Re: General Questions About Indexes

2007-05-28 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi John, John Kebbel wrote: INDEXES - A Science AND an Art I've been continuing to look for answers to my own questions. I've found a few ... I meant to write back and try to help, but got busy with other things. You have found some good answers for yourself. Q1. What good does it do to s

Re: General Questions About Indexes

2007-05-27 Thread John Kebbel
INDEXES - A Science AND an Art I've been continuing to look for answers to my own questions. I've found a few ... Q1. What good does it do to store the primary key or a unique key if you're normally SELECTing columns that don't use that primary or unique key? "As you can see, it only make

General Questions About Indexes

2007-05-26 Thread John Kebbel
I have a few questions about indexes. I understand (1) what an index is, and (2) why indexes are useful, but I don't have even a rough idea about HOW they work. The internet resources I've been able to find don't answer the questions I'm asking. I also tried cat /var/lib/mysql/srms07/staff.

Re: Some general questions

2006-02-28 Thread Peter Brawley
>Thanks! >With regard to the ClOBs or Text fields, is that CLOB support? >Or support for Text columns that hold up to 60,000 bytes of TEXT data? In MySQL they're BLOBs not CLOBs, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/string-type-overview.html. PB http://www.artfulsoftware.com No vi

Re: Some general questions

2006-02-28 Thread Peter Brawley
: J A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Some general questions Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:44:08 -0600 />Does MySQL support the following: >- Support for DDL commands and dynamic SQL inside stored procedures? / Yes. />- EXECUT

Re: Some general questions

2006-02-28 Thread J A
Thanks! With regard to the ClOBs or Text fields, is that CLOB support? Or support for Text columns that hold up to 60,000 bytes of TEXT data? From: Peter Brawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: J A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re:

Re: Some general questions

2006-02-28 Thread Peter Brawley
>Does MySQL support the following: >- Support for DDL commands and dynamic SQL inside stored procedures? Yes. >- EXECUTE STATEMENT in Stored Procedures. (may be same question as above) Yes to a limited extent: PREPARE | EXECUTE accepts CREATE TABLE, DELETE, DO, INSERT, REPLACE, SELECT, SET,

Re: Some general questions

2006-02-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
> I was asked to scope out the following features, and am not the person to be > implementing them. > Hence the manuals weren't particularly helpful. > I'm looking for definitive references one way or the other for the following > questions. > SOS! > > Does MySQL support the following: > - Suppo

Some general questions

2006-02-28 Thread J A
I was asked to scope out the following features, and am not the person to be implementing them. Hence the manuals weren't particularly helpful. I'm looking for definitive references one way or the other for the following questions. SOS! Does MySQL support the following: - Support for DDL comma

RE: General Questions regarding mysql and php

2006-01-09 Thread Jay Paulson \(CE CEN\)
e Law [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 1/8/2006 8:42 PM To: Andrew Burrows; MYSQL General List Subject: Re: General Questions regarding mysql and php Andrew, I used to be a big redhat fan - but if you are looking to totally bring everything up to date, I would suggested opensuse. having used r

Re: General Questions regarding mysql and php

2006-01-08 Thread George Law
ata. -- George Law - Original Message - From: "Andrew Burrows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MYSQL General List" Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 8:01 PM Subject: General Questions regarding mysql and php Hi MYSQL users, Just started playing with mysql apache php and oth

Re: General Questions regarding mysql and php

2006-01-08 Thread 2wsxdr5
Andrew Burrows wrote: Hi MYSQL users, Just started playing with mysql apache php and other tricky stuff and have a few question to get me going after many years. Was wondering what the best GUI based administration tool is used today, I lasted used phpMyAdmin, is this still used or are there b

General Questions regarding mysql and php

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Burrows
Hi MYSQL users, Just started playing with mysql apache php and other tricky stuff and have a few question to get me going after many years. Was wondering what the best GUI based administration tool is used today, I lasted used phpMyAdmin, is this still used or are there better applicatio

Re: General questions

2004-08-04 Thread SGreen
I checked. SIUE seems to be an institute of higher learning. Well, here's your chance to do some self-directed,internet-based learning (probably the point of your project, isn't it. :-( ) RTFM my dear student! Then, if you don't understand what you read, use a search engine to find out what o

RE: General questions

2004-08-04 Thread JOHN MEYER
1. What is the user or connection limit for both versions of MySQL (Database Server and MaxDB)? Search the web site 2. How much memory does MySQL take when started up? Search the web site 3. Does MySQL take advantage of dual CPU systems? Search the web site 4. Define referential integrity. Do a

Re: General questions

2004-08-04 Thread jeffrey_n_Dyke
> I was wondering if anyone could answer a few questions for me. I have to do > some research for a school project. > 1. What is the user or connection limit for both versions of MySQL (Database > Server and MaxDB)? > 2. How much memory does MySQL take when started up? > 3. Does MySQL take ad

General questions

2004-08-04 Thread jgiacom
I was wondering if anyone could answer a few questions for me. I have to do some research for a school project. 1. What is the user or connection limit for both versions of MySQL (Database Server and MaxDB)? 2. How much memory does MySQL take when started up? 3. Does MySQL take advantage of d

RE: general questions

2003-06-03 Thread Kyle Lange
Or alternatively, (as I read it), use a char(0). Poss. Values NULL or '' (empty string). Kyle -Original Message- From: Becoming Digital [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general questions Actually, the idea

Re: general questions

2003-06-03 Thread Becoming Digital
: "Kieran Kelleher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 02 June, 2003 16:23 Subject: RE: general questions Define the field as type ENUM [NOT NULL] with values "N" and "Y", but read and understand the ENUM type

RE: general questions

2003-06-03 Thread Kieran Kelleher
So, examine some of these tables if you like by performing an EXPLAIN table or SHOW CREATE TABLE table http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ENUM.html -Original Message- From: Darryl Hoar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: general questio

Re: general questions

2003-06-03 Thread Lutz Zetzsche
Hi Darryl, Am Montag, 2. Juni 2003 21:58 schrieb Darryl Hoar: > Greetings, > I am trying to figure out how to define a field type as boolean. Is > there a way? Or must > I define the field as integer and represent true/false with 1/0 ? To my knowledge the MySQL "equivalent" to the boolean type i

general questions

2003-06-03 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am trying to figure out how to define a field type as boolean. Is there a way? Or must I define the field as integer and represent true/false with 1/0 ? I have a schema defined for a database. I would like to copy that schema to another database. Is there a simple way to accomplish

Several general questions

2001-12-29 Thread Emmanuel van der Meulen
Hello all, I have several questions in general since I recently started using MySQL. >From the manual I cannot find where these questions are covered. I hope someone can assist me. Firstly though, if this is not the correct mailing list for my questions, please advise correct one. Secondly, t

MySQL General Questions

2001-12-11 Thread Shon Stephens
I have read the documentation thoroughly, however there are still some things unclear to me, and others that I want opinions on. I am dismayed at what I see as a fundamental lack of "server administration" documentation. Much of the docs focus on the SQL aspects of MySQL. There is only a minor