RE: array vs. more table cells

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Richards
Grant, >From my old relational database days we'd create a table of courses and index this so it could be linked from your semester table. This way, you'd have a single entry for each course. Should the course change, the maintenance nightmare is alleviated by only having to change the course en

Re: Querying a Linux machine

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Piko
I should have mentioned the error: [kryten2] ERROR 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query - Original Message - From: "Michael Piko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:01 AM Subject: Querying a Linux machine > I have mysql on a Linux m

InnoDB questions for all!

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Nolan
Hi everyone! My silly questions for today concern the not-silly-at-all InnoDB table backend. 1. If I do an ALTER TABLE tbl_name TYPE=InnoDB on an InnoDB table, Heikki has indicated that a defrag of that table should happen. Does anyone have any comments regarding the result of a power failure

Querying a Linux machine

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Piko
I have mysql on a Linux machine and can connect to through 'localhost' and its real IP/hostname. I cannot connect to it from other machines. Is there anything I need to do to make this happen? Michael Piko -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubsc

Re: selectiing a month out of a date

2003-08-28 Thread Roger Baklund
* Creative Solutions New Media > I have a table with a date field (called myDate for example) > formatted like -xx-xx. > > I want to do a query searching for all dates with the month of > August, for example. > > How would I do that? SELECT datecol FROM mytable WHERE MONTHNAME(datecol)="A

array vs. more table cells

2003-08-28 Thread Grant Cooper
I'm building a program calendar describing each Year's courses. I have a field for a semester and it's current courses in one cell separated by a ",". When I go to print this out I create an array out of the cell than do it's sorting. Or Should I just take the time and create a new table and sepa

Re: speeding up fulltext

2003-08-28 Thread Mark
Hi, no - adding a limit doesn't really help. thanks, - Mark On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:12:41 -0400, John Larsen wrote: >Mark wrote: >Why don't you just always put a limit 1000 on it, do you ever need >more >than that? > >>Hi, >>I have a fulltext index on a table with 80,000 rows. when I do a >>search

Re: TCP on Solaris 8

2003-08-28 Thread Scott Barron
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:02:20PM -0500, gerald_clark wrote: > Do you have > skip-networking > in your /etc/my.cnf file? > Well, you can call me an idiot. Yes. I was trying to put a second test installation of 4.0.x on while we are still running a 3.x series and I forgot that we had added tha

Re: Why are Duplicate keys allowed???

2003-08-28 Thread mos
At 03:30 PM 8/28/2003, you wrote: In the last episode (Aug 28), mos said: > Example. Join_Time is usually NULL (but not always). I've discovered that > if Join_Time is NULL, MySQL allows for duplicate rows! ! > > Data: > Cust_Type, Area, Join_Date, Join_Time > 'BIG', 'N', '2003-01-01',NULL > 'BIG',

Re: Too many hours - brain not working.....

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Morton
Thanks to everyone that replied on and off list - off to the group by docs ;) On 8/28/03 5:09 PM, "William R. Mussatto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Morton said: >> Hey y'all - I have been at this too long today - this is driving me >> nuts! >> >> Table: >> Date (y-m-d),amount (decimal),de

Re: Too many hours - brain not working.....

2003-08-28 Thread William R. Mussatto
Mike Morton said: > Hey y'all - I have been at this too long today - this is driving me > nuts! > > Table: > Date (y-m-d),amount (decimal),dealercode > > I am looking for a query that will give me the sum of each of the > distinct dealercodes for a specific date range. > > Something to the effect o

selectiing a month out of a date

2003-08-28 Thread Creative Solutions New Media
Hi, I have a table with a date field (called myDate for example) formatted like -xx-xx. I want to do a query searching for all dates with the month of August, for example. How would I do that? Tim Winters Manager, Creative Development Sampling Technologies Incorporated (STI) [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Question on data structures

2003-08-28 Thread David T-G
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pascal, et al -- ...and then Pascal Francq said... % % Hi, Hi! % I have a question. I need to store documents (>100.000) and the word % containing in them. % % They are two way to do the job : [snip] What about a third way? One table for the d

Re: Random Selects

2003-08-28 Thread Matt W
Hi Jay, There seemed to be a problem with the first use of RAND() on new connections (is this in a script?). It was supposed to be fixed in a recent version of MySQL (I think in 3.23.56 and 4.0.10). Anyway, the workaround I discovered to work is to just call RAND() at least once before using it in

Too many hours - brain not working.....

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Morton
Hey y'all - I have been at this too long today - this is driving me nuts! Table: Date (y-m-d),amount (decimal),dealercode I am looking for a query that will give me the sum of each of the distinct dealercodes for a specific date range. Something to the effect of: Select (distinct dealercode),sum

Re: speeding up fulltext

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Wexler
Because his query only returns one record. A limit wouldn't make any difference. John Larsen wrote: Mark wrote: Why don't you just always put a limit 1000 on it, do you ever need more than that? Hi, I have a fulltext index on a table with 80,000 rows. when I do a search for a common word it i

Re: Why are Duplicate keys allowed???

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 28), mos said: > Example. Join_Time is usually NULL (but not always). I've discovered that > if Join_Time is NULL, MySQL allows for duplicate rows! ! > > Data: > Cust_Type, Area, Join_Date, Join_Time > 'BIG', 'N', '2003-01-01',NULL > 'BIG', 'N', '2003-01-01',NULL > 'BIG',

RE: FreeBSD 4.8 runaway MySQL 4.0.14

2003-08-28 Thread Nick Gaugler
Ken, Thanks for the response. I really wish MySQL AB would compile FreeBSD binaries with LinuxThreads. It's really a pain when you find a bug, the first thing they ask is "have you compiled this yourself" when in this case you have no choice but to compile it yourself. Maybe Jeremy could compi

Re: FreeBSD 4.8 runaway MySQL 4.0.14

2003-08-28 Thread Ken Menzel
Hi Nick, This is due (so I am told) to a problem in FreeBSD threads. I have this happen once in a while also. There have been some threads changes for 4.9 but I am not sure there is any change in this. The common suggestion is to compile with LINUXTHREADS option using the ports tree. This wil

Re: speeding up fulltext

2003-08-28 Thread John Larsen
Mark wrote: Why don't you just always put a limit 1000 on it, do you ever need more than that? Hi, I have a fulltext index on a table with 80,000 rows. when I do a search for a common word it is very slow, for example: select count(*) from resources where match title,keywords against('common w

Why are Duplicate keys allowed???

2003-08-28 Thread mos
I have a table with a UNIQUE compound index, Cust_Primary that is composed of 4 columns: Cust_Type, Area, Join_Date, Join_Time. This index should allow for only unique entries, but it doesn't. If Join_Time is NULL then it allows for duplicates. Why? CREATE TABLE `CustHistory2` ( `Cust_Id` int(

New to MySQL, Suggestions welcome!

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Sunden
Dear All. I hope all is well with you. A projects requires that for the 1st time ever for me, install a bugzilla system with MySQL and Apache IWhat would you recommend when it comes to installing, designing, or tips about My SQL? perhaps stuff I should know no matter what. I am reading on

Re: TCP on Solaris 8

2003-08-28 Thread gerald_clark
Do you have skip-networking in your /etc/my.cnf file? Scott Barron wrote: Hello, I am attempting to get MySQL to listen on a TCP socket on Solaris 8. From what I've seen in the documentation, and my experience with MySQL on Linux this should happen automatically. I've tried 4.0.14 from source a

Random Selects

2003-08-28 Thread Jay Paulson
Hello- I'm trying to get random information out of my table and the query I'm using keeps returning the same row every time. In the table I have 3 rows and I want to choose at random in the sql which row to return. Here's an example query I have. SELECT * FROM banner ORDER BY rand() asc limit

FW: FreeBSD 4.8 runaway MySQL 4.0.14

2003-08-28 Thread Nick Gaugler
I am running the binary installation of MySQL 4.0.14 on FreeBSD 4.8, all MyISAM tables, and after alittle while mysqld will jump to 100% of my CPU and go crazy. I've investigated SHOW INNODB STATUS, and as you can see below, there is nothing happening with Innodb. Infact my Innodb files have not

TCP on Solaris 8

2003-08-28 Thread Scott Barron
Hello, I am attempting to get MySQL to listen on a TCP socket on Solaris 8. >From what I've seen in the documentation, and my experience with MySQL on Linux this should happen automatically. I've tried 4.0.14 from source and binaries as well as 3.23.57 binaries without success. If I compile with

Unable to start MYSQL

2003-08-28 Thread Suresh Babu A. [IT Engineer]
Hi Team, I am unable to start the mysql service at my red hat 8, below is the error. What it is all about ? /usr/sbin/mysqld: ERROR: unknown option '--log-bin # required for re plication' 030829 01:01:37 mysqld ended Thanks in advance Suresh A. -- MySQL General Mailing List For

speeding up fulltext

2003-08-28 Thread Mark
Hi, I have a fulltext index on a table with 80,000 rows. when I do a search for a common word it is very slow, for example: select count(*) from resources where match title,keywords against('common word'); might take over a minute if there are a 5,000 or so rows that match. I'm looking for a way

Backup procedure

2003-08-28 Thread Jeff McKeon
All, I'm looking for opinions/suggestions on a backup procedure I plan on implementing. All databases (DBXX) will be MySQL ver 4.0 All our applications work with DB01. DB01 replicates to DB02. Once a day I will Stop the slave on DB02, lock the tables, flush the logs and perform a mysqldump of

Re: Repeateable read isolation level question

2003-08-28 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Chris, please send your messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The newsgroup mailing.database.mysql is only a mirror. - Original Message - From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:00 PM Subject: Repeateable read isolation level questio

Re: MySQL API C & leaks

2003-08-28 Thread gerald_clark
Andreï V. FOMITCHEV wrote: Hello everyone, I use Valgrind to check my programs and this last found leaks in libmysqlclient.so. My code is simple: char * requete = "SELECT * FROM "NOM_TABLE_1; Looks like a misplaced '"' . MYSQL * mysql = mysql_init((MYSQL *)NULL); MYSQL_RES * mysql_resulta

Re: Fwd: 2.6.0-testX and InnoDB (was: Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm3 and mysql)

2003-08-28 Thread Heikki Tuuri
ou can find mysql error log here. > Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm3 and mysql And here is another one InnoDB crash I've just got with 2.6.0-test4. http://sysadminday.org.ru/linux-2.6.0-test4_InnoDB_crash-20030828 No messages in kernel log :(( > It's a development server, so this isn't a

Fwd: 2.6.0-testX and InnoDB (was: Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm3 and mysql)

2003-08-28 Thread Sergey S. Kostyliov
and in logs). > > I've just got another one InnoDB crash with 2.6.0-test4. > As in previous case there was no messages in kernel log. > You can find mysql error log here. > Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm3 and mysql And here is another one InnoDB crash I've just got with 2.6.0-test4. http:/

Re: Question on data structures

2003-08-28 Thread Roger Baklund
* Harald Fuchs [...] > 4) The documents are stored in a table 'docs' and identified by a 'docid'. >The words are found by a FULLTEXT index. The FULLTEXT feature is usefull if you don't need to search fast on 'words' like C++, TCP/IP, IBM, XP, WIN, W2K etc. What these 'words' have in common, is

Re: how to code an 'IS - A' relationship ?

2003-08-28 Thread Stephen Fromm
> Hello MySQL programmers, > > suppose we have an Enhanced ER diagram, > with entities as classes/ subclasses connected through > some IS-A relationship. > > How can this be Coded in MySQL Please? > > My prerequisites are the basic database texts from > > http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.h

Upgrading to ver 4.0

2003-08-28 Thread Jeff McKeon
We are currently running production on ver 3.23. We have two db servers that are in need of hardware upgrade. DB1 replicates to DB2. I plan on taking DB2 offline, upgrading RAM and Processors, installing latest RH OS and MySQL 4.0. Then replace DB1 with the upgraded DB2 making it the new DB1

Re: Text fields

2003-08-28 Thread Ed Leafe
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 07:09 AM, Sreesekhar Palaparthy wrote: I wud like to rephrase my problemactually i want some method to insert large text/binary text values into BLOB fields in chunks , instead of inserting the values at once in entireity. So for that , i want to know h

MySQL API C & leaks

2003-08-28 Thread "Andreï V. FOMITCHEV"
Hello everyone, I use Valgrind to check my programs and this last found leaks in libmysqlclient.so. My code is simple: char * requete = "SELECT * FROM "NOM_TABLE_1; MYSQL * mysql = mysql_init((MYSQL *)NULL); MYSQL_RES * mysql_resultat; MYSQL_ROW mysql_ligne; if(mysql == NULL) { return(-1

Re: Question on data structures

2003-08-28 Thread Roger Baklund
* Pascal Francq > I have a question. I need to store documents (>100.000) and the word > containing in them. > > They are two way to do the job : > 1°) The documents are stored in a table 'docs' and identified by > an 'docid'. The words are then stored in a table 'docsbywords' > where each pair (do

Re: Possible: Update query within another query's loop?

2003-08-28 Thread Fred van Engen
Antony, On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:45:27PM +0400, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:37:41 +0200 > Fred van Engen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please elaborate. > > I've already answered: > On the list I just saw your 'bad advice' message without explanation. > On Thu, 28 Aug

RE: Possible: Update query within another query's loop?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Richards
Yes, that advice worked perfectly. Now I understand. This is one very nice data storage system. It's fast, and it can deal with multiple pointers - separate sessions - into the same table without conflict. I guess it's up to the programmer to make certain that one connection doesn't change da

Re: Possible: Update query within another query's loop?

2003-08-28 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:37:41 +0200 Fred van Engen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please elaborate. I've already answered: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:07:19 +0400 Antony Dovgal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't need execute UPDATE's in the loop in this case. > Try smthing like that: > . > >

Re: Full text searching

2003-08-28 Thread Egor Egorov
"Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a bit of trouble with a full text search in mysql 3.23.25. I > have the following table with the following entries: > > | id | document_id |document_text > > = > | 19 | 1 | Konekta > | 20 |

Re: Possible: Update query within another query's loop?

2003-08-28 Thread Fred van Engen
Antony, On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:29:54PM +0400, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:23:35 +0200 > Fred van Engen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You need to make a separate connection to MySQL for the outer query to > > prevent the inner query from messing up the outer query's result

how to code an 'IS - A' relationship ?

2003-08-28 Thread Morten Gulbrandsen
Hello MySQL programmers, suppose we have an Enhanced ER diagram, with entities as classes/ subclasses connected through some IS-A relationship. How can this be Coded in MySQL Please? My prerequisites are the basic database texts from http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html http://w

Re: Possible: Update query within another query's loop?

2003-08-28 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:23:35 +0200 Fred van Engen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to make a separate connection to MySQL for the outer query to > prevent the inner query from messing up the outer query's result set. > See the PHP manual for obtaining the connection id's from mysql_connect >

Re: Possible: Update query within another query's loop?

2003-08-28 Thread Fred van Engen
Mark, On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:59:18AM -0400, Mark Richards wrote: > I am still quite new to MySQL and have a basic question. I am using PHP, so > forgive me if this is more a PHP issue. > > I want to perform an update to a specific record based on a condition. In > the outer loop, I have Que

63 LSB ok but bit 64 is sign bit

2003-08-28 Thread Morten Gulbrandsen
mysql> select -> 0x+0 AS '18446744073423220462', -> 0x7fff+0 AS '9223372036568444654 ', -> 0x8fff+0 AS '10376293541175291630' ; +--+--+--+ | 18446744073423220462 | 9223372036568

Possible: Update query within another query's loop?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Richards
I am still quite new to MySQL and have a basic question. I am using PHP, so forgive me if this is more a PHP issue. I want to perform an update to a specific record based on a condition. In the outer loop, I have Query1, which returns set Result1. Inside this loop, I run an UPDATE query which

Re: MySQL ERROR in LOAD DATA

2003-08-28 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am currently using MySQL 4.0.14-standard along with PHP 4.3.2 in Apache > 1.3.28. > > I have written following code to upload some data from the hosting > directory to database table. But LOAD DATA statement always fails. I have > checked th

Question on data structures

2003-08-28 Thread Pascal Francq
Hi, I have a question. I need to store documents (>100.000) and the word containing in them. They are two way to do the job : 1°) The documents are stored in a table 'docs' and identified by an 'docid'. The words are then stored in a table 'docsbywords' where each pair (docid, word) is stored.

Re: Possible: Update query within another query's loop?

2003-08-28 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:54:54 -0400 "Mark Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am still quite new to MySQL and have a basic question. I am using PHP, so > forgive me if this is more a PHP issue. > > I want to perform an update to a specific record based on a condition. In > the outer loop, I

Possible: Update query within another query's loop?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Richards
I am still quite new to MySQL and have a basic question. I am using PHP, so forgive me if this is more a PHP issue. I want to perform an update to a specific record based on a condition. In the outer loop, I have Query1, which returns set Result1. Inside this loop, I run an UPDATE query which r

MySQL ERROR in LOAD DATA

2003-08-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am currently using MySQL 4.0.14-standard along with PHP 4.3.2 in Apache 1.3.28. I have written following code to upload some data from the hosting directory to database table. But LOAD DATA statement always fails. I have checked the same SQL using Sql-Front. It is showing Access denied.

dayname() function

2003-08-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear MySQL users, Is it possible to configure MySQL in such a way that the function dayname() will return the name of the day my local language. (In my case polish). thank you very much for help, regards, Lukasz

Re: RE: Text fields

2003-08-28 Thread Sreesekhar Palaparthy
I wud like to rephrase my problemactually i want some method to insert large text/binary text values into BLOB fields in chunks , instead of inserting the values at once in entireity. So for that , i want to know how do i append text to a field. (I can tune server parameter max_allow_pa

Full text searching

2003-08-28 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble with a full text search in mysql 3.23.25. I have the following table with the following entries: | id | document_id |document_text = | 19 | 1 | Konekta | 20 | 2 | Cuentas actualizadas| | 21 | 3 | d

Re: large mysql processes

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Nolan
Welcome to the world of Linux! You see, even though I love Linux to death, LinuxThreads are a bit inferior to what everyone else has in their OS of choice (If Xavier reads this, please don't kill me or submit some kernel patch that will get even with me. :-) ). LinuxThreads essentially are proc

RE: Text fields

2003-08-28 Thread Rob
For arbitrary sizes of text, try the MEDIUMTEXT or LONGTEXT column types. Data is then stored as a BLOB. Check out the docs at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/BLOB.html -Original Message- From: Sreesekhar Palaparthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Script for Database[MySQL]::Web interfacing

2003-08-28 Thread Cybot
Joseph Maxwell wrote: Hello, Could someone recommend a decent php script that could be used for database[MySQL]::Web interfacing and management. Preferably open source, freeware or otherwise [I'll just have to grin & bare it] phpMyAdmin -> www.phpmyadmin.net -- Sebastian Mendel www.sebastianmend

large mysql processes

2003-08-28 Thread sanjay gupta
Hi all, I am using Mysql-4.0.12 on my 7.1 redhat. every thing is working fine but when i give command #ps -ae it shows various process including mysqld_safe and mysql . the mysqld process are eleven in number with respective pids on my machine . I want to know why there are large nu

Text fields

2003-08-28 Thread Sreesekhar Palaparthy
Hi, How do we insert arbitary sized texts into MYSQL Text fields?? Is there any way to split the text into chunks and then append those chunks to the field??? ___ Art meets Army ; Swapna Weds Capt. Rajsekhar. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another i

Re: Ingres vs MySQL

2003-08-28 Thread Joel Rees
> I'm working currently on the project where we need > to make a decision what engine would be our main > production database engine. > > Could you please help me and shed a light on what > pros and cons MySQL vs Ingres: features, performance, > support, portability among Wintel and Unix based