Re: can't import sql using databasewhatever.sql

2003-10-13 Thread gerald_clark
-p without the passwd immediately following is not compatible with input redirection. Either add the password after the -p with NO space, or better yet, create a .my.cnf file in the home directory of the user running the script and have it contain the user and password settings. Victor Spång

Re: How to search by groups efficiently with MySql 4.0.15?

2003-10-13 Thread gerald_clark
A group_id cannot be both 1 AND 3, but it can be 1 OR 3. Try OR Jouni Hartikainen wrote: Hi. how about: select record.* from link where group_id='x' left join record on record.archive_id=link.archive_id ? The problem with this query is that with simple left join, I can search only by

Re: Error 1045

2003-10-13 Thread gerald_clark
1. The command is not properly formed. 2. You don't have grant privileges. 3. Run this as the mysql root user. Stephan Wölfel wrote: When I try to execute grant all on *.* to stw where stw is my user name, I get an error 1045 (Access denied for user: '@127.0.0.1' (Using password: NO). Is there a

Re: Error 1045

2003-10-13 Thread gerald_clark
. - Original Message - From: gerald_clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephan Wölfel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 4:47 PM Subject: Re: Error 1045 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http

Re: Error 1045

2003-10-13 Thread gerald_clark
? - Original Message - From: gerald_clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephan Wölfel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 5:54 PM Subject: Re: Error 1045 Stephan Wölfel wrote: Thanks for the advise. However I have some additional questions: ad 2) How can I

Re: Shell Script to Insert Data

2003-10-10 Thread gerald_clark
The first line starts mysql. When mysql exits, the second line does nothing, as it is not a valid shell command. try : echo 'INSERT INTO table_name (column_name) VALUES (value)' | mysql --user=root --password= Database_Name Or put the second line in a file, and cat the file through a

Re: tricky query

2003-10-10 Thread gerald_clark
This is a bit vague. How about showing what you have done, and how it is not what you wan't. Colleen Dick wrote: I am building a SELECT using a left join and I almost have what I want. One of the fields that gets sucked in from the left join is either null or has a value in it. if it is null I

Re: Problem setting root password.

2003-10-07 Thread gerald_clark
Rob Yale wrote: Hi folks, The following is copied exactly from my machine, except for the munged password. Setting the root password can't be completed, because the host apparently can't connect the mysql server. What am I doing wrong?: PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root

Re: Multiple Join Issue

2003-10-07 Thread gerald_clark
Leave off the 'WHERE e.Game_ID is NULL' Wayne Helman wrote: How would one join multiple table and selected all records from a joined table whether they exist OR not? I can get the records if they exist in a second table and I can get the records if they don't exist, but is there a way to combine

Re: load data infile question

2003-10-02 Thread gerald_clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In MYSQL documentation the following line is Some cases are not supported by LOAD DATA INFILE: 1. Fixed-size rows( FIELDS TERMINATED BY and FIELDS ENCLOSED BY both empty) and BLOB or TEXT columns I defined a column in a table as type TEXT. I then loaded values using

Re: Load data: odd behaviour

2003-09-25 Thread gerald_clark
How did you determine this? I hope not by the order returned when you select them. There is no order to the set returned unless you use an ORDER BY clause. Adrian Sill wrote: Morning all, I've been using the same format of text files to import monthly text files using LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE into

Re: mysqld error

2003-09-25 Thread gerald_clark
Error 13 means that the file exista, but mysql has no permissions for the file. Make sure mysql is the owner of the data directory and all its subdirectories and files. Joseph Donato wrote: Folks, When I try to start MySQL the mysqld just crashes. I looked at /usr/lib/mysql/{hostname}.err

Re: speeding up a search

2003-09-23 Thread gerald_clark
Run explain on the query and see if indexes are being used. John Almberg wrote: I am trying to find records (from the 'stamps' table) that are NOT related to records in the 'links' table. To do this, I'm using a left join. For example: select s.*, l.item_id as lid from stamps as s left join

Re: mysqld will not start

2003-09-19 Thread gerald_clark
Joseph Donato wrote: Folks, I am trying to start mysqld and when I do the deamon crashes. mysqld.log has the following: 030919 14:25:06 mysqld started 030919 14:25:08 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 030919 14:25:08 Do you already have another mysqld server

Re: join optimization

2003-09-19 Thread gerald_clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two tables and am running a simple join between them to get questions and their repsective response averages from a survey. The question table has 49 rows and the Response table has 126,732. I'd like to cut down on the time its taking to run this specific

Re: Different users try to access different mysql.sock

2003-09-16 Thread gerald_clark
You need to add the new socket location to the paragraphs in my.cnf that start with [client] and [mysql] /etc/my.cnf needs to be world readable. Check for private .my.cnf files in the home directories of the users having the problem. michael watson (IAH-C) wrote: Here is an interesting one! I

Re: more on don't work.

2003-09-15 Thread gerald_clark
Is the server running? SWIT wrote: badboy# ./mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' ( 2) that file is not there. should I touch it ? argggh ! and ya say windows sucks. (ok the beer is talking

Re: MySQL API C leaks

2003-08-28 Thread gerald_clark
Andreï V. FOMITCHEV wrote: Hello everyone, I use Valgrind to check my programs and this last found leaks in libmysqlclient.so. My code is simple: char * requete = SELECT * FROM NOM_TABLE_1; Looks like a misplaced '' . MYSQL * mysql = mysql_init((MYSQL *)NULL); MYSQL_RES * mysql_resultat;

Re: TCP on Solaris 8

2003-08-28 Thread gerald_clark
Do you have skip-networking in your /etc/my.cnf file? Scott Barron wrote: Hello, I am attempting to get MySQL to listen on a TCP socket on Solaris 8. From what I've seen in the documentation, and my experience with MySQL on Linux this should happen automatically. I've tried 4.0.14 from source

Re: Searching on Two Keys with OR?

2003-08-14 Thread gerald_clark
Joshua Spoerri wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, gerald_clark wrote: You are ORing on two different fields. The index cannot be used to check the value of z for an OR. ORing on two different fields is what I have been asking about :). Using a composite index was suggested, which strangely

Re: heading off in mysql?

2003-08-14 Thread gerald_clark
Of course, you tried mysql --help ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just a quick question here. May I know how to get a result without heading in Mysql (like set heading off in Oracle) ? Thanks and regards, Helen -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

Re: connection

2003-08-07 Thread gerald_clark
You don't say what your problem is. aaldrik groenewold wrote: I just installed mysql 4.0 .There were many problems with upgrading from 3.23 to 4.0 so I deleted 3.23 and made a fresh start with 4.0. Everything works fine now but the only problem to connect to the server is via the

Re: select count(*) Problem in PowerBuilder Thru MySQL ODBC 3.51

2003-08-07 Thread gerald_clark
You are not doing select count(*) You are doing select count ( *) Get rid of the spaces before the ( Fatt Shin wrote: Hi, I'm running MySQL 4.0.13, connecting from PowerBuilder 9 using ODCB Connector 3.51. I'm facing a problem where whenever I issue a SELECT COUNT(*) statement from PowerBuilder,

Re: Query Problem, Confused by Left Join.

2003-08-06 Thread gerald_clark
You have not shown us anything that would indicate that your output is not correct. If you think something is missing you have to show us what is missing, and why you think it should not be. John Wards wrote: I have this query: SELECT * FROM news_category LEFT JOIN news_x_cat ON

Re: Searching on Two Keys with OR?

2003-08-05 Thread gerald_clark
You are ORing on two different fields. The index cannot be used to check the value of z for an OR. Why are you cross posting? Joshua Spoerri wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Alexander Keremidarski wrote: MySQL will never use any index for small tables. With just few rows using index adds overhead

Re: storing large integers properly

2003-08-05 Thread gerald_clark
How about BIGINT(10) ZEROFILL ? Eben Goodman wrote: I am storing book isbn numbers in a table. isbn numbers are 10 digit numbers and many start with 0. The data type of the field I am storing this info in is a bigint(16) unsigned. It appears that isbns that start with 0 are going in as 9

Re: SubQuery bug in 4.1

2003-08-04 Thread gerald_clark
Your primary query has no where clause, so you are setting all Value to a value from a random record for the most recent date. Hardly looks like a 'bug' to me. And why the cross post? Daniel Kiss wrote: Hi all, I have two tables CREATE TABLE main ( ID int not null, Value int ); CREATE

Re: File Permission

2003-08-04 Thread gerald_clark
Since you don't show your grant statement, it is difficult tell you what the problem is. Since FILE is a global permission you need to grant it on *.* not somedatabase.* David Scott wrote: Greetings all I am not able to GRANT file permission to users. All permissions end up being issued with

Re: Import databse ?

2003-07-30 Thread gerald_clark
Vidhya CS wrote: Hi , I am trying to export a database from one machine ie linux, and import the same database to another machine ie ,solaris . I exported the database using the following command . mysqldump -c -u vidhya ifmonitor $HOME/ifmonito.backup. this is ok , ifmonitor-backup has the

Re: Deleting Duplicate Records

2003-07-30 Thread gerald_clark
If all these fields are defined as not NULL, simply use alter table with the ignore option to add a unique key on all pertainant fields. Kim Mackey wrote: Group, I have been working on a project for a while now trying to figure out how to remove duplicate records from a single table using a

Re: batch mode

2003-07-29 Thread gerald_clark
azamka wrote: I am trying to right sql statement on the shell prompt but its not going through. Here is the statement: [EMAIL PROTECTED] usr]# mysql security select * from machine; -bash: select: No such file or directory echo select * from machine | mysql security or put your select

Re: MySQL shutdown error...

2003-07-28 Thread gerald_clark
Mysqld is the server, and can be started automatically. Mysql is a client program. It makes no sense to start it automatically. -{ Rene Brehmer }- wrote: Hi gang Not sure if this is more for the RedHat list than here, but let's try... I've put MySQL on a RedHat by using the RPM ... haven't yet

Re: How to retrieve integer in C prog?

2003-07-28 Thread gerald_clark
Use atoi(); Andy Jackman wrote: Hi, I'm new to mySql. I've got a table with an integer field defined like this: l_start_wait int(9) not null I inserted a value into the table using mysql command line client with: Insert into tbl_wait_list values(12345678); When I use mysql_fetch_row() to

Re: Myisachk

2003-07-24 Thread gerald_clark
Shutdown mysqld before running myisamcheck, or use check/repair table. Jeff McKeon wrote: Hello, When I run a script to issue myismchk against the tables in my database, I get the following.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]# ./check_mysql_tables myisamchk: MyISAM file

Re: mysqldump isn't working anymore

2003-07-23 Thread gerald_clark
Did you try the -q option? Jake Johnson wrote: Hello, I have been backing up my db with the mysql dump command and it no longer works. This is an example of the command I was running... mysqldump -u dbuser -p -C mydb out.sql but returns this -- MySQL dump 8.21 -- -- Host: localhost

Re: Didn't find any fields in table 't_table'???

2003-07-23 Thread gerald_clark
Jake Johnson wrote: How do I fix this error? My tables have data. But they probably are not owned by mysql. Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on

Re: how to limit COUNT(*)

2003-07-22 Thread gerald_clark
Perhaps you could post some examples of what you have tried. I don't understand what you are asking. Mojtaba Faridzad wrote: Hi, I guess there is no way to limit COUNT(*). Is that right? We cannot use the result of COUNT in WHERE condition or LIMIT doesn't help. In this case so far I have

Re: how to limit COUNT(*)

2003-07-22 Thread gerald_clark
Mojtaba Faridzad wrote: First of all, I don't wanna let the query run to the end and after that, count the number of records. as I mentioned, some tables are huge and takes a long time to run COUNT(*) query for all records. About LIMIT, it doesn't effect on COUNT query. but for the second query

Re: store video file into MySQL database server

2003-07-22 Thread gerald_clark
Your maximum packet size must be greater than the size of the video file. Steven Wu wrote: Hi Need emergency help: I am doing some project use the MySQL to store the video file. The format of video is either avi or mpg. However I can not successfully insert the video file into the

Re: safe_mysqld not letting go of tty on remote start

2003-07-21 Thread gerald_clark
It writes a status message to the screen, and overwrites your shell prompt. Hit enter, and you will probably find that you have a prompt afterall. chad kellerman wrote: Hey guys, Anyone ever notice that when you restart mysql ( whether is be thru mysql.server or ${MYSQL}/bin/sae_mysqld the

Re: Working with the text datatype in Mysql

2003-07-18 Thread gerald_clark
the problem... Thanks, George I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943. - Original Message - From: gerald_clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lekeas GK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 2:11 PM Subject: Re: Working

Re: Select via Perl

2003-07-17 Thread gerald_clark
Ashwin Kutty wrote: I am trying to read a file and see if the contents of it exists in the DB or not and am trying to do it via a Select. I try to do a select * into outfile /tmp/result.txt from table where field like %$var%; but it always goes through the first two lines of the input file and

Re: Working with the text datatype in MySQL

2003-07-17 Thread gerald_clark
Lekeas GK wrote: Hi All, I am managing a small database and some of the tables need to be strings of an average length of about 2,000 characters. I decided to use the text datatype to store this information knowing that the upper limit is about 65,000 characters. However, the system crashes

Re: Deleted index file (.MYI)

2003-07-16 Thread gerald_clark
Accidently? You just asked if you could delete the .MYI table because of your disk full error. Oswaldo Castro wrote: Hi Everybody I have acidentally deleted an index file (.MYI) from a table. Is there another way, besides its backup, to recover this table ? Thanks for any help --

Re: MySQL unsuccesfully installed. Need help!

2003-07-11 Thread gerald_clark
Compiling MySQL from the source tarball is not for linux newbies. Get the RPMs. root wrote: hi there, I've tried to install mysql-3.23.55.tar.gz but failed. Firstly, I've created directory /home/users/mysql and add group for mysql. Those are the command that I've used previously: shellgroupadd

Re: InnoDB: Operating system error number 13

2003-07-09 Thread gerald_clark
Nick Boudreau wrote: Trying to start mysqld for the first time after a reinstall on Mac OS X gives me this error: 030709 12:53:26 mysqld started 030709 12:53:27 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. mysql doesn't have permissions for this file. It is probably owned

Re: Select not producing desired results

2003-07-09 Thread gerald_clark
fsttik has dashes in it and your having does not. Either add dashes to your having or change the alias to min(datein+0) as fsttik. Patrick Shoaf wrote: I am trying to get a SELECT working and not having any luck, can someone please help? SELECT

Re: sql error : 1036

2003-07-08 Thread gerald_clark
Does the mysql user have write permissions on the files? HA. Mooduto wrote: dear all, what is the problem sql error : 1036 ...table is read only. please help me.. thank's... -- This mail sent through PSP: http://www.polinpdg.ac.id/ --

Re: Problem With RAND()

2003-07-07 Thread gerald_clark
Since you are ordering by column3, ( in other words sorting your random mumbers ), what do you expect? Scott A. Hammond, Sr. wrote: I am running MySQL 3.23.54. Query: SELECT column1, column2, RAND() AS column3 FROM table WHERE column2 IS NOT NULL ORDER BY column3 LIMIT 10; I am running this

Re: Need help with a 1005 error (errno: 150), please...

2003-07-07 Thread gerald_clark
You must create the key (sku), it is not created for you. Tom Gazzini wrote: I would appreciate some help with a problem. I'm trying to create two tables that have referential integrity. If I try and create the following table it works fine: CREATE TABLE book ( sku INT ) TYPE=INNODB; However,

Re: OS X User - Start up help

2003-07-07 Thread gerald_clark
Mark Depenbrock wrote: I have installed a Mac OS X 'PKG' binary package on my OS version 10.2.6 Mac. I have been instructed that after the installation I can start up MySQL by running the following command lines: [Computer:/usr/local/mysql] mark% sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe Password: Starting

Re: Stopped working after update

2003-07-03 Thread gerald_clark
You should have stopped mysql before running the update. The update might have removed the socket file, leaving the server with no way to communicate. you may try connecting through the network interface. mysqladmin -h 127.0.0.1 shutdown If that does not work, kill the running mysqld processes

Re: Replication problem: Slave not starting

2003-07-02 Thread gerald_clark
Andrew Staples wrote: I've setup my my.cnf file on the slave as: [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock server-id=2 master-host=206.xxx.xxx.xxx master-user=replicateuser master-password=replicatepassword Master.info is: tux-bin.001 3109 206.xxx.xxx.xxx

Re: defunct mysql threads

2003-07-02 Thread gerald_clark
Does the client close the connection before exiting? Joshua Shapiro wrote: Hello, I am running the binary mysql 4.0.13 pclinux i686 with a linux 2.4.19 kernel. I have the problem that every time a client connects to the server and then exits, a defunct thread is left behind. Eventually

Re: Can't start MySQL on Mac OS X

2003-07-02 Thread gerald_clark
If you did not shutdown the server prior to the upgrade, you could have left mysqld running, even after its socket was removed. Use ps to see if mysqld is still running, and kill it if necessary. Todd O'Bryan wrote: Something bad has happened. MySQL was up and running on my machine, but now

Re: LOAD DATA INFILE syntax

2003-07-02 Thread gerald_clark
1 will work. 2 will not work. 3 Use dbf2mysql. ( It should be in the downloads section on mysql.com ) fab wrote: Hi all, I'm quite new in mysql. Despite i've read a part of the doc, i can't fix my prob. Here is my question: I want to convert a DBASE IV file into mysql table: 1) Have i to

Re: Problem with mysqlimport.

2003-07-02 Thread gerald_clark
Idries Hamadi wrote: Hi all, I've just started using mysql and I'm sure that my all problems are something todo with my oracle-ness, so please bear with me if I use case-insensitive table names or somthing ;) Ok. I've been using the mysql interactive command-line interface for a few days now,

Re: What is mysql.soc and where is it located

2003-07-02 Thread gerald_clark
Check the error log in your mysql data directory. This should explain why mysqld ended. suboh wrote: Hi, The following message appeared when I installed mysql server on Linux,,, [2] 10804 [1] Exit 1 ./bin/mysqld -user-mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ Starting mysqld daemon with

Re: Access Denied for User: root@127.0.0.1(Using password: NO)

2003-07-01 Thread gerald_clark
For Mysql, 127.0.0.1 is not the same as localhost. Localhost refers to the socket file on the operating system, and is faster than 127.0.0.1. Use 'root'@'127.0.0.1' in your grant statements. Ola Ogunneye wrote: Please somebody help me. I have installed MySql 4.0.13 and it works up until I try

Re: group by clause

2003-06-27 Thread gerald_clark
That can't be the output of the query. The fourth column would me titled 'soma' There is no seperator bar between the data for sw_or_local and soma on the data lines. Fabio Bernardo wrote: hi there I wrote this querie : select pop, prot, sw_or_local, sum(qtd_porta) as soma from clientes where

Re: Best Practices for mySQL Backups in Enterprise

2003-06-27 Thread gerald_clark
Yes, if you have transaction logging turned on. You can edit the transaction log, and run it against the restored database. Subhakar Burri wrote: Can I roll forward if I do backups using Mysqldump? Say, I did backups using Mysqldump @ 8:00 AM and my instance crashed @ 2:00 PM. I can restore the

Re: very long query time

2003-06-27 Thread gerald_clark
Well, without seeing your table structures and key definitions, how could we tell? You are selecting on code=87901 , but there is no indication here about what tbale that column belongs to. Did you run analyze on your tables to update key distribution information so the server could make a

Re: error message during connection

2003-06-27 Thread gerald_clark
'localhost 127.0.0.1' is not a valid host. Use 'localhost' if you want to use the local socket. Use '127.0.0.1' if you want to use the TCP port. Gantier wrote: Hello, I work with apache, tomcat and linux redhat 7.3 and mysql 4.0.9 When I try to connect to my database from my application with the

Re: Occasional access errors

2003-06-27 Thread gerald_clark
Did you try increasing max_connections ? Michael Edlund wrote: I've developed a CMS using PHP and MySQL 4.1 alpha. It ran just fine with the standard MySQL 4.1a binaries both on my Powerbook running Mac OS X as well in a production environment on my FreeBSD server. However, after having

Re: Best Practices for mySQL Backups in Enterprise

2003-06-27 Thread gerald_clark
Ok, update log. Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:08:40AM -0500, gerald_clark wrote: Yes, if you have transaction logging turned on. You can edit the transaction log, and run it against the restored database. MyISAM doesn't have transactions. Jeremy -- MySQL General

Re: Select * from multiple tables

2003-06-26 Thread gerald_clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I trying to get this example... what is table1 t1, table2 t2, table3 t3, table4 t4, I mean, what does the t1, t2, t3, t4 represent? If you say, table 1, table 2, etc well, I assume that, but isn't that there already? Let me, or may I, give ask again with my

Re: mysql_thread_init()

2003-06-26 Thread gerald_clark
Check the client sources. The mysql client is a great example for the c API. Sean Macmillan wrote: Please bear with me here as I am new to this whole MySQL thing. Does anyone know where I can find a good example of how the C API function call mysql_thread_init() is implemented? Any help would

Re: Best Pratices for mySQL Backups in Enterprise

2003-06-26 Thread gerald_clark
mysqlhotcopy does your locking for you. SAQIB wrote: We are in the process of implementing enterprise wide (20,000+ users) application that will use mySQL as the Database engine. I was wondering if the slashdot readers can provide me some details about best practices / experiences for Backing Up

Re: full disk: ERROR 1016: Can't open file

2003-06-26 Thread gerald_clark
perror 145 Vikas Gupta wrote: Hello all, My /var partition has become full, and now when I try load my db (the files are in /var/lib/mysql/db/) I get the following message for the table my_table: use db; Didn't find any fields in table 'my_table' I then do describe my_table and I get:

Re: sum() problems - I don't understand

2003-06-26 Thread gerald_clark
Why would you expect they should have the same results? The second query contains a join and may have many times more rows in the result set. PaT! wrote: Dear All, I have these two queries which are supposed to return the same results for the fields with the same name (ex query 1 sum1 = query

Re: Best Pratices for mySQL Backups in Enterprise

2003-06-26 Thread gerald_clark
It is a perl program, so you can look at it and see. SAQIB wrote: mysqlhotcopy does your locking for you. So running ./mysqlhostcopy dbase /path/to/backup/dir is perfectly safe while database operations (selct, insert, update etc) are being performed? --- Saqib Ali http://www.xml-dev.com

Re: Join vs. Where (help) -(I got it!)

2003-06-25 Thread gerald_clark
In the second query, the server may switch the order of the join, producing the same output in different order. Try adding an ORDER BY to both and see what happens. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, should be this: SELECT * FROM machines INNER JOIN people ON machines.peopleID=people.peopleID; Ted

Re: Problem setting/activating password

2003-06-25 Thread gerald_clark
To also add priviliges on the local machine GRANT ALL ON *.* TO username@localhost IDENTIFIED BY password Riaan Oberholzer wrote: Hi, I am created a user by using: GRANT ALL ON *.* TO username@% IDENTIFIED BY password I did this from the mysql command line tool, logged in as root. The

Re: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE

2003-06-25 Thread gerald_clark
And what would that be? Phil Dowson wrote: Hi, I am running two identical systems, the only difference between the two are the database name and username. The problem I am getting only occurs on one of the systems. I am running -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

Re: MySQL Newbie: MySQL stops as soon as it starts

2003-06-25 Thread gerald_clark
What does the error log say? David Shealy wrote: I'm a newbie to MySQL. I'm trying to run it on Red Hat 9. After running mysql_install_db, I switch to the directory where mysql.sock is located and enter safe_mysqld . Here's a copy of the shell output: # safe_mysqld [1] 7549 # Starting mysqld

Re: mysqld question

2003-06-24 Thread gerald_clark
Linux shows threads. BSD shows processes. The difference is in the way ps runs, not mysqld. Henrik Leghissa wrote: On my server running linux several daemons opens when I run msqld -u mysql or safe_mysqld. A listing of the process shows this: mysql24475 0.5 2.1 83292 2012 ?S

Re: Textfile to a 2 column mysql database

2003-06-23 Thread gerald_clark
Write a quick perl program. O.S. Bos wrote: Hi there, I have a textfile that I want to get inserted into a database. The textfile consists of Questions and Answers. 1st line is a question. 2nd line of the textfile is the answer. And so on... What is the best way to import these lines into the

Re: Textfile to a 2 column mysql database

2003-06-23 Thread gerald_clark
a step or added one by accident or even got one wrong, go ahead and fix it and pretend I told you correctly. ;-) The problem with my solution, is that if you have any wierd characters, they arent escaped. or you could just write a perl program chris -Original Message- From: gerald_clark

Re: mysql ended error

2003-06-23 Thread gerald_clark
Did you run myisamchk on user.MYI as I suggested last week? (B (BPushpinder Singh Garcha wrote: (B (B Thanks Nils, (B (B I had been having an terrible experience starting up MySQL. I used to (B get this error Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket (B '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) (B

Re: SQL query - 3 tables - 3rd one conatins records to not display

2003-06-23 Thread gerald_clark
And what happens if you leave off the 'distinct' ? vernon wrote: OK so now I have: SELECT distinct useronline.uname, penpals_fav.fav_user_id, penpals_fav.ID, penpals_privmsgs_block.user_id, penpals_privmsgs_block.blocked_id FROM useronline, penpals_fav LEFT JOIN penpals_privmsgs_block ON

Re: mysql ended error

2003-06-20 Thread gerald_clark
Pushpinder Singh Garcha wrote: hello all, i hve been getting the 'mysql ended' error for over a wek now.when i look into the log file this is what I get This is from the error logs 030619 17:09:04 mysqld ended 030620 13:14:06 mysqld started 030620 13:14:09 InnoDB: Started 030620 13:14:09

Re: Odd thing

2003-06-19 Thread gerald_clark
Christensen, Dave wrote: Oops! Sorry. Deleted that 'temp' table and didn't remove it from my script file. -Original Message- From: Christensen, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:34 AM To: 'Jay Blanchard'; Dickey, Dallas; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE:

Re: suggestions - server options/mysql variables

2003-06-19 Thread gerald_clark
We don't know anything about you structures, your data, or your indicies. You should show them along with the output of EXPLAIN on your query. Derick Smith wrote: Hi! All the select statements have indexes on appropriate fields. Mysql appears to run fast, I was just wondering if there was anyway

Re: C API Query Semantics

2003-06-19 Thread gerald_clark
Look at the source for the mysql client. It is a perfect example. Sean Macmillan wrote: Using the C API I have written a program that calls mysql_query() on a table with values I know to be in the table. It returns fine and I then call mysql_store_result. The problem I am having is figuring

Re: mysqlbug

2003-06-18 Thread gerald_clark
Joanne Yow [bizfront] wrote: Hi, I am trying to install MySQL 3.23 to Solaris 2.8. After the step - scripts/mysql_install_db I try the command - chown -R root, error show usage: chown [-fhR] owner[:group] file... You entered the command incorrectly. You gave it no files or directories to

Re: 'mysqld ended' Error

2003-06-18 Thread gerald_clark
Pushpinder Singh Garcha wrote: Hello everyone, I am running MySQl and PHP on a Mac OS Jaguar. When I try to restart my MySQL Local Server using mysqld_safe, but I keep getting this error [psg:/usr/local/mysql] psgarcha% sudo echo Password: [psg:/usr/local/mysql] psgarcha% sudo

Re: Problem with SELECT

2003-06-18 Thread gerald_clark
Muazzam Siddiqui wrote: Hi, I am getting the error You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'select max(news_id) from news)' at line 1 while trying to run this query. SELECT * FROM News where News_ID = (SELECT MAX(News_ID) FROM News); You don't say what version of MySQL you are running.

Re: mysqld problem

2003-06-17 Thread gerald_clark
Pick/Create a different directory. Make it owned by mysql:mysql, and set it mode 775. Mysqld can not write to /usr/local/bin. Mark Colvin wrote: I am having difficulty stopping and starting my mysql server. The mysqld is currently running as all of the client machines can access the database.

Re: create a table with an image item

2003-06-17 Thread gerald_clark
Since you are providing the web page, it depends on how you write the web page. This really isn't a MySQL question, is it? v7rg8 wrote: Hi all, My table is like this: professor(name, gender, bodyImage) I am not sure if this is correct to set up the table: create table professor (name char(10),

Re: Open Tables

2003-06-17 Thread gerald_clark
John Farkas wrote: I am new to mysql so please excuse my ignorance. I am running mysql on windows 2000 and have noticed that when a table is opened to do an insert or update it is not closed after the query is finished but is left open. Then when I shut down the mysql server and do a myisamchk

Re: Remote access to MySQL

2003-06-17 Thread gerald_clark
Shane Bryldt wrote: Just a thought, what about encryption of passwords? Shouldn't it be: GRANT ALL ON database TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD('password'); No, it should not. Not sure if that is related to the problem, but it may cause an invalid password error. However, your

Re: Copy database to another Server

2003-06-11 Thread gerald_clark
William IT wrote: I do mysqlamin shutdown and copy all /var/lib/mysql file from another MySQL server. And then run: chmod -R 660 * Try 770 Mysql needs to be able to scan the directories to find tables. chown -R mysql:mysql * shutdown now -r But I can't logon to Mysql. What's wrong? --

Re: Insert Image content via command line

2003-06-10 Thread gerald_clark
Titu Kim wrote: Hi, I am trying to insert an image directly from command line into mysql table. My table looks like == Create table ImageTab (id int, content longblob); === I login to localhost. I have an image at /tmp. Then i issue this query

Re: Load Data Infile Without Inserting New Rows

2003-06-10 Thread gerald_clark
You will have to write a program to read your text files and insert/update the appropriate records. Fernando Gerent wrote: Hi everybody, I need to use the Load Data Infile to insert different columns from different files in a table, but I can't figure out how to keep the number of rows, like

Re: Insert Image content via command line

2003-06-10 Thread gerald_clark
for this file. Still the data is null in the table. --- gerald_clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Titu Kim wrote: Hi, I am trying to insert an image directly from command line into mysql table. My table looks like == Create table ImageTab (id int, content longblob

Re: How to get meta data info in MySQL

2003-06-09 Thread gerald_clark
My database editor uses: describe name; Karen Chu wrote: I want to be able to get all table names in a database and all the column names and associated data type from a particular table. I wonder how to do that in MySQl. I understand I can use show tables to see the table info, but I want to be

Re: Linux install problem

2003-06-09 Thread gerald_clark
Steve Mansfield wrote: Having run MySQL successfully for a while in a WAMP environment, I'm trying to set up on Linux now (and am a real Linux newbie). I'm using the 4.3.1 version that came as an RPM with SuSE 8.2. The problem is - it doesn't work. Here's where the various elements have

Re: money field

2003-06-09 Thread gerald_clark
I use Decimal, because I like my money calculations to be correct. Mojtaba Faridzad wrote: Hi, Which type do you usually use to keep money values? Decimal (12,2) or Float? to keep the first one, system takes 12 bytes but for the second one, 8 bytes. Thanks -- MySQL General Mailing List

Re: How to select without using sub-select?

2003-06-06 Thread gerald_clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running MySQL 4.0.10 gamma. I have records with data: id title version 1a 1 2a 2 3b 1 4b 2 How do I select all the records with highest version for each title? (The records with id 2 and 4) I've been thinking

Re: How do you create ascii line breaks

2003-06-06 Thread gerald_clark
Daniel Crompton wrote: How do you create ascii line breaks in a text paragraph in mysql?. When displaying text taken from a mysql row it displays it all as a flowing paragraph ie sdf sdfgfj fgjhgfh fgj fgj hfj hj hg gh hgk ghk gj gh kg k hg hg jh j fgj fg When i need to look like sdf

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