Re: Slow performance using 3.23 on RH 8.0

2002-12-04 Thread Nikolas Samios
Hi Mike, i'm a newbie in optimizing the inner structure of a db - so i stick to the os-part where i might have a vague clue ;-) did you take a look at the memory / swap-space mysqld used when doing the query? (maybe use TOP (add swap to the view by hitting "f" and then "o"), look at the swapspace

Re: Returning an Auto-Increment Field

2002-11-08 Thread Nikolas Galanis
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Re: timestamp updated on select

2002-11-07 Thread Nikolas Galanis
ion_views` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', `date_added` timestamp(14) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`poem_id`,`language`,`made_by_id`), KEY `language` (`language`) ) TYPE=MyISAM Paul DuBois wrote: At 2:09 +0200 11/7/02, Galanis Nikolas wrote: Yes, that is exactly what happens. It

Re: timestamp updated on select

2002-11-06 Thread Galanis Nikolas
: > At 23:47 + 11/6/02, Nikolas Galanis wrote: > >Hello > > > >I have a column of type timestamp(14) and I thought it would not be > >updated on a query with simple select statements, though it does! I > >read in the manual that it > >shouldn't, what cou

Re: timestamp updated on select

2002-11-06 Thread Nikolas Galanis
Hello I have a column of type timestamp(14) and I thought it would not be updated on a query with simple select statements, though it does! I read in the manual that it shouldn't, what could be wrong? Thanks. - Bef

mysql server with different character sets per user

2002-11-04 Thread Nikolas Galanis
Hello I was wondering about the following: I am hosting an application with a web hosting company and the character set doesn't satisfy me because I am doing some sorting of greek names and the hosting company uses the default character set for the mysql server. Is it possible that they let my

character set when you don't manage the server

2002-10-18 Thread Nikolas Galanis
Hi I have written a web application that is hosted in a server which uses the default character set. This causes problems in the sorting that MySQL does because most of the data is in Greek. When developing it locally, I run the MySQL server with the greek character set and sorting works fine.

update and data manipulation

2002-10-16 Thread Nikolas Galanis
Hello When I want to update a value, I can use numerical functions like +,* etc. Can I do the same with strings? For example, when I want to append a string in an existing value, how (if of course) can I do it inside the update query? Thanks. Nikolas p.s: I know I can do it with PHP, I was

Re: can I take the record's number?

2002-03-03 Thread Nikolas
think, in the meantime, I found the way. I will make a COUNT of all pages, then I will make a COUNT of the pages that have been visited less times than the one I want and then I will add 1 to that. Am I in the right direction. Thanks for your interest. Roger Baklund wrote: >* Nikolas >

can I take the record's number?

2002-03-03 Thread Nikolas
I am novice in SQL so I may ask something very obvious, sorry. If I have a table ordered by something, is it possible to select fields from a record that appears on the table in a specific row number. And if yes, how can I do it? By row number, I mean that if the table has 10 records, I want t

beginner question: how many queries via PHP are...

2002-02-16 Thread Nikolas
idea. Thanks. Nikolas - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsub