Re: ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can't create table '.\testDataBase\#sql-ec4_c.frm' (errno: 139)

2005-10-25 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Sunil, in InnoDB, the maximum indexed column length is 767 bytes. Osku is improving the error message: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=13315 Regards, Heikki Oracle/Innobase - Original Message - From: Sunil Vishwas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent:

Date storage format

2005-10-25 Thread Sinang, Danny
Hello, Can anyone tell me what advantages there are in keeping dates and times in a MySQL DateTime field, as opposed to storing its string equivalent in a Varchar field ? Regards, Danny

Re: Date storage format

2005-10-25 Thread Martijn Tonies
Can anyone tell me what advantages there are in keeping dates and times in a MySQL DateTime field, as opposed to storing its string equivalent in a Varchar field ? Decent sorting, validity checking, being able to use the DATE and TIME functions etc etc... With regards, Martijn Tonies Database

Microfinance database

2005-10-25 Thread Alvaro Cobo
Hi guys. I don't want my job done by anybody else, but I have found no solution for several days to this problem. I am developing a micro-finance system to farmer communities. The problem I have got is in the database description. I have three principal tables: (see SQL at the end). 1.

Re: Help needed for SQL statement

2005-10-25 Thread Alvaro Cobo
Is this what you are looking for: SELECT clone_ids, COUNT(DISTINCT(gene_ids)) as count_genes FROM table_name GROUP BY clone_ids or SELECT clone_ids, COUNT(gene_ids) as count_genes FROM table_name GROUP BY clone_ids Hope this helps, Alvaro - Original Message - From: Xiaobo Chen [EMAIL

Huge table

2005-10-25 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. I have upgraded RT Request Tracker. I'm using Mysql 4.0.18, Apache 1.3.27 (with static modperl module). The database we are using is quite large. The main problem we are having is that certain processes can take quite a long time. This is due to mysql churning through data. I'd like to

how to increase query speed ?

2005-10-25 Thread C.R. Vegelin
Hi List, I have a performance problem I can't get solved. I have 2 tables, called Updates (1 mln rows) and Data (5 mln rows). Table Updates has 2 (non-unique) keys, defined as: Hash bigint(20) unsigned default NULL Year tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '0' Table Data has the same 2 (non-unique) keys,

PHP and mysql

2005-10-25 Thread Alastair Roy
Greetings everyone, I am having a problem with PHP and mysql I have copied a script exactly off a website to open the database and insert a new user I try to access the mysql database using the root user, and enter information into the user table, this is the PHP I am using ? include

Re: Can conditions be mixed with DISTINCT()

2005-10-25 Thread Dobromir Velev
Hi, I think you could use something like SELECT DISTINCT (CASE p.ship_status WHEN '1' THEN shipping_now WHEN '2' THEN shipping_soon ELSE 'unknow' END) as status FROM products AS p INNER JOIN cart AS i ON i.product_id = p.id WHERE i.session_id = prepSQL(tConn, tSessionID); If there are

Re: demon quits immediately...

2005-10-25 Thread Michael McFadden
Hi. Looks like the 'hosts' grant table is missing, corrupt, or does not have permissions set correctly. My examples come from version 4.1 I hope they apply, or at least point you in the right direction. My datadir is /var/lib/mysql - your's may be different within the datadir there is another

Re: demon quits immediately...

2005-10-25 Thread David Ziggy Lubowa
change the group chown -R mysql.daemon /dir/name try that On Tuesday 25 October 2005 16:05, Michael McFadden wrote: Hi. Looks like the 'hosts' grant table is missing, corrupt, or does not have permissions set correctly. My examples come from version 4.1 I hope they apply, or at

Error installing perl module DBS::mysql

2005-10-25 Thread Ziaul Mannan
** Low Priority ** Hello, I was able to install the following perl modules fine: DBI Data::Dumper Data::ShowTable DBI.pm Then,when I am try to install perl module called 'DBD::mysql' on AIX 5.2(64-bit) and 5.3. In both cases I am getting following errors:

Error installing perl module DBD::mysql

2005-10-25 Thread Ziaul Mannan
** Low Priority ** Hello, I was able to install the following perl modules fine: DBI Data::Dumper Data::ShowTable DBI.pm Then,when I am try to install perl module called 'DBD::mysql' on AIX 5.2(64-bit) and 5.3. In both cases I am getting following errors:

Re: Map of MySQL Users

2005-10-25 Thread SGreen
Claire McLister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/24/2005 05:19:18 PM: Hi, We've developed an automatic email mapping capability from Google Maps API. To try it out, we mapped origins of emails to this group from October 3 through October 14th. The result of this map is at:

Re: Help on nested categories query

2005-10-25 Thread SGreen
pedro mpa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/24/2005 06:32:48 PM: Hi! I need help on implementing a query that performs a search for items under nested categories. An example is on ebay search where you can restrict your search by selecting a subcategory and you only get items under that

Re: how to increase query speed ?

2005-10-25 Thread Brent Baisley
How about posting the explain for your query. Just put explain before it, MySQL with then tell you how it will go about executing the query, like which indexes it's using. I assume you have both columns indexed? On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:46 AM, C.R. Vegelin wrote: Hi List, I have a

Re: Huge table

2005-10-25 Thread Brent Baisley
I would check the slow query log. Queries that are taking a long time (meaning slow) should be logged there. You can check your MySQL configuration file to find out how long a query will run before it's considered slow and where it is logging the info. On Oct 25, 2005, at 3:16 AM, Luke

Re: how to increase query speed ?

2005-10-25 Thread C.R. Vegelin
Hi Brent, Well I did post an EXPLAIN before my query, but it got squeezed at the end of my former email. The EXPLAIN for my query says: == id:1 select-type: simple table:Updates type: ALL possible_keys: Hash, Year key:

Re: how to increase query speed ?

2005-10-25 Thread Alexey Polyakov
Adding compound (hash, years) index (or even better unique index if it fits in your business logic) in both tables should speed up things. -- Alexey Polyakov -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Setup for MythTV

2005-10-25 Thread Jim C.
Where can I get tips on how to manually set up MySQL for MythTV? MythTV's site was not very helpful in this regards. Jim C. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Setup for MythTV

2005-10-25 Thread SGreen
Jim C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/25/2005 11:10:50 AM: Where can I get tips on how to manually set up MySQL for MythTV? MythTV's site was not very helpful in this regards. Jim C. [attachment signature.asc deleted by Shawn Green/Unimin] I think they (MythTV) probably know more about

Making mysql tables

2005-10-25 Thread Ed
Hi all, I am doing a tutorial to make a shopping cart. I need to make a mysql db or convert an sql db to mysql. Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to make the following tables? The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 creation script is below the tables. Thanks a lot for any pointers to get me

Re: how to increase query speed ?

2005-10-25 Thread Brent Baisley
Sorry I missed the explain part. You are doing a full table scan on the Updates table. There really is no way around speeding up reading a million rows. That's going to be dependent mainly on the speed of your disks and then how much memory you have. MySQL is optimizing your query to

Re: Setup for MythTV

2005-10-25 Thread Erich Beyrent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/25/2005 11:10:50 AM: Where can I get tips on how to manually set up MySQL for MythTV? MythTV's site was not very helpful in this regards. Jim C. [attachment signature.asc deleted by Shawn Green/Unimin] I think they (MythTV)

Re: Setup for MythTV

2005-10-25 Thread SGreen
Erich Beyrent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/25/2005 12:06:28 PM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/25/2005 11:10:50 AM: Where can I get tips on how to manually set up MySQL for MythTV? MythTV's site was not very helpful in this regards. Jim C.

Error 150 when inputing a dump

2005-10-25 Thread James Sherwood
Hello, I dumped a database from our 4.0 server to a .sql file. When I try to input it back into the new 5.0 database, it gives me this error which I beleive is a foreign key constraint error. Normally I just put FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; and that solves it but it doesnt accept that line in 5.0

Re: Error 150 when inputing a dump

2005-10-25 Thread James Sherwood
SOLVED, sorry for the message. It was a different error, will post on it shortly James - Original Message - From: James Sherwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:39 PM Subject: Error 150 when inputing a dump Hello, I dumped a database

Re: Huge table

2005-10-25 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. MySQL allows you to find out the slow queries. Have a look here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Slow_query_log.html Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Hi. I have upgraded RT Request Tracker. I'm using Mysql 4.0.18, Apache 1.3.27 (with static modperl module). The database we are

Re: mysql command line error

2005-10-25 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Is it possible that you leave some variable blank? Your script doesn't produce any error for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql-debug-4.1.14-pc-linux-gnu-i686]$ mysql --defaults-file=my.cnf -u${DB_NAME} -p${DB_PASSWORD} -eGRANT select, update, insert, delete ON $DBNAME.* TO [EMAIL

Re: demon quits immediately...

2005-10-25 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. 051024 18:38:29 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist Have you launched mysql_install_db? See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/unix-post-installation.html tom wible wrote: Description: [EMAIL

Re: Mysql Processes

2005-10-25 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Run ps -axm on the second server, and normally you should see a lot of mysqld threads. Edward David wrote: I just joined this list so I am hoping that this question is relevant to this group. I am running Linux AS4 Enterprise Server. I am running Mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib

Re: Running mysql on XP

2005-10-25 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/can-not-connect-to-server.html T Uma Shankari wrote: Hello! I am trying to run mysql on XP. I have started the net start mysql. This service started without any error. My.ini file was there in c:\windows only. But i

Re: PHP and mysql

2005-10-25 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. May be this could be a bit helpful: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/access-denied.html Alastair Roy wrote: Greetings everyone, I am having a problem with PHP and mysql I have copied a script exactly off a website to open the database and insert a new user I try to

Re: Problem starting MySQL With Moved Data Directory

2005-10-25 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. and restarted MySQL with /etc/init.d/mysql start, I get the following: Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for crashed MySQL tables in the background. /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: Date storage format

2005-10-25 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. For example, the size of the field. DATETIME uses only 8 bytes. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-requirements.html Sinang, Danny wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me what advantages there are in keeping dates and times in a MySQL DateTime field, as opposed

Re: Making mysql tables

2005-10-25 Thread SGreen
I won't translate all of it but I can show you the patterns. See comments interspersed Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/25/2005 11:57:21 AM: Hi all, I am doing a tutorial to make a shopping cart. I need to make a mysql db or convert an sql db to mysql. Can anyone give me any pointers

Error 1406

2005-10-25 Thread James Sherwood
Hello, I dumped a database from our 4.0 server to a .sql file. When I try to input it back into the new 5.0 database, it gives me this error (1406 data too long for column) This works fine on 4.0 but will not work on 5.0. I also tried modifying the mediumtext to longtext in the dumpfile but

Re: Setup for MythTV

2005-10-25 Thread Erich Beyrent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erich Beyrent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/25/2005 12:06:28 PM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/25/2005 11:10:50 AM: Where can I get tips on how to manually set up MySQL for MythTV? MythTV's site was not very helpful in this

Re: PHP and mysql

2005-10-25 Thread sheeri kritzer
Yes. Whenever you have a problem, go back to basics. Can you login as root on the commandline? What password do you use there? Once you're there, check root's permissions, but I'd be willing to bet your password is incorrect, or root is only allowed to logon from localhost and not the machine

'Autoextend' datafile - Mysql-Max-4.1.14 - Linux

2005-10-25 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I need to have a single db that will have in excess of 100gb of data in it - For this i will need to create more that 1 datafile as the max file size of linux would be exceeded in this scenerio. On Oracle you can say that a datafile is x mb in size and it can autoextend to be x mb - Is

Order By Statement in Views not working properly

2005-10-25 Thread Scott Klarenbach
Mysql seems to have a problem returning ordered lists from views. ie, 'select * from myView order by column' does not return a properly ordered list. (it does change the ordering sequence, but to an erroneous list) converting myView to be a Temporary Table using 'ALGORITHM=TEMPTABLE' in the

Addition: Order By Statement in Views not working properly

2005-10-25 Thread Scott Klarenbach
Must be a bug of sorts: If you add an ORDER BY clause to the view itself, then mysql allows the caller to override with their own ORDER BY clause and it works as expected. However; if no ORDER BY clause is present in the CREATE VIEW statement, then the caller receives erroneous results if they

Re: PHP and mysql

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Stassen
Alastair Roy wrote: Greetings everyone, I am having a problem with PHP and mysql I have copied a script exactly off a website to open the database and insert a new user I try to access the mysql database using the root user, and enter information into the user table, this is the PHP I am using

Mysql 4.0 cpu usage

2005-10-25 Thread James Sherwood
Hello, Mysql 4.1 and 5 will NOT seem to play nice with french characters so I have tried to revert back to 4.0. I am trying to install 4.0 on a Win2003 Dell PowerEdge 2850 and when I run the service it uses a constant 25%cpu and seems locked up. I cannot even stop the service I have to end

Oracle DMP to mySQL -- Possible???

2005-10-25 Thread Cummings, Shawn (GNAPs)
I have some data that has been dumped from Oracle into what appears to be a proprietary text file... It is not delimited into a format that I can just import into mysql (easily). The IT guy has provided me an outline of the dump.. ie; SQL describe isup051024; Name

Reporting question

2005-10-25 Thread Erich Beyrent
This is probably a silly question, but here goes... I have a table that logs access to web services, and I am looking to create a report to track the number of times each service was accessed in a given month. I know I can loop through the days in the month in PHP and do a seperate query for

Re: Mysql 4.0 cpu usage

2005-10-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:39 -0300, James Sherwood wrote: Mysql 4.1 and 5 will NOT seem to play nice with french characters so I have tried to revert back to 4.0. I am trying to install 4.0 on a Win2003 Dell PowerEdge 2850 and when I run the service it uses a constant 25%cpu and seems

Re: Oracle DMP to mySQL -- Possible???

2005-10-25 Thread Sid Lane
that looks like a spool file from sqlplus. does it have the data too or just a bunch of describes? if this is what he gave you he is either severly clue-challenged or trying to sabotage you (my $ on later though they're not mutually exclusive). you could write a perl program to parse this into

Re: Oracle DMP to mySQL -- Possible???

2005-10-25 Thread sheeri kritzer
What you need is the table schemas and the data. Oracle doesn't have SHOW CREATE TABLE like mysql does. Furthermore, Oracle also doesn't have fun tools like AUTOINCREMENT -- you're going to want to know what the code is for any triggers on the data, because in order to do AUTOINCREMENT in oracle

Re: Error installing perl module DBD::mysql

2005-10-25 Thread Kevin Spencer
On 10/25/05, Ziaul Mannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Low Priority ** Hello, I was able to install the following perl modules fine: DBI Data::Dumper Data::ShowTable DBI.pm Then,when I am try to install perl module called 'DBD::mysql' on AIX 5.2(64-bit) and 5.3. In both cases I am

Re: Reporting question

2005-10-25 Thread Rhino
I'm not *certain* of this but I'm pretty sure that SQL will never give you zero rows of the kind you want from a query on a single table. (Then again, I'm not an SQL Genius so maybe someone else can suggest something that would work.) However, you can probably accomplish what you want fairly

MySQL 4.1.15 on Red Hat 7.3?

2005-10-25 Thread Steven Quezadas
Has anyone here successfully managed to install mysql 4.1.15 on a RedHat 7.3 box? RedHat 7.3 seems to be using the glibc 2.2.5 libraries and mysql seems to insist on using glibc 2.3. Am I out of luck? __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine

MySQL for a single user

2005-10-25 Thread Bruce Rollier
I was a database professor in a school of business until my retirement last year. I taught Oracle SQL for several years and taught one class in Uganda with MySQL so I am reasonably familiar with it from a user standpoint. However, I am not a developer nor a programmer. A professor in Uganda

Scheme for Displaying Either/And/Or

2005-10-25 Thread David Blomstrom
I hope this isn't too long-winded. It's kind of hard to explain. I'm trying to figure out a scheme that will display animal distribution information. First, I want to divide animal species by continents. Next, I want to further identify species that live on islands that are associated with

Problem with syntax 4 creating 1 table

2005-10-25 Thread Ed
Shawn green was very kindly helping me ouy trying to make mysql tables and I thought I had go the hang of it until I get this error-any ideas? Thanks a lot CREATE TABLE PurchasedProducts( `int_saleCart` INT AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL ,`int_ClientID` INT,`int_ProductID` INT,`int_Quantity`

Re: 'Autoextend' datafile - Mysql-Max-4.1.14 - Linux

2005-10-25 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: Tom Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] (...) starting at say 1GB and then 'extending' to 25GB. So is it possible for all datafiles, rather than just the last one, be 'autoextending' The short answer: no. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/innodb-configuration.html states: The autoextend

Re: Bug in 4.0? 'CREATE TABLE `db`.`table ..' fails silently on replication slave

2005-10-25 Thread Atle Veka
More investigation shows that the query does make it to the slave, at least into the relay log, yet it's still ignored. 'replicate-do-db' is set and shows the correct DB in the slave status. Atle - Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Atle Veka wrote: I ran

Re: Problem with syntax 4 creating 1 table

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Stassen
Ed wrote: Shawn green was very kindly helping me ouy trying to make mysql tables and I thought I had got the hang of it until I get this error-any ideas? Thanks a lot CREATE TABLE PurchasedProducts( `int_saleCart` INT AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL , `int_ClientID` INT, `int_ProductID` INT,

Re: MySQL for a single user

2005-10-25 Thread SGreen
Since you want the setup with the least headache and because you are thinking of writing a book about how to use MySQL, I recommend the Without Installer version. It's basically 4 steps: 1) unzip 2) edit config file 3) install as service 4) start the service It can actually take you more time

Re: Scheme for Displaying Either/And/Or

2005-10-25 Thread SGreen
David Blomstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/25/2005 06:23:52 PM: I hope this isn't too long-winded. It's kind of hard to explain. I'm trying to figure out a scheme that will display animal distribution information. First, I want to divide animal species by continents. Next, I want to

Re: Oracle DMP to mySQL -- Possible???

2005-10-25 Thread Jason Martin
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:22:01PM -0400, sheeri kritzer wrote: What you need is the table schemas and the data. Oracle doesn't have SHOW CREATE TABLE like mysql does. Furthermore, Oracle also doesn't The oracle-supplied DBMS_METADATA package can do this for you. -Jason Martin -- Silence is

Re: Scheme for Displaying Either/And/Or

2005-10-25 Thread David Blomstrom
OK. I thought about that earlier, but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to adapt it to this particular problem. Do you think the automated tree traversal method described at the link you posted... http://www.sitepoint.com/article/hierarchical-data-database/2 ...is the only one that would work? I've

Re: Problem with syntax 4 creating 1 table

2005-10-25 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: Ed To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:40 PM Subject: Problem with syntax 4 creating 1 table Shawn green was very kindly helping me ouy trying to make mysql tables and I thought I had go the hang of