Got an error reading communication packets

2006-03-31 Thread Jacob Friis Saxberg
Should this worry me: 060331 10:34:24 [Warning] Aborted connection 244161 to db: 'cyrus' user: 'cyrus' host: `debpro' (Got an error reading communication packets) /Jacob -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL

Re: Fultext search issues

2006-03-31 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Gabriel PREDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] You ought to use the *Boolean Full-Text Searches.* You would then do a: SELECT title, Comment FROM table_name WHERE MATCH (Comment) AGAINST ('+foo +bar' IN BOOLEAN MODE); This way the rows that contain both words have higher relevance... those that have

Re: AlterTable Structure Across Multiple DBs

2006-03-31 Thread mysql
ALTER TABLE requires a table name for the current database. You can specify: ALTER TABLE db_name.tbl_name MODIFY col_name ... or mysql alter table test1.t1 modify test1.t1.set1 varchar(30); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 but you cannot modify a

Re: Delete Duplicates

2006-03-31 Thread SGreen
Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/30/2006 09:11:56 PM: Hi there. Any quick way of killing duplicate records? Cheers Yes. Some ways involve subqueries, others temporary tables. What version are you on? What are your table definition(s) (use SHOW CREATE TABLE to dump the defs)? How do

Re: TIMESTAMP field not automatically updating last_updated field

2006-03-31 Thread Hank
Are the other fields in the update statement actually changing the data? I don't know for sure, but if the data on disk is the same as the update statement, mysql won't actually update the record, and therefore might not update the last_updated field also. Just a thought. -- MySQL General

Re: TIMESTAMP field not automatically updating last_updated field

2006-03-31 Thread Barry
Hank wrote: Are the other fields in the update statement actually changing the data? I don't know for sure, but if the data on disk is the same as the update statement, mysql won't actually update the record, and therefore might not update the last_updated field also. Just a thought. It's

Table Type For PK/FK

2006-03-31 Thread Scott Purcell
I have been reading the definitive guide to MySQL5, and I am not finding a answer to a question. I am designing a project in which I am going to have primary keys, and foreign keys. In order to keep things proper, I am going to have delete on cascades on my foreign keys, so when the primary

Re: Table Type For PK/FK

2006-03-31 Thread sheeri kritzer
Hi Scott, Indeed, only the BDB and InnoDB storage engines support referential integrity. If you accidentally create the table as MyISAM, there is no error, though -- the constraints serve as a comment. Replication is storage-engine independent, so you shouldn't have a problem with that.

Re: Table Type For PK/FK

2006-03-31 Thread Martijn Tonies
As I have been reading, it appears that the InnoDB Storage Engine supports PK/FK relationships. And that the MyISAM does not. But I cannot verify that. That is correct. Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - development tool for MySQL and more! Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com My

Re: Table Type For PK/FK

2006-03-31 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hello Sheeri, Indeed, only the BDB and InnoDB storage engines support referential integrity. If you accidentally create the table as MyISAM, there is no error, though -- the constraints serve as a comment. No error? A comment? What use is that? If you want FKs, having the FKs as a comment

Re: Table Type For PK/FK

2006-03-31 Thread sheeri kritzer
I didn't write the codebase for MySQL, so it's pointless to tell me that it's useless to be able to create a foreign key on a MyISAM table. I agree that it's useless, however, it's possible, which is why I put it in there -- as a caveat. The use is that apparently in future versions MyISAM will

Re: stunningly slow query

2006-03-31 Thread sheeri kritzer
Are your logs and data on the same partition? That's a bad idea for recovering from a blown part of the disk, but we also saw that one of our databases would crash when there were lots of inserts/updates/replaces -- other databases, which had the same version of MySQL and operating system, had

Database backup Problem

2006-03-31 Thread Cody Holland
I recently migrated all of our mysql databases from 4.1.X to 5.0.X. Everything is working properly except my backups. Here is the command that I am using: mysqldump -u user -ppassword --opt -A -F --delete-master-logs | gzip $BACKUPFILE`date +%m%d%y`.sql.gz This worked on the old database

Re: Is there anyway to return an array?

2006-03-31 Thread David Godsey
So, in theory this should be pretty straight forward to do right? Well I'm new to UDF's, so how mysql is passing the data to the UDF is a bit of a mystery. I'm hoping someone can help me understand this. I'm selecting data from a BLOB field like this: SELECT

Re: Database backup Problem

2006-03-31 Thread Kishore Jalleda
Just checking if this user has RELOAD PRIVILEGES, as it is needed for the --master-data option which is automatically enabled with --delete-master-logs , does the error duplicate on subsequent attempts ?? Kishore Jalleda http://kjalleda.googlepages.com/projects On 3/31/06, Cody Holland [EMAIL

Re: mysql performance problems.

2006-03-31 Thread Kishore Jalleda
As others have suggested , turn your slow query log on in my.cnf , and set your long-query_time, and you can view your slow queries in the *.log file in your data dir, and then try to optimize them, you could also try mytop ( http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/) , and check your queries in real

Problems with importing the british pound (£) an d euro (€) sign

2006-03-31 Thread Adam Lipscombe
Folks, I have a mysql 5.0 db with the following char sets: mysql show variables like '%char%'; +--+--+ | Variable_name| Value| +--+--+ | character_set_client |

Re: Table Type For PK/FK

2006-03-31 Thread mysql
From the 5.0.18 manual: The FOREIGN KEY and REFERENCES clauses are supported by the InnoDB storage engine, which implements ADD [CONSTRAINT [symbol]] FOREIGN KEY (...) REFERENCES ... (...). See Section 14.2.6.4, FOREIGN KEY Constraints. For other storage engines, the clauses are parsed but

Re: Is there anyway to return an array?

2006-03-31 Thread David Godsey
Never mind, I was being dumb. I wasn't using the args-lengths array for binary data, so it was dying on a strlen(args-args[0]) which makes sense. Thanks anyway. David Godsey So, in theory this should be pretty straight forward to do right? Well I'm new to UDF's, so how mysql is passing the

Cannot restart service MySQL

2006-03-31 Thread Sara Woglom
Please help, I can't start my server!! I was running a query, and it seemed to be hanging. After waiting about 15 minutes, I finally did a 'CTRL+BREAK' to abort the process. This happened about 3 times, and finally I decided to restart the MySQL service to see if that would help. Well, when I

Is port forwarded connection taken as local?

2006-03-31 Thread Bing Du
Hello everyone, What I'm after is trying to figure out a way to centrally and remotely managing (e.g. on server1) our MySQL servers (server2 is an example) on different machines. Right now, these MySQL servers are all set up to only accept logons from localhost. My questions: 1. server1 has to

Re: Cannot restart service MySQL

2006-03-31 Thread Johan Lundqvist
In Windows, you have 3 alternatives: 1 - wait untill it stops the service (can take very long time). 2 - restart the server (your users might cry a bit). 3 - Try to kill the task using Task Manager (this might not work, depending on the service). /Johan Sara Woglom wrote: Please help, I

How to merge my tables?

2006-03-31 Thread Johan Lundqvist
Hi, I hope this is the right forum for this question. If not, I'm happy to get some tip on where to post this. My problem: I have like 20 tables of data and need to merge these, making a selection, (and dump it into a text file) to import into a reporting tool. The tables is like salesrep,

RE: Cannot restart service MySQL

2006-03-31 Thread Sara Woglom
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I tried 'mysqladmin -u root shutdown -p' and that did not work. The service is hung up in a pending state and I cannot control it. It is Net Error 2189: 'The service could not be controlled in its present state.' There has to be some way I can fix this

Re: Is port forwarded connection taken as local?

2006-03-31 Thread gerald_clark
Bing Du wrote: Hello everyone, What I'm after is trying to figure out a way to centrally and remotely managing (e.g. on server1) our MySQL servers (server2 is an example) on different machines. Right now, these MySQL servers are all set up to only accept logons from localhost. My questions:

RE: How to merge my tables?

2006-03-31 Thread Shaunak Kashyap
Do you have a table that has *all* your employees ids (empl_id)? Shaunak Kashyap Senior Web Developer WPT Enterprises, Inc. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 350 Los Angeles, CA 90036 Direct: 323.330.9870 Main: 323.330.9900 www.worldpokertour.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail transmission

Re: How to merge my tables?

2006-03-31 Thread Johan Lundqvist
No, I don't have that. There's about 5-10% change in employees ids from every year, and no one took any interest in this system before I got it in my lap... Would it help to have one?? Shaunak Kashyap wrote: Do you have a table that has *all* your employees ids (empl_id)? Shaunak Kashyap

Re: stunningly slow query

2006-03-31 Thread Chris Kantarjiev
Are your logs and data on the same partition? That's a bad idea for recovering from a blown part of the disk, but we also saw that one of our databases would crash when there were lots of inserts/updates/replaces -- other databases, which had the same version of MySQL and operating system,

RE: How to merge my tables?

2006-03-31 Thread Shaunak Kashyap
OK. No problem. We can hopefully still make this work with a temporary table. The SQL will look something like this: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp_sales_rep SELECT empl_id FROM Table_1998 UNION SELECT empl_id FROM Table_1999 UNION SELECT empl_id FROM Table_2000 SELECT t.empl_id, t98.sales98,

Re: How to merge my tables?

2006-03-31 Thread Johan Lundqvist
I LOVE YOU!!! Great way of doing it. Never thought of creating that extra table and match against it... You really saved my day!! Now I just have to get rid of those rows containing nothing but NULL values (if I select years 2000 ... 2003 empl_id 1002 generates a row with all columns =

Update or insert with a single SQL statement?

2006-03-31 Thread Brian Dunning
I have a really simple two-column database: domain_name (primary key) timestamp I'm trying to keep track of the referrer of every visit to a web site, and I'm looking for a single SQL statement (since my ISP limits the total number of calls I can make in a day) that will either insert a

Re: Update or insert with a single SQL statement?

2006-03-31 Thread Greg Donald
On 3/31/06, Brian Dunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a really simple two-column database: domain_name (primary key) timestamp I'm trying to keep track of the referrer of every visit to a web site, and I'm looking for a single SQL statement (since my ISP limits the total number of

RE: Update or insert with a single SQL statement?

2006-03-31 Thread Shaunak Kashyap
Or the more standard INSERT... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-on-duplicate.html Shaunak Kashyap Senior Web Developer WPT Enterprises, Inc. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 350 Los Angeles, CA 90036 Direct: 323.330.9870 Main: 323.330.9900

Re: TIMESTAMP field not automatically updating last_updated field

2006-03-31 Thread Ferindo Middleton Jr
Hank wrote: Are the other fields in the update statement actually changing the data? I don't know for sure, but if the data on disk is the same as the update statement, mysql won't actually update the record, and therefore might not update the last_updated field also. Just a thought. Yes, I

Re: TIMESTAMP field not automatically updating last_updated field

2006-03-31 Thread Ferindo Middleton Jr
Ferindo Middleton Jr wrote: Hank wrote: Are the other fields in the update statement actually changing the data? I don't know for sure, but if the data on disk is the same as the update statement, mysql won't actually update the record, and therefore might not update the last_updated field

Tuning a Server with 10,000 databases

2006-03-31 Thread Gary Huntress
I have been offering free database hosting for over 4 years and I've been doing it on a shoestring.My last MySQL server was a generic 1GHz system with 256MB RAM running Redhat 9. The performance was surprisingly good because the query loads were not typically high. One persistent

Re: Tuning a Server with 10,000 databases

2006-03-31 Thread mos
At 09:27 PM 3/31/2006, you wrote: I have been offering free database hosting for over 4 years and I've been doing it on a shoestring.My last MySQL server was a generic 1GHz system with 256MB RAM running Redhat 9. The performance was surprisingly good because the query loads were not

Re: stunningly slow query

2006-03-31 Thread mos
At 04:14 PM 3/31/2006, Chris Kantarjiev wrote: Are your logs and data on the same partition? That's a bad idea for recovering from a blown part of the disk, but we also saw that one of our databases would crash when there were lots of inserts/updates/replaces -- other databases, which had

Re: stunningly slow query

2006-03-31 Thread mysql
Quote If you use ALTER TABLE on a MyISAM table, all non-unique indexes are created in a separate batch (as for REPAIR TABLE). This should make ALTER TABLE much faster when you have many indexes. This feature can be activated explicitly. ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE KEYS tells MySQL to stop

Re: Tuning a Server with 10,000 databases

2006-03-31 Thread David Logan
mos wrote: At 09:27 PM 3/31/2006, you wrote: I have been offering free database hosting for over 4 years and I've been doing it on a shoestring.My last MySQL server was a generic 1GHz system with 256MB RAM running Redhat 9. The performance was surprisingly good because the query loads

Re: ~how to add a new innodb data file~

2006-03-31 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Mohammed, http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/adding-and-removing.html If your last data file was defined with the keyword autoextend, the procedure for reconfiguring the tablespace must take into account the size to which the last data file has grown. Obtain the size of the data file,