Re: Count query?

2006-10-20 Thread chris smith
On 10/21/06, Dwight Tovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all Maybe it's been a long week, but I'm trying to do something that should be simple and just not getting anywhere. I have two tables: accounts acctid: int unique acctowner: char ... docs docid: int unique acctid: int

Re: group by problem

2006-10-16 Thread chris smith
On 10/16/06, kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but that will get you all records for that category not just the most recently updated. that's the main problem, isn't it? what i'm looking for is the last record for EACH of the categories in the table. i'm aware of the aformentioned

Re: Query takes different times for execution...

2006-08-23 Thread chris smith
On 8/23/06, Ratheesh K J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I wanted to know why a select query takes ,say, 18 sec to execute the first time I execute it and then for every successive execution it takes, say, 10 sec. I have disabled Query Caching on the server. If its not Query Caching then

Re: replace delayed not working

2006-08-23 Thread chris smith
On 8/23/06, matt_lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is a bug we are updating a large table with replace delayed from our feeder systems, 1000 records at a time using limit's on the input data pull this works great when there's fast selects from the table, while the insert is

Re: backup locking tables on 5.0.24

2006-08-23 Thread chris smith
On 8/23/06, matt_lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We did not see this on 5.0.19, with 5.0.24 our backup jobs lock the tables for selects the backup takes 3 hours, so the site is down the whole time I'm using this backup line mysqldump -d -f --quote-names --skip-add-locks database outfile

Re: Should Joins always be using an index? (where possible?)

2006-08-20 Thread chris smith
On 8/20/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm have a query like so select A, index_A from tableA join tableB on tableB.indexA = tableA.indexA select A, index_A from tableA join tableB on tableB.A = tableA.A whcih would be more efficient? using the where clause which uses the index or

Re: help needed to mount data from /var/lib/mysql

2006-08-19 Thread chris smith
On 8/19/06, balaraju mandala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody, I need small help from you. In my Linux box i have limitation of Size in partition. I have only 5 GB space for /var. MySQL is installed in this partition only. I want to give another path like /home, where i have 120GB of

Re: Can't open file: 'my_table.MYI': Could be the reason of a server reboot?

2006-08-08 Thread chris smith
On 8/8/06, thomas Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. My Linux server has just restarted due to memory problems. Browsing mySQL logs, I've found out 5,000 lines like these in less than one hour: -- 060808 1:27:39 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't open file: 'my_table.MYI' (errno:

Re: mysql_upgrade doesn't find its own stuff

2006-08-08 Thread chris smith
On 8/8/06, Yves Goergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was just trying out the mysql_upgrade script on my MySQL 5.0 server but it shows an error message that makes me believe it doesn't know where to find its own data. Here's what I did: mysql_upgrade --basedir=/usr/local/mysql5

Re: Query

2006-08-04 Thread chris smith
On 8/5/06, Karl Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Linux called Fedora Core 4. I had no problem getting mysql 4 working here and liked it a lot. But when I discovered 4 doesn't have VIEW but 5 does I have tried several RPM sets of 5 that fail for basic reasons. The reasons are the

Re: tune a geometric query

2006-08-01 Thread chris smith
we are working on automotive traking solutions and insert our location records into the mysql database v 4.1.20. If we want search for a particular record, its taking too long time and mysql is identifying the queries as slow queries. I have attached the queries. You've posted this multiple

ISP Setup

2002-03-01 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, I'm sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it in the archives, so here goes... I want to setup a web server that also has MySQL on it, with several user accounts, each user has their own home directory and a virtual host entry in Apache for their website. I also want to have