what's the database behind m$ access?

2003-10-11 Thread Wang Feng
That works, Emery. Thanks a lot. Dummy me, I was wrong. Seems that Access is just a tool rather than a Database, then what's the database behind M$ Access? cheers, feng -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com

Re: Re[2]: printing reports

2003-10-08 Thread Wang Feng
One of the best things is to listen from diffrent opinions from different people who have different backgrounds. :-) cheers, feng - Original Message - From: "DeBug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wang Feng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: printing reports

2003-10-08 Thread Wang Feng
t: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 9:29 PM Subject: RE: printing reports > Please take this flame war off list. > > -Original Message- > > From: Wang Feng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 08 October 2003 11:31 > > To: Michael Haunzwickl; 'Dire

Re: printing reports

2003-10-08 Thread Wang Feng
> So listen guy, this is a big miss understanding: NO > 1.) If you want to have an "easy way tool" for creating your reports - > use MS Access Hey, man, inserting a record is also ealier in Access. => You suggest me to do everything in Access. You'r bad bad man!!! -- Tools are for dummy u

Re: printing reports

2003-10-08 Thread Wang Feng
> So listen guy, this is a big miss understanding: NO > 1.) If you want to have an "easy way tool" for creating your reports - > use MS Access Hey, man, inserting a record is also ealier in Access. => You suggest me to do everything in Access. You'r bad bad man!!! -- Tools are for dummy u

Re: printing reports

2003-10-08 Thread Wang Feng
cle, since Oracle is definitely not for dummy users, and then you can laugh at everybody in this mailing list - dummy users. Look, man, even you know I'm a dummy user, you don't have to say so on the mailing list :-) Now people around the world know *Wang Feng* is a dummy user, some of

Re: printing reports

2003-10-08 Thread Wang Feng
thanks for your nice advice. *dummy users* --- let's see. - Original Message - From: "Michael Haunzwickl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Director General: NEFACOMP'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Wang Feng'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: printing reports

2003-10-08 Thread Wang Feng
> Unfortunately, they have not implemented a reporting tool in that client. that's the problem, as I was trying to find some sql commands to edit the report, such as report titles. >Do you know some programming language? Like Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, PHP, i know them, but as I mentioned ear

Re: printing reports

2003-10-07 Thread Wang Feng
Thanks Dave That sounds good although I haven't installed them. I don't know if that works to my OfficeXP or not. Seems better for me to get a RedHat 9.0 somewhere. :-) cheers, feng - Original Message - From: "Christensen, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &qu

Re: printing reports

2003-10-07 Thread Wang Feng
udy > > > -Original Message- > From: Director General: NEFACOMP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: dinsdag 7 oktober 2003 16:49 > To: Wang Feng; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: printing reports > > To get data from/into MySQL, you will always need a clie

Re: printing reports

2003-10-07 Thread Wang Feng
> In MySQL, how can I create and print reports without the help of neither a > scripting language(e.g. php) nor a thrid party software tool? bad grammar :-( but you guys understand what i'm saying, right? :-) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To uns

printing reports

2003-10-07 Thread Wang Feng
Greetings, In MySQL, how can I create and print reports without the help of neither a scripting language(e.g. php) nor a thrid party software tool? I just couldn't find any commands for the printing function in MySQL. Please advise. And please let me know how you print reports. cheers, feng

Re: Newbie question on creating a database

2003-10-05 Thread Wang Feng
I guess that's because you don't have the privilege to create a database. Make sure you're using the *right* account to create the database. cheers, feng - Original Message - From: "ddonahoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:17 PM Subject: New

Re: mysql account

2003-10-05 Thread Wang Feng
Thanks Paul. Fully understand!! cheers, feng - Original Message - From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wang Feng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:38 AM Subject: Re: mysql account > At 14:00

change the *user* table OR simply use GRANT query?

2003-10-05 Thread Wang Feng
Greetings, I'm so curious about this: If a new MySQL database account need to be created, do you insert the account info to the *user* table of the *mysql* database OR do you grant the new account by the GRANT query? What are the differences andn which one do you prefer? (I got some trouble whe

Re: mysql account

2003-10-04 Thread Wang Feng
Paul, > I am assuming that the 'alan' account that you're planning to use has > all privileges. Otherwise, you will find after flushing the privileges > that you'll no longer be able to administer your server without starting > it with the --skip-grant-tables option... The *alan* account does h

Re: mysql account

2003-10-04 Thread Wang Feng
e - From: "Thada, Shantalaxmi (NIH/CC/PET)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Wang Feng '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 5:57 AM Subject: RE: mysql account > > do u have a .my.cnf in c:\ dir or c:\windows d

mysql account

2003-10-04 Thread Wang Feng
Hi, folks. I use WinXP + MySQL. I deleted all the rows from the 'user' table of the 'mysql' database except my own account (host: localhost, user: alan, password:alan). --- I was hoping only I have the access to the MySQL databases. The problem is that I still can login to MySQL by the DOS comma

Re: Newbye speed question

2003-10-03 Thread Wang Feng
18hrs??? So, the database has been LOCKED for 18hrs - Original Message - From: "Peer Reiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: Newbye speed question > HI > > I am having a MYISAM database with 27 million rows and 19 fields

Re: can NOT drop the database

2003-10-01 Thread Wang Feng
> As long as two databases are on the same disk you can also rename from one > database to another: > RENAME TABLE current_db.tbl_name TO other_db.tbl_name; Works!! :-) But the thing is: by doing this, although the tables have been *moved* from the old database to the new one, the old database

Re: can NOT drop the database

2003-10-01 Thread Wang Feng
ySQL technical support from https://order.mysql.com/ > > > - Original Message - > From: ""Wang Feng"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:37 AM > Subject: Re: can NOT drop the data

Re: can NOT drop the database

2003-09-30 Thread Wang Feng
Not at all!! after I typed the 'drop database my_account_database', I got the following message: > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00sec). and I do the 'show databases', that one is still there. cheers, feng - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: W

can NOT drop the database

2003-09-30 Thread Wang Feng
Greetings, I have a database called 'my_account_database' and I tried to drop it by the command 'drop database my_account_database', it doesn't work. The database is still there, can not be dropped although the tables contained in the database have gone. I subsequently created another 2 database

Re: MySQL <-- SQL --> Oracle

2003-09-30 Thread Wang Feng
typo :( correct: in Oracle, one have to use single quotes to enclose those values which are going to be inserted. but in MySQL, doubl quotes do the job well. - Original Message - From: "Wang Feng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mysql List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

MySQL <-- SQL --> Oracle

2003-09-30 Thread Wang Feng
Folks, this is funny. I've been using Oracle for several months, and started teaching myself MySQL since last weekend. I'm currently using the MySQL version 3.23.49 I found something really interesting: In Oracle, I have to create the Foreign Key in order to join 2 tables. It's quite different wh

Re: Am I on a wrong list?

2003-09-30 Thread Wang Feng
It seems I'm on the *right* list. :-) Thanks, Kelley. The '\r\n' solves the problem. Yes, Kelly, you are right, I'm using WinXP. Thanks again for that. cheers, feng - Original Message - From: "Kelley Lingerfelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wa

Am I on a wrong list?

2003-09-30 Thread Wang Feng
cuss MySQL questions? cheers, feng - Original Message ----- From: "Wang Feng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 7:11 PM Subject: loading data from a textfile into MySQL database table > Greetings, > > I have a dat

loading data from a textfile into MySQL database

2003-09-30 Thread Wang Feng
Greetings, I have a datafile called 'salary.txt', and it's a tab delimited file, the structure is like this: employee_namesalary employee_namesalary ... I have a table called 'salary', and it has the same structure as the 'salary.txt' --- employee_name & salary as the columns; I use the command

Newbie Q: loading data from a textfile into MySQL database

2003-09-29 Thread Wang Feng
Greetings, I have a datafile called 'salary.txt', and it's a tab delimited file, the structure is like this: employee_namesalary employee_namesalary ... I have a table called 'salary', and it has the same structure as the 'salary.txt' --- employee_name & salary as the columns; I use the command

Newbie Q: how to send the records of a table to a file and then print them out?

2003-09-29 Thread Wang Feng
Greetings, I use WinXP and MySQL. I have a customer table, which contains about 200 records. Now I want to print all the records of the table out. How can I achieve that? Can I send them to a .doc OR .txt file before printing? cheers, feng -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

newbie Q: what are the benefits of having several databases?

2003-09-28 Thread Wang Feng
Hi, folks. What are the benefits of having several databases rather than just one? The hosting companies usually charge more bucks if customers asked for more databases. I'm so curious why people need more databases while they can create as many tables as they need in 1 database? cheers, feng

Re: newbie Q: create a table in a database

2003-09-28 Thread Wang Feng
That's cool, Leonardo. Thanks. BTW, how can I show the structure of the table without 'changing' to that database? cheers, feng - Original Message - From: "Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wang Feng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: newbie Q: create a table in a database

2003-09-28 Thread Wang Feng
gt; > >c:\mysql\bin\mysql line 1 > > mysql>create database DB1line 2 > mysql>use DB1; > > mysql>create table TB1(id char(3)); ---line 5 > > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Wang Feng" <

newbie Q: create a table in a database

2003-09-28 Thread Wang Feng
Hi, folks. I use Windows XP Pro, MySQL v.1.4 The following is how I access to MySQL and create a database and a table in that database: >c:\mysql\bin\mysql line 1 mysql>create database DB1line 2 mysql>quit -