Re: Disaster with dash on mysql cli interface

2006-06-21 Thread Brendan Bouffler
This sounds awfully like doing an rm -rf somefile. * (with an accidental space in between the . and the *). Most unix/linux geeks I know (including myself) only ever do this once. Humans like to learn the hard way, it seems :-) -- boof On Thursday 22 June 2006 03:24, Harrison Fisk wrote: > Hi,

Re: Disaster with dash on mysql cli interface

2006-06-21 Thread Andrew Nelson
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:12:40 -0400, Kevin Old wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I had a horrible thing happen to me this morning and wanted to make it > known to the community. > > I needed to delete a record from a very large table (yes, it was > backed up) and like the cli interface of mysql. I ra

Re: Disaster with dash on mysql cli interface

2006-06-21 Thread Harrison Fisk
Hi, On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Kevin Old wrote: On 6/21/06, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin Old schrieb: > Hello everyone, > > I had a horrible thing happen to me this morning and wanted to make it > known to the community. > > I needed to delete a record from a very large table (

Re: Disaster with dash on mysql cli interface

2006-06-21 Thread Kevin Old
On 6/21/06, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin Old schrieb: > Hello everyone, > > I had a horrible thing happen to me this morning and wanted to make it > known to the community. > > I needed to delete a record from a very large table (yes, it was > backed up) and like the cli interface of my

Re: Disaster with dash on mysql cli interface

2006-06-21 Thread Barry
Kevin Old schrieb: Hello everyone, I had a horrible thing happen to me this morning and wanted to make it known to the community. I needed to delete a record from a very large table (yes, it was backed up) and like the cli interface of mysql. I ran this query: delete from tablename where id -

Disaster with dash on mysql cli interface

2006-06-21 Thread Kevin Old
Hello everyone, I had a horrible thing happen to me this morning and wanted to make it known to the community. I needed to delete a record from a very large table (yes, it was backed up) and like the cli interface of mysql. I ran this query: delete from tablename where id - 12345; Notice that