Re: Breaking Up Tables

2007-03-01 Thread Fagyal Csongor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:00 AM Subject: Re: Breaking Up Tables It's nothing to do with mysqldump - it's part of the SELECT syntax for regular queries. Then I'm confused as to what you're suggesting I do. I

error 99(?) : can't connect to MySQL server

2007-02-06 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, I have an interesting (a.k.a. frustrating) problem on MySQL 4.1.11. I try to connect to the database via DBD::mysql. Everything works - except in a few cases (once in every 1 occasions, approximately) I get: DBI connect('database=test:host=192.168.0.200','test',...) failed: Can't

Re: error 99(?) : can't connect to MySQL server

2007-02-06 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Nils Meyer wrote: Hi Faygal, Fagyal Csongor wrote: for (1..5) { $dbh = DBI-connect($dsn, $user, $password, {'RaiseError' = 1} ); my $sth = $dbh-prepare('SELECT * FROM users'); } I think you are simply running out of available outgoing ports with that. Here is some more insight

Re: log table advice

2007-02-06 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi all, Just wondering how people are dealing with tables that are used for logging, ie: insert only tables supporting occasional queries used for audit or event logs. These tables will keep growing and there is no need to keep them that large so what is the best strategy in managing the

Client requested master to start replication from impossible position

2005-04-30 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi list, This night my slave stopped replicating the master (I am using 4.1.11 to replicate 4.1.9). Whenever I say start slave, The error log of the slave says: 050430 10:27:12 [Note] Slave I/O thread: connected to master '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3306', replication started in log 'www-bin.03'

setting character sets permanently

2005-04-24 Thread Fagyal Csongor
HI, I am using MySQL 4.1.11 on FC3, and I have trouble reading back latin2 characters. No wonder, as character_set_client, character_set_connection and character_set_results are all set to latin1. The problem is that I cannot set them to latin2 _permanently_, I mean every time I connect to the

Re: setting character sets permanently

2005-04-24 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Mathias, [...] I changed my.ini (.my.cnf) like this : [mysqld] # The TCP/IP Port the MySQL Server will listen on port=3306 log-bin = C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 4.1/Data/binlog #Path to installation directory. All paths are usually resolved relative to this. basedir=C:/Program

Re: setting character sets permanently

2005-04-24 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Mathias, And you can add all those variables to the ini file : character_set_client=latin2 character_set_connection=latin2 character_set_database=latin2 character_set_results=latin2 character_set_server=latin2 No, I can not. MySQL won't start. More precisely, character_set_results is not

Re: setting character sets permanently

2005-04-24 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Mathias, 2 other things : 1. what is your character set when you install the mysql server ? I used the binaries from mysql.com. I think that has latin1/swedish as a default. But anyways, I really don't like the idea to recompile MySQL just to get my character sets work all right. 2. what

Re: setting character sets permanently

2005-04-24 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hmmm, strange... From the mysql client I see: mysql show variables like %char%; +--+-+ | Variable_name| Value |

Replication - is there a server lag?

2005-04-24 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, I am new to replication so excuse me if my question is stupid. The manual recommends that a nice scenario to take advantage of replication in MySQL is to send all updating queries to the master server, and reading from the slave. I would like to use this setup (as usual, I have many more

Re: setting character sets permanently

2005-04-24 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Harald, Perhaps the following excerpt from perldoc DBD::mysql is relevant for you: mysql_read_default_file mysql_read_default_group These options can be used to read a config file like /etc/my.cnf or ~/.my.cnf. By default MySQL's C client library doesn't use any config files

Re: setting character sets permanently

2005-04-24 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Paul, DBI doesn't read the config file, DBD::mysql does. Erm, yep, I meant that, too :-) It's not expensive at all. Why do you think it's expensive? As the file must be read and parsed at each -connect(...) invocation. It would be nicer if DBD could read the config file during the use phase (for

Are these variables healthy?

2004-12-12 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, I am running an instance of MySQL 4.0.16, mostly using MyISAM tables on a 18G 10kRPM SCSI drive w/ ext3, the server having 2G RAM and a 2.8G HT P4, on a RedHat 9 install. Would some of you experts be so kind to take a look at the variables I have, and tell me if anything is wrong? I think

Low-end SATA vs. SCSI

2004-11-12 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi List, I am putting in a separate disk for our MySQL (4.1.7) server. I have some MyISAM, some InnoDB tables. Lots of reads, lots of writes (mostly atomic ones, insert/update one row), a few million rows per table, approx. 100-400 queries per second. What would you say is better (with respect

Re: Prepared statement for MySQL 4.1

2004-11-11 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Scott, I've read the article about 'prepared statement' found in MySQL 4.1, and am not sure if I understood what 'prepared statement' does and how can it benefit us. Can anyone elaborate on what 'prepared statement' could do with examples where possible? In the simplest case, consider this:

Re: Where and or ...ughhh!

2004-09-22 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, Hi Stuart, Getting your brains warped by logical statements, eh? If I remember correctly AND has precedence over OR. That means that the statement A or B and C evaluates to A or (B and C) which means that the statement will be true if A is true or if both B and C are true. When in

Re: MySQL speed

2004-09-14 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Dirk, Hello, For several years I am hosting a popular website using PHP and MySQL. As the site is growing and evolving, speed is becoming more and more important. With my latest inventions on the website, I notice that the website is becoming slow and I want to find out what's causing this. And

Re: Dump question: transactions vs. locking

2004-09-13 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi Heikki, Csongor, in InnoDB, it is better to use SELECT ... FOR UPDATE to lock the result set of a SELECT. Thank you, I think I will go with this one. A plain SELECT in InnoDB is a consistent, non-locking read that reads a snapshot of the database at an earlier time. It does not lock

Re: Dump question: transactions vs. locking

2004-09-13 Thread Fagyal Csongor
;-) However, I still need InnoDB, though, as I am doing deletes on multiple tables, of which I am scared :-) Reagards, - Csongor ps: Obviously this was a dumb question, not a dump one :-) Ed -Original Message- From: Fagyal Csongor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4

Re: 4.1.4a-gamma in production?

2004-09-13 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi Marten, Hello, 4.1 offers some interesting new features like more secure passwords and subqueries. However, this release is still labeled a-gamma; on the other hand it shall be used for future development. What's that a for (usually for alpha) if it's also stated gamma? Is gamme the last

Dump question: transactions vs. locking

2004-09-10 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, I think I have some problems understanding how transactions work, and how they relate to locking. Can someone please explain? The question is this: I have a table where I have a column into which I insert numbers in sequencial order - it is not set to auto_increment, though, because the

Re: when to use backquote in SQL

2004-09-09 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 09), leegold said: Could anyone link me or explain the purposes of backquotes in an SQL statement. I tried searching the manual and googling it but couldn't find a simple explaination. ``` vs. regular single quotes'''. Thanks, Lee G. Backquotes

Is this update possible in MySQL?

2004-09-03 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, I have a table that looks like this: table events: id : INT remoteid: INT type : enum ('a','b','c') value: INT when: DATE For each 'remoteid' and 'when', there are 3 rows with type=a,b,c respectively. (Bad table design that is...) I would like to shorten this table so it will look like this:

Re: Is this update possible in MySQL?

2004-09-03 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, Thank you Laercio. Hy Csongor, You can write this in pure Mysql. 1. First you create a temporary table from your original table events with group by remoteid and when; 2. Create your new table with the fields value_a, value_b and value_c; 3. Populate your new table from your temporary table

Re: R: R: connectorJ huge table problem

2004-06-22 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
Richard F. Rebel wrote: Next time you come over, maybe you can help hold him or take the shot. He's such a pain to take pictures of, he walks right up to the camera. Yeah, I also have problems taking snapshots of my cat... use FEL to pre-flash so he won't blink when you take the actual

indexing text

2004-06-11 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
Hi, I have a table that has a few short text fields [text(4000), text(1000)] I would like to index. Do you think it is a good idea to index them simply, or is it better if I create auxilary fields which hold the MD5 for the text fields and index those? Would that be faster? Thank you, -

Re: Problems maintaining large high-availability search

2004-06-07 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, 1. The timeout is set to 5 min, because of the number of queries, there are a lot of unused http processes that linger with connections, and the only way to seeminly keep MySQL connections available is to keep timeouts short. What about using a connection-pool? Like Apache::DBI. It should

Strange DBI error

2004-05-11 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
Hi, I am using DBI from mod_perl, and sometimes get the following error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '-63, 20' at line 1 This is given me right at: eval { $dbh =

Re: md5 and table field types

2004-04-06 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
Egor Egorov wrote: Andy B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi... what would be the best field type and length for an md5 encrypted password sort of thing?? You can store it in the CHAR(32) column (or VARCHAR(32)). Or for binary MD5 (and not the hex version) a TINYBLOB(16) should also be OK.

Re: Product link that goes to hard core porn site

2004-04-02 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No they don'tyour machine may be infected...I'd run a scan. or download some malware fixers (adaware/spybot) Yes, they do :-) Check the second link under Publisher's site : http://www.customfittech.com/ - Cs. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

Re: BUG?

2004-03-01 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arithmetic results in a value of zero but mysql is treating the value as 0. This is reproducible in a lot of different ways. Below is a pretty clear example. mysql select version(); +---+ | version() | +---+ | 4.0.17-max-nt | +---+

Re: Export in XML

2003-12-01 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
Todd Cary wrote: Is there a way to export/import MySQL tables in XML format? trying_to_be what=funny Yep. It's called perl :-)) /trying_to_be Sorry 'bout that... ;-) - Csongor -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: Security Question

2003-11-26 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
Thomas, I am trying to find a solution to the following security issue with MySql DB on linux - Someone copies the DB files to another box, starts a mysql instance, loads the DB and presto - views the 'private' data !!! Well, someone should not have access rights to the DB files on the first

Re: LIMIT and placeholders

2003-10-30 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
You have to use bind_param() to identify the parameter as an integer. Rudy Lippan, the author of DBD::mysql, had a message about it on the dbi-users list: Thanks Keith, that explains it... I do not like this new behaviour of DBD, though. I think it should be the other way around: let those

LIMIT and placeholders

2003-10-29 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
not upgraded my DBI DBD packages properly? Or are LIMIT placeholders no longer supported in DBI with MySQL 4? Thanx, - Fagyal Csongor -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

MySQL processes not showing.

2003-08-18 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
Hi, I have a P4 server with RedHat 8.0 running on the lates stable kernel. I also have MySQL 3.23.54 installed. My problem is that when I do a 'ps aux', I only see one mysql process: mysql 916 0.0 0.3 38616 3936 ?S17:39 0:02 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf

Re: MySQL processes not showing.

2003-08-18 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
All right, you can disregard this :-) I was too quick to post it to the list... those _are_ threads, the kernel upgrade must have introduced them :-). Sorry for the bandwidth! But other than that, something off-topic: on the very same server I have found that I cannot issue the 'su' command,

Re: Textfile to a 2 column mysql database

2003-06-23 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
gerald_clark wrote: Unless, of course, you have quotes in your data. With perl you can use the quote() function to ensure the whole line gets in. Or placeholders. - Cs. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: Why don't ISPs use v4

2003-03-31 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:00:12PM +0100, Ben Edwards wrote: Anyone know why the two ISPs I use (www.pair.com, www.oneandone.co.uk) are still using V3 and don't have any timescales for upgrading? No idea. Ask them, maybe? This is probably a don't fix what's not