getting started with mysql

2006-03-26 Thread Michael Friendly
I've just started trying to use mysql (debian/linux 4.0.24_Debian-10sarge1-log), which I'm finding quite frustrating. I have a bunch of .csv files to try to import. They all have a first line containing field names. When I try load data ... I get errors no matter what I try mysql use

Re: getting started with mysql

2006-03-26 Thread Michael Stassen
Michael Friendly wrote: I've just started trying to use mysql (debian/linux 4.0.24_Debian-10sarge1-log), which I'm finding quite frustrating. I have a bunch of .csv files to try to import. They all have a first line containing field names. When I try load data ... I get errors no matter what

password? getting started

2006-02-01 Thread hawat . thufir
from linux Fedora, FC4: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum -y groupinstall 'MySQL Database' Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories base 100% |=| 1.1 kB00:00 Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Passing package

Re: password? getting started

2006-02-01 Thread hawat . thufir
Got it started: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# service mysqld start Initializing MySQL database: Installing all prepared tables Fill help tables ERROR: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line

Re: password? getting started

2006-02-01 Thread hawat . thufir
Ok, I logged on to the GUI Administrator as: root localhost /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock from my linux user account. Tad confusing, as to which root is being referred to. If I, for instance, restart they system I'll need to manually restart the database? Or, if for some other reason the

getting started with mysql:

2005-08-24 Thread Sérgio Júnior
Hello, I’ve never worked with mysql db’s and I would like to start a new Project at work creating a new mysql db. I start read but I got lost so many times that I am seeking guidance help, someon to tell me first start with this and after do that. Is anyone available to give some guidance at

Re: getting started with mysql:

2005-08-24 Thread SGreen
Sérgio Júnior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/24/2005 05:43:33 AM: Hello, I’ve never worked with mysql db’s and I would like to start a new Project at work creating a new mysql db. I start read but I got lost so many times that I am seeking guidance help, someon to tell me first start

Re: getting started with mysql:

2005-08-24 Thread Roger Baklund
Sérgio Júnior wrote: I’ve never worked with mysql db’s and I would like to start a new Project at work creating a new mysql db. I start read but I got lost so many times that I am seeking guidance help, someon to tell me first start with this and after do that. Is anyone available to give

Getting Started with MySQL

2005-04-10 Thread Peter Smeaton
Help, please, for a beginner to mysql, but with a (long time ago) background in 'C'. 1. I can install and get running version 4.1.11-nt of mysql. I cannot ugrade this to version 5 - it simply will not install properly depite doing all the things it says in the documentation. I hope to use the

Re: Getting started (using a mac)

2005-01-14 Thread Peter O'Brien
Hi I'm just getting started with PHP and MySQL. I'm confused about from where I can deliver commands etc. I'm working from a mac OS X, can I do it from the 'Terminal' utility? Or do I need to install something else, like PuTTY? I've a fair idea on how to use PHP but it's combination with MySQL

Re: Getting started (using a mac)

2005-01-14 Thread Scott Franks
Google is your friend...there are TONS of great sites and code snippets out there. I bought several books and found that the web and google always had better info/articles/etc. --s Scott Franks On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Peter O'Brien wrote: Hi I'm just getting started with PHP and MySQL

Re: Getting started (using a mac)

2005-01-14 Thread Brent Baisley
New Riders MySQL by Paul DuBois extremely well written and helpful. You'll even see Paul chime in on this list from time to time. On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Peter O'Brien wrote: Hi I'm just getting started with PHP and MySQL. I'm confused about from where I can deliver commands etc. I'm working

help getting started

2004-05-08 Thread sbraun
Hello, I have a number of databases, and associated web page files written for the SmithMicro product WebDNA. Basically it is a shopping cart program, but I am using it for database driven dynamically produced web pages. I need to convert my files to MySQL and use php web pages as the front end

Getting Started: Dreamweaver vs Passwords

2004-01-22 Thread David Blomstrom
I recently installed a preconfigured package with Apache, PHP and MySQL from Apache Friends (XAMPP). It seems to be a pretty slick package, and I got all three programs up and running without too much trouble. Now I'm beginning to learn about MySQL. I finally got MySQL connected to

Re: Getting Started: Dreamweaver vs Passwords

2004-01-22 Thread Steve Davies
Prompt, then through phpMyAdmin. Each time, it knocked out phpMyAdmin, and I had to reinstall everything from scratch. So I'm finished with the root password. Once you've added a root passsword you'll need to add this to the config.inc.php (assuming you're running phpMyAdmin with conf option;

Re: Getting Started: Dreamweaver vs Passwords

2004-01-22 Thread Patrick Shoaf
At 02:57 PM 1/22/2004, David Blomstrom wrote: I recently installed a preconfigured package with Apache, PHP and MySQL from Apache Friends (XAMPP). It seems to be a pretty slick package, and I got all three programs up and running without too much trouble. Now I'm beginning to learn about MySQL.

Re: Getting Started: Dreamweaver vs Passwords

2004-01-22 Thread David Blomstrom
(Note: I've been having trouble with Eudora; I can receive mail, but I often can't send e-mails. So I resubscribed to the MySQL list from my other e-mail address, http://us.f604.mail.yahoo.com/ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]YY=19813order=downsort=datepos=0view=ahead=b[EMAIL PROTECTED], but I haven't

getting started on a SQL project

2003-09-07 Thread Will Johnston
Hello, I'm new to SQL and trying to start out with a relatively simple project. I'm hoping someone can give me a few tips on how to accomplish my goal. I want to have a table for registered users reg_user (username, userID, password, email, status) I also want to have a table associated with

Getting started (again)

2003-07-05 Thread David Wilson
Hi. I'm a relative MySQL newbie. A few weeks ago, I installed MySQL 4.0.13 on my WinXP Home box. After some use, the system began to run very slowly, e.g, the login box, start menu, and other apps were taking a few seconds to respond to my mouse. Rebooting did not solve the problem. By trial

new user needs help getting started

2003-04-03 Thread Thomas Mouser
I have two machines that I have installed red hat 8.0 on and with it the mysql v 3.23.52. I have used admin and query tools to communicate with both from a local machine using both localhost via unix socket and via host name via tcp. When trying to communicate over the net from a different machine

Getting Started

2003-03-20 Thread Tres Melton
Hello All, My name is Tres and I'm an experienced programmer in C/C++ and trying to learn to program some other languages better: currently Perl and the Tk extension set for Perl. I'm also new to relational databases. I have usually gotten frustrated with the complexity of them and

trouble getting started under OS X 10.2.3

2003-01-17 Thread Jeff Spivack
Description: I tried installing mySql on OS X 10.2.3, following the instructions at http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/mysql/ . I wanted to set a password for the MySQL root user , so I typed: ./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' (with, of course, a password in place of 'new

Re: trouble getting started under OS X 10.2.3

2003-01-17 Thread gerald_clark
Jeff Spivack wrote: Description: I tried installing mySql on OS X 10.2.3, following the instructions at http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/mysql/ . I wanted to set a password for the MySQL root user , so I typed: ./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' (with, of course, a

Re: trouble getting started under OS X 10.2.3

2003-01-17 Thread Scott Haneda
on 01/17/2003 9:25 AM, gerald_clark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried installing mySql on OS X 10.2.3, following the instructions at http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/mysql/ . I wanted to set a password for the MySQL root user , so I typed: There apparently is a problem with the

RE: MYSQL + ASP Getting Started

2003-01-04 Thread John Berman
Hi I have on line access databases and I query them using ASP - I often create the initial in the access dbase and then use asp on the query and again this method works well. I have recently upgrade the database format to mysql but am still using ASP which I assume is ok ? Can I create queries

Re: MYSQL + ASP Getting Started

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Lovett
If you're asking what I think you're asking, no. You can't store your MySQL queries the way you can with Access or SQLServer (views/stored procedures). Your ASP scripts have to build the queries they need by themselves. -bill John Berman wrote: Hi I have on line access databases and I query

Getting started - mysql.sock error

2002-10-15 Thread George Pitcher
Hi, Iam back on this list after being diverted by job change - moving house etc. I've just set up one of my machines with Mandrake 9.0 and went for the included MySQL install (3.23). When I try to do anything I get an error saying that the 'mysql.sock' could not be found. I remember that this

re: Getting started - mysql.sock error

2002-10-15 Thread Egor Egorov
George, Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 2:55:14 PM, you wrote: GP Iam back on this list after being diverted by job change - moving house etc. GP I've just set up one of my machines with Mandrake 9.0 and went for the GP included MySQL install (3.23). GP When I try to do anything I get an error

RE: Getting started - mysql.sock error

2002-10-15 Thread George Pitcher
To: George Pitcher; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Getting started - mysql.sock error When I try to do anything I get an error saying that the 'mysql.sock' could not be found. Actually, you probably got a more detailed error message than this. Try posting the entire error message - I

re: RE: Getting started - mysql.sock error

2002-10-15 Thread Egor Egorov
George, Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 5:09:47 PM, you wrote: GP Its slightly difficult doing it exactly as my email is on my W2K laptop - GP but here goes: GP error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket GP '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)' GP Check that mysqld is running and that the

RE: RE: Getting started - mysql.sock error

2002-10-15 Thread George Pitcher
Egor, Run ps ax | grep mysqld to see if mysqld is already running. This returns '11276 pts/1S 0:00 grep mysql' I have checked and cannot find mysql.sock anywhere. Cheers George - Before posting, please

getting started ....

2002-08-19 Thread john greene
i need help with getting started with mysql i am a java programmer but have not done any database stuff. i assume that mysql can be a good db to start with java database programming ie jdbc stuff. would you also say that mysql would be a good db to start and learn with jdbc ? can some one let

RE: getting started ....

2002-08-19 Thread Tam, Michael
Try the sun site - www.javasoft.com I believe there are tutorials for JDBC. Cheers, Michael -Original Message- From: john greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting started i need help with getting started

FW: trouble getting started

2002-08-03 Thread glyn
Hi Installed Mysql (from mysql-3.23.51-win.zip) to c:\mysql on my pc (running Windows XP Professional) Started Apache (1.3.20) that I got with mod_perl . runs ok (can do perl scripts on it ok) Tried to execute c:\mysql\binmysqld (as in the manual) after about 5 seconds, comes back with

Re: GETTING STARTED !!

2002-03-15 Thread Sammy Lau
Suresh R. Soni wrote: Hi All, I have good Sybase experience and I have installed MySQL in a Linux box. Can u please answer my following queries: [Sammy] I like Sybase very much as well. =) 1. When I run safe_mysqld I get Starting mysqld daemon with database from /var/lib/mysql 020314

Re: GETTING STARTED !!

2002-03-15 Thread Georg Richter
On Friday, 15. March 2002 09:32, Sammy Lau wrote: 2. How to check if mysql server is up ? [Sammy] trying to connect the mysqlserver is the best way to do the job. Try: ps -ax | grep mysqld or mysqladmin ping Regards Georg

GETTING STARTED !!

2002-03-14 Thread Suresh R. Soni
Hi All, I have good Sybase experience and I have installed MySQL in a Linux box. Can u please answer my following queries: 1. When I run safe_mysqld I get Starting mysqld daemon with database from /var/lib/mysql 020314 17:00:01 mysqld ended do this mean a successfull start or failure ? 2. How

AW: MySQL 3.23.47 on MacOSX 10.1.2: Could someone help me getting started

2002-01-30 Thread Lutz, Helmuth
Paul, Okay, then try adding the --user=mysql option to the command. I killed the server (kill -9) and brought it back up with -Sg --user=mysql: The result: [localhost:/usr/local/mysql] root# /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld -Sg --user=mysql --- Here came some hints Cannot initialize InnoDB as

Re: MySQL 3.23.47 on MacOSX 10.1.2: Could someone help me getting started

2002-01-29 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:25 +0100 1/29/02, Lutz, Helmuth wrote: Paul, thanks for answering. Because of my job I have to succeed this correspondence from within another location and machine. Could you please give some more explaination to a bloody guy to Unix and the terminal like me: 1) Kill the server (kill

AW: MySQL 3.23.47 on MacOSX 10.1.2: Could someone help me getting started

2002-01-29 Thread Lutz, Helmuth
Paul, I do not know why, but it did not work. Please see yourself: This lines I could not copy and paste because the results are on a not connected Mac and this is a windows machine. So I had to write it by hand (- but looked 2 times at the text) Your example: % ps ax | grep mysql 251 ?? S

Getting Started

2001-11-20 Thread Dan Buckner
Hi, I am trying to get MySQL 3.22 (off a CD from a manual) running on Windows 98. I have installed it on my C drive and am trying to run the following command from DOS: c:\mysql\binmysqld --standalone I can get to the mysql\bin directory, but when I type the mysqld --standalone, I get a Bad

Re: Getting Started

2001-11-20 Thread Arjen G. Lentz
Hi Dan, - Original Message - From: Dan Buckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to get MySQL 3.22 (off a CD from a manual) running on Windows 98. I have installed it on my C drive and am trying to run the following command from DOS: c:\mysql\binmysqld --standalone I can get to the

Re: getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-19 Thread Brendan Pratt
Hi Matthew, - Original Message - From: "Matthew P. Marino" [EMAIL PROTECTED] You've got a long way to go. "tar" is short for tape archive. It is an ancient unix utility that takes directory and file data and builds it into a contiguous data base file. This is for portability and

getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-18 Thread Simon Chan
Hi Everybody! Just starting to teach myself MySql and databases. I have the O'Reilly books on Perl DBI and Mysql, msql. My question is this: I am trying to install mysql on sparc sun solaris 2.7 machine. I found a binary version in the downloads page of mysql.com (is is called Sun Solaris

RE: getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-18 Thread Ravi Raman
et it from www.sunfreeware.com hth. -ravi -Original Message- From: Simon Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting started...the hardest part Hi Everybody! Just starting to teach myself MySql and databases. I have th

Re: getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-18 Thread Matthew P. Marino
You've got a long way to go. "tar" is short for tape archive. It is an ancient unix utility that takes directory and file data and builds it into a contiguous data base file. This is for portability and manageability. You should have to get past "gzip" before you get to "tar". gzip is a gnu

Re: getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-18 Thread Duncan Watson
Simon, Take a look at www.sunfreeware.com. Go to their Downloading/Installation section (left panel) and grab the pkg-get script. Use pkgadd to install it. (as root: pkgadd -d BOLTpget.pkg ). Then add /usr/local/bin to your path. (PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin; export PATH) Use pkg-get to

Getting started

2001-04-04 Thread Dillon, John
Statically Compiled MySQLGUI 1.7.4 ../Downloads/mysqlgui/mysqlgui-linux-static-1.7.4.tar.gz I need to know whether I have to compile or do anything else with the above other than download and unzip it. When I do that (into c:\mysql\ directory) the file mysqlgui is not an application file so

Re: Getting started

2001-04-04 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Dillon, John writes: Statically Compiled MySQLGUI 1.7.4 ../Downloads/mysqlgui/mysqlgui-linux-static-1.7.4.tar.gz I need to know whether I have to compile or do anything else with the above other than download and unzip it. When I do that (into c:\mysql\ directory) the file mysqlgui