basic SQL question

2003-08-06 Thread Gomez Fabre, Pedro Manuel
Dear all, I have the following problem, I am trying to select records from two tables. the tables are constructed like: block block_id sequence_id snp_required first_polymorphism_index last_polymorphism_index first_reference_positio last_reference_position start_pos end_pos tiled_bp

alter date

2003-08-06 Thread Fabio Bernardo
Hi there, Do you know a sql command which I can write to obtain the last date that I updated a table

mysql installation problem

2003-08-06 Thread Anil Garg
Hi, I am trying to install myql on redhat. mysql package used: mysql-3.23.52-unknown-freebsdelf4.6-i386.tar.gz While following the instructions in install document..when i run the follwing command.. scripts/mysql_install_db following errors appear: - scripts/mysql_install_db:

Re: Using a foreign character set in MYSQL

2003-08-06 Thread Joel Rees
but the different lanaguage setting in MySQL seem to mainly apply to its error messages Collation and sorting, too. To my knowledge, MySQL does not yet offer full UTF-8 support True, but UTF-8 is Unicode, and it sounds like the OP wants to work with BIG-5, a two-byte Chinese national

Re: storing large integers properly

2003-08-06 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 5 Aug 2003 at 9:49, Eben Goodman wrote: The data type of the field I am storing this info in is a bigint(16) unsigned. It appears that isbns that start with 0 are going in as 9 digit numbers, the 0 is being ignored or stripped. I have experienced this before with integer data types

Connections

2003-08-06 Thread eli
Thank you for the information about LIKE and equal. I have another question. What is better/quicly 50 simultaneously query/update at the same time from 50 different users or 50 simultaneously query/update at the same time from one user? Thanks for your information in advanced, eli At

Re: table error 127

2003-08-06 Thread Richard Gabriel
My database experiences a similar effect, but I can't pinpoint the specific queries because it gets thousands per second. I have not noticed the problem on a machine that is only used occasionally. Is there a way to get queries out of the binlog for a specific date/time range? That might help

Re: Using a foreign character set in MYSQL

2003-08-06 Thread Vikram Vaswani
When I try copying and pasting it into the mysql client command-line, the data gets trashed. Not necessarily. May just be that the command-line window doesn't know to display Chinese unless you tell it to. What OS are you working on? Working on Windoze with a telnet window open to a Linux box

Re: Insert BUG into MyISAM table (Linux + MySQL 3.23.56)

2003-08-06 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Aug 06, David Bordas wrote: Hi list, I've got a little bug with MySQL. I can insert a row into my table but this row will not appear in the table :( Server is under linux redhat, MySQL is 3.23.56 installed from binary tar.gz from MySQL team. Table Description : mysql

Re: column privilege problem

2003-08-06 Thread Egor Egorov
Tiffany Wilkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems granting column privileges. I want to grant the update privilege (only) to a column (called pass) in a table (called Acct). Here's what I get: mysql grant update pass on practicedb.Acct to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ERROR 1064: You

MySQL 3.23.54 + update

2003-08-06 Thread Fabrizio Tivano
Hello dear all, i have 2 table :tbl1 and tbl2 i need to make an update on tbl1 based from tbl2 records. Ex: update tbl1, tbl2 set tbl1.conf='1' where tbl2.name='AD' and tbl2.date=tbl1.date; mysql: MySQL 3.23.54 i see this kind of query works on mysql 4.0.2 How i can do this with my

RE: table error 127

2003-08-06 Thread Jonathan Patton
Walt, Thanks for the suggestion. I ran myisamchk on the table and it said it was corrupted. So I ran myismachk on the table with the -r and it said the table was fixed. I then ran the update queries I was running before and received the same 127 error. The update queries were: update

Re: Dropping primary key/unique key

2003-08-06 Thread Cybot
I have a problem understanding why MySQL is deleting a unique key instead of a primary key. from Documentation: DROP PRIMARY KEY drops the primary index. If no such index exists, it drops the first UNIQUE index in the table. When I do it then I get this: mysql desc uksample4;

replication problem

2003-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi folks, trying to set up replication and I'm getting this problem which I can't see how to fix despite reading of the manual and google. I have set up a master and a slave according to the manual. The master runs 4.0.12 and the slave runs 4.0.14, they are both actually on the same machine

Re: Query Problem, Confused by Left Join.

2003-08-06 Thread gerald_clark
You have not shown us anything that would indicate that your output is not correct. If you think something is missing you have to show us what is missing, and why you think it should not be. John Wards wrote: I have this query: SELECT * FROM news_category LEFT JOIN news_x_cat ON

Re: Searching on Two Keys with OR?

2003-08-06 Thread Joshua Spoerri
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, gerald_clark wrote: You are ORing on two different fields. The index cannot be used to check the value of z for an OR. ORing on two different fields is what I have been asking about :). Using a composite index was suggested, which strangely seems to work only when there are

Re: replication problem

2003-08-06 Thread walt
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 11:13 am, Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:59:53PM +0100, Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:52:54AM -0400, walt wrote: Andy, I don't see log-slave-updates in your master setup. I see log-bin, but I think that only applies to

RE: Connecting to MySQL from ASP

2003-08-06 Thread Bill J. Vallance
Depending on what driver of MySQL ODBC you are using. The one below I use for v3.51: strConnString = drver={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};server=SERVER_IP;database=DB_NAME;user=UID;password=PWD;OPTION=4 The one below I used in the past for v2.50: strConnString =

Re: table size in mysql

2003-08-06 Thread Roger Baklund
* NEWMEDIAPLAN what variable values /mysql tuning you suggest for more than 2000 potential concurrent users and big tables. 2000 concurrent users is much, at least if you mean 2000 concurrent requests to the database, as opposed to 2000 concurrent users of a web site. It is hard to give you a

RE: Functions as default values

2003-08-06 Thread Phil Ewington - 43 Plc
No functions as default values is a bummer, but timestamp will do he trick, so thanks for your help; much appreciated. Phil. -Original Message- From: Cybot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 August 2003 15:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Functions as default values I am trying

New Article on SET Datatype

2003-08-06 Thread Mike Hillyer
Hi Everyone; As I was perusing the MySQL documentation, I noticed that there is a lack of documentation regarding the MySQL SET datatype and the queries used to manipulate it. In fact, the comments are longer than the documentation. A google search shows a similar lack up information regarding

RE: table error 127

2003-08-06 Thread Jonathan Patton
Walt, Since this is a one time data load, I made a copy of the table and named it discussion_categories_2 and then did a join with that table and the original one. The errors didn't appear then when I ran the query. The old query was: update discussion_categories discussion_categories1,

Re: selecting count query (newbie alert)

2003-08-06 Thread Cybot
Ryan A wrote: Hi, This is my first post here so forgive me if its too simple or not right. basically what i do is: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table1 where cno=3; (and dumping it into a variable $theResult - I am using PHP) and it gives me the result, but now i need to do this in 5 tables... I can of

Re: Using a foreign character set in MYSQL

2003-08-06 Thread Joel Rees
When I try copying and pasting it into the mysql client command-line, the data gets trashed. Not necessarily. May just be that the command-line window doesn't know to display Chinese unless you tell it to. What OS are you working on? For example, how do I insert the Chinese text from my

Re: replication problem

2003-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:32:23AM -0400, walt wrote: Andy, Can you send a copy of your my.cnf file for both the slave and master database. Sure. Slave: [client] port=3307 socket=/data/mysql-backup/mysql.sock [mysqld] port=3307 socket=/data/mysql-backup/mysql.sock server-id=4 log-warnings

RE: newbie needs help: can I order by before grouping?

2003-08-06 Thread Kevin Fries
I don't know of any way to sort before the grouping. That would be peculiar, since the GROUP will be eliminating potentially many of those rows. In your case, a simple solution should be: select jobnum, min(milestone), min(shipdate) from jobs group by jobnum order by 2, 3; I've always found

Query Problem, Confused by Left Join.

2003-08-06 Thread John Wards
I have this query: SELECT * FROM news_category LEFT JOIN news_x_cat ON news_category.id = news_x_cat.cat_id WHERE ( news_x_cat.news_id = 9 OR news_x_cat.news_id IS NULL ) Which gives me this output: id title perm show news_id cat_id 1 About Us 1 1

Lowering the ft_min_word_len

2003-08-06 Thread Justin Hopper
Hello, I have a table with a FULLTEXT index on a column of type 'text'. Searches on this table using MATCH() AGAINST() work fine for most words. However, I needed to match against a 3 letter word. So I lowered the ft_min_word_len to 3 in /etc/my.cnf. I then restarted MySQL. I checked that

Re: reindexing

2003-08-06 Thread Jeff Mathis
I was under the impression that InnoDB tables took care of this for you. You only need to be concerned if you add/delete repeatedly from anywhere but the end rows of the table. I'd like to know if I'm wrong about this. Adam Nelson wrote: I just did a major insert of new data and now all my

column privilege problem

2003-08-06 Thread Tiffany Wilkes
Hi, I am having problems granting column privileges. I want to grant the update privilege (only) to a column (called pass) in a table (called Acct). Here's what I get: mysql grant update pass on practicedb.Acct to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'pass

Re: Message

2003-08-06 Thread Amer Neely
I am just learning mysql and I'm trying to write a cgi to update the database from a form. Also just learning Perl. I have the following script started that is called by an HTML form. I get the follwing message when I execute it. Where can I find the message descriptions.

Re: Can't set thread stack with ver 4.0.14

2003-08-06 Thread Egor Egorov
Kittiphum Worachat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to set thread stack with ver 4.0.14 it never success the stack size still 128K (I can do with the same command with ver. 4.0.12 it work) The command is put in my.cnf like this set-variable = thread_stack = 512K how to set with ver

DB Performance - Celeron vs. P4

2003-08-06 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
Currently, I have a Celeron 1.2 Ghz server with 512 RAM, and I'm considering moving to a P4 2 Ghz with the same amount of RAM. I have a few specific tables with several million rows of data, and it takes quite a long time to process that data on my current server. Does anyone have a good idea of

Re: replication problem

2003-08-06 Thread walt
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 11:26 am, Andy Smith wrote: Andy, I just noticed that you have a mix of port numbers. Can you try `netstat -an | grep 3306` from the command line and see if the master is indeed listening on that port? $ netstat -an | grep 3306 tcp0 0

Re: ERROR 1005: Can't create table './db/table.frm' (errno: 150)

2003-08-06 Thread CoOL! .
Hello, I found the key to solve this problem in: http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/mysql/doc/en/InnoDB_foreign_key_constraints.html You'll probably need an INDEX for that new foreign key you are declaring in older versions this isn't neccesary but in latest ones it is a restriction. You can have more

Re: column privilege problem--Solved

2003-08-06 Thread Nils Valentin
Hi Tiffany, The Grant format for the Column privilege is a bit confusing ,bit here it goes: GRANT privilege (column1,column2, etc...) ON dbname.tblname TO 'username'@'hostname' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword' WITH GRANT OPTION; f.e GRANT SELECT (student_id) ON training_db.student TO