Re: 50 things to know before migrating from Oracle to MySQL

2010-01-29 Thread fsb
On 1/28/10 5:21 AM, changuno chang...@rediffmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Read a blog which states 50 things to know before migrating from Oracle to MySQL. Any comments on this? as a relatively unsophisticated dbms user (just dynamic web site back end), i thought it was very interesting to see

Re: SCALING INSERT

2010-01-23 Thread fsb
non-linearity in the insert rate means you have indexes on some columns. depending on your situation, mysql can be more efficient if drop those indexes, do bulk inserts, and then add the indexes again. On 1/23/10 5:02 AM, Krishna Chandra Prajapati prajapat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi shawn, As

Re: Best way to synchronize two database schemas

2010-01-23 Thread fsb
On 1/21/10 12:03 PM, Price, Randall randall.pr...@vt.edu wrote: I have a two databases, one in a production environment (let's call it db_prod) and the other in a testing environments (Let's call it db_test). What is the best way to synchronize the database schemas? db_test has had a few

Re: Quick help with Insert

2010-01-21 Thread fsb
that's exactly how i do it. On 1/19/10 3:57 PM, Intell! Soft h.ba...@intelli-soft.at wrote: Thanks! - I found a Insert Into on your tip: Insert Into Lieferanten (Lieferant) select distinct a.lieferant from artikelstamm a left join lieferanten b on a.lieferant = b.lieferant

Re: REGEXP and unicode weirdness

2010-01-21 Thread fsb
On 1/21/10 10:27 AM, John Campbell jcampbe...@gmail.com wrote: I want to find rows that contain a word that matches a term, accent insensitive: I am using utf8-general collation everywhere. attempt 1: SELECT * FROM t WHERE txt LIKE '%que%' Matches que qué, but also matches 'queue'

Re: Regarding storing non-english chars in mysql

2010-01-19 Thread fsb
On 1/19/10 2:19 AM, Ningappa Koneri ningappa.kon...@comviva.com wrote: 3.It worked even after removing meta tag from the head tag as well -- plz through some light y it got displayed at the browser ? this is not a mysql question. but see:

Re: Regarding storing non-english chars in mysql

2010-01-18 Thread fsb
you can specify the character encoding (called CHARSET in mysql) and collation on a per column, per table or per database level. e.g. CREATE DATABASE foo CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; or CREATE TABLE foo ( ... ) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; or CREATE TABLE foo (

Re: Better that `NOT IN`

2010-01-15 Thread fsb
On 1/15/10 12:01 AM, Junior Ortis jror...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys i have a problem, 3 big tables: item_instance about 15KK rows, character_inventory 15KK rows, guild_bank_item 2KK rows. And i need i clean on item_instance how this query: DELETE FROM `item_instance` WHERE guid NOT

Re: Performance of MySQL IN() given a list of constants.

2010-01-15 Thread fsb
the example you gave would work with a range constraint: WHERE `bar_id` 0 AND `bar_id` 63 but i guess this is not a general solution. i've done exactly this kind of select using an IN constraint very often. i've not had any trouble with lists of a few hundred so long as i have the necessary

Re: upgrading mysql

2010-01-13 Thread fsb
On 1/13/10 2:28 PM, Lawrence Sorrillo sorri...@jlab.org wrote: The issue is that in theory this should work given the facts announced by MySQL regarding binary logging and replication. I can certainly do it the way you propose, but to my mind I should also be able to do it using the fact that