RE: Using the Index (Tables)....

2004-08-05 Thread Peter Vertes
Here's how I do it with tables that have multiple keys: CREATE TABLE Users ( Id SMALLINT UNSIGNED UNIQUE NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, FirstName VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL, LastName VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY(Id), KEY LastNameIndex (LastName), Key Firs

Re: Date computation in MySQL & PHP

2003-09-13 Thread Peter Vertes
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 02:50, delz wrote: > I want to know how do I use computations on dates in php or mysql like for > example, today is September 13, 2003 (2003-09-13) and I want to get the date > output if I add 5 days from the given date so that my output would be > September 18, 2003 (2003-0

RE: Programmatic MySQL backup in Perl

2002-12-19 Thread Peter Vertes
The way I do it is to call mysqldump.exe from perl, granted it's not the most elegant way but it's certainly the fastest (to code). Just do: --- # name or IP address of dbmachine my $DB_server = localhost.localdomain.tld # db login authorised to do db dump my $DB_User = sa # location and name

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-18 Thread Peter Vertes
Hi, I've been using MySQL intercompany for a while now with great results. Even the diehard MSSQL people are amazed at how fast it can be at time. One of the things I use it for is to store syslog events in it. I wrote a backend that parses a syslog file as data is being written into

Nested MySQL Statements

2002-12-14 Thread Peter Vertes
or me :) but MySQL complains. Is it possible to do nested queries with MySQL ? Does anyone have a better way of displaying the last x amount of rows inserted into a table ? Thanks in advance... -Pete Peter Vertes Beast Financial Systems 404 Fifth Avenue New York, NY

RE: Remote Connection, please help

2002-12-12 Thread Peter Vertes
I've never connected your way before. I'm using J/Connector from the MySQL site (http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-jdbc-stable.html). That way I have no problems connecting. I do it this way: // connect to the database Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); Connection dbConnection = Drive