Re: Appropriate Design

2008-09-17 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 5:46am -0400 on Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Jeffrey Santos wrote: > I'm developing an application > that will require information from various sources. Since what > might be considered required information about those sources will > vary (occasionally dramatically), I'm unsure as to the correct > desi

Re: Normalization vs. Performance

2008-08-28 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 2:11pm -0400 on Tue, 26 Aug 2008, John Smith wrote: > So how bad is this? The mentioned query will be the query which is used > the most in my application (yes, it is going to be a forum). > Should I break normalization and save the date of the root in each node row? My recommendation is no. N

Re: Adding index to Memory table LOSES ROWS!

2008-07-27 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 12:42p -0400 on Sat, 26 Jul 2008, mos wrote: > At 09:14 AM 7/26/2008, you wrote: >> The reproducible part is very important, because without it, it's >> suspect to be just your individual case, as with a bug in *your* >> application code, your hardware, or generally something in your setup. > >

Re: Adding index to Memory table LOSES ROWS!

2008-07-26 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 5:52p -0400 on Fri, 25 Jul 2008, mos wrote: [Adding index to memory table silently loses data] First thing, what version are you using? Second thing, although it would still be broken, did you read the MySQL docs to make sure that the Memory table type supports the index *type* you attempted t

Re: Looking for a Mysql Guru/DBA

2008-05-22 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 1:43p -0400 on Wed, 21 May 2008, bruce wrote: > The basic goal of the project is to be able to track the sites that I'm > visiting via a Firefox extension. I want to be able to implement something > like the "breadcrumbs" extension, but I want to be able to go a lot further. If this is for a on

Re: Table Structure

2008-05-16 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 5:32a -0400 on Fri, 16 May 2008, Ananda Kumar wrote: >>> 2 Index would do range scan, which would be comparitivly slower. >> >> Not exactly. This, again, depends on implementation and the >> data against which queries are run. An index is an index. >> Remember, a primary key is implemented by

Re: Table Structure

2008-05-16 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 2:49a -0400 on Fri, 16 May 2008, Ananda Kumar wrote: > it goes without saying Eh, not to those who don't know. Hence the list and question. :-D Krishna, the short answer is that it depends on your data, and the queries against it that you run. Test/benchmark on your own DB and data to see w

Re: Comma's in data?

2008-03-08 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 12:23a -0500 on Sat, 08 Mar 2008, obed wrote: > Use \ to escape. > > mysql> insert into table1 values ('algo\,otra'); As an aside, I'm curious why the parser doesn't understand that the comma is part of the string in this context? It's already between two single quotes ... ? Shouldn't that b

Re: basic style shema question

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin Hunter
Hmm. If we're talking pure DB theory, then the whole point is to apply the DRY principle as much as possible. At the point you have multiple copies of the same data, unless your programmers are perfect (and they aren't, I promise), you *will* have stale data. Better to have only one place to

Re: basic style shema question

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 11:44a -0500 on 18 Jan 2008, Alex K wrote: To summarize one table vs. many tables with one to one relations? As per usual, it depends on your needs. For most flexibility, and to give the DB the best chance to give the best plan for the possible requests I might make in the future, I gener

Re: MySql at 100% CPU

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 12:08p -0500 on 17 Jan 2008, Ben Clewett wrote: The package you show gives the same output as the 'SHOW PROCESSLIST' output, which I included in my previous email :) Heh, that'll teach me to actually /use/ the package before recommending it. :-P (I just found out about it when that article

Re: MySql at 100% CPU

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 3:25a -0500 on 17 Jan 2008, Ben Clewett wrote: I need to know why MySql does this. If any person knows how I an identify the problem, please let me know! I think this package helped another person out on this list a couple days ago: http://debaday.debian.net/2007/12/26/mytop-a-top-clone-

Re: Prepared SQL statements - Faster performance?

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin Hunter
I can't speak to the exact internals of MySQL, but in database practice one *generally* uses prepared statements for two reasons: 1. Security 2. Speed If your system is at all exposed to the outside world *and you at all value your data*, your biggest concern should /absolutely/ be security.

Re: Performance problem - MySQL at 99.9% CPU

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 3:51p -0500 onGunnar R. wrote, On 01/08/2008 03:51 PM: That tool tells me 100% of the data is read from memory, not a byte from disk... would there still be any point in getting more memory? Any suggestions to where to go from here? I dunno. My hunch is that could do some query optimizat

Re: Performance problem - MySQL at 99.9% CPU

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 6:47a -0500 on 08 Jan 2008, Gunnar R. wrote: Concerning slow queries, it seems there's a couple of different queries that's being logged. I haven't tried it yet, but this recently went by on debaday.debian.net: mytop: a top clone for MySQL http://debaday.debian.net/2007/12/26/mytop-a-top-

Re: Select mit Subselect Problem

2007-12-17 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 7:45a -0500 on 17 Dec 2007, Marcus Füg wrote: > Tabelle Sales (s) mit jede Menge Abverkaufsdaten. > ArtikelNr,Kassenbon,HändlerID,Datum > > Jetzt sollen alle zu einem gekauften Artikel ebenfalls augelistet > werden, d.h. was wurde mit dem Artikel zusätzliche gekauft > > Bisher habe ich das mit

Re: MySQL Magazine - Issue 1 available NOW!!!!

2007-06-11 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 5:53p -0400 on 11 Jun 2007, Gordan Bobic wrote: I don't understand this never-ending fascination with re-inventing a square wheel for an application for which the standard round type has already been kindly provided since year dot. I imagine the reason for this "never-ending fascination .

Re: Table compression with write (append) support

2007-05-28 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 5:45a -0400 on 28 May 2007, Yves Goergen wrote: > On 28.05.2007 09:06 CE(S)T, Kevin Hunter wrote: > >> In particular, I imagine a lot of the HTTP requests would be the >> same, so you could create a table to store the requested URLs, and >> then have a second tabl

Re: Table compression with write (append) support

2007-05-28 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 12:31a -0400 on 28 May 2007, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 27), Yves Goergen said: >> I'm thinking about using a MySQL table to store an Apache access log >> and do statistics on it. Currently all access log files are stored as >> files and compressed by day. Older log files are c

Re: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread Kevin Hunter
Caveat emptor: I haven't tested this in about a year. Are you perchance using a table type of MyISAM? I seem to recall that MyISAM has a hard time actually representing NULL internally. [ ... Thinks for a minute ... ] I remember something about spaces, like, I think I did INSERT ( val

Re: IS NULL Question

2007-05-01 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 9:06p -0400 on 30 Apr 2007 John Kebbel wrote: I'm having problems understanding NULL. I grasp what a NULL value is, A NULL value is rather an oxymoron. It'd be more accurate to say that NULL means "absence of a value". but I can't get NULL to perform correctly. For instance, if I do a

Re: about limit

2007-03-20 Thread Kevin Hunter
On 20 Mar 2007 at 12:50p -0400, nikos wrote: Does any body knows how to select not the LIMIT 20 records but the rest of them? MySQL version is 4.1.21-standard and I cant make a VIEW. In Venn-speak, you are asking for Circle A less(, minus, or subtract) Circle B. In SQL, this would transla

Re: binary into blob

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Hunter
On 07 Mar 2007 at 3:57p -0500, Alexander Lind wrote: imagine a large system where pdf-files are accessed by clients a lot. say 1 pdf file is access per second on average. also say that your database is on a machine separate from the webserver(s) (as is common). do you really think its a good

Adding a second slave and Load Data from master questions

2006-05-04 Thread Hunter Peress
stopped at log 'mysql-bin.000256' position 4 May 4 09:30:06 localhost mysqld[29920]: 060504 9:30:06 [ERROR] Slave I/O thread killed while reading event May 4 09:30:06 localhost mysqld[29920]: 060504 9:30:06 [ERROR] Slave I/O thread exiting, read up to log 'm

Conditionals in group by

2006-02-10 Thread Hunter Peress
SELECT sum(if(eventtype='click',1,0)) as clicks,sum(if(eventtype='view',1,0)) as view from xy group by somethingelse note the conditional inside the sum. wheres a good source of information on complex statistical queries like this

Re: 4.0 -> 4.1 lose timestamp [fixed]

2005-08-16 Thread Hunter Peress
the issue was because i was viewing the database through cocoamysql, which registered the timestamps as null. stupid me viewing the database through the commandline showed up fine --- Hunter Peress

4.0 -> 4.1 lose timestamp

2005-08-15 Thread Hunter Peress
i may just have to dump/load instead of copy files. --- Hunter Peress [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Programer The Santa Fe New Mexican, Inc. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

select * returns nothing

2004-03-31 Thread John Hunter
lso goes for the other tables in the database. Is there something else I can do to track down what may be going wrong? Thanks, John Hunter -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with 'OR' statement

2004-01-09 Thread Hunter, Jess
Could someone have a look at this syntax and give me some guidance what I may be overlooking? SELECT * from $TableName WHERE machinename != 'FIND_ME' OR machinename != 'OPEN' I can make the statement work individually, but when I try to add the 'OR' statement it fails to 'remove' the designated

RE: Free software to design forms and report

2004-01-08 Thread Hunter, Jess
Well, I know you stated that you do not find M$ Access all that good, but you could use Access as a GUI Front end to the MySQL backend. Just a thought. If you are looking at doing that, I suggest you read up on MyODBC since that is what is needed to get the two to talk to each other. I have done

RE: What is my DB Server name?

2003-12-26 Thread Hunter, Jess
With what little info you presented allow me to try and answer this one: $db_server: I am assuming that the script you are using is a premade one that can handle different types of database backends, if this is the case, you will need to look at the documentation that came with the script to see w

Another Brickwall with Displaying using JOIN

2003-12-14 Thread Hunter, Jess
OK, Have another small issue that maybe someone could help me out with. When using a JOIN I can pull records from a second table without a problem (now). I am wanting to display two fields ( id and notes) however I only want the id field to display once and all the notes to be displayed. Here is

RE: RESOLVED - Help with "JOIN" and Record Display

2003-12-14 Thread Hunter, Jess
Original Message- > From: Hunter, Jess [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 11:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Help with "JOIN" and Record Display > > This being the first time I have tried to do a JOIN statement (and still >

Help with "JOIN" and Record Display

2003-12-14 Thread Hunter, Jess
This being the first time I have tried to do a JOIN statement (and still not yet fully understanding it). If someone could take a look at the below code and see what I may be doing wrong. I have the actual code working and it displays the information from $TableName2.notes, however in this table t

strange warning when using an IF statement

2003-12-12 Thread Hunter, Jess
I keep getting the following error when I try to run an "if" statement Warning: 2 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in then give the filename Here is what I am trying to do. if ($bumpnumber<4) { print ("display this"); }else { print ("display that"); } mysql_close ($Link); Anyone have any idea

RE: How to keep multiple instances of the same information from b eing displayed

2003-12-12 Thread Hunter, Jess
Jeff, The first example worked perfectly, Thanks for the quick response Jess > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:02 AM > To: Hunter, Jess > Subject: Re: How to keep multiple instances of the s

How to keep multiple instances of the same information from being displayed

2003-12-12 Thread Hunter, Jess
Using PHP as the front end I am creating a form with a dropdown box that displays information from one table to be inserted into another table. That's PHP and I have gotten that part down with no issue. However, in the table a person could be listed multiple times and I only want a user to be list

Finding information in the last record

2003-10-29 Thread Hunter, Jess
Being real new to MySQL I am having difficulty finding information on how to retrieve data from the last record in a database. I have tried using the SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() statement but that only works on a per connection basis and doesn't help all the times. Basically I want to goto the end of

Installation

2002-10-02 Thread paul . hunter
Hello, Is it possible to install MySQL binary distribution on Solaris into a directory of my chosing without the need to access /usr/local? Paul Hunter * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 01473 605476 - Before posting, please check

Re: replication through port forwarded firewall

2002-03-15 Thread John Hunter
mother-bin.* files on it and it gets the mysql user dir from the master. Is this correct? Stumped. Thanks, John Hunter Master mysql version: 3.23.37 Slave mysql version: 3.23.36 Error message: 020315 9:30:52 Slave: connected to master '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3306', replication started

Re: replication through port forwarded firewall

2002-03-14 Thread John Hunter
> "Van" == Van <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Van> No. Just have the slave connect to the master using the ip Van> address. I have set up the master and slave now and am getting a problem. When the slave tries to connect, it appears to be attempting to enter a value that is already i

replication through port forwarded firewall

2002-03-14 Thread John Hunter
concern is about the machine names. The slave thinks the master server is named eg, master.name.com, but the master server thinks it is named master.internal.domainname. So I am wondering if this will muck things up. Has anyone done this before? Thanks, John Hunter Master: mysql Ver 11.13

Re: delete after undo

2002-03-07 Thread John Hunter
> "Joel" == Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joel> This begins to sound like a job for Perl. Of course, it Joel> would be nice if you could get someone familiar with the Joel> internal formats mysql uses to give you some hints Yes, I am having trouble deciphering the primary

Re: delete after undo

2002-03-07 Thread John Hunter
, really sure there is no way to get at this information with mysql? It has not been deleted from the filesystem yet... Thanks, John Hunter sql, select (spam filter evador) - Before posting, please check: http://www

delete after undo

2002-03-07 Thread John Hunter
one can offer some quick help or tell me to go to a backup (too old :-( ) or go drown my sorrows in a beer. Thanks, John Hunter mysql version 3.23.37 sql,select (keywords to match spam filter) - Before posting, please check: h

Redhat 7.2 Install Problems

2002-02-18 Thread Bug Hunter
Have a Redhat 7.2 system. Trying to install MySQL 4.0.1 version of the server and client rpms via the KDE package manager. Am getting a dependency failure but it does not indicate which package, library etc. that I am missing. Any one have a suggestion? _

Re: creating a new table from existing one

2001-09-01 Thread John Hunter
get the closing quote. I have a fairly large data base (almost 400MB) and am wondering if there is a better way than reverse sorting the whole table into a temporary table. My approach is below. Comments are welcome since I am trying to learn/improve my SQL (pun intended). Thanks, John Hunter

creating a new table from existing one

2001-08-31 Thread John Hunter
thin the given GROUP BY ticker/day. Thanks, John Hunter - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail

Re: modifying table with sort/unique

2001-07-17 Thread John Hunter
One further question. Will this automatically keep my rows ordered by the primary key with future inserts? Thanks for your help, John Hunter - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the

modifying table with sort/unique

2001-07-17 Thread John Hunter
modify the table in place to remove the duplicates? If not, how do I create a temporary table with duplicates suppressed, and then rename/copy this table to the original table name? Thanks, John Hunter - Before posting, please check

Re: changing servers

2001-07-14 Thread hunter
using mysqlimport Usage: mysqlimport [OPTIONS] database textfile... HTH -- Bill Omer wrote: > > I was able to use mysqldump to 'dump' the databases in to a file. However, > I'm not able to figure out how I can recreate the databases on the new server > using this file. > > Any suggestions? >

Re: updating mysql

2001-05-19 Thread hunter
This depends on the method of install (tar ball source, RPM, etc) and the distro you are running. Please provide a bit more information so that we may assist you by giving you the appropriate response. HTH "simon joas, vorstand/ceo: sjn AG" wrote: > > hallo! > > how do i update my mysql-databa

Re: auto startup of mysql in redhat box?

2001-05-16 Thread hunter
Actually that is incorrect syntax...the following is the correct syntax to ensure that mysqld is running at boot in the different run levels: /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on as it is a daemon, you need to use 'mysqld' not mysql, and you also need to pass to chkconfig the runlevels you desi

Re: MySQL 3.23.38 released

2001-05-15 Thread hunter
Are you saying that the current version of gcc for RedHat Linux 7.1 (i.e. 2.96) is not working for you and thus preventing the rpm from building? Thats awfully interesting, and you should report the bug, if that is indeed what you are seeing, to bugzilla... Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > Florin A

Re: host.frm error

2001-05-07 Thread hunter
I did a search and i do not have that file on my system, and i have been running RedHat for about 6 years now. And this is a redhat-7.1 box HTH -- Dane Knudson wrote: > > I have installed mysql during the install of RH linux. When I try and > start the service, there is an entry in the error lo

Re: Auto Start MySQL

2001-05-06 Thread hunter
The RPMS supplied by RedHat with version 7.1, work flawlessly. However, on a redhat linux system, do an RPM install, making sure you meet all the dependency requirements (i.e. libmysqlclient, etc). Most recent RPMs already have a configuration to have the MySQL daemon automagically start on boot..

RE: select query?

2001-05-04 Thread Tony Hunter
othing, but if we use group by mac having count(mac) > 1 Then we get the number of different mac's using an ip. Can then query the mac for different IP's used. It would be nice to roll it all into one query and I'll work on that. Thanks

select query?

2001-05-04 Thread Tony Hunter
ype char(3) not null, flags char(3) not null, mac varchar(20) not null, mask char(1) not null, device varchar(8) not null, updated datetime not null, key (id), key (ip), primary key (ip); unique index id_idx (id) ); -- Best regards, T

mySQL Hangs with Status 'D'

2001-05-01 Thread Hunter Hillegas
t. Processes with status 'D' cannot be killed. What can I do about this? I've had to restart this server twice today and it's a production Web server. Not fun. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. Hunter

Re: MySQL 3.23.36 STILL Having Major Problems - New Details

2001-04-26 Thread Hunter Hillegas
o back and read all the table locking stuff in the manual... Do updates/inserts lock the table so that others can't read it? If so, is there a way to make an update/insert fail if it just takes too long? Hunter > From: "Sander Pilon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed,

Tracking Down What's Locking the Tables

2001-04-26 Thread Hunter Hillegas
host | fatfreeradio | Query | 3870 | Locked | select * from song_files where uri ='Enemy_You-Lock_out-24.mp3 The rest of the list is just SELECTs. So, does that mean the first select got a lock, somehow got hung up talking to the server and never released the lock? What

From Source to RPMs...

2001-04-25 Thread Hunter Hillegas
I have to do to install the RPMs? Any kind of prep? Hunter database - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread,

Re: MySQL 3.23.36 STILL Having Major Problems

2001-04-25 Thread Hunter Hillegas
ied to compile PHP against the new mySQL libraries, but that won't even build (I have a help request in on their mailing list...). Are there enough differences between 3.23.23 and 3.23.36 that might be causing connections to not drop? Hunter > From: "Andrew Schmidt" <[EMAIL

Re: MySQL 3.23.36 STILL Having Major Problems

2001-04-25 Thread Hunter Hillegas
I'm running PHP4.0.4pl1 - the latest version. Web users are logging in as a user called dummy. I guess I'll have to look in the manual to see how to remove the process_priv(). I don't think they need it... Thanks, Hunter > From: "Andrew Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: MySQL 3.23.36 STILL Having Major Problems

2001-04-25 Thread Hunter Hillegas
Running mysqladmin -p proc reports: too many connections... That's why I can't diagnose it. I'm logging in as root. How else would I get process_priv? I haven't changed any parameters so I should be able to get in but I cannot. What am I doing wrong? Hunter > From: &

MySQL 3.23.36 STILL Having Major Problems

2001-04-25 Thread Hunter Hillegas
27;s no fun. Anything anyone could do to help would be great. Hunter - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread,

Got an error reading communication packets...

2001-04-24 Thread Hunter Hillegas
right there)... Anyway, I'm getting the "Got an error reading communication packets" in my log files... What can I do to solve this? Hunter - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

mysqld sits with 'D' status

2001-04-24 Thread Hunter Hillegas
I have several mysqld processes that have 'D' status as shown by ps aux. >From my limited understanding, that means they are waiting for disk and are uninterruptible? How do they get this way and what can I do to fix

Hanging w/ Too Many Connections

2001-04-20 Thread Hunter Hillegas
I have mySQL threads that are sleeping with LONG times from a PHP app. What kind of PHP call could sleep that long w/o dying? Hunter - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http

Problems with Too Many Connections

2001-04-20 Thread Hunter Hillegas
x27;s in the processlist. I'm trying to discover the best way to troubleshoot this problem. I tried upping the user max_connections variable but that didn't help... It's hard to troubleshoot since I don't know what&#x

MySQL Reports No More Connections - How to Troubleshoot?

2001-04-17 Thread Hunter Hillegas
a deadlock somewhere, probably with an INSERT? What's the best way to figure this out if I can't get into the server at all when it locks up? Hunter - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

Query Question

2001-03-21 Thread Hunter Hillegas
so, checks enroll_course to see if they've been met, and if not, return a list of the courses that have not been met. Is this even possible with one query? Hunter - Before posting, please check: http://www.mys

Re: daemon doesn't start at boot; RHL 6.2

2001-02-19 Thread John Hunter
>>>>> "Atle" == Atle Veka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Atle> You say you go to runlevel 5 at boot? In that case, you need Atle> to put the S99mysql into the rc5.d/ directory.. That worked. Thanks, John Hunter ---

Re: daemon doesn't start at boot; RHL 6.2

2001-02-18 Thread John Hunter
> "Atle" == Atle Veka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Atle> You say you go to runlevel 5 at boot? In that case, you need Atle> to put the S99mysql into the rc5.d/ directory.. Ok, thanks, I'll try that. But I thought the runlevel 5 stuff was only executed after the runlevel 3 stuff, so t

daemon doesn't start at boot; RHL 6.2

2001-02-18 Thread John Hunter
c.d/init.d/mysql.server* Is there some other incantation I need to make to get this to start properly at boot? I enter runlevel 5 by default at boot. Thanks, John Hunter Here is the exact sequence I did at install and configure: /usr/sbin/groupadd mysql /usr/sbin/useradd -g mysql mysql cd /usr

indexing unique fields

2001-02-11 Thread TJ Hunter
, contact char(64), address char(64), city char(64), stateId int(10) unsigned, zipcode char(11), phone char(15), fax char(15), email char(64) NOT NULL, password char(64) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id), UNIQUE email (email),

Replication won't start

2001-01-28 Thread Alan Hunter
On the slave err log I have: 010128 11:04:28 Slave: Failed reading log event, reconnecting to retry, log 'FIRST' position 4 010128 11:04:28 Slave: reconnected to master 'repl@glenastle:3306',replication resumed in log 'FIRST' at position 4 010128 11:04:28 Slave: received 0 length packet from