Re: How many pager command within mysql command line client?

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 25), Moon's Father said: > Hi. >For example, entering mysql command line client, >mysql> pager more ( or pager md5sum and so on.) > >I want to know how many command the 'pager' follows? Any reply will > be big appreciated. Any command can be used as a pager.

Re: How many pager command within mysql command line client?

2010-08-24 Thread Moon's Father
I know, all the shell command can do this. Thanks. 2010/8/25 Moon's Father > Hi. >For example, entering mysql command line client, >mysql> pager more ( or pager md5sum and so on.) > >I want to know how many command the 'pager' follows? Any reply will be > big appreciated. >

Re: How many users access MySQL

2008-12-22 Thread Andy Shellam
Hi If you don't mind keeping the general log, you can periodically parse it. I read that MySQL 5.1 (or some later version) will have an option to keep the general log in a table - that will be very handy. Be careful if you use this option (logging to a table) - while it's an extremely att

Re: How many users access MySQL

2008-12-21 Thread Chandru
Hi Shuly, you can use the method suggested by Shuly or you cook up your query logs if you need more accurate information. May be you can write a small script to do the job. Regards, Chandru forums.mafiree.com On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:34 AM, mos wrote: > At 02:32 PM 12/21/2008, y

Re: How many users access MySQL

2008-12-21 Thread Jim Lyons
If you don't mind keeping the general log, you can periodically parse it. I read that MySQL 5.1 (or some later version) will have an option to keep the general log in a table - that will be very handy. On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Avraham, Shuly wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any way to figure

Re: How many users access MySQL

2008-12-21 Thread mos
At 02:32 PM 12/21/2008, you wrote: Hi, Is there any way to figure out how many, if any, people are accessing and using our MySQL server? I am aware of the SHOW PROCESSLIST command, but this one only shows how many processes are currently running. I would like to register this information,

Re: How many key buffer size should be allocate?

2008-09-08 Thread David Ashley
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 08), Yi Wang said: > > According to the mysql manual, I changed key_buffer_size from 8M to > > 512M. But In mysql administrator, key buffer hitrate seems stay > > unchanged. And key buffer usage alway

Re: How many key buffer size should be allocate?

2008-09-07 Thread Yi Wang
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 08), Yi Wang said: >> According to the mysql manual, I changed key_buffer_size from 8M to >> 512M. But In mysql administrator, key buffer hitrate seems stay >> unchanged. And key buffer usage always be

Re: How many key buffer size should be allocate?

2008-09-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 08), Yi Wang said: > According to the mysql manual, I changed key_buffer_size from 8M to > 512M. But In mysql administrator, key buffer hitrate seems stay > unchanged. And key buffer usage always below 4M. > > The total db size is about 200M. And the system's load is sligh

Re: How many records in table?

2006-12-06 Thread Jake Peavy
On 12/6/06, Mikhail Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- > From: Dotan Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:37 PM > To: MySQL General > Subject: How many records in table? > > What's a quick query to determine how many records a given tab

Re: How many records in table?

2006-12-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 06/12/06, Mikhail Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use SELECT in with count(*) SELECT count(*) from YOUR_TABLE Mikhail Berman Thanks, Mikhail. Will do. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/xss.html http://english-lyrics.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: htt

RE: How many records in table?

2006-12-06 Thread Mikhail Berman
Use SELECT in with count(*) SELECT count(*) from YOUR_TABLE Mikhail Berman -Original Message- From: Dotan Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:37 PM To: MySQL General Subject: How many records in table? What's a quick query to determine how many record

Re: How many colums should a index contain?

2006-11-04 Thread John . H
indexes on a table to optimise all of your queries. Sometimes this makes the indexes much larger than the data itself. Hope this helps, Andy > -Original Message- > From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 November 2006 16:04 > To: John.H; mysql > Subj

RE: How many colums should a index contain?

2006-11-03 Thread Andy Eastham
much larger than the data itself. Hope this helps, Andy > -Original Message- > From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 November 2006 16:04 > To: John.H; mysql > Subject: Re: How many colums should a index contain? > > I think you want to create separate

Re: How many colums should a index contain?

2006-11-03 Thread Brent Baisley
I think you want to create separate indexes. Indexes are basically a sorted list. So a single index on all those fields would sort the data first by id, then bid, then title,... If id is unique, then there is absolutely no reason to add other fields to the index. Think of a compound index as a f

Re: How many colums should a index contain?

2006-11-02 Thread Chris
John.H wrote: but why when I do a query with 'explain' ,it shows that the 'possible_keys' is null or primary rather than the index I just create Please always CC the list - you will get much faster responses and others will be able to offer their input as well. Post the query, the explain

Re: How many colums should a index contain?

2006-11-02 Thread Chris
John.H wrote: I have two tables and I must do : select `id`,`bid`,`title`,`link`,`bname` from table1 where `bid` in ( ...this is a subquery in table2 ) should I create a index (`id`,`bid`,`title`,`link`,`bname`) so that my query will take less time or should a index contain so many colums? I

Re: How many databases does MySQL 5 support?

2006-10-18 Thread Philip Mather
Dan, Cheers for doing the translating, I'm one of those beardy types they keep locked in a dark room writing search engines so my English isn't spectacular ;^) As Rolando points out your file system may place a limit on the number of files or directories, but to my knowledge XFS has no su

Re: Re: How many databases does MySQL 5 support?

2006-10-18 Thread Dan Buettner
That does make sense, John. What Philip is saying is that you might run into problems with one of the tables used to keep track of tables and databases, before you run into problems with any hard coded limit of MySQL itself. The OS and the hardware will impose some (rather generous) restrictions

Re: How many databases does MySQL 5 support?

2006-10-18 Thread Rolando Edwards
AM GMT-0500 US/Eastern Subject: Re: How many databases does MySQL 5 support? John M.Brown schrieb: > Thanks for the info, but my question is how many databases, not so much how > many rows per table or how big the database can be... I mean, how many > "create database ABC" c

Re: How many databases does MySQL 5 support?

2006-10-18 Thread Dominik Klein
John M.Brown schrieb: Thanks for the info, but my question is how many databases, not so much how many rows per table or how big the database can be... I mean, how many "create database ABC" can I do before MySQL says "sorry, you can't have more than X databases". Say I create 1000 empty MySQL

Re: How many databases does MySQL 5 support?

2006-10-18 Thread John M . Brown
Thanks for the info, but my question is how many databases, not so much how many rows per table or how big the database can be... I mean, how many "create database ABC" can I do before MySQL says "sorry, you can't have more than X databases". Say I create 1000 empty MySQL databases (meaning no

Re: How many databases does MySQL 5 support?

2006-10-18 Thread Philip Mather
John, How many databases does a single instance of MySQL Server 5.x support? I suspect you'll get a bit of a , with a 64bit machine there's a limit of 4.2 billion rows per table and with an XFS file system 8EB per table, there's a join limit specified somewhere but I don't think there's an

Re: How many columns??

2006-08-03 Thread Miles Thompson
At 06:32 AM 8/3/2006, Ratheesh K J wrote: Hello all, Just wanted to know how many columns are preferable in table. At present we are having nearly 50 - 60 columns in some of the tables. Is this ok or should we be splitting the tables for normalization. If we really need to split then how be

Re: How many rows?

2004-11-15 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Looks like it returns as much as: select count(distinct id) from sale where user_id=1; I've found it in comments at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Counting_rows.html Jerry Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is my query > select id, status from sale where user_id

Re: How many rows?

2004-11-14 Thread Michael Stassen
Your sample query doesn't really make sense, but perhaps you are looking for SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS. From the manual, "SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS (available in MySQL 4.0.0 and up) tells MySQL to calculate how many rows there would be in the result set, disregarding any LIMIT clause. The number of rows ca

Re: How many rows?

2004-11-14 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Saturday 13 November 2004 06:40 am, Jerry Swanson wrote: > This is my query > select id, status from sale where user_id = 1 GROUP BY id; > > I need to know how many rows or how many entries this query returns. I > tried to use "count" and "sum". But the result is wrong. > > I want to be able to

Re: How many UNIQUE Columns per table

2004-09-16 Thread Rhino
Have you tried looking in the manual? This information should all be there somewhere. The URL is http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html. According to relational theory, there can only be one PRIMARY KEY in any table, although it may contain multiple columns. I *think* you can have as many UN

Re: How many records can a single MySql Table Hold.

2003-08-26 Thread Vinay
Apart from "my.cnf" MySQL also provide you with my-huge.cnf, my-large.cnf, my-medium.cnf and my-small.cnf. Files whih are used for diferrent sizes of datadases. Check them out it can help. if you find the conf you r looking for in one of the cnf file you just have to rename it to my.cnf. Vinay

Re: How many records can a single MySql Table Hold.

2003-08-25 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:05:32 +0530 (IST) "Rupak Banerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I have a mysql database running on Mysql version 3.23.53 on a Red Hat > Linux 7.2. In the database there is a single table with over 150,000 > records. Unfortunately, the performance of that table is

Re: How many records can a single MySql Table Hold.

2003-08-25 Thread Rupak Banerjee
Hi Jeremy, Thankx for the solution..but can you please tell me how to increase the key buffer fo mysql ?? Its urgent...we are facing a lot of problems. Thankx once again for the solution. > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:55:49AM +0530, Rupak Banerjee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are using MySql ve

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Re: How many records can a single MySql Table Hold.

2003-08-22 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:55:49AM +0530, Rupak Banerjee wrote: > Hi, > > We are using MySql version 3.27.53 on a Red Hat Linux platform version > 7.2. For the past couple of months we are noticing that the performance > of the server has gone down very badly. Every, single insertion is > taking

Re: How many records can a single MySql Table Hold.

2003-08-22 Thread Egor Egorov
"Rupak Banerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > We are using MySql version 3.27.53 on a Red Hat Linux platform version > 7.2. For the past couple of months we are noticing that the performance > of the server has gone down very badly. Every, single insertion is > taking a hell lot of time.The

Re: How many records can a single MySql Table Hold.

2003-08-22 Thread Jose Miguel Pérez
Hi Rupak! > We are using MySql version 3.27.53 on a Red Hat Linux platform version > 7.2. For the past couple of months we are noticing that the performance > of the server has gone down very badly. Every, single insertion is > taking a hell lot of time.The particular table has only 150,000 reco

Re: How many join do I need for a query on 3 table?

2003-08-16 Thread Roger Baklund
* B. Fongo > I was able to extra the information from the first 2 tables yesterday > using following query: > > SELECT Customers.Name, Customers.City, Orders.Product, > Order.Price FROM Customers inner join Orders USING (cust_id) WHERE > customers.cust_id = "2" > > -

Re: How Many

2003-04-02 Thread Eric Calvert
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 11:10:04 -0600 gerald_clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AChecks for empty > B Checks for empty > AUpdates > AReads ( and owns record ) > BUpdates > BReads ( and owns record ) > Reality says to do it more like this A Write lock on table B Tries to

Re: How Many

2003-04-02 Thread Cal Evans
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:59 AM Subject: RE: How Many > Just noticed this thread. > > Here is another method, still using the 'userid' method, but slightly > differently; it claims a job immediately. You then have to run a select by >

RE: How Many

2003-04-02 Thread GERST, MICHAEL (SBCSI)
ike get_last_update or mysql_affected_rows to gather information on what the UPDATE affected rather than another select. This was just quick and generic. -Mike -Original Message- From: Cal Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:12 AM To: gerald_clark C

Re: How Many

2003-04-02 Thread gerald_clark
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:10 AM Subject: Re: How Many AChecks for empty B Checks for empty AUpdates AReads ( and owns record ) BUpdates BReads ( and owns record ) Now What? Cal Evans wrote: No. You check for empty. update, check

Re: How Many

2003-04-02 Thread Cal Evans
last man wins. - Original Message - From: "gerald_clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cal Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "MySQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:10 AM Subject: Re: How Many > AChecks for empty &

Re: How Many

2003-04-02 Thread gerald_clark
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MySQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:22 AM Subject: Re: How Many Cal Evans wrote: Ed, 1: It depends on your hardware. I don't think MySQL imposes a restriction. 2: It doesn't work that way. It's not like V

Re: How Many

2003-04-02 Thread Cal Evans
- From: "gerald_clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cal Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ed Kiefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MySQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:22 AM Subject: Re: How Many > > > Cal Evans w

Re: How Many

2003-04-02 Thread gerald_clark
Cal Evans wrote: Ed, 1: It depends on your hardware. I don't think MySQL imposes a restriction. 2: It doesn't work that way. It's not like VFP or Access where you 'edit' a record. You can SELECT the contents of a record, you can manipulate them and then you can UPDATE that record (assuming yo

Re: How Many

2003-04-01 Thread Cal Evans
Ed, 1: It depends on your hardware. I don't think MySQL imposes a restriction. 2: It doesn't work that way. It's not like VFP or Access where you 'edit' a record. You can SELECT the contents of a record, you can manipulate them and then you can UPDATE that record (assuming you have a primary key

Re: How many columns does MySQL Support?

2002-10-16 Thread Jan Steinman
>From: "Andrew Kuebler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >2) Is it just as fast with Mysql to access 10 fields in a table with 10 >columns as it would be to access those same 10 fields among let's say 90 >other fields in a 100 column table? Are you certain that performance should be your primary concern her

Re: How many columns does MySQL Support?

2002-10-16 Thread Brent Baisley
I'm not sure what the limit is. MySQL limits tend to be dictated by the OS that is being used. The more columns you have the larger the database file will be. You should try to avoid having many empty columns in a database design, even if you are using varchar instead of char. Try to think ahe

Re: How many days out...

2002-10-01 Thread Paul DuBois
At 15:41 -0400 10/1/02, Chuck Payne wrote: >Hi, > >I am having problems get how many days out an invoice is from mysql. I have >try this. > >SELECT NOW()-summitted_date FROM table; > >But it not working as usually. So please guys a little help. What do you mean "not working as usually"? A query

Re: How Many Fields

2002-09-03 Thread Brent Baisley
I can't think of any reason to have that many fields. It really starts to make the databases structure unmanageable, or at least difficult and time consuming to manage. It also can make it very difficult to create a good, flexible search interface. Filemaker might be an exception because of the

Re: How many MySQL tables can we open paralel

2002-06-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 08), Shoshi & Iphtach Cohen said: > Hi experts, > > I appreciate if you could tell me how many MySQL tables we can open in > parallel. >From a client's point of view? Unlimited. Internally, mysql will only open "table_cache" number of tables at once. If the number of

Re: How many MySQL tables can we open paralel

2002-06-08 Thread Bhavin Vyas
10, 000 files open at the same time...maybe the OS itself is getting flustered, you want to make sure that your OS can handle it, on *nix, u can do a ulimit -a and see the open files parameter Beyond that, the system level limit on Linux can be found as cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max - Original Me

RE: how many tables can I create with one created MySql database?

2002-04-18 Thread Roger Baklund
* Egor Egorov > RB> Are you saying that the mysql server will need to open all > the tables in a > RB> database at the same time? When does this happen? When I issue the USE > RB> command? > > Roger, number of opened files is not the same as number of files in > the directory. When table is create

Re: RE: how many tables can I create with one created MySql database?

2002-04-18 Thread Egor Egorov
Roger, Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 6:54:29 PM, you wrote: RB> * Egor Egorov >> RB> 1) does this apply to InnoDb tables? >> >> Not quite, InnoDB stores tables in the tablespace, that may consists of >> several files.. RB> Yes... but rarely one file per table... RB> But what about the .frm files..

Re: How many tables?

2001-12-24 Thread Rosyna
You'd probably want to make sure the tables are at least in 3rd normal form. 1st: each column contains only ONE attribute. The means you can't have a list of people for "members" or the such. And each row must have a primary key. No two rows can be identical in a table. 2nd: no column is parti

Re: How many tables?

2001-12-24 Thread Dennis Salguero
- Original Message - From: "John Mayson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 4:40 PM Subject: How many tables? > How far should I go with this? Right now when I look at my frequency table, it's mostly a > list of numbers. I suppose t

Re: How many OR, AND in a query?

2001-09-26 Thread Adams, Bill TQO
Gerald Clark wrote: > >> You might want to try: > >> > >> WHERE mycolumn in (1, 3, 23, ...) > >> > >> Or even better, put your thousand records into a temporary table and then > > > > just do a join. > > > >> --jfarr I have yet to have a query that is to long when talking to MySQL via DBD, howev

Re: How many OR, AND in a query?

2001-09-26 Thread Mysql List
in() is usefull for OR ing, but is there a way to do this AND ing? > You might want to try: > > WHERE mycolumn in (1, 3, 23, ...) > > Or even better, put your thousand records into a temporary table and then just do a join. > > --jfarr > > - Original Message - > From: "Mysql List" <[EMA

Re: How many OR, AND in a query?

2001-09-26 Thread Gerald Clark
Well, a column can't be one value AND another value. Mysql List wrote: > in() is usefull for OR ing, but is there a way to do this AND ing? > > > > >> You might want to try: >> >> WHERE mycolumn in (1, 3, 23, ...) >> >> Or even better, put your thousand records into a temporary table and t

Re: How many OR, AND in a query?

2001-09-26 Thread Richard Brown
If you use just 1 OR you will force a table scan and slow everything down ? - Original Message - From: "Mysql List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mysql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 26 September 2001 20:06 Subject: How many OR, AND in a query? > Hi, > How many OR or AND can I put in a select q

Re: How many OR, AND in a query?

2001-09-26 Thread Jonothan Farr
You might want to try: WHERE mycolumn in (1, 3, 23, ...) Or even better, put your thousand records into a temporary table and then just do a join. --jfarr - Original Message - From: "Mysql List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mysql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1

RE: How many Mysql PIDs ?

2001-06-09 Thread Thomas Seifert
Hi Bob, thas just a difference in the apache-config from caldera. That has nothing to do with mysql! Thomas - Original Message - Jeremy, Yeah I follow you and as a LInux user of 5 years I am accustomed to seeing multiple processes launched for the same executable but

Re: How many Mysql PIDs ?

2001-06-08 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:23:03AM -0400, R Talbot wrote: > Please explain why I get multiple Daemon process > when I start mysql.server..Such as > > 1075 pts/0S 0:00 sh /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld > --user=root --pid > 1093 pts/0SN 0:00 /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld > -

Re: How many records can MySql handle?

2001-05-25 Thread Michael Bacarella
> Depends on OS, memory, disk space. > > Theoretically there is no "limit". > > If your using linux, and don't have support for large files built in, then > your table size limit is 4GB. Putting a table with 1k rows at a max size of > around 4 million records. If you have large file support in

Re: How many records can MySql handle?

2001-05-25 Thread Colin Faber
it all depends on your hardware, technically the MyISAM table type can handle up to 8 terabytes of data. Zhu George-CZZ010 wrote: > > If each record is about 1K byte, how many records can MySql handle? Does anyone >have any estimation or hands-on experience? > > Thank you very much in advance

Re: How many records can MySql handle?

2001-05-25 Thread Eric Fitzgerald
Depends on OS, memory, disk space. Theoretically there is no "limit". If your using linux, and don't have support for large files built in, then your table size limit is 4GB. Putting a table with 1k rows at a max size of around 4 million records. If you have large file support in, and have the

Re: How many queries per second do you get?

2001-05-25 Thread Rafael Martinez
---Reply to mail from Nathanial Hendler about How many queries per second do you get? > > Hello, I was just looking at my MySQL databse using mytop and saw that I was > getting over 60 queries per second. Can people give me an idea of how many > queries per second they get? > > Hello I have

RE: How many rows does a table can hold?

2001-03-15 Thread gavin . wood
> I want to ask you : > 1- How many rows does a mysql table can hold? > 2- I have to design a database for all universities of my country , Is it > better to consider one database for each university or one database for all > universities . Note that a query on a table "student" would be more qui

Re: How many rows does a table can hold?

2001-03-15 Thread Rino Nucara
I think a good soluthion it is to do a table for every thing and use MERGE table for searching data in all the table (for MERGE see documentation at pag. 271 "MySql table Type" chapter). Il 16:24, mercoledì 14 marzo 2001, abdelhamid bettache scrisse: > I want to ask you : > 1- How many rows

Re: How many rows does a table can hold?

2001-03-14 Thread Steve Ruby
"Jeremy D. Zawodny" wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:19:24AM -0800, abdelhamid bettache wrote: > > 2- I have to design a database for all universities of my country , > > Is it better to consider one database for each university or one > > database for all universities . Note that a query

Re: How many rows does a table can hold?

2001-03-14 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:19:24AM -0800, abdelhamid bettache wrote: > I want to ask you : > 1- How many rows does a mysql table can hold? Millions. Probably billions. I've heard of someone putting 2 billion rows in a table before (if memory serves). > 2- I have to design a database for all uni

Antwort: Re: How many tables in a database?

2001-02-09 Thread alexander . skwar
On 09.02.2001 12:01:01 Kissandrakis S. George wrote: > I have 6500 tables under one database there is no problem Pardon me, but how do you keep track of that many tables? I mean, I've a hard time with 10 or 20 tables - but 6500??? ---

Re: How many tables in a database?

2001-02-09 Thread Kissandrakis S. George
I have 6500 tables under one database there is no problem i hope that helps :) -- Kissandrakis S. George [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Network and System Administrator [http://www.phaistosnetworks.gr/] Tel/Fax: (+30 892) 24450/23206 Phaistos Networks S.A. - A DOL Digital Company ---

Re: How many tables in a database?

2001-02-07 Thread Jan Dvorak
I think 12 tables is not a large number by any means. If they _logically_ form one database, I'd not bother about the number. Only if performance problems pop up, and are positively recognized as being caused by too many files in the database directory, I'd start looking for a solution. Which need

Re: How many tables in a database?

2001-02-06 Thread Jason Terry
Just a side note... you can do JOINs on tables from different databases on the same mySQL server eg SELECT t1.UserName FROM db1.table AS t1, db2.anothertable AS t2 WHERE t1.UserName = t2.UserName As for database layout... I would go with what makes the most sense... If having 84 tables in o

Re: How many tables in a database?

2001-02-06 Thread hooker
> > How do you decide when a table should go into another database. For > example, I have a database with about 12 tables and growing. I keep > them in one database because I am doing joins that periodically involve > all of the tables. Is this the right way to do it? > > Richard Richard, I'

RE: how many colums can i create before it becomes unusable?

2001-01-26 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Hello Anna, According to the MySQL Crash-Me the maximum numbers for 3.23.xx are: - Columns in table 3398 - max table row length (without blobs) 65534 - table row length with nulls (without blobs) 65502 If you understand the concepts of DB normalization don't bother reading the following: 300

RE: how many colums can i create before it becomes unusable?

2001-01-26 Thread The Tilghman
It may become less readable on the server side, but if you want to store lots of little bits of information, use a BIGINT column as a collection of a bunch of bits ... pack and unpack them in your application. For searching, use the bitwise operators to do comparisons. -Tilghman -- "There cann