Re: strange authentication issue

2010-07-31 Thread Corey
On Saturday 31 July 2010 5:11:33 Claudio Nanni wrote: > login as root and remove 'empty' user ,issue: > > delete from mysql.user where user=''; > flush privileges; > > mysql authentication system is logging you on as 'empty' user. > > you will be ok after that ;) > Man, thanks a ton! That wa

Re: strange authentication issue

2010-07-31 Thread Corey
On Saturday 31 July 2010 4:58:36 Claudio Nanni wrote: > after login to mysql issue: > > select user(); > and > select current_user(); > and post output > you will see they dont match. > /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -h localhost -u scripts -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Command

Re: strange authentication issue

2010-07-31 Thread Corey
On Saturday 31 July 2010 4:40:14 chaim rieger wrote: > Another thing I just noticed > > In your first example you are using localhost, which probably means you are > connecting via network > > The second option you don't define a host, which means you're prolly using > socket connection Oh, whoo

Re: strange authentication issue

2010-07-31 Thread Corey
On Saturday 31 July 2010 4:30:00 chaim rieger wrote: > Just a stab but what's the max connect set to ? > Thanks a ton for the quick response - I'm at wits end, been working on this for hours! max_connections is set to 0. (but it is also set to 0 on another server, which largely follows the same

strange authentication issue

2010-07-31 Thread Corey
Hello - I'm only moderately familiar with mysql; the following issue has me stumped. I just noticed that some scripts on one of my client's servers suddenly started failing due to being no longer able to log into the mysql db. I have not touched the mysql config on that machine in months. The

Re: normalised designs: customer database

2008-11-14 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 14:30 +, Mark Goodge wrote: > I wouldn't try to arbitrarily normalise the database for SQL > efficiency. > In a real-life situation, it's more important that the database > design > reflects your actual workflow and business requirements. Having a > field > that's empty

Re: time zone

2008-10-15 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:08 -0400, Olaf Stein wrote: > You can use the convert_tz function for this > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function > _convert-tz > > On 10/15/08 12:03 PM, "Madan Thapa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can we make adjus

Re: simple design choice

2008-10-03 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 09:58 -0700, Rob Wultsch wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Alex K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a table of a 1 million users. I want to add a flag called > > delete if a user wants to delete his account. Note that this situation > > does not happe

Re: Finding gaps

2008-09-18 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:58 +0100, Stut wrote: > Autonumber will accomplish that, so long as you don't delete any. > And > if you do, renumbering the bookings would cause more problems than > it > solved. > Autonumber has the possibility of gaps. When a record is insert, the counter is incre

Re: valid chars mysql db username

2008-09-17 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 08:34 +1000, Res wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Peter Brawley wrote: > > >> I'm looking at using the "@" symbol > > > > Don't. Restrict yourself to alphanums and '_'. > > Thanks, but is there any technical reason where using "@" might break > something? Howeve

Re: Finding gaps

2008-09-17 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 23:29 +0100, Stut wrote: > On 17 Sep 2008, at 22:34, Jerry Schwartz wrote: > > Our Japanese partners will notice and will ask. Similar things have > > come up > > before. > > > > I want to be pro-active. > > Notice what? Why would it be bad? What type of data are we dealing

Re: Blocking HTML code in inserts?

2008-08-02 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 16:16 -0500, Skip Evans wrote: > Hey all, > > What is the most effective way to block HTML code > in insert statements? > > I have a client with a comments form that is being > bombarded with people inserting references to > their own sites, etc, and I need an effective w

Re: SET vs. ENUM

2008-07-31 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 11:47 -0500, Chris W wrote: > My thought is you should develop an application that will give your > users the information they need with out direct access to the DB. My > thought is, if a user doesn't have a solid understanding of at least 1st > and 2nd normal form, and ba

Re: SET vs. ENUM

2008-07-31 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 11:24 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Jerry Schwartz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Other than the fact that an ENUM can have many more values than a SET, is > > there any particular reason to choose one over the other? > > The only use for E

RE: Re-arranging fields

2008-07-31 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:24 -0400, Jerry Schwartz wrote: > [JS] Users will have read-only access through MS Access, and have to filter > on various fields. You're assuming that your users will never, ever be granted anything but read-access to only the data they suppose to have, either by accident

RE: Re-arranging fields

2008-07-31 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 09:56 -0400, Jerry Schwartz wrote: > [JS] I added a dozen or so columns for a special purpose, and although MySQL > doesn't care I wanted them in a certain order that would be intuitive to a > user / programmer. Why is a user looking at your database? This is a security bre

Re: Re-arranging fields

2008-07-30 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:42 -0400, Jerry Schwartz wrote: > Is there any reasonable way of re-arranging the order of columns in a table > without losing their data? The best I could come up with was to copy the > table, empty it, and then do an INSERT . SELECT specifying the new order of > the field

Re: order of items in a WHERE...IN clause

2008-07-28 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 07:32 -0400, Gary Josack wrote: > Andrew Martin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is it permissible to order a clause such that the search term is the > > first item (in the clause)? > > > > standard: > > field1 IN (123, 654, 789) > > > > in question: > > 123 IN (field1, field2, field

Re: FW: How do I (can I) use aggregate functions inside a select

2008-07-25 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Why? Because it's Friday and I'm feeling silly :) mysql> SELECT * FROM sales; +--+---++ | company | state | sales | +--+---++ | ABC | AZ| 140.01 | | XYZ | AZ| 17.76 | | ABC | NY| 123.45 | | XYZ

Re: how to optimize: max(timetstamp) where a.foo=b.foo ?

2008-07-24 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 14:49 +0200, walter harms wrote: > hi list, > i have tables that look like this( <10.000 entries) : > > id, > timestamp, > value > > > to get the latest value for each id i have queries like: > > select * from tab A where timestamp = (select max(timestamp) from tab B where

Re: How do I get the file names from a certain directory in SQL?

2008-07-24 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 17:36 +0530, Sivasakthi wrote: > Hi all, > > How do I get the file names from a certain directory in SQL? SQL is designed to deal with RDBs, not the rest of the computer system. I suggest you switch to a modern language such as Perl, Python, Ruby, or even PHP. Each has a g

Re: WHERE .... IN

2008-07-24 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 09:34 +0530, Sivasakthi wrote: > How can we normalize the tables? could you explain bit more? > > > Thanks, > Siva > > Normalization is a complex subject. I suggest you search the web for tutorials. Try the search terms: RDBM normalization -- Just my 0.0002 milli

Re: a question...

2008-07-23 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 12:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, sorry. I have a database that records ip of attacks on a customer > server, what I like to do get a count so that I can see what subnet is > doing the major of the attacks. > > select ip from ipslimit 10; > +-+-

Re: WHERE .... IN

2008-07-23 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:05 +0300, Ali Deniz EREN wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem as below: > > A text field -Lets call it 'field1'- contains datas seperated by > commas(,) like this (123,5764,8795,9364,11,232,. and go on) And so > my lines like these: > > id title filed1 > -

Re: Insert many records

2002-11-12 Thread Corey Tisdale
You could pu tmany records in a file and use mysql -u user -p http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/LOAD_DATA.html -Corey Tisdale The Grill Store & More --- "Alexander Burbello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >How can I insert many records (for instance: 1.00

Re: Fw: Complex SQL assistance

2002-07-29 Thread Corey Wallis
Jon, This is exactly what was needed. You are correct in that we're using the mysql To: "Gerald Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Corey Wallis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 8:16 AM Subject: RE: Fw: Complex S

Fw: Complex SQL assistance

2002-07-27 Thread Corey Wallis
it. For reasons too complex to go into at this stage using anything except SQL is not possible. Any and all suggestions welcome. -Corey - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) ht

Fresh RedHat 7.2 install

2002-03-19 Thread corey
: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists! Thank You, Corey Baldwin ---

multi-table update

2001-12-02 Thread Corey Kaye
I'm wondering what is the best way to update one table based on another. Can joins be performed for an update? update table1 set table1.field2 = table2.field2 where table1.field1 = table2.field1; The alternative seams to be: select table2.field2 from table2; update table2 set table2.field2 = $

Re: QUICK HELP, two selects, maybe nested.

2001-12-01 Thread Corey Kaye
; Thanks for the help! PS Though my searching i still have not found anything on IF statements in SQL... i'm sure there is some, i just can't find any examples. Anyone give me one or two? >>> Sinisa Milivojevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/01/01 11:02am >>> >Corey K

QUICK HELP, two selects, maybe nested.

2001-12-01 Thread Corey Kaye
Looking though the docs. MySQL does not support nested selects but i'm looking for a way to speed up my PHP. This is what i have: CREATE TABLE departmentuser ( userid int(10) unsigned zerofill default NULL, departmentid int(10) unsigned zerofill default NULL, KEY userid_departmentid(useri

renaming a database

2001-11-10 Thread Corey Kaye
Can you rename a database? If so, how does it handle all the tables inside it? Thanks. - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive)

Spawned process, locked table.

2001-11-04 Thread Corey Kaye
I'm writing a web application for a client in PHP. One function that a user can perform results in a very expensive update. To try and speed up this process (free up the user) i wrote a Perl script that performs the bulk of the work. When the user runs the PHP page, the PHP page updates one