MYISAM tables and negative values on AUTO_INCREMENT fields

2001-05-12 Thread Brian Curtis
Having some troubles coping with this issue using MySQL 3.23.31 on a Linux box. Brief explanation of what's going on: I have a table setup that requires two negative values in an AUTO_INCREMENT field (not my choice, nor is there anything I can do to correct this issue at this time), '-10' and

mysql Full-text Search indexes

2001-05-12 Thread lists
Can anyone share the experiences with mysql Full-text Search indexes? I have been reading here and there about how slow it can be to create/update a text index. Also, are there any benchmarks on query results on searching such indexes? Christopher Lambrou, CGL Computer Services, Inc.

Re:table options and performance

2001-05-12 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Steve, you should set autocommit=0 and only call commit after the whole batch of inserts. If you use autocommit=1 and insert each row in a separate transaction, the database has to flush the log physically to disk after each insert, which means only some 50-200 insertions per second, depending

Re: How about Latvian language support?

2001-05-12 Thread Tonu Samuel
On 09 May 2001 11:00:49 +0300, Andis wrote: I'm from Latvia. Currently my database contain words, which contain Latvian specific characters. MySQL works under RedHat6.2. Is anybody now how is possible to teach MySQL correctly sort textual strings with Latvian characters? Yes it is

Re: ODBC for MySql with SSL

2001-05-12 Thread Tonu Samuel
On 09 May 2001 09:43:59 +0100, Eugénio Veiga wrote: Hi Does any body if is possible in windows 9x to implement odbc for MySql with ssl ? There exists any driver for this ? Well, I do not know much about ODBC. But anyway if you tell MySQL with SSL then you mean my work on SSL support for

Very basic question from beginner

2001-05-12 Thread Silentwhyspers
Hi, I'm new to mySQL and have a quick question. I'm trying to install ShowTable-3.3. I must be downloading this incorrectly, as it never shows up on my hard drive. Now I'm assuming that I just ftp to the site, download it, untar (whatever that might be) it and then use perl to put it

MYISAM v.s. GEMINI Tables

2001-05-12 Thread Warren van der Merwe
Goodday to you all For those that are interested, I have managed to get my GEMINI tables working successfully, and changed one of my reports to use the MYSQL tables instead of my original MSACCESS ones. Had a couple problems with the initial altering of some tables from MYISAM to GEMINI, but

Re: MYISAM v.s. GEMINI Tables

2001-05-12 Thread BAUMEISTER Alexandre
Bonjour Warren, What about InnoDB tables ? Could you change the TYPE to INNODB and run the same test ? This would be great to compare MYISAM, GEMINI and INNODB. Regards, Alex. WvdM Goodday to you all WvdM For those that are interested, I have managed to get my GEMINI tables

Re: My Sql C_API(Urgent)

2001-05-12 Thread VVM Ravikumar Sarma Chengalvala
Hi , Infact I tried it out that way.There is a problem with my_sql_real_escape_string() .I.e at the time of linking it is giving an Unresolved External Symbol for this function.For rest of the API functions it's OK. I checked up with the .def file in the includes directory and found that this

Re: MYISAM v.s. GEMINI Tables

2001-05-12 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:45:50PM +0200, Warren van der Merwe wrote: [major snip] As said above, these times include the time taken to add the rows using a while, wend statement to a grid in my application. The timer is at the exact same point, and is logged into a file therefore there is

Re: DATE for NOW() is incorrect for 64 bit compile

2001-05-12 Thread Gary Bickford
Well, This email also broke KDE Mail (note the date in the quotation). This would be my first UT (Unix timestamp) glitch. Congratulations!! You're about 20 years ahead of what I expected :O) GB On Wednesday 31 December 1969 04:00 pm, I thought root said: Description: Linux Alpha build.

Hockey Scoring/Penalty counting query in mySQL

2001-05-12 Thread def9life
I have a table of hockey players with goals and penalty minutes in a MySQL database. I want to display a list of players in the roster (using the table 'players') along with a count of all goals and penalties for each player. However, I seem to be getting an error in my results, and I can't

RE: Hockey Scoring/Penalty counting query in mySQL

2001-05-12 Thread Chris Bolt
SQL STATEMENT: SELECT players.playerid,name, count(goals.goalid) AS goals, count(penalties.penaltyid) AS penalties FROM players LEFT JOIN goals ON (players.playerid=goals.playerid) LEFT JOIN penalties ON (players.playerid=penalties.playerid) GROUP BY players.playerid; Have

Re: Hom many columns is too many?

2001-05-12 Thread Richard Reina
I appreciate the replies. I have decided to keep it all in one table for the following reason. First, on the one hand five attributes that describe a customers education could arguably be a separate table, since they describe the education, however, they still describe the customer -- Harvard

Bug in CAPI of My Sql

2001-05-12 Thread VVM Ravikumar Sarma Chengalvala
Hi, 1. I am using MySQL3.23 on WindowsNT4.0 platform. 2. Whenever I try to use mysql_real_escape_string() method,it works well with the compiler and fails while linking.I am using VC++6.0 as environment .The reason that I have traced out is: i) The function mysql_real_escape_string() is not

Re: table options and performance

2001-05-12 Thread Steve Ruby
Heikki Tuuri wrote: Steve, you should set autocommit=0 and only call commit after the whole batch of inserts. so then if I'm inserting via a mysqldump file I should append commit; to the last line of the file? If you use autocommit=1 and insert each row in a separate transaction,

Help please!!!

2001-05-12 Thread Tyrone Mills
I think I have a corrupt table and my most recent backup is too old to use. Here's the scenario: I started getting duplicate key errors for no apparent reason. The column is a medium int, the highest value was 260 (or there abouts) and it was trying to insert a 0. So I whipped out my MySQL

Is mysql_escape_string() in CAPI of My Sql working?

2001-05-12 Thread VVM Ravikumar Sarma Chengalvala
Hi, I want to use mysql_escape_string(0 to store the File Names with back slash character('\'). Unless I enter \\ in the File name it is not taking in. Will the function automatically add the additional '\' required. What is the exact role of this function? Regards, Ravi

Query to find all possible values for an ENUM column?

2001-05-12 Thread o^o
Can someone help me with a query to pull all possible values for an enum column? I found this in the online manual, but it doesn't seem to work for me. If you want to get all possible values for an ENUM column, you should use: SHOW COLUMNS FROM table_name LIKE enum_column_name and parse the ENUM

Re: Very basic question from beginner

2001-05-12 Thread Rolf Hopkins
Am I correct in assuming you are on a Windows based system? As you've never heard of tar, you probably never touched a unix system before. If I'm wrong and your system is unix based, you will need to study unix a lot more. A lot of files that have .gz or .tar are usually for unix based systems

What does my sq l_escape_string do exactly?

2001-05-12 Thread VVM Ravikumar Sarma Chengalvala
Hi, I am working on with mysql_escape_string() what it does precisely is to copy the content from source string to destination string. It's not introducing the additional backslash character (\\) required if I need to save a string likeabc\def. If we enter the string as abc\\def then it is