Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-04 Thread Chance Ellis
Thanks everyone for all of the replies! I have been banging my head against this for a week now and I was never looking in the direction of the cron script... Sometimes it helps having another set (or ten) of eyes looking at the problem. Thanks again! On 10/3/05, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Patrick
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Table names with periods Patrick, I have been trying to figure out how I can convert an IP address to a 32bit integer within a SQL create statement. Is this possible or am I thinking about this all wrong? The input I am given

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread SGreen
To: Patrick Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Table names with periods Patrick, I have been trying to figure out how I can convert an IP address to a 32bit integer within a SQL create statement. You are mixing purposes. MySQL has a CREATE TABLE statement

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Chance Ellis
clever people out there Pat... [EMAIL PROTECTED] CocoNet Corporation SW Florida's First ISP 825 SE 47th Terrace Cape Coral, FL 33904 - Original Message - From: Chance Ellis To: Patrick Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Table names with periods

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Chance Ellis wrote: [snip] Thus, syslog-ng creates a file that contains a bunch of CREATE TABLE entries. I then import those files with a cron script into mysql. This is where I am looking to convert IP address into something without periods. I cannot perform logic within the .conf file and it

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Jerl Simpson
33904 - Original Message - From: Chance Ellis To: Patrick Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Table names with periods Patrick, I have been trying to figure out how I can convert an IP address to a 32bit integer within a SQL create

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Chance Ellis wrote: [snip] of CREATE TABLE entries. I then import those files with a cron script into mysql. This is where I am looking to convert IP address into something [snip] There is a world of possibilities at this point, one is this: sed \

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Patrick
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Patrick Cc: Chance Ellis ; mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 4:30 PM Subject: Re: Table names with periods Replies embedded: Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/03/2005 03:43:20 PM: There are many ways to approach this. How are you receiving the IP

Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Chance Ellis
I am sure this has been asked before but I can't seemed to find it. Canyou create table names with periods in them? I need to create tables based on the IP address of machines (x.x.x.x) Currently, Mysql is puking on format. Any ideas? Thanks

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread SGreen
Chance Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/28/2005 11:56:53 AM: I am sure this has been asked before but I can't seemed to find it. Canyou create table names with periods in them? I need to create tables based on the IP address of machines (x.x.x.x) Currently, Mysql is puking on format

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
I am sure this has been asked before but I can't seemed to find it. Canyou create table names with periods in them? I need to create tables based on the IP address of machines (x.x.x.x) Ehm. Why? Instead of going the silly table names route, why not try a different design? With regards

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Chance Ellis
names with periods in them? I need to create tables based on the IP address of machines (x.x.x.x) Ehm. Why? Instead of going the silly table names route, why not try a different design? With regards, Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, Oracle MS SQL

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
table names with periods in them? I need to create tables based on the IP address of machines (x.x.x.x) Ehm. Why? Instead of going the silly table names route, why not try a different design? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
Instead of criticizing people's designs without understanding the requirements why don't you just answer the question, or don't you know either? PS: As Shawn (who is more helpful in giving fast answers ;-) pointed out: the answer can be found in the manual... Which begs for another question:

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Patrick
825 SE 47th Terrace Cape Coral, FL 33904 - Original Message - From: Chance Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Table names with periods Instead of criticizing people's designs without understanding the requirements

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Chance Ellis
Point taken and yes the manual was reviewed. However, I thought in the past that I had seen someone post a method in which table names could be created with special characters. On 9/28/05, Martijn Tonies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of criticizing people's designs without

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
Point taken and yes the manual was reviewed. However, I thought in the past that I had seen someone post a method in which table names could be created with special characters. Most special characters can be used by using back ticks: `my_special name - for example with dashes and spaces` That

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Chance Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Point taken and yes the manual was reviewed. However, I thought in the past that I had seen someone post a method in which table names could be created with special characters. Can't you use a single table instead of more tables? Or each table has different

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Chance Ellis
28, 2005 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Table names with periods Instead of criticizing people's designs without understanding the requirements why don't you just answer the question, or don't you know either? On 9/28/05, Martijn Tonies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure this has been asked