Re: urban myth?

2004-05-12 Thread Michael T. Babcock
timestamp. -- Michael T. Babcock http://mikebabcock.ca/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: just the list please!

2004-03-17 Thread Michael T. Babcock
to yourself are duplicated, not entire threads. I often remove the person's E-mail address if its not some form of urgent posting (like this one) or where they may not care about the response, especially if I'm just adding to a thread and not actually responding to them. -- Michael T. Babcock -- MySQL

Re: Select and Limit

2004-03-17 Thread Michael T. Babcock
and then 'window' your way through it using the LIMIT clause. CREATE [ TEMPORARY ] TABLE search_result_abc123 SELECT (no limit); Then for each 'page' of data, do: SELECT * FROM search_result_abc123 LIMIT x, x+10; -- Michael T. Babcock -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http

Re: Innodb logfiles timestamp question

2004-03-17 Thread Michael T. Babcock
it still was when you looked at it (since you posted your message on the 12th). Given more time, I'd presume ib_logfile0 to eventually show Mar 20 or so and ib_logfile1 to show the same as it has moved on to the next file ... -- Michael T. Babcock -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives

Re: XML in MySQL

2003-06-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
isn't that difficult in most situations you may encounter. A little wrapping to be sure, but validating parsers are easy to get your hands on and designing an expat-based parser that knows your schema (XML DB) for translation isn't a big chore for most data types I've come across. -- Michael T

Re: How do we convert a well-structured XML file to its corresponding tables in a MySQL Database ?

2003-06-19 Thread Michael T. Babcock
. In Python, you build a mutli-layer dictionary of the XML file and then do something like: def deconstruct(xmldata, parentdata): for item in xmldata: if item.has_subitems(): deconstruct(item, xmldata) query = INSERT INTO %s VALUES (...) % (xmldata.name, ...) -- Michael T

Re: I wonder why nobody answered me

2003-06-18 Thread Michael T. Babcock
service, just like anywhere else. This list is a convenient place to discuss or ask questions about probably 98% of situations. That last 2% probably requires support. Please note, as always that 72.83% of all statistics are made up on the spot. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http

Re: Set no root password

2003-06-14 Thread Michael T. Babcock
? -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this an inefficient query?

2003-06-03 Thread Michael T. Babcock
experience with cleaning up something like this? It seems you're dealing with area code logic. If you can re-schema your tables, consider: SELECT ... LEFT JOIN phoneno on cdr.dialednoid = phoneno.id WHERE ... AND phoneno.areacode in (866,877,888) AND ... Get the idea? -- Michael T

Re: How to secure a MySQL database from people with physical acce ss

2003-05-29 Thread Michael T. Babcock
else has the problems others have mentionned. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mailing Labels from MySQL database on web

2003-05-29 Thread Michael T. Babcock
? -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mysql ssh tunneling

2003-05-28 Thread Michael T. Babcock
your tunnel with ssh -ddd for extra debugging output on tunnel creation -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe

Re: Suggestions for choosing GUI Language that has a MySQL DB backend

2003-04-03 Thread Michael T. Babcock
the interface. This code can be made quite small and efficient with Python in my experience. If you have no Python experience; feel free to follow other suggestions, but consider trying it. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock -- MySQL General

Re: MySQL mail servers

2003-04-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
more efficient than using MySQL, but YMMV. I've found qmail with Courier-IMAP to be so fast that I can't really say I'd want to try using a different back-end at all. If you end up with any benchmarks, feel free to post them. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http

Re: Why don't ISPs use v4

2003-04-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
.xx's functionality is required on our own servers. I'm sure the query caching will improve performance when I upgrade, but at this point it isn't a necessity. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http

Re: Could we make this a web discussion forum?

2003-04-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
notification tacked on. Mind if I throw my hand up as one of those people? :-) -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: decimal type

2003-02-25 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Basic, by way of reference had this neat bug: a = 0 for i = 1 to 100 a = a + 0.01 next i print a ... printed 0.99 or 1.01 depending on your platform. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Heiki, InnoDB crash #2 (update)

2003-02-24 Thread Michael T. Babcock
a full backup and then rebuild my data files for a full restore. Should I keep my original files for your reference/debugging? -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: when to normalize out to a table

2003-02-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
. Reverse RIGHT, LEFT above for RIGHT JOIN. The others will make more sense when you get that. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http

InnoDB Crash [help!]

2003-02-21 Thread Michael T. Babcock
CXX CFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS ./configure \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --prefix=/usr \ --localstatedir=/var/mysql \ --enable-assembler \ --with-berkeley-db \ --with-innodb \ --with-comment \ --enable-thread-safe-client -- Michael T. Babcock CTO

Re: InnoDB Crash [more info]

2003-02-21 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Michael T. Babcock wrote: I've got a nice MySQL crash that happened during the night last night and I can't seem to get it to come back online for me without --skip-innodb. Follow-up with mysql's bug report: MySQL support: none Synopsis:InnoDB Crashing on Startup Severity:critical

[Fwd: Re: Re: Examples needed of MYSQl/PHP update, delete scriptsand relevant]

2003-02-21 Thread Michael T. Babcock
) by web.mysql.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1LJVhi24085; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:31:43 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:31:43 +0100 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael T. Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: Examples needed of MYSQl/PHP update, delete scripts and relevant Your message

Re: Hash-Functions

2003-02-19 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Bernhard Döbler wrote: there's a Password()-Function in MySQL. Can somebody tell my on what standard is based (MD5 etc.) and if there's something similar in a DBMS that also supports triggers? InterBase does not support many functions... Its deprecated; use MD5() or SHA1() ... -- Michael T

Re: AW: InterBase vs. Mysql

2003-02-18 Thread Michael T. Babcock
MySQL, that's their choice. If they decide they want to use it with Oracle, that's their choice too. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http

Re: rownum

2003-02-18 Thread Michael T. Babcock
use (some people here may not, of course). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http

Re: Slow retrieval of distinct on indexed fields [OT?]

2003-02-18 Thread Michael T. Babcock
to the diff. between the position offsets in each (which are sorted in position order). Just thinking out-loud, and no, I've never benchmarked it but I played with the idea in Python a few times as a proof-of-concept. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. SQL http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: InterBase vs. Mysql

2003-02-18 Thread Michael T. Babcock
). I don't write much commercial, non-GPL code. I write a lot of commercial and GPL'd code though, and so do many other people (like MySQL AB). You might want to consider it too. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: InterBase vs. Mysql

2003-02-18 Thread Michael T. Babcock
of business models are different, but not unprofitable. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http

Re: CREATE INDEX is sooo slow! any ideas?

2003-02-17 Thread Michael T. Babcock
eventually - it's in the todo. Wow, I love this list (and the MySQL team). Go to bed with a question, wake up with an answer. Well, in EST5EDT at least. Thanks. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

max_user_connections

2003-02-17 Thread Michael T. Babcock
It would be nice to extend the user permissions table to have per-user limits like max_user_connections and the various timeouts applying directly to specific user/host combinations. Just a thought / suggestion. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. SQL http://www.fibrespeed.net

Re: max_user_connections

2003-02-17 Thread Michael T. Babcock
mysql.user table: - max_question:number of commands user can send to server, - max_updates: number of changes user can submit, - max_connections: well, I let you guess ;-) Maybe I'll have to take the plunge and upgrade after all. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http

Re: Row numbers

2003-02-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
the database as a reference value. The 'ol' values are just as easily put in the PHP itself, of course, since they have nothing to do with the data (no association to that data). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: Need Help With MySQL Query

2003-02-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
response from a query, not the data in the query. Don't forget to do a mysql_fetch_array or mysql_fetch_row on the resource before using it. As a test: $res = mysql_query(...); print $res; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) { print $row; print $row['id']; } -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O

Re: encrypted password

2003-02-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
= mysql_fetch_array($res); if ($row['password'] != $pass_md5) die(Bad password); This way, the data going over the MySQL link is already secure before it goes over your network or leaves your program. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: bandwidth, etc.

2003-02-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
to do it) and measure your actual bandwidth usage; you may be surprised. Cross-reference with a ping log (also done with RRDTool on my machines) to see if its a latency or bandwidth cap issue. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: CREATE INDEX is sooo slow! any ideas?

2003-02-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
any more efficient except in file descriptor usage (although I've expressed the same doubts about InnoDB's avoidance of the filesystem too). SQL and all that ... -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: Row numbers

2003-02-14 Thread Michael T. Babcock
the lines with OL...results.../OL or perhaps just use PHP/Perl/? to do an $i++ for display? Why put this in the query at all, if it has nothing to do with the data? -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: MySQL book TOC

2003-02-11 Thread Michael T. Babcock
to the Microsoft SQL Server product often mis- named as 'SQL' itself (by people who don't know what SQL is). If I were you, I would explain relational databases and normalization (at list to normal form III). Very well described by many other books; especially Oracle certification books. -- Michael T

Re: Robot Replies (WAS: Re: support question (win98_se) (auto))

2003-02-11 Thread Michael T. Babcock
question (win98_se)'. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual

Re: IP Addresses -- How to Store

2003-02-11 Thread Michael T. Babcock
network masking math and then store your IP addresses as 16 bit long integer values (until you're storing ipv6 addresses, of course). Store your network mask as either the 16 bit value of the mask or if you care about space, a tinyint of how many bits are in the mask. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO

Re: IP Addresses -- How to Store

2003-02-11 Thread Michael T. Babcock
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:34:52PM -0500, Peter Grigor wrote: Dood, he's not gonna be very happy storing an IP as 16 bits :) Excuse my long day; 32 bits would be much more useful. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, SQL) http

Re: sex vs. gender or conciseness and accuracy in English text

2003-02-10 Thread Michael T. Babcock
term 'gender'. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. SQL http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list

Re: [OT] Gender, Sex, political correctness (and age?)

2003-02-10 Thread Michael T. Babcock
) and there is no meaning lost by doing so (and therefore no reason _not_ to do it, except sheer laziness, of which most of us are probably guilty). My appologies for spamming the list with this drivel. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. SQL http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: MySQL IMAP Server

2003-02-09 Thread Michael T. Babcock
of E-mails in IMAP format, some of my clients, using the same servers have gigabytes of E-mails stored this way and find it to be faster than local storage). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad?

2003-02-08 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Zak Greant wrote: Heh. There are still some gems like this in the manual.:) I have let our documentation team know about the awkward wording. Just use the term gender instead of sex and everyone will be happy :-) (Esp. the people searching for 'animal sex' on Google ...) -- Michael T

Re: mysql limitations

2003-02-08 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Martin Hudec wrote: I would like to know what are limitations for mysql in number of records, size of records, size of tables etc. Check the free online user-commented manual first, ask any questions you still have afterward. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http

Replication comment

2003-02-08 Thread Michael T. Babcock
{servername} Correct? If setting up a semi-automated version of this pipe is all it requires to do replication (a few greps and pipes), then writing such a program would allow for multi-to-multi replication (for example). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net

Re: interface to python?

2003-02-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
= cursor.fetchall() return (count, results) -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual

Changing InnoDB files

2003-01-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
it autoextend instead of the current one. How do I properly set the size on the current file so that it has no problems if I remove the autoextend keyword, or is this not. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: mysqlstat (WAS Re: Optimizing Ext3 for MySQL)

2003-01-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
... so you might as well have essentially `alias mysqlstat $x='mytop --vmstat=$x'` (yes, I know that's not valid bash symantics). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before

Re: ReiserFS vs Ext3

2003-01-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
is always better responses that don't help you decide. In the best (and what I think will happen), someone will tell you the differences in CPU usage or fast file access speeds or some such value that will mean something, or even that it is not actually going to make a difference. -- Michael T

Re: Table joins are slow things to deal with. . .

2003-01-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Steve Quezadas wrote: PS Here is some information about my tables and indexes: Maybe I missed it, but where's the EXPLAIN on the JOIN query? -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: Rank Amateur Back for More

2003-01-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
within the server's directory namespace. Please read http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/LOAD_DATA.html -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http

Re: ReiserFS vs Ext3

2003-01-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
as directories under their database directories with row values as files under row directories, with directories named by their primary index values (randomly otherwise?). It would make an interesting project at any rate. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: Mandatory server downtime?

2003-01-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
to do a proper restore. Don't be in that situation. (We'd do one if they paid us, of course ...) and go from there; if any of the answers don't sound right, then ask more questions about that topic. If they tell you its a stupid question, that's another good hint :-) -- Michael T. Babcock

Re: Unicode

2003-01-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
in Unicode. UCS-16 is useful for storing the data on disk in only specific circumstances; like a database). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check

Re: Optimizing Ext3 for MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Steven Roussey wrote: Might also look at: vmstat 1 `vmstat 1` is my favorite instant-info server debugging tool. I wouldn't mind the same program for MySQL (where's that mytop author anyhow? j/k) Blocked processes (second column) is a very useful piece of info too. -- Michael T

Re: three table join

2003-01-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
reverse the query. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list

Re: MySQL Secure Replication

2003-01-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
:localhost:3306 foreignhost ...then set up the info for master (on the slave) to be localhost:3307. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http

Re: Mandatory server downtime?

2003-01-21 Thread Michael T. Babcock
locks before doing a backup to get it over with, but backing up from a replication client is much smarter, imho. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check

Re: Joins are damn slow. . .

2003-01-21 Thread Michael T. Babcock
table and do a search on that. I get the same results, and the query time is halved. Do an explain on all those queries, post the output here and the time it took to run the queries. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: Mandatory server downtime?

2003-01-21 Thread Michael T. Babcock
here. Ask if they're on the list :). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com

Re: innodb foreign keys problem

2003-01-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
, and I'm sure you've considered this, at least table creation is a semi-rare enough event in the life and activity of the average database that adding more overhead to the process wouldn't affect much. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: three table join

2003-01-15 Thread Michael T. Babcock
... then you end up with a left join like above. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com

Re: when to normalize out to a table

2003-01-15 Thread Michael T. Babcock
I don't have yet) than have to extract data properly after the fact for normalization. Reading any old website about normalization will say basically the same thing (and if they don't, they shouldn't be writing about normalization). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http

Re: Linux Mysql vs Windows Mysql

2003-01-15 Thread Michael T. Babcock
($Params))) return -1; list ($rows, $error) = sql_do_query(SELECT ... FROM Vehicles LEFT JOIN ... WHERE $Params); ... return $rows; I worry about connecting, doing the actual query once connected and error checking in sql_do_query, so my main code looks clean(er). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O

Re: MySQL Secure Replication

2003-01-15 Thread Michael T. Babcock
'supervise' so as to make sure its always there and restarts if it gets killed / dies / is stupid / upgraded. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check

Re: InnoDB table, NOT NULL question

2003-01-15 Thread Michael T. Babcock
the same as: INSERT INTO table (foo, bar) VALUES (NULL, text); which would throw an error (correctly). No comment ;-) -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please

Re: Removing users

2003-01-13 Thread Michael T. Babcock
of logging in, since MySQL won't be able to authenticate them. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http

Re: Perl vs. PHP with MySQL - performance?

2003-01-13 Thread Michael T. Babcock
functions whereas PERL actually does some additional work in there. In PERL's case, its probably a similar code distance to just do a single executed query and return an array of results as it is in PHP though. I'd benchmark it to be sure though. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd

Re: take one database offline

2003-01-13 Thread Michael T. Babcock
it keeps working that way safely, I'd say we already have a solution though. Oh yeah, without the words SQL or QUERY, this message would be spam. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: converting text to hypertext

2003-01-13 Thread Michael T. Babcock
, '/a') FROM stuff; But please remember, as was said earlier, to use the appropriate escaping functions for your language to make sure link contains no special HTML characters in the second instance and no URL characters in the first. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http

Re: MySQL backend for mailing list

2003-01-13 Thread Michael T. Babcock
/sh cat $message | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look up how E-mail messages are formatted (its text; do a view source on this message, for an example) and you're probably home-free. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: Book recomendations

2003-01-13 Thread Michael T. Babcock
, there are an even larger list of books to consider. The ones I found most helpful initially were the Oracle certification course books. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting

MySQL startup (FYI)

2003-01-10 Thread Michael T. Babcock
is there to stop respawns from being too fast and to keep from confusing mysqladmin; when you do mysqladmin shutdown, it gets confused if mysqld starts back up too soon (thinking it didn't shut down yet I suppose). Just FYI ... :-) -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. (sql) http

Re: logrotate problem with mysql

2003-01-10 Thread Michael T. Babcock
] section to your ~root/.my.cnf file. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com

Re: relations between tables

2003-01-10 Thread Michael T. Babcock
specifying this in the query. Search for REFERENCES in the MySQL manual; it only applies to InnoDB type tables though. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please

Re: converting text to hypertext

2003-01-09 Thread Michael T. Babcock
); return a href=\$HREF\$Text/a; } print td align=center.LinkURI($field)./td; -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

Re: MySQL Database Design

2003-01-09 Thread Michael T. Babcock
= Wine.ID LEFT JOIN Grapes ON Grapes.ID = GrapesID WHERE Grapes.Name = Grape1; -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http

Re: Autonum broken

2003-01-06 Thread Michael T. Babcock
mean that you moved columns to a new table, then it makes sense; but rows? Where you getting bad query response time? Just curious. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before

Re: [OT] Palestine

2003-01-06 Thread Michael T. Babcock
checkpoints) and the ability to work and live a 'free' life. You have to choose your goals properly (much like SQL design) before taking the first steps. If self-governance is a goal, get good leaders. -- Michael T. Babcock (no, I'm not a sympathizer to either side) C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http

Re: LEFT JOIN function locking up when using large database

2003-01-06 Thread Michael T. Babcock
on these? alter table2 add index table1_id_idx(table1_ID); -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http

Re: user updates trace

2003-01-03 Thread Michael T. Babcock
. That is, adding the username to the comments in the binary update log (and other logs). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com

What MySQL is

2003-01-03 Thread Michael T. Babcock
(see downloads / links page) as you learn SQL. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http

Info: Using MySQL as Mutex

2003-01-03 Thread Michael T. Babcock
= ThreadMutex4) and do your work. MySQL will block the UPDATE until the previous thread (if any) rolls back or commits its transaction. Any thoughts / technical comments? (I just started doing this in a large internal log tracking project that does, in fact, use MySQL) :-) -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O

ARGH! :) [OT]

2003-01-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
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Re: FAQ hosting site [FAQTS.COM]

2003-01-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
your SQL database, install the MyODBC drivers, and link to the tables from Access. From there, it's easy to program Access to make update screens, etc. Chuck -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: Admin/Client GUI - Win32 and Linux

2003-01-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
on freshmeat.net. Searching MySQL admin windows on Google should get you quite a few responses as well. FWIW, this comes up a lot and phpMyAdmin gets mentionned almost as often. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: An Idea

2003-01-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
gives me generic SQL responses regarding many products (often MS SQL Server, since they decided to use the lone word 'sql' in its name). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before

Re: Newbie - Where do I look for answers?

2003-01-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
. That's probably a good place to look as well (just skip to the MySQL bits). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

Re: filters

2003-01-02 Thread Michael T. Babcock
) List-ID: mysql.mysql.com If Eudora can't filter on arbitrary headers, complain to them frequently. To be more specific: filter for the List-ID to contain mysql. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: nested transactions?

2002-12-31 Thread Michael T. Babcock
, what kind of theoretical work is required to allow nested transactions? -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php

Re: What, if anything, is wrong with UNIX Epoch time stamps? [Was:R E: TimeStamp in MySQL reqd NULL]

2002-12-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
at the same site. I'm surprised SQL hasn't been updated to support new time formats yet, but oh well. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock - Before posting, please check: http

Re: What, if anything, is wrong with UNIX Epoch time stamps? [Was:R E: TimeStamp in MySQL reqd NULL]

2002-12-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
select * from temp; +-+ | date| +-+ | 2002-02-31 00:00:00 | +-+ 1 row in set -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: [Fwd: Need help revising CREATE TABLE]

2002-12-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
this if you searched sourceforge or freshmeat.net. FWIW, I'd be tempted to normalize your table down to: Survey SurveyQuestion Question UserQuestionResponse User You can try to figure out the rest from there ... -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: SOLVED! (was: Re: What is wrong with this query?)

2002-12-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
all queries. So, having the parent linger a bit should have no affect on the child. Yet it does. I'm not a PERL god, but from C experience, try looking up wait and wait on your child instead of just exiting. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. SQL http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: What, if anything, is wrong with UNIX Epoch time stamps? [Was:R E: TimeStamp in MySQL reqd NULL]

2002-12-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
yet, but oh well. Well, there is BIGINT, isn't there? :-)) TAI64N sub-second precision is 64 bits for the integer and 64 bits for the floating-point value ... :) -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

Re: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
software in the world, but don't have faith in any software product just because you've heard its name a lot. OpenBSD and Linux were helping run the majority of the Internet long before most people had heard either name. -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net

Re: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: It's a sad day when confidence is built by a company's PR budget rather than the product's track record. You mean like Microsoft? Oh, sorry to bring that up ... :-) -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. ... sql ... for this one :) http://www.fibrespeed.net

Re: i have given up -- bug

2002-12-22 Thread Michael T. Babcock
available on this list? I don't often analyze 13 SQL table queries for free. PS, you've got several tables not using indexes. Fix it :) -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock

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