Re: empty a table

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
http://www.mysql.com/truncate - Rich From: Fabio Bernardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mysql (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: empty a table Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:32:57 -0300 Hi there, Im a new user Whats the statemant to empty a table... I mean I dont wanna delete one or two rows ..

Re: Other front ends (Was: RE: I need advice. MSAccess frontend to PH P/MYSQL. A

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
Are there any open-source database front-ends that have similar functionality to MS Access? We're currently using Access with tables linked to MySQL, but find it leaves something to be desired when it comes to stability and license flexibility. We'd really like to move to something open-source.

Re: possible query?

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
Hi, if (stop < start, stop, CONCAT(stop, '+++')) should do the trick. - Rich hello dear all, i need to make a select on mysql with IF funcion: if ('stop' <'start', stop, '+++') where start and stop are timestamps. and [+++] is an error char. Actually my select result are: +--+--

Re: Offline database?

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
Is there a way to put a database offline? So doing i could work on it with myisamchk being sure that mysqld cannot touch the files... and no corruptions should happen! I have heard of people doing stuff with locking tables so no-one can write to them, flushing them to close the files, then runnin

Re: MySQL 4 maintenance tasks on Windows

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
Hi, Hi all I've recently moved a database to MySQL from MSSQL, and am running it on a Windows 2000 Server. Can anybody advise me on the best method for running regular maintenance tasks (i.e. optimize and analyze)? First, I would question that you even need to optimize and analyze "on a regular

Re: Fw: 2 questions about indexing and testing speed

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
"Mojtaba Faridzad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm learning MySQL and I got two question: > > 1) As I know, MySQL has a buffer to keep the last records which have been retreived. So if I run a query two times, the second time will be faster. How can I temporarly stop this service? because I want

Practice test

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
Has anyone else tried this? I got 8/10. Going to the exam next week; I suppose that's a good sign :-) http://www.mysql.com/certification/selftest/core/index.php - Rich _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*

Re: Dual boot system

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
I take this to mean that you want to installations of MySQL operating on the same data. That, I believe, could get quite messy, if it's even possible. I don't see why it should be a problem. Data files are binary compatible between OS's, and by definition, one instance of mysqld will be shut dow

Re: Storing negative numbers in AUTO_INCREMENT

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
t the list once again with a "sorry, wrong subject" though... - Rich Edward Dudlik Becoming Digital www.becomingdigital.com - Original Message - From: "rich johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 10 June, 2003 04:57 Subject: Storin

Re: Unicode (UTF-8) and full text searching

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
Hi List, This is my first mail in this list and thanks in advance. Does anyone know what version of Mysql has Unicode support for full text searching? I have a database with information in four languages (english, german, greek and spanish) in unicode and I would like to do full text searching. You

Storing negative numbers in AUTO_INCREMENT

2003-06-10 Thread rich johnson
Hi, Short question: I understand that MySQL in some circumstances may decide that it's faster to do a full table scan rather than use the index to look up values. But I miss some information on *when* this happens. Is there some way, short of reading the source code, that one can get some more det