Re: shall i jump from 5.1 to 5.5

2011-08-16 Thread Alvin Ramos
Thanks for the suggestions. I will change the tables to in innodb and change my php coding. Then I will revisit the benchmarking with hopefully improving results. Thanks again! Regards, Alvin On Aug 16, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Johnny Withers wrote: > This is a poor benchmark because the qu

RE: shall i jump from 5.1 to 5.5

2011-08-16 Thread Alvin Ramos
t our web sites and its slower than the 5.1 server. Any suggestions, anything I should change on the 5.5 server? The hardware and OS is identical from the 5.1 server. Thanks! Alvin Ramos From: w...@pythian.com [mailto:w...@pythian.com] On Behalf Of Singer X.J. Wang Sent: Tuesday, August 1

Re: shall i jump from 5.1 to 5.5

2011-08-16 Thread Alvin Ramos
I've been running some bench marking between 5.1 and 5.5 myself and haven't notice any huge performance improvements on 5.5. Even though white papers claim it put performs 5.1. Any noticing the same or have some input in my findings? Regards, Alvin On Aug 16, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Pra

queries take too many time

2002-04-08 Thread Alvin Chen
to see what was going on. Under the column "State" I saw the value "copying to tmp table" which lasted a good 6 seconds. So I'm thinking that the copying to tmp table is slowing down the query - but I don't know why. I think I'm not the only

VB Application using myODBC?

2002-03-10 Thread Alvin Ang
e codes to connection and open the database for mySQL using myODBC?? I have already setup myODBC and tested the data source. It works! :P Please help! Thanks! alvin - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.

ODBC for VB application

2002-03-01 Thread Alvin Ang
be due to the Access database. Can anyone please advise how i could go abt it and what are the things i should look out for? Can i just install myODBC and export Access database to mySQL? Not sure how to do that too... Please he

Installation problem

2001-09-18 Thread Alvin Quek Jin Wei
cate the config.log file in my system. If you need more informations, pls let me know. Thanks. Alvin - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive)

Re: Best way to generate laser-printed reports from mysql

2001-03-26 Thread alvin
t; > A "tbl" reference is at > http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/troffcvt/tbl.html. This question strikes a chord with me also. I started looking to see if there is any Perl modules/Bundles/Packages for generating postscript reports. What I have found is fairly prima

Re: FW: potential vulnerability of mysqld running with root privileges

2001-03-21 Thread alvin
EATE privileges (FILE privileges are not needed, If I am > not mistaken). If you can without becoming the "mysql user" and running a shell do what you want. then you have found a real MySQL bug. For example try t

Re: Design philosophy

2001-02-06 Thread alvin
f the wan try and only run actions where the time of trasmission is much less than the time to perform the transaction. You may want to think about keeping a local database for more transient or time-critical information. -- Alvin Starr || voice: (416