Re: How "compressable" is a typical MySQL database?

2002-02-16 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:56:42PM -0900, Joshua J.Kugler wrote: > > In that case, i would highly recommend using mysqldump to backup > your databases. Simply compressing the actual DB's could give you > tables in inconsistent states, UNLESS you first shut down your DB > server, then run the back

Re: Fw: WIN/Linux Compatibility

2002-02-16 Thread Zak Greant
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 02:54, Alex Charlton wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there is any chance that table information is compatible > between Windows and Linux? Hi Alex, MyISAM tables are (mostly) OS and platform independent. You should be able to copy them between Linux and Windo

Fw: WIN/Linux Compatibility

2002-02-16 Thread Alex Charlton
Hi all, I was wondering if there is any chance that table information is compatible between Windows and Linux? IE. If I copy windows data files to a linux server, can mySQL on the linux server read this data? I don't believe this is possible, but I couldn't find any posts and wanted to confirm.

Re: inserting into sets

2002-02-16 Thread Paul DuBois
At 22:47 -0500 2/16/02, John Fulton wrote: >Would someone please tell me how to insert sets into a MySQL DB? >e.g. insert into table_name (x) values ("'a', 'b', 'c', 'd'"); , >where x is a set. I am unsure on what should be inside of the second >set of parentheses. A SET value is a single strin

Re: operating system error number 3

2002-02-16 Thread Miguel Angel Solorzano
At 23:29 16/02/2002 -0500, Loretta wrote: Hi! >Hello everyone: > >I am hoping you can help me. I have Windows 98 SE as my operating system. >I have installed MySQL 4.0.1. I originally had Win ME and MySQL 3.23.48 but >could not make them work together. Hopefully, someone will be able to help >m

I need MySQL-DBI-perl-bin but can only find Mysql-dbi-perl-bin

2002-02-16 Thread Ryan Grow
Hello, I'm sure this is a rehash of a common benchmark installation problem, but my searches have not yielded a satisfactory answer. I've been digging through some old threads related to this subject, but I'm still unable to find MySQL-DBI-perl-bin that is required by MySQL-bench-3.23.48-1.i38

operating system error number 3

2002-02-16 Thread Loretta
Hello everyone: I am hoping you can help me. I have Windows 98 SE as my operating system. I have installed MySQL 4.0.1. I originally had Win ME and MySQL 3.23.48 but could not make them work together. Hopefully, someone will be able to help me. The error I am getting is InnoDB: Warning: ope

inserting into sets

2002-02-16 Thread John Fulton
Would someone please tell me how to insert sets into a MySQL DB? e.g. insert into table_name (x) values ("'a', 'b', 'c', 'd'"); , where x is a set. I am unsure on what should be inside of the second set of parentheses. Sorry to be posting a syntax question to the list, but I don't see it s

Re: beginner question: how many queries via PHP are...

2002-02-16 Thread Craig Vincent
> I am new to the subject. I am experimenting in mysql via PHP with a nice > book (PHP and MySQL > Web development). My question is how many queries to mysql, made via > PHP, should considered > ok for efficiency. I know it has much to do with the size of databases, > but I would like to get an >

beginner question: how many queries via PHP are...

2002-02-16 Thread Nikolas
Hello I am new to the subject. I am experimenting in mysql via PHP with a nice book (PHP and MySQL Web development). My question is how many queries to mysql, made via PHP, should considered ok for efficiency. I know it has much to do with the size of databases, but I would like to get an idea

Re: Cannot create or delete databases

2002-02-16 Thread Craig Vincent
> Hello, > Just recently I started having problems creating and deleting databases... > When I login as the user root I get this error when I try and create or > delete a DB. > > ERROR 1006: Can't create database 'tier2'. (errno: 13) > > I am fully aware that the errno: 13 is a permissions denied

Case Question

2002-02-16 Thread mysql
I currently have a PHP script performing the following query mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Stuff WHERE Release LIKE \"%$var2%\"",$var1) It works great except that the search is coming out case sensitive. According to the MySQL Docs all searches are done without case sensitivity. I just have

Cannot create or delete databases

2002-02-16 Thread Troy A. Delagardelle
Hello, Just recently I started having problems creating and deleting databases... When I login as the user root I get this error when I try and create or delete a DB. ERROR 1006: Can't create database 'tier2'. (errno: 13) I am fully aware that the errno: 13 is a permissions denied error

Re: How "compressable" is a typical MySQL database?

2002-02-16 Thread Joshua J . Kugler
In that case, i would highly recommend using mysqldump to backup your databases. Simply compressing the actual DB's could give you tables in inconsistent states, UNLESS you first shut down your DB server, then run the backup. Something to think about. j- k- On Saturday 16 February 2

Re: How "compressable" is a typical MySQL database?

2002-02-16 Thread George Labuschagne
Sorry, I forgot to ask the folowing as well. When considering the amount by which text can be compressed as compared to other data types, would it be better to store numerical values as text or to store them as integer/float values. If the db needs to be compressed and backed up on a bi-weekly bas

Re: How "compressable" is a typical MySQL database?

2002-02-16 Thread tc lewis
would probably be very dependent on the data within the database. if it's a lot of text data, then very compressable, as text typically compresses nicely. if you store a bunch of binary data (images or something), then probably not as much... tar your mysql dir and gzip it, or gzip -9 or bzip2

How "compressable" is a typical MySQL database?

2002-02-16 Thread George Labuschagne
Hi list, How compressible is a typical MySQL database? Is this more dependent on the type of columns used i.e. a lot of text columns as opposed to a lot of columns containing integer values? The uncompressed size of the database is in the region of about 800-MB. Also will it suffice to only comp

suse linux 7.3

2002-02-16 Thread agc
well I am running suse linux 7.3 and well to be honest I am a real newbie, so here I go> I am gettingh this error msg> cant connect to local mysql server through socket /var/liv/mysql/mysql.sock so what should I do_ what does this error msg mean_ cheers -

RE: Suspected Bug

2002-02-16 Thread Miguel Angel Solorzano
At 17:59 16/02/2002 +0100, Roger Baklund wrote: Hi, >Thanks for the detailed reply. :) > >I did my tests on a pretty old version, 3.23.30-gamma, on a win2k machine. I >was not aware of the lower_case_table_names variable. (This explains why I >got lower case filename in my error message, while Fr

Re: urgent : Problem in Group by clause

2002-02-16 Thread Teri Salisbury
Hi Shankar, This is your old buddy Scott S. Try order by rather than group byThis will get you what you are looking for Scott Salisbury - Original Message - From: "SankaraNarayanan Mahadevan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 3:42 PM

urgent : Problem in Group by clause

2002-02-16 Thread SankaraNarayanan Mahadevan
hi all, i have a problem in mysql query... lemme state the scenario... i have a table 'UploadDetails' in which i am storing data regd files... the fields are: FileName, Title, Designer, UploadedBy, SubmittedDate i want to get details about whose files are designed by who..etc... that is i need

urgent : Problem in Group by clause

2002-02-16 Thread SankaraNarayanan Mahadevan
hi all, i have a problem in mysql query... lemme state the scenario... i have a table 'UploadDetails' in which i am storing data regd files... the fields are: FileName, Title, Designer, UploadedBy, SubmittedDate i want to get details about whose files are designed by who..etc... that is i need

RE: Error untarring MySQL on a RAQ3

2002-02-16 Thread Andreas Frøsting
> tar -xvfz mysql-3.23.32.tar.gz > tar: Cannot open z: No such file or directory > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > Any Help? Should there be a z: directory? And where? Try: tar zxvf mysql-3.23.32.tar.gz z = gzipped x = eXtract v = verbose f = file You had a 'z'

Re: Distributed Fulltext?

2002-02-16 Thread David Axmark
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 02:44, Alex Aulbach wrote: > Wednesday, from David Axmark: > > > Your other point about exact vs. approximate answers is unclear, I expect > > > that Google's answers are exact for their currently available indexes at any > > > given time. But even if they are approximate, I

Error untarring MySQL on a RAQ3

2002-02-16 Thread Doug Cotton
While untarring MySQL on a RAQ3 using: tar -xvfz mysql-3.23.32.tar.gz I recieved the following errors: tar: Cannot open z: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Any Help? Should there be a z: directory? And where? Doug Cotton <[EMAIL PR

Re: update to mysql 4.01 under mandrake

2002-02-16 Thread Tod Harter
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 09:16, Rich wrote: > David yahoo wrote: > > hi all, > > > > This question is a little like the suse update. > > But perhaps I could find answer. > > > > I have a mandrake distrib with rpm support, u know that mandrake is > > derive from redhat. > > > > Can I install a m

User Tables

2002-02-16 Thread Rich
I just reinstalled MySQL 4.01 (Mandrake 8.1) and am having a problem using the GRANT statement. When trying to grant privileges in a database, I get an error message that the User table is read only. I've checked the permissions and they're OK, includes read and write. Am I looking at the right

RE: Selecting records with the highest value no greater than x

2002-02-16 Thread Roger Baklund
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In Re: Selecting records with the highest value no greater than > x, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >IMO, there is one, if I did understand the question correctly: > > > >SELECT * FROM NEWS WHERE RATING <= 4 ORDER BY RATING DESC, > > RAND() LIMIT 1; > > > >This give back a

RE: Suspected Bug

2002-02-16 Thread Roger Baklund
* Miguel Angel Solorzano > * Roger Baklund >> mysql> rename table U1 to U2; >> ERROR 7: Error on rename of '.\test\u1.MYI' to '.\test\u2.MYI' (Errcode: 13) >> mysql> alter table U1 rename as U2; >> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) > How you can see we don't have a constant behavior of th

Re: Statistical analysis query?

2002-02-16 Thread Richard Reina
> >You're stumped!? Where does that leave us? Unfortunately (AFAIK) the sample data you >have enclosed does not >demonstrate the condition you seek to describe - perhaps it would have been better if >you gave us a replicable >example, so that we can UNDERSTAND the problem before we try to help

Re: Re: Foreign keys in InnoDB tables

2002-02-16 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Martin, -Original Message- From: "Martin Bratbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Date: Saturday, February 16, 2002 4:46 PM Subject: Re: Re: Foreign keys in InnoDB tables >Heikki >here is the statements that i cant get to work: >first I create one innoDB table: fk

mysql from localhost vs. remote

2002-02-16 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Michael, Friday, February 15, 2002, 4:08:42 PM, you wrote: MH> Hi mysql list members, MH> We use the following statements to setup users and rigts for a mysql MH> server which is accessible locally and via internet: MH> INSERT INTO mysql.user VALUES MH> ('%','xyz00',PASSWORD('...'), MH> 'N',

connections to MySQL

2002-02-16 Thread Egor Egorov
Lonnie, Friday, February 15, 2002, 8:11:59 PM, you wrote: LC> Hello All, LC> I am new to this list and hope that someone could answer this LC> question for me. LC> I am running on a fresh install of Redhat 7.2 and am trying to LC> connect to MySQL from a program that I have to test the connect

SHOW GRANTS not returning anything?

2002-02-16 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Søren, Saturday, February 16, 2002, 2:59:02 PM, you wrote: SN> I'm a total newbie to MySQL, so I'm reading the documentation right SN> now. In "General Security" I read that "SHOW GRANTS" should give me a SN> picture of who has what rights, but if I use "SHOW GRANTS" I get the SN> following erro

Giving root access from another host?

2002-02-16 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Søren, Saturday, February 16, 2002, 3:11:40 PM, you wrote: SN> I want to try out MySQL-GUI from my workstation, and I want to connect SN> to my database server, but it says that root has no access rights from SN> this host. How do I give root this kind of acccess? You should set privileges for

Giving root access from another host?

2002-02-16 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Søren, Saturday, February 16, 2002, 3:11:40 PM, you wrote: SN> I want to try out MySQL-GUI from my workstation, and I want to connect SN> to my database server, but it says that root has no access rights from SN> this host. How do I give root this kind of acccess? You should set privileges for

Re: Re: Foreign keys in InnoDB tables

2002-02-16 Thread Martin Bratbo
Heikki here is the statements that i cant get to work: first I create one innoDB table: fk1 create table fk1( noegle integer primary key, tekst varchar(20))type=InnoDB; then I create a second InnoDB table: fk2which references the first: create table fk2( prim integer primary key, frem intege

Re: Mysqld load

2002-02-16 Thread Bjorn Swift
> Have you optimized the settings in my.cnf and checked your slow > queries? No, I haven't optimized my.cnf - looking at it now. Thanks. Well, that was pretty much what I was hoping this "tool" could do; go though the trace log and print out the slow queries. Is the only way to go manually thoug

Re: SHOW GRANTS not returning anything?

2002-02-16 Thread Doug Thompson
You can SHOW GRANTS FOR foo which gives you information about user 'foo'. To show info about everyone, use SELECT * FROM user; hth Doug On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:59:02 +0100, Søren Neigaard wrote: >I'm a total newbie to MySQL, so I'm reading the documentation right >now. In "General Security" I re

Changing a query to work with MySQL

2002-02-16 Thread Alexander Shaw
Hi, I'm very new to database design and have developed an application running on M$ Access and am currently in the process of moving the back end to MySQL, mainly to make use with a website easier. All is fine except for one query which contains a sub select so therefore will not work. The quer

Re: Giving root access from another host?

2002-02-16 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Søren Neigaard writes: > I want to try out MySQL-GUI from my workstation, and I want to connect > to my database server, but it says that root has no access rights from > this host. How do I give root this kind of acccess? > > -- > Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, > Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL P

Giving root access from another host?

2002-02-16 Thread Søren Neigaard
I want to try out MySQL-GUI from my workstation, and I want to connect to my database server, but it says that root has no access rights from this host. How do I give root this kind of acccess? -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Sometimes I think we'r

SHOW GRANTS not returning anything?

2002-02-16 Thread Søren Neigaard
I'm a total newbie to MySQL, so I'm reading the documentation right now. In "General Security" I read that "SHOW GRANTS" should give me a picture of who has what rights, but if I use "SHOW GRANTS" I get the following error: ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '' at line 1 What a

Re: Compile error. MySql C++ API

2002-02-16 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Vipul Kotecha writes: > Hi List, > > I am new to the MySql C++ API and I am compiling one file it gives me error > saying > > Error E2303 ..\..\include\sqlplus\resiter1.hh 56: Type name expected > Error E2275 ..\..\include\sqlplus\resiter1.hh 56: { expected > Error E2275 ..\..\include\sqlplus\re

Re: where to report a bug? (was: mysql from localhost vs. remote)

2002-02-16 Thread Michael Hoennig
Hi Benjamin, > > INSERT INTO mysql.db VALUES > > ('%','xyz00_%','xyz00','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y'); > > Has the second line anything to do with the behaviour? It shouldn't as > you use "xyz00" below and user field will match only the user name > 'xyz00_%'. nope, has nothing to do

Re: [PHP] MySQL question...not sure if this is the correct forum to ask.

2002-02-16 Thread DL Neil
Luie, > Wouldn't replace change all the entries in your table row, same effect as update? > I believe the question is how to test which entry in a form has a new value and >replace/update only that value in the table. > If I have a form... > > __ > |Employee Reco

Re: Selecting records with the highest value no greater than x

2002-02-16 Thread MySQL
In Re: Selecting records with the highest value no greater than x, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >IMO, there is one, if I did understand the question correctly: > >SELECT * FROM NEWS WHERE RATING <= 4 ORDER BY RATING DESC, RAND() LIMIT 1; > >This give back a random news entry of the highest score

Re: Statistical analysis query?

2002-02-16 Thread DL Neil
Richard, > I'm stumped -- which isn't saying much because I'm hardly a scientist. > I am struggling to write a query that will tell me how many times a new > volunteer ( defined as a volunteer who has never worked a shift ) did > not show up for his shift (first shift). From my data I would > ev

Re: Statistical analysis query?

2002-02-16 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. A little explanation of the table usage would have been nice. E.g. it's not clear to me, if shift 232 is also listed in the "shifts" table or not. I presume the latter from now (in which case "shifts" is more like a "did_show_shifts"). Also, you did not specify what special cases are to be t

Is there an MSSQL limit function?

2002-02-16 Thread Dean Householder
I want to run a query like: select * from table order by rand() limit 3 in MySQL it would work but I need to run it in MSSQL. I've been searching for a limit function in MSSQL and I can't find a way to do it. I'm experienced with MySQL but know nothing about MSSQL. If someone could point me i