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 P

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Patrick
ad, that he wasn't looking for help in db design, just a solution to the punctuation issue. Pat... - Original Message - From: [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 Repl

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 \ --expression='s/@@@NEEDTOREPLACETHIS\([012345

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Jerl Simpson
'), " [insert > > > create options here]" FROM IP_Addresses WHERE status ="ACTIVE" > > > > Dynamic SQL? Not with that statement. He is going to need to create his > > SQL statement client-side and send it pre-formatted to the server. MySQL >

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 a

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Chance Ellis
ic SQL and I am not 100% sure it would > accept what you typed. > > > > > You would obviously add your "CREATE TABLE" options and "INTO > > OUTFILE" options as needed. > > This would be an alternative to converting IPv4 to 32bit Integer. > > >

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread SGreen
this helps... > > If at all possible, it is probably best to continue in the MySQL > list, there are some pretty clever people out there > > Pat... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CocoNet Corporation > SW Florida's First ISP > 825 SE 47th Terrace > Cape Coral, FL 3390

Re: Table names with periods

2005-10-03 Thread Patrick
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 Patrick, I have been trying to figure out how I can convert an IP address to a 32bit integer within a S

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Chance Ellis
t; > > - Original Message - > From: "Chance Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:57 PM > Subject: Re: Table names with periods > > > Instead of criticizing people's designs without understanding the &

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 differ

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` Th

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 un

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Patrick
t ISP 825 SE 47th Terrace Cape Coral, FL 33904 - Original Message - From: "Chance Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Table names with periods Instead of criticizing people's designs without understanding the

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 questi

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
re 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 diffe

Re: Table names with periods

2005-09-28 Thread Chance Ellis
27;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? > >

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 diff

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,

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