I'm working on a library redesign, and need help

2004-06-06 Thread Dennis Gearon
Please CC me, I am on digest. What is an int(11) as in the following table creation statement? I looked online at the documentation, and not only is the documentation MUCH different than the last time I looked at it, (been awhile), but I didn't see anything related to a parameter to the size of

Dynamically changing Sort order

2001-04-19 Thread Dennis Gearon
Given the following table: Name varchar(128), CodePageEncoding varchar(32) that a select like this could be done select Name, CodePageEncoding from table group by CodePageEncoding order by CODE_PAGE_SENSITIVE_FUNCTION(CodePageEncoding, Name); This would produce a report/resultset like the

Re: Database Planning

2001-04-18 Thread Dennis Gearon
I just got done figuring out how to --100%-- normalize a database to make it very flexible. Methinks that Oracle has done this in some fashion, as they claim to be able to make an intersection from any row in any table to any other. A note: Objects, Actors, and Attributes use the names of the

Indexes on Nulls

2001-04-16 Thread Dennis Gearon
Is it true no indexing on Nulls In the Innobase database tables and MyIASM tables? - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To

UTF-8

2001-04-16 Thread Dennis Gearon
prelude: - utf-8 is a 'string function friendly' version of UTF-32, a character mapping for all known human languages (with room for more). UTF is 4 bytes (4 * 8 = 32). Any of those 4 bytes can be 0, i.e. ''/NULL. A regular library string function will end the string at the first BYTE it

Identifying companies, their representives

2001-04-13 Thread Dennis Gearon
How do you guys uniquely identify companies within your mysql databases, both foreign and domestic? Tax ID numbers? Name and State and City(US) Other? In the database I am designing the PublicMembers are identified by email/login/person/member(num), and only has financial capabilities with my

relationship/field design

2001-04-12 Thread Dennis Gearon
for children) The biggest problem seems to be structuring the tables to force the requirement for at least ONE email address, but not having to create lots of empty fields. Sincerely, Dennis Gearon

Foreign Keys

2001-04-05 Thread Dennis Gearon
Are people using Mysql using foreign keys and how are they using them? It seems that the way to use them is with the scripting language used to access the database. - Before posting, please check:

Adding additional information to table strucure records

2001-03-12 Thread Dennis Gearon
I don't know if this list still gets read by the staff TcX or not, but I have this suggestion: 1/ For those of us willing to code the glue logic to make triggers, constraints, and foreign keys work, it would be VERY helpful if ALL the commands that are exercised on a table at creation or

The links in the manual -'MySQL_Full.htm' don't work

2001-03-01 Thread Dennis Gearon
They didn't work 'onsite'/live, or when downloaded. They *used* to work for both. - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To

Online manual 'section' links seem not so good

2001-02-27 Thread Dennis Gearon
The end of this quote is a link. When I loaded the whole manual in my browser NS4.7x, I expected the link to move through the manual copy in my browser's cache. Instead, it tried to link to a copy on the MySQL site and gave a 404 error message from the MySQL site. From manual (Section 5.1): Use