Re: uninstall/reinstall

2010-10-29 Thread George Larson
We're talking about a Windows machine, right? I don't have any of those these days but it sounds to me like it didn't thoroughly uninstall. If that much is correct, I'd first be suspicious of junk left in the registry or data directories. Even if it meant I had to install it again, I'd use a

Re: Ineffective OPTIMIZE TABLES

2010-10-04 Thread George Larson
Aha! You are precisely correct. Thank you! On 3 October 2010 21:16, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Oct 03), George Larson said: I have an InnoDB table with a 'Data_length' of 114688 and 'Data_free' of '3896508416'.  If I'm correctly understanding what I've

Ineffective OPTIMIZE TABLES

2010-10-03 Thread George Larson
Hello all. I have an InnoDB table with a 'Data_length' of 114688 and 'Data_free' of '3896508416'. If I'm correctly understanding what I've been reading, those are good conditions to optimize the table. I understand the part where it maps to 'ALTER' for InnoDB. However, nothing I do seems to

Re: InnoDB Buffer Pool Status

2010-09-21 Thread george larson
Willy Mularto wrote: Hi, I got this result on InnoDB Buffer Pool Status: Free pages1 Dirty pages 2,040 Pages containing data 31,359 Pages to be flushed 457,083,205 Busy pages1,408 Read requests 31,348,288,497 Write requests7,913,407,934 Read misses

Re: SOLVED!!!!Re: hard disk crash: how to discover the db?

2010-09-16 Thread george larson
Uwe Brauer wrote: What I had to do in addition was to copy the ibdata1 *then* I recovered the content of the db. Thanks a lot Uwe Brauer Uwe, Congratulations! That's great news! Sorry I didn't know to mention that step. Where is your 'ibdata1'? Mine is in '/var/lib/mysql' so, for

Re: Capitalize Input via Auto Complete?

2010-09-15 Thread george larson
Johan De Meersman wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com wrote: You do know you can use ssh tunnels and such to connect to your server from your desktop right? I do it all day long. It's pretty easy to do and built in to these programs. You can't

Re: Capitalize Input via Auto Complete?

2010-09-14 Thread george larson
Daevid Vincent wrote: Get this tool: http://sqlyog.com/ it rocks. There is also http://www.quest.com/toad-for-mysql/ which is pretty great. Alternatively, there is MySQL WorkBench. Some of the guys around here use SQLYog but, since it is a LAMP environment, I like that WorkBench is

Re: Capitalize Input via Auto Complete?

2010-09-14 Thread george larson
Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com wrote: Get this tool: http://sqlyog.com/ it rocks. There is also http://www.quest.com/toad-for-mysql/ which is pretty great. I can't use any graphical or 3rd party add-on's. I was hoping MySQL had this

Query conditions

2010-09-10 Thread george larson
Hi all. I've got a greenhorn question but I didn't find the right keywords to get Google to answer it for me. Is it more efficient to put conditions in a JOIN instead of sticking them all at the end in the WHERE clause, or is that just a matter of preference? Putting conditions in the JOIN It

Re: hard disk crash: how to discover the db?

2010-09-10 Thread george larson
Uwe Brauer wrote: On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:02:09 -0400, George Larson george.g.lar...@gmail.com wrote: We do nightly backups at work just by taring the mysql directory. In my environment, that is /var/lib/mysql. Like this: service mysql stop cd /var/lib/mysql

Re: hard disk crash: how to discover the db?

2010-09-10 Thread george larson
deleted everything? anyway, I hope I missed the joke here, or missed something... Steve. On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 18:02 -0400, George Larson wrote: We do nightly backups at work just by taring the mysql directory. In my environment, that is /var/lib/mysql. Like this: service mysql stop

Re: hard disk crash: how to discover the db?

2010-09-10 Thread george larson
Shawn Green (MySQL) wrote: On 9/10/2010 10:01 AM, george larson wrote: Uwe Brauer wrote: ... The only one I know of, for my environment, is /etc/my.cnf. I believe that it can be located elsewhere but you could just use 'find' to find it. I've broken my dev. MySQL many, many times

Re: hard disk crash: how to discover the db?

2010-09-09 Thread George Larson
We do nightly backups at work just by taring the mysql directory. In my environment, that is /var/lib/mysql. Like this: service mysql stop cd /var/lib/mysql rm -rf * tar zxvf file.tar rm -rf ib_logfile* chown -R mysql.mysql service mysql start Something similar might work for you. Somebody

Seems like an easy query, but isn't to me. Help?

2010-08-19 Thread George Larson
I hope I've come to right place, and I'm asking in the right way -- please accept my apologies if not. We have some dates missing and I need to populate those fields with dates from the record just before them. I've gotten this far: SELECT UUid, MIN(DDenteredDate) minDate FROM UUtable JOIN

Re: Creating / Lookup Users For Database

2009-04-22 Thread George Larson
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Brent Baisley brentt...@gmail.com wrote: All user information is stored in the mysql database. If you want

Re: Creating / Lookup Users For Database

2009-04-22 Thread George Larson
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: Now I did create that new database called 'forums' and would like to create a new user who has access only to that specific database from

Re: learning mysql

2009-03-25 Thread George Larson
I'm quite a distance from the best person to answer this question but MySQL has weekly webinars and there are a ton of good tutorials on the web. I started with WAMP (LAMP, MAMP and XAMP are suitable alternatives) and just started reading tutorials. Then I went to the local discount store and

Re: IBM could buy Sun?

2009-03-18 Thread George Larson
Yeah! No kidding. If IBM doesn't pick it up then maybe I will. ;-p On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Lin Chun franks1...@gmail.com wrote: Sun only worth 6.5 billions? -- - Lin Chun