porting Oracle schema to MySQL

2004-01-28 Thread Claire Lee
Hi, I'm a newbie working on a big project. The idea is to transport an existing Oracle database at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/ to a local MySQL server. The Schema, scripts and loader for Oracle can be found in the website. But how to create an exactly same database with mySQL? I have no

Re: porting Oracle schema to MySQL

2004-01-28 Thread Arunachalam
look at http://www.ispirer.com it provides a tool SQLWays, which is a migrating tool to migrate any DataBase to MySQL with Data. greets, Arun. --- Claire Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie working on a big project. The idea is to transport an existing Oracle database at

Re: Select older than minutes

2004-01-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 06:00, Scott Haneda wrote: I have done this so many times.. SELECT * FROM `support_start` WHERE TO_DAYS(NOW()) - TO_DAYS(date) 7 I have scoured (more like glanced :-)) at the docs on http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Date_and_time_functions.html and can not seem to

Re: Select older than minutes

2004-01-28 Thread Scott Haneda
on 01/28/2004 12:03 AM, Duncan Hill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2004 06:00, Scott Haneda wrote: I have done this so many times.. SELECT * FROM `support_start` WHERE TO_DAYS(NOW()) - TO_DAYS(date) 7 I have scoured (more like glanced :-)) at the docs on

Re: MYSQL Security

2004-01-28 Thread Mikhail Entaltsev
Hi, I'm newbie in MYSQL. Would please tell me about Mysql Security ? Generally you can find a lot of information about MySQL on http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ About your question you can read here: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Privilege_system.html Mikhail. - Original Message - From:

Re: MYSQL Security

2004-01-28 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Timotius Alfa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm newbie in MYSQL. Would please tell me about Mysql Security ? I used Windows2000 for mysql server. Privilege system of MySQL is described in the following section of the manual:

InnoDB on delete, on update

2004-01-28 Thread Gitte und Ingolf
Hi out there, i´m using InnoDB with foreign key constraints and i´m looking for the default behavior of ON DELETE and ON UPDATE. Secondly, what does the ON UPDATE NO ACTION option means? Ist the way it is used in db2, that every child row must have some matching parent row. If this condition

available spaci in InnoDB data files !??!

2004-01-28 Thread Tile Tatonko
I need help (ASAP). I'm using MySQL (4.0.15) with InnoDB. QUESTION: How can I check (or monitor) the available space in my InnoDB data files ??? my.cnf: ... innodb_data_file_path=ibdata1:650M;ibdata2:650M ... _ STOP MORE SPAM with

Re: available spaci in InnoDB data files !??!

2004-01-28 Thread Mikhail Entaltsev
Hi, show table status; In the last field (Comment) you could find it. Mikhail. - Original Message - From: Tile Tatonko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:48 AM Subject: available spaci in InnoDB data files !??! I need help (ASAP). I'm

Group By Problem

2004-01-28 Thread Lightware Software
Say I have the following table (TBL): KEY GRP VAL 1 A 2 2 A 3 3 A 1 4 B 2 5 B 1 6 B 3 select KEY, max(VAL) from TBL group by GRP gives: KEY max(VAL) 1 3 4 3 the desired result though is: KEY max(VAL) 2 3 6 3 any ideas on how to achieve this ?

Very big IN ( $value )

2004-01-28 Thread Batara Kesuma
Hi, I do my query from Perl DBI, it has a very big IN ( $value ). The query looks like: SELECT id FROM user WHERE sex='m' AND hobby_id='3' AND id IN ( $value ); $value looks like: 102, 233, 445, 543 ... 3443, 332 very long list. It might be about 10,000 id in $value. What is the maximum value

Re: Very big IN ( $value )

2004-01-28 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: Batara Kesuma [EMAIL PROTECTED] It might be about 10,000 id in $value. What is the maximum value I can pass in a query? Is this the right way to do it? (I mean, using a very big value inside IN) WIth 10,000 items in an IN () condition, my guess is that the list is a result of another

Re: Very big IN ( $value )

2004-01-28 Thread Don Read
On 28-Jan-2004 Batara Kesuma wrote: Hi, I do my query from Perl DBI, it has a very big IN ( $value ). The query looks like: SELECT id FROM user WHERE sex='m' AND hobby_id='3' AND id IN ( $value ); $value looks like: 102, 233, 445, 543 ... 3443, 332 very long list. It might be

Innodb firsttime startup error

2004-01-28 Thread Kev
I just ran mysql 4.0.15 on a Mac for the first time and got the following in my .err file: InnoDB: a new database to be created! 040128 7:40:24 InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 040128 7:40:25 InnoDB: Log file

Re: my.cnf on Shared Hosting

2004-01-28 Thread Egor Egorov
Hassan Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want --ansi option for MySQL setting to ensure ANSI compatibility. Most shared hosting providers don't allow access to my.cnf. Is there anyway to do this on the fly in my script, PHP/Perl sample would be appreciated. You can do it only from

Re: porting Oracle schema to MySQL

2004-01-28 Thread Sid Lane
sounds like I reinvented the wheel but here's how I did it: 1. reverse engineer Oracle database with ERWin 2. write a little perl program to map/convert column types and convert syntax for alter table clauses 3. write a sqlplus script which dynamically creates a select/spool for a given table

can't login from nettwork

2004-01-28 Thread Chris W
I have mysql 4.0.16 on my windows machine and have just installed suse linux on another machine. It comes with mysql 4.0.15. After I got the user setup I was able to use the mysql client on the windows machine to connect to mysql on the linux machine I even used mysqldump piped to mysql to

Re: Resetting auto_increment field in an INNODB table

2004-01-28 Thread Egor Egorov
Hassan Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I reset an AUTO_INCREMENT column? My table type is InnoDB and the method mentioned in the manual is not applicable. I am using MySQL 4.0.17. If you want to start auto_increment sequence with value bigger than current counter value, you can

Re: Resetting auto_increment field in an INNODB table

2004-01-28 Thread Chris Boget
How do I reset an AUTO_INCREMENT column? My table type is InnoDB and the method mentioned in the manual is not applicable. I am using MySQL 4.0.17. Otherwise you should recreate the table. Or, if you no longer need any of the data, simply use TRUNCATE. Chris -- MySQL General Mailing

comparing one field to another.

2004-01-28 Thread Brandon_Newport
I have been beating my head against the wall for a couple of days now and cannot figure this out. I am hoping that it can be done. I have two tables each with only one field. Table 1 - emailAddress (this contains things like [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

CALCULATING DATES

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Hayer
Hi, I want to be able to show the total of the subtraction of the returned date from the from date for each department for each month. This to be done on a range of a year, and then when the next month comes round for the calculation to take that month into account, so, shifting the range to

Re: Group By Problem

2004-01-28 Thread Roger Baklund
* Lightware Software Say I have the following table (TBL): KEY GRP VAL 1 A 2 2 A 3 3 A 1 4 B 2 5 B 1 6 B 3 select KEY, max(VAL) from TBL group by GRP gives: KEY max(VAL) 1 3 4 3 the desired result though is: KEY max(VAL) 2 3 6 3 any

Re: Innodb firsttime startup error

2004-01-28 Thread Egor Egorov
Kev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just ran mysql 4.0.15 on a Mac for the first time and got the following in my .err file: InnoDB: a new database to be created! 040128 7:40:24 InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 040128

Re: Resetting auto_increment field in an INNODB table

2004-01-28 Thread Egor Egorov
Chris Boget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I reset an AUTO_INCREMENT column? My table type is InnoDB and the method mentioned in the manual is not applicable. I am using MySQL 4.0.17. Otherwise you should recreate the table. Or, if you no longer need any of the data, simply use

Creating Innodb Database

2004-01-28 Thread Ansari, Raza \(GEI, GEFA, Contractor\)
In the MySQLdocumentation, it does not clearly explains how a Tablespace is created. Under Creating a Tablespace heading ( 14.4.4), it says how a Innodb database is created but not tablespace. Also how exactly you create an Innodb Database. Well it says in the

RE: CALCULATING DATES

2004-01-28 Thread Gelu Gogancea
Hi, You can use TO_DAYS() and FROM_DAYS() functions for what you need. All details about Time and Date functions : http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Date_and_time_functions.html Regards, Gelu _ G.NET SOFTWARE COMPANY SYSTEM INTEGRATOR - AUTOMATION

Re: Creating Innodb Database

2004-01-28 Thread Scott Pippin
In the MySQLdocumentation, it does not clearly explains how a Tablespace is created. Under Creating a Tablespace heading ( 14.4.4), it says how a Innodb database is created but not tablespace. Also how exactly you create an Innodb Database. Well it says in the documentation

Re: updates on slave server??

2004-01-28 Thread Mike Mapsnac
Is there a way to check that data on slave server is the same as data on master ? Thanks From: Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Mapsnac [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: updates on slave server?? Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:58:42 -0600 At 0:49 + 1/27/04, Mike Mapsnac

Re: InnoDB on delete, on update

2004-01-28 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Gitte und Ingolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi out there, i.m using InnoDB with foreign key constraints and i.m looking for the default behavior of ON DELETE and ON UPDATE. Secondly, what does the ON UPDATE NO ACTION option means? Ist the way it is used in db2, that every child row must have

UNION equivilent required for 3.23.37

2004-01-28 Thread Andy Hall
Hi, I have looked for answers on the net but havent managed to apply the suggestions to my example; I would appreciate any help! I have the following set up: root_table (root_table_id, table_one_id, table_two_id, date) table_one (table_one_id, col1) table_two (table_two_id, col2) I want to

FW: CALCULATING DATES

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Hayer
Thanks for the reply, I think SUM(DAYOFYEAR) has solved it. However is there a way of subtracting weekends and showing departments even if they have no entries( ie to show the dept and 0 as it's result)? Cheers. -Original Message- From: Gelu Gogancea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28

Online backup of InnoDB Tables

2004-01-28 Thread Mauro Marcellino
I see that InnoDB hot backup can be used so that a running InnoDB database can be backed up with out setting any locks. Can any Open File backup tool be used with MySQL InnoDB tables or does the hotbackup product do something special that others don't? What are some of the things that I

RE: Very big IN ( $value )

2004-01-28 Thread Knepley, Jim
I've had tens of thousands of items in an IN list without failure, but it seems that when you get that many it takes a very long time to parse. The speed thing bothers me, so I'm toying with a new design, but it's a big enough system that it's slow going. J -Original Message- From:

Re: Online backup of InnoDB Tables

2004-01-28 Thread vanquish
Bonjour Mauro, MM I see that InnoDB hot backup can be used so that a running InnoDB MM database can be backed up with out setting any locks. MM Can any Open File backup tool be used with MySQL InnoDB tables or does MM the hotbackup product do something special that others don't? What are MM

Search multiple fields across multiple tables

2004-01-28 Thread Erich Beyrent
Hi everyone, Sorry to ask this question, because this is going to get complicated... Okay - what I need to do is be able to search for data across multiple fields which are organized in multiple tables. Here is a basic description of my database schema (not quite all of the fields...): Table

Re: comparing one field to another.

2004-01-28 Thread David Griffiths
I'm not sure you can do that in a single select - one is a count, and the other is a list. In fact, finding the count requires a sub-select, or two seperate selects. Not sure what your columns are, so I will assume that emailAddress has a column called email, and domain has one called domain.

Re: Memory Problems on a G5/OSX/MySql4.0.17

2004-01-28 Thread Bruce Dembecki
I don't think there would be any benefit to using InnoDB, at least not from a transaction point of view For the longest time I was reading the books and listening to the experts and all I was hearing is InnoDB is great because it handles transactions. Having little interest in transactions per

Setting lower_case_table_names in Red Hat WS 2.1

2004-01-28 Thread Erick Sanz
All, I am trying to set lower_case_table_names to 1 in my RPM Red Hat installation. I have added the following entry to my.cnf: [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock lower_case_table_names=1 However, once that mysqld starts, it dies

Re: porting Oracle schema to MySQL

2004-01-28 Thread David Griffiths
And if you have lots of $$$ to spend, Embarcadero (www.embarcadero.com) has a tool called ERStudio, that can generate the Data Definition Language (DDL) for MySQL from Oracle. Costs are pretty excessive. We've purchased a SQLWays licence, and I've used it a fair bit - it's a decent tool for data,

RE: Memory Problems on a G5/OSX/MySql4.0.17

2004-01-28 Thread stairwaymail-mysql
So should we always use InnoDB over BerkeleyBD? I was under the impression Berkeley was faster and better at handling transactions. Dan -Original Message- From: Bruce Dembecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Memory

Read bursts on datadir

2004-01-28 Thread Trevor Price
Mysqlians, Greetings We have been experiencing a performance problem that relates to either mysql's buffers of the ext3 file cache. Our mysql servers are experiencing load spikes due to massive disk reads on datadir( 3meg sec). Datadir is a seprate disk. Most of the day the disk

Re: comparing one field to another.

2004-01-28 Thread Brandon_Newport
That works great! My head can take a rest now and the bruises hopefully will heal. Thanks, -brandon David Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/28/2004 12:05 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: comparing one field to another. I'm not sure you can do that in a single

Question on sub-selects

2004-01-28 Thread Deven Phillips
Hello, I have a question that someone here may or may not be able to answer (I think perhaps MySQL is incapable of a solution). I have a program which uses a MySQL database to help create a playlist for a ShoutCast stream. There is a web site associated with the web-radio. Users of the

Re: porting Oracle schema to MySQL

2004-01-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi all, There are other tools as well - besides being a GUI front end to MySQL (and InterBase, Firebird and MS SQL Server), Database Workbench offers migration and cross database development tools. Check www.upscene.com for more information. look at http://www.ispirer.com it provides a tool

mysqld hangs with no CPU activity...

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Stearns
As reported under the subject Random Database Slowdowns... on the win32 list, our database still hangs on an average of 1-2 times per day. I can find no error messages or logs associated to the problem. It affects both IIS ADO connections as well as local connections from tools such as mysqlcc,

4.1.1-alpha: ... DEFAULT -1 ... does not work

2004-01-28 Thread zlomekj
Description: MySQL 4.1.1-alpha (binary package from www.mysql.com) does not accept negative number after DEFAULT. How-To-Repeat: mysql create table test (FileSize BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT -1); ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL

RE: Question on sub-selects

2004-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
Hello, I have a question that someone here may or may not be able to answer (I think perhaps MySQL is incapable of a solution). I have a program which uses a MySQL database to help create a playlist for a ShoutCast stream. There is a web site associated with the web-radio. Users

Re: comparing one field to another.

2004-01-28 Thread Brandon_Newport
I discovered one more thing about this whole thing that does not make any sense to me but I have been told I have to take into account. Here is what I have Email Table emailAddr (field) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory Problems on a G5/OSX/MySql4.0.17

2004-01-28 Thread Bruce Dembecki
On 1/28/04 10:29 AM, stairwaymail-mysql at yahoo dot com wrote: So should we always use InnoDB over BerkeleyBD? I was under the impression Berkeley was faster and better at handling transactions. Dan Eermm... That's outside my scope of expertise, my experiences have been exclusively with

64-bit Linux MySQL and ramdisks

2004-01-28 Thread Seth Brundle
After some research, I chose a dual Opteron MySQL server for my new search box. For storage, I only update the tables once a day, so I plan on putting my data directory on a Linux ramdrive and backing it up to the hard disk after each update for maximum performance. If anyone has any

UNION equivilent required for 3.23.37

2004-01-28 Thread Bill Easton
Andy, Does this scratch the itch? select col1, col2, date from root_table left join table_one on root_table.table_one_id = table_one.table_one_id left join table_two on root_table.table_two_id = table_two.table_two_id where table_one.table_one_id is not null and

Can't connect from localhost using 4.1.1 alpha

2004-01-28 Thread Brian Harris
I can connect from SQLYog,MySqlCC,jdbc from remote with no problem. However, when I try to connect(mysql -u root) from localhost, then I get access denied. Checked the user table and root can connect from anywhere(%). Also, if I (mysql -u root -p root) from localhost, then it prompts me for a

Fw: Online backup of InnoDB Tables

2004-01-28 Thread Mauro Marcellino
Merci beaucoup pour votre response! From what I have read normally to do a binary copy you need to shut down the database first. Is this correct? If I have an open file agent do I need to shut down the database? Cheers, Mauro - Original Message - From: vanquish [EMAIL

Re: 64-bit Linux MySQL and ramdisks

2004-01-28 Thread Eric
Hi, I am curious, is there really that big of a benefit to using a ramdisk this way? If you have enough memory for your keycache and buffers and don't have to use tmp space for any queries? Add the query cache in 4 to that and I wonder what is left to ramdisk? Thanks, Eric At 10:51 AM

Mail Transaction Failed

2004-01-28 Thread mysql
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RE: Can't connect from localhost using 4.1.1 alpha

2004-01-28 Thread Russell Horn
Also, if I (mysql -u root -p root) from localhost, then it prompts me for a password. I enter password 'root' and then I get this error: That's what's supposed to happen: You use ~ mysql -u username -p database_name Then you are prompted for the password for root and it will start in

Re: tables_priv not read after restarting server

2004-01-28 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Steven Hentschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me why the following behaviour occurs. There is no change to the contents of tables_priv after adding the table grant to some_user before and after the database restart. The database has been upgraded from 3.23 to 4.1.1 and the

Create Table

2004-01-28 Thread Cassiano Prado Oliveira
Why when i create a table like this: CREATE TABLE `prmsnctabelas2` ( `cdempresa` varchar(5) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `cdfilial` CHAR(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `nometabela` char(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', PRIMARY KEY (`cdempresa`,`cdfilial`,`nometabela`) ) TYPE=MyISAM CHARSET=latin1 the result

Trying to change the root pwd

2004-01-28 Thread David Perron
Hello - Im trying to change the root password on a new mysql installation. Im running 4.1.1a-alpha on WindowsXP with Apache running. I get the error below saynig access denied. How do I get into the user table as root if It wont allow me into the database? Any help would be appreciated.

Re: questions about bind_param and mysql

2004-01-28 Thread smrtalec
Should work, as long as your parameters are all strings. With numbers you currently need to specify the type (for example DBI::INTEGER or similar, written from memory) as a third parameter. do I need to specify the DBD module in addition to DBI ? After reading the module info on CPAN it

Re: 4.1.1-alpha: ... DEFAULT -1 ... does not work

2004-01-28 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description: MySQL 4.1.1-alpha (binary package from www.mysql.com) does not accept negative number after DEFAULT. How-To-Repeat: mysql create table test (FileSize BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT -1); ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual

Re: Create Table

2004-01-28 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Cassiano Prado Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding 8bit, charset: iso-8859-1, 22 lines --] Why when i create a table like this: CREATE TABLE `prmsnctabelas2` ( `cdempresa` varchar(5) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `cdfilial` CHAR(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `nometabela`

Re: Trying to change the root pwd

2004-01-28 Thread Brian Harris
Hey David I'm having the exact same prob except on Linux. However, I can connect from remote with almost any tool(SQLYog,MySqlCC,jdbc), just not localhost. So you might want to try one of these tools from local and remote and then modify the user table. Hope this helps. If you find the

RE: Trying to change the root pwd

2004-01-28 Thread David Perron
Well, I went another route and set the password using mysqladmin as follows. Once I did that, I could get into 'mysql' database and modify the user table. C:\mysql\binmysqladmin -u root password password1 C:\mysql\binmysql -u root -ppassword1 mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end

Duplicate entry

2004-01-28 Thread Samyukta Akunuru
Hi, I am getting following error while using Hibernate with mySql.Any help appreciated. Thank you! 2004-01-28 14:02:51,037 [main] ERROR net.sf.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - Invalid argument value, message from server: Duplicate entry 'Extended Trip' for key 2 2004-01-28 14:02:51,057

LONGBLOB datatype conversion to text

2004-01-28 Thread David Perron
Does anyone know of a function to employ when retrieving a LONGBLOB column - Im creating an ad hoc query and would like to see the data in text format.

Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

2004-01-28 Thread N. Chris Frost
With several others, I too have this problem. MySQL 4.1.1 installed without a problem. The sqlAdmin is running. I can run the control center and/or mysql to do sql things. This, though, is all from the server (a PC running Win ME). I want to connect from my laptop. What do I have to do?

Re: Duplicate entry

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Matthews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Samyukta Akunuru wrote: Hi, I am getting following error while using Hibernate with mySql.Any help appreciated. Thank you! 2004-01-28 14:02:51,037 [main] ERROR net.sf.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - Invalid argument value, message from

Re: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

2004-01-28 Thread Brian Harris
I assume that you know the the server's ip and then try: from DOS: mysql -h ipaddressofserver -u user1 -ppassword1 --type this as is with your server's ip Also you need to be running 4.1.1 client on your laptop. N. Chris Frost wrote: With several others, I too have this problem. MySQL 4.1.1

RE: CALCULATING DATES

2004-01-28 Thread Gelu Gogancea
I'm not very sure that i understand very well your problem but i suppose that if you don't have entries in your table(s) for weekends, is obvious that you can not show directly some results. To show what you wish i guess is better to use conditional IF() function. ie: SELECT

Application using mysql, perl, Excel

2004-01-28 Thread Annie Law
Hi, I would appreciate help on the following. I would like to create a small application that would involve Excel XP on Windows 2000, and perl and mysql on RedHat linux 9.0 The front end of the application will be Excel since it has a lot of useful functions. Columns from the Excel sheet

Re: Application using mysql, perl, Excel

2004-01-28 Thread Brian Harris
No, it's not a practical solution, but if you used OpenOffice it could be done. You would need to study the architecture of OO though. brian -- This mail composed and sent using Mozilla Thunderbird. (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/) -It's a brave, GNU world!(sorry

Re: Memory Problems on G5/OSX/MySql4.0.17

2004-01-28 Thread Adam Goldstein
Raid 5 is just as common as any other raid in software, and on my other boxes it does not present any problem at all... I have seen excellent tests with raid5 in software, and many contest that software raid 5 on a high powered system is faster than hardware raid 5 using the same disks-- I

Re: Application using mysql, perl, Excel

2004-01-28 Thread Daniel Kasak
Annie Law wrote: Hi, I would appreciate help on the following. I would like to create a small application that would involve Excel XP on Windows 2000, and perl and mysql on RedHat linux 9.0 The front end of the application will be Excel since it has a lot of useful functions. Columns from

Re: Application using mysql, perl, Excel

2004-01-28 Thread Bernard Clement
Hello, It might be possible to do what you want to do but...I think it will take too much time and, therefore, will be expensive. As stated by somebody else OpenOffice with ODBC is effectively an interesting solution. I have done it for fun and it works quite well (after the small nightmare

UTF text sorting

2004-01-28 Thread Ivan Cukic (Foment)
IS it possible to force mySQL to sort letters in different order - for example BCADEFGHI... instead of ABCDEFGHI...? I ask this question 'cause when sorting Serbian cyrilic, I get some letters before A, but A should be the first (that mixture is produced because those letters are placed badly

Re: Question on sub-selects

2004-01-28 Thread Tobias Asplund
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Deven Phillips wrote: Hello, There is a web site associated with the web-radio. Users of the web site can rate songs which are contained in the database. The rating system works such that users can rate songs from +3 to -2. Now, what I would like to accomplish is to

Re: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

2004-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've executed the mysql -h ip -u user -p pw No space after -p. I know it's weird, but it's the only way it will work. So, use this: mysql -h ip -u user -ppw With the result that I get asked for a PW and then told I can't connect. You shouldn't get asked for PW if you use the above syntax

Re: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

2004-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I assume that you know the the server's ip and then try: from DOS: mysql -h ipaddressofserver -u user1 -ppassword1 --type this as is with your server's ip Also you need to be running 4.1.1 client on your laptop. N. Chris Frost wrote: With several others, I too have this problem. MySQL 4.1.1

Fw: 64-bit Linux MySQL and ramdisks

2004-01-28 Thread Seth Brundle
- Original Message - From: Seth Brundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:50 PM Subject: Re: 64-bit Linux MySQL and ramdisks I am curious, is there really that big of a benefit to using a ramdisk this way? It depends on your usage. We

Re: (Left) Join and Union

2004-01-28 Thread Ariel Santana (HotPOP)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Vie 23 Ene 2004 17:08, Chris Boget escribi: Can you UNION 2 queries and use the result to JOIN with another table? (SELECT tableA.name, tableC.company FROM tableA) UNION (SELECT tableB.name FROM tableB) LEFT JOIN tableC ON tableA.name =

Re: Memory Problems on a G5/OSX/MySql4.0.17

2004-01-28 Thread Adam Goldstein
On Jan 28, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Bruce Dembecki wrote this wonderful stuff: I don't think there would be any benefit to using InnoDB, at least not from a transaction point of view For the longest time I was reading the books and listening to the experts and all I was hearing is InnoDB is great

Re: questions about bind_param and mysql

2004-01-28 Thread smrtalec
I'm attempting a search for multiple strings using the bind_param option. My understanding is the server will flag each string then after each string has been selected and exicuted I can then do a fethall_array. However the the results only include the last string searched. any ideas. an

select some part, but excluding something.

2004-01-28 Thread Louie Miranda
select product_code,title,language,issue,category,cost from iip_t_cp where language = 'english'; I do this when selecting my database tables. But i would like to exclude one table depleted i have not included it on the select option but it is listed under language. Here are the tables mysql

Re: select some part, but excluding something.

2004-01-28 Thread Louie Miranda
got it, tnx anywayz -- - Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com - Original Message - From: Louie Miranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:02 PM Subject: select some part, but excluding something. select

weird replication problem with master.info being created empty

2004-01-28 Thread Andrew
Hi all, Have a problem, running a master/slave setup which worked until tonight and mysteriously broke with no changes to the setup at all. My server starts up fine, but the master.info and relay-log.info that are created are 0 bytes and empty. In the logfile, I get this: 040128 23:00:29 Error