can rebuild them though. Have a look at the Table Maintenance and Crash Recovery section of the manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Table_maintenance.html Pay particular attention to the REPAIR TABLE syntax. That will

Re: Before I go searching (shameless)

2004-09-02 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Here is the manual. I suggest you try a search for LIMIT in the context of a SELECT. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html However what it sounds like you really ought to do is give a walk through the tutorial. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Tutorial.html If, after exploring these

Re: DELETE FROM mysql.user?

2004-09-02 Thread V. M. Brasseur
USAGE is a synonym for no privileges. Yes, it's kind of a confusing term which implies this user can use the system when in fact the situation is exactly the opposite. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/User_resources.html Cheers, --V Mark C. Stafford wrote: Should I care that USAGE still shows

Re: column types for intger, float or double field include arrays?

2004-09-02 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Numeric types are simply that: numbers. They cannot be arrays. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Numeric_types.html Incidentally, why would you need this? Maybe the group can come up with a viable alternative for you. Cheers, --V Raghudev Ramaiah wrote: hi i have used column types such as

Re: How to use use for a specific host

2004-09-02 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Are you using the mysql client to connect? If so, you can use the -h and -D flags: mysql -h hostname [-u username -p -P port] -D databasename The -D flag isn't even necessary. The command above is equivalent to this one: mysql -h hostname [-u username -p -P port] databasename

Re: bad too many connections error (os x)

2004-09-01 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Michael Winston wrote: Hi- We've been running into a pretty serious problem for the past several versions of mysql 4.0 running on OS X (both client and server). Every once in a while we wake up to find the too many connections error coming up. There really aren't too many connections (we

Re: specify data type in select statement

2004-08-31 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Perhaps a casting function would help you: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Cast_Functions.html If case-sensitivity isn't an issue, you may want to consider converting from char(8) binary to just char(8). Cheers, --V walt wrote: We've run into a problem where binary char column types crash our

Re: Is their still any reason why Stored Procedure calls are not supported in MySql?

2004-08-31 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Stored procedures are in the works for MySQL 5.0: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/TODO_MySQL_5.0.html The manual is your friend. Cheers, --V Jacob, Raymond A Jr wrote: Firstly, I do appologize for my ignorance in advance. I read the message regarding PRODUCT() and thought to myself:A perl

Re: Slow Queries on Fast Server?

2004-08-25 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Have you checked the Optimization section of the manual yet? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MySQL_Optimization.html It's probably the best place to start. Cheers, --V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running into a problem with some queries running on a dedicated mysql server (2.0 GHz, 2GB RAM).

Re: Slow Queries on Fast Server?

2004-08-25 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Could you send the output of an EXPLAIN for your query? --V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you checked the Optimization section of the manual yet? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MySQL_Optimization.html Oh yes, as I've attempted to configure the my.cnf file for best performance. The query is

Re: LIKE question

2004-08-25 Thread V. M. Brasseur
How about... SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE LCASE(this) = that; Although there are always other ways to do it, of course. Cheers, --V Schalk Neethling wrote: If I search a field for 'doone' and one of the fields contains 'Lorna Doone' what is the best comparator to use as LIKE is skipping this one

Re: How to Reset a field

2004-08-23 Thread V. M. Brasseur
You could also have done this: TRUNCATE TABLE usarios; That will drop the table completely and then recreate it anew (and empty). It will give you a fresh start. --V Victor Pendleton wrote: Try alter table usuarios auto_increment = 1; -Original Message- From: Yusdaniel Rodriguez

Re: MySQL Purchase Options

2004-08-19 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Because he's a good sport and really wants to support the MySQL development effort? Either that or he hadn't heard of the GPL'd option, but I prefer to believe the former. :-) Cheers, --V Daved Daly wrote: all I want to do is host some web applications locally for our internal use. Why,

Re: Fairly lame question

2004-08-19 Thread V. M. Brasseur
MySQL provides a number of functions for handling dates and times: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Date_and_time_functions.html Cheers, --V Stuart Felenstein wrote: I think this can be done, but tried a few times with no success. I want a column in a table that sets a timestamp. Instead of

Re: Multiple MySQL Versions on Same Linux Box

2004-08-17 Thread V. M. Brasseur
You'll probably want to have a look at section 5.10 in the manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Multiple_servers.html Also, the mysqld_multi documentation may come in handy: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqld_multi.html Cheers, --V Lou Olsten wrote: We have successfully (and easily)

Re: datadir specification, etc

2004-08-13 Thread V. M. Brasseur
In my experience, where the my.cnf file is concerned, mysqld does not care what you define for the value of the --datadir flag. The order of precedence for locating my.cnf files is: 1) /etc/my.cnf 2) my.cnf in the COMPILED-IN DEFAULT datadir 3) .my.cnf in the user's $HOME That

Re: [Probable SPAM] Re: datadir specification, etc

2004-08-13 Thread V. M. Brasseur
10:15, V. M. Brasseur wrote: In my experience, where the my.cnf file is concerned, mysqld does not care what you define for the value of the --datadir flag. The order of precedence for locating my.cnf files is: 1) /etc/my.cnf 2) my.cnf in the COMPILED-IN DEFAULT datadir 3) .my.cnf

Re: problem with tables crashing

2004-08-13 Thread V. M. Brasseur
$ perror 145 Error code 145: Error 145 occurred. 145 = Table was marked as crashed and should be repaired I think `myisamchk` needs to come into play here (both on slave and master at this point). http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/myisamchk_syntax.html

Re: C API: mysql_options and mysql_real_connect

2004-08-12 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Paul DuBois wrote: At 13:03 -0700 8/11/04, V. M. Brasseur wrote: Assuming a my.cnf file which looks like this: [client] port=3306 socket=/path/to/mysql.sock [app] user=appuser password=apppwd host=my.host.com Ignore for now the insecurity of putting a password in the my.cnf file

Re: MySQL won't start... was runnnig fine

2004-08-12 Thread V. M. Brasseur
This line probably should have been a good hint: InnoDB: File operation call: 'tmpfile'. Any idea why the server crashed in the first place? That's not the sort of thing you want just randomly happening, I'd imagine. Although it might make life a bit more interesting... Cheers. --V Chris

Re: my.cnf not read in 4.1.3

2004-08-12 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Are you sure that the server is using the my.cnf file which you are changing? After making the change, what is the output of --print-defaults for mysqld? If it's not as expected, odds are good that the server is getting its defaults from a different location. --V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: my.cnf not read in 4.1.3

2004-08-12 Thread V. M. Brasseur
What else is in the my.cnf file? For instance, when I run `mysqld --print-defaults` on my system I see this: mysqld would have been started with the following arguments: --basedir=/path/to/mysql-4.0 --datadir=/path/to/mysql-4.0/data --port=1032 --socket=/path/to/mysql-4.0/mysql.sock

Re: C API: mysql_options and mysql_real_connect

2004-08-12 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Paul DuBois wrote: At 8:06 -0700 8/12/04, V. M. Brasseur wrote: Paul DuBois wrote: At 13:03 -0700 8/11/04, V. M. Brasseur wrote: Assuming a my.cnf file which looks like this: [client] port=3306 socket=/path/to/mysql.sock [app] user=appuser password=apppwd host=my.host.com Ignore

C API: mysql_options and mysql_real_connect

2004-08-11 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Assuming a my.cnf file which looks like this: [client] port=3306 socket=/path/to/mysql.sock [app] user=appuser password=apppwd host=my.host.com Ignore for now the insecurity of putting a password in the my.cnf file. This is mostly a hypothetical question at the moment. Calling

Re: MySQL-Max

2003-06-13 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Jon Miller wrote: I've been asked to setup a MySQL DB for critical mass usage. The programmer is asking that I use MySQL-Max. Does this have to be installed along with the regular MySQL version or is it a single product on it's own? From the MySQL/downloads page for 4.0: The Standard

Re: Rename/Create Database from Existing Database

2003-06-13 Thread V. M. Brasseur
Wong Zach-CHZ013 wrote: Hi 1- Is there a command to rename an existing database ? 2- If not, how does one create a new database from an existing database ? could you show me the steps? Any help is appreciated. Thanks Have you tried the mysqlhotcopy util?