help needed!

2003-11-25 Thread Dominic Hayhoe
Hi, I need to add a new auto field to my db, but I need to make sure the records are listed in order of one of the other fields first which is a date field. Any ideas how I do this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. D.Hayhoe This email has been scanned for viruses. -- MySQL General

Searching for a realtime progress bar that uses mySQL and Flash?

2003-11-25 Thread Daevid Vincent
Have a need to do several queries, probably about 1 per second or so, and the result of these queries will give me a # completed and a number total = percentage done. I have an external program populating a db table and I want to show progress on a web page till the program is done populating.

RE: Searching for a realtime progress bar that uses mySQL and Flash?

2003-11-25 Thread Tom Horstmann
I've scoured the web and can't seem to find any examples, and can't find anything that shows flash actually making the connection to mysql on its own. They all seem to rely upon PHP or something passing the value. Refreshing the page is not acceptable. Flash is executed in the client.

Re: help needed!

2003-11-25 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi, I need to add a new auto field to my db, but I need to make sure the records are listed in order of one of the other fields first which is a date field. Any ideas how I do this would be greatly appreciated! listing records is in no particular order, unless you ask for an order. SELECT

--with-debug option

2003-11-25 Thread Stefaan Van Dooren
Hi, Can anyone tell me what this option does, besides adding debug information ? When I add this option, I get a working mysqld server. When I remove it and recompile, my server won't work anymore It looks like the server is started (hostname.err), but no pid file is created MySQL :

Re: help needed!

2003-11-25 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi, (please reply to the list only) Yes thanks but how do I then add a new auto number field and still keep the order? What order? What has an auto-number have to do with what order? Please explain your problem in detail - it might be completely clear to you, but we're outsiders :-) With

RE: Searching for a realtime progress bar that uses mySQL and Flash?

2003-11-25 Thread Daevid Vincent
I disagree, you can restrict access to SELECT only and plus any normal form on a web page has access to a DB in much more insecure ways (SQL injection, etc.), and as I said, it must be a 'real-time' progress meter without refreshing the .php/.html page. Javascript is not able to query the DB. A

RE: Searching for a realtime progress bar that uses mySQL and Flash?

2003-11-25 Thread Tom Horstmann
I disagree, you can restrict access to SELECT only Sure, but no access is much more secure than restricted access. and plus any normal form on a web page has access to a DB in much more insecure ways (SQL injection, etc.), What you consider insecure should not been written directly to

Re: InnoDB caused crash and left me a log entry...

2003-11-25 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Bruce, I am not able to repeat the crash. I tested on Linux with 4.0.17. You have the index KEY `jiveForum_name_idx` (`name`(10)), The bug is probably in the column prefix index. That feature was introduced in 4.0.14. Did you create the table with a version 4.0.14? What kinds of operations

help needed!

2003-11-25 Thread Dominic Hayhoe
Hi, I think everyone is misunderstanding my problem as perhaps I didnt phrase it very well. I need to add a new autonumber field to my db, but I need to make sure when the numbers go into the field they are in the order of one of my other fields that is a date field. i.e. I have a field which

mysql slave trailing behind

2003-11-25 Thread Mikael Fridh
One of My MySQL slaves is trailing behind its master. | 42 | system user | | NULL | Connect | 8193 | Has read all relay log; waiting for the I/O slave thread to update it | NULL | 8193 seconds behind. Why might the slave be trailing? I just did a slave stop; slave start;

Re: help needed!

2003-11-25 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi Dominic, I think everyone is misunderstanding my problem as perhaps I didnt phrase it very well. I need to add a new autonumber field to my db, but I need to make sure when the numbers go into the field they are in the order of one of my other fields that is a date field. i.e. I have a

Functions and Procedures in Mysql

2003-11-25 Thread Swati K
Hi People, wanted to know if one can write a Function or a procedure in a mysql 4.0.12..??? Also about this data dump, i went to C:\ and typed mysqldump test. .. this thing ran for quite some time but where was the dump finally could figure that out .. can some one help me on this.. thanks in

Re: Functions and Procedures in Mysql

2003-11-25 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi, wanted to know if one can write a Function or a procedure in a mysql 4.0.12..??? No, MySQL 5 is supposed to support this. Another note: When writing to a mailinglist, please don't say your post is urgent. You're sending your message to hundreds of people that decide themselves if your

Re: Functions and Procedures in Mysql

2003-11-25 Thread Mikael Fridh
Regarding your mysql dump If you did not redirect standard output (mysqldump test dumpfile.sql), it did not go anywhere. Mike On Tuesday 25 November 2003 11.46, Swati K wrote: Hi People, wanted to know if one can write a Function or a procedure in a mysql 4.0.12..??? Also about this data

Re: How do test unique values in a MySql column?

2003-11-25 Thread David Rayner
Hi Thanx for both your replies, until recently I was doing the intelligent stuff outside MySql ie in the Perl/PHP. I'm learning to think database!! Best Regards David Rayner MSc CEng -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

RE: Functions and Procedures in Mysql

2003-11-25 Thread Swati K
thanks... -Original Message- From: Mikael Fridh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:23 PM To: Swati K; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Functions and Procedures in Mysql Regarding your mysql dump If you did not redirect standard output (mysqldump test

Re: How To Learn php and mysql.

2003-11-25 Thread Braulio Lumbreras
Thanks, Chris. Braulio Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PHP and MySQL Web Development, by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson It's an excellent book. -Original Message- From: Richard Bewley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 6:53 PM

Re: How To Learn php and mysql.

2003-11-25 Thread Braulio Lumbreras
Thanks, John. Braulio John Nichel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Braulio Lumbreras wrote: What is the best way to learn php and mysql? What book is recommended for self study of both ? Braulio The PHP website is an excelent place. The online manual is

Re: mysqlimport

2003-11-25 Thread Egor Egorov
May Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear everyone, I'd like to ask you a question, thanks in advance. Q: How long will it take to import 100GB data into MySQL DB by command mysqlimport ? Depends on how many records are to be inserted. Hard to tell not knowing your hardware and record

Re: Problem with merging tables

2003-11-25 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting the following error when I try to access a merged table: This: Select * from subjects_2; or insert into subjects_2 (subj_id) values('10'); Returns: ERROR 1017: Can't find file: 'subjects_2.MRG' (errno: 2) Any Ideas what this

Self Join question - large table

2003-11-25 Thread Henry Hank
Hello, I have a query that will be used alot on my website that involves a 42 million record table being self-joined. The primary table instance will be limited by an index resulting in 1 to about 50,000 rows being selected, then joined to the second instance of the table, which will retrieve

RE: create own auto increment number

2003-11-25 Thread Ron McKeever
Chris, Thats not what i think im Asking. I was wondering if its possible to have a AUTO_INCREMENT ID number also have the format mmddyy. So when you query the table it would be the PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT ID field: select * from table: name email phone ID Bugs

Re: SHOW TABLE STATUS without LIKE

2003-11-25 Thread Ed Leafe
On Nov 25, 2003, at 1:10 AM, Jozsa Boti wrote: Please reply to the list, not to me personally, so that others can follow this discussion. Thanks. Sorry, Don't feel bad. The list admins could easily set up the list so that the default action when replying is the correct one, but apparently

Upgrading from 4.0.14 to 4.0.16

2003-11-25 Thread Fribse
Hi Guys I'm very new to the MySql, and I'm only using it for my php based chatboard at the moment. Plans are that I'll try and use the database for some more exciting things, and therefore I would like to be on the newest version. I've made a my.cnf, and the database is placed on a different

Re: TINYINT(1) vs ENUM?

2003-11-25 Thread Philip Molter
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 02:49:12PM -0700, Jeff Mathis wrote: : maybe one more particle of information is that enums are actually : strings, not numbers, so you may have to do a conversion somewhere. this : is a pain for us, so we use tiny ints. The bigger problem I've had with ENUMs as strings is

Re: UPDATE with WHERE+ORDER+LIMIT error(?) - test shell script (fwd)

2003-11-25 Thread Alexander Keremidarski
Hello Serge, Serge E. Yakubovich wrote: Description: First of all I want to thank you for your excelent bug report and apologize for delayed responce. The same test script I've submitted today to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which demonstrates improper(?) behaviour of UPDATE statement on 4.0.12

Re: Self Join question - large table

2003-11-25 Thread Brent Baisley
Absolutely not. First, you have the overhead of maintaining the two tables. Second, MySQL doesn't know that they are identical tables, so it will try to cache both of them. On a self join, MySQL does know they are identical, so it will only need to load the data into memory once. If there is

RE: Searching for a realtime progress bar that uses mySQL and Flash?

2003-11-25 Thread TheMechE
Ok here is the soluction. Feel me, yall, this is the winner of the prize. You see, it is an uncommon operation, but you CAN have a JavaApplet call a method on your window object. By having the java applet gain access to its window object, you can drill down into the if(window.methodName==true){

RE: Searching for a realtime progress bar that uses mySQL and Flash?

2003-11-25 Thread Dan Greene
yo yo yo, another phat option is to create another page on your system that returns the % number, and using flash, call that url and parse the results, and update your flash chart accordingly. We've done similar things to have flash talk to our systems (set up web pages that return xml

Re: web data entry problem

2003-11-25 Thread tlr7425
Well, a friend told me that: register_globals is off by default in recent versions of PHP. You need to refer to GET/POST variables using the $_GET or $_POST associative arrays, or turn register_globals on in your php.ini. I enabled register_globals, it was Off. However the following (see

Service Shutsdown when not running as LocalSystem

2003-11-25 Thread Mike Peck
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Service Shutsdown when not running as LocalSystem Description: I have installed MySql 4.0.16 on a WinXP laptop. No matter how I install it (default directories or not), the service works fine after running 'mysqld --install'. However,

Intermittent 'access denied' errors.

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Hill
Greetings, I've just finished installing 4.1 alpha (yes, I know, alpha) on a test setup. Now that I'm starting to stress test it, I've run into an odd bug: Every once in a while, (and from what I can tell, randomly) the server will reject the attempted connection from another host on the

Re: InnoDB caused crash and left me a log entry...

2003-11-25 Thread Bruce Dembecki
Thanks Heikki, I'll send those along a little later today. I believe that there is a second row in the table that has the name value Technical Questions: API... If I am reading your comments correctly we are running into a problem where the Key is limited to the first ten characters and therefore

Re: Intermittent 'access denied' errors.

2003-11-25 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 16:25, you wrote: is the access control by hostname or ipnumber? if by name, you could be running into a dns failure on the inverse map lookup. IP based - the machines communicate over an internal-only network on their second network card. -- MySQL General

How to link mysql to specific zlib library

2003-11-25 Thread Sergey Karpushkin
Hello gentelmen, can anybody guide or point me how to compile mysql (4.0) with specific zlib library? I've precompiled zlib which came with OS (FreeBSD 4.5) in /usr/lib: libz.a libz.so libz.so.1 libz.so.1.1.3 libz.so.2 and have installed myself libz 1.1.4 to /opt/zlib (with usual structure

binary log format question

2003-11-25 Thread Peter Duffy
I've been trying to understand the format of the MySQL binary logs: I've noted from /clients/log_event.h that there are two formats, the old one with an event header length of 13 bytes, and a new one with an event header length of 19 bytes. That's perfectly clear: but supposing I have two logs,

Re: Intermittent 'access denied' errors.

2003-11-25 Thread Michael Johnson
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:10:47 +, Duncan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I've just finished installing 4.1 alpha (yes, I know, alpha) on a test setup. Now that I'm starting to stress test it, I've run into an odd bug: Every once in a while, (and from what I can tell, randomly) the

MySQL 4.1 : curious privilege problems (grant, use, show databases)

2003-11-25 Thread Christophe DIARRA
Hello. MySQL 4.1.0 is not respecting the registered privileges. Before I switch back to the last stable version, I would like to know if there is a workaround to my problem or if other persons have met the same problems. Following is the description of the troubles. I have installed MySQL

RE: create own auto increment number

2003-11-25 Thread Diana Cristina Neves Soares
I think it is not possible to have things as you stated, but you could have an auto_increment field and a date field in your table. Every time you insert a record, you set the date field and the other field will auto_increment himself. Then, when you want to do a select, you may do as:

MySQL multiple servers under Solaris8

2003-11-25 Thread Kontogiannis Theophanis
Hello everyone, I hope I have not reinvent the wheel with this but maybe it's worth sharing. :) I have Solaris8 and I needed multiple instances of MySQL (4.0.16), loading at boot up, each one with unique configuration and running on different ports. Though in the manual

RE: MySQL 4.0.16 on SCO OpenServer 5.0.6

2003-11-25 Thread Boyd Gerber
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Stefaan Van Dooren wrote: As you can (could) see in my previous post, I managed to get MySQL working on SCO with --with-debug as a configure option. Whenever I remove --with-debug, I can compile and install it, but I can't connect to it. Can someone please explain what

Re: --with-debug option

2003-11-25 Thread Boyd Gerber
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Stefaan Van Dooren wrote: Can anyone tell me what this option does, besides adding debug information ? When I add this option, I get a working mysqld server. When I remove it and recompile, my server won't work anymore It does a lot of things. With MySQL-4.0.16 is

putting binary data into a blob

2003-11-25 Thread wardisgod
I am trying to upload an icon from a client to a server and then to other clients over tcp/ip. the icon data will be stored in mysql on the server. the column is defined as a mediumblob field. once on the server, i escape the string and then put it into a mysql statement to insert it into the

start warning

2003-11-25 Thread Bob Lockie
I am posting this on behalf of a Gentoo user. Does anyone know why this warning happens? # /etc/init.d/mysql start * Could not get dependency info for mysql! * Could not get dependency info for mysql! * Starting mysqld... -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

CASE...WHEN...THEN..., bug or not?

2003-11-25 Thread Jeremy March
Using CASE... WHEN... THEN in my update query doesn't behave the way I expect it to. It's using the result of the query in the second WHEN condition rather than the original value. See this example: CREATE TABLE t1 (col_a tinyint not null, col_b tinyint not null); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES

RE: CASE...WHEN...THEN..., bug or not?

2003-11-25 Thread Bennett R. Samowich
You just need to reverse the order of your variables. Set b based on a, then set a to the new value. UPDATE t1 SET col_b = CASE WHEN col_a = 1 THEN col_b + 1 ELSE 0 END, col_a = CASE WHEN col_a = 1

Re: SHOW TABLE STATUS without LIKE

2003-11-25 Thread Paul DuBois
At 8:10 +0200 11/25/03, Jozsa Boti wrote: Hi! Please reply to the list, not to me personally, so that others can follow this discussion. Thanks. Sorry, No apology required. It's just that others may have something to contribute. I was able to duplicate your results and raised the question

mysqld_multi

2003-11-25 Thread Arnoldus Th.J. Koeleman
I have two different versions running 3.23 4.0 If I wanna configure the section [mysqld_multi] how can the machine automatic boot with two different mysqld since 3.23 uses safe_mysqld Mysqld= /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe ( and not for 3.23 safe_mysqld) Mysqladmin =

RE: start warning

2003-11-25 Thread Jon Wagoner
Assuming he is using the mysql init script from Gentoo, he just needs to run /sbin/depscan.sh -Original Message- From: Bob Lockie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:50 PM To: MySQL Mailing List Subject: start warning I am posting this on behalf of a Gentoo

Inserting data into table1 should insert data into table2's FK ???

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Fine
Du If I have two tables with the first table containing a field which is FK of table 2, when I insert a value into this field, should it not automagically insert a value into that PK in the second table? Thanks! -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

Replacing text using the Update command?

2003-11-25 Thread Bob Loeffler
Hi all! I would like to update many records in a table called pictures where I find a string in the caption column. If the string (e.g. www.bob.com) is found, replace it with another string (e.g. www.bubba.com). Unfortunately, there is other text in the caption column of these records, so I

Re: Replacing text using the Update command?

2003-11-25 Thread Patrick
Bob, Try: UPDATE pictures set caption = REPLACE(caption,'www.bob.com',www.bubba.com') WHERE caption like '%www.bob.com%' Make sure you backup or copy data before trying... See MySQL Manual 'Language Reference-String Functions' I hope this helps... Pat... CocoNet Corporation 825 SE 47th

Re: Replacing text using the Update command?

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen Brownlow
Hello Bob, - Original Message - From: Bob Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:01 AM Subject: Replacing text using the Update command? Hi all! I would like to update many records in a table called pictures where I find a string in

GROUP BY with LIMIT -- an Optimizer Bug?

2003-11-25 Thread Héctor Villafuerte D.
Hi, When you have a table with more than 10 million rows, one row less or one row more shouldn't make a difference, right? ... Well, think again. Look at this EXPLAIN statements, it seems that the optimizer prefers a full table scan in the normal query but uses the index if there's a LIMIT

Re: Replacing text using the Update command?

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen Brownlow
Pat's version was better than mine. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Replacing text using the Update command?

2003-11-25 Thread Bob Loeffler
Awesome! It worked perfectly! Thanks Pat and Stephen. Bob -Original Message- From: Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:20 PM To: Bob Loeffler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Replacing text using the Update command? Bob, Try: UPDATE pictures set

RE: create own auto increment number

2003-11-25 Thread Ryan Yagatich
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:15, Diana Cristina Neves Soares wrote: I think it is not possible to have things as you stated, but you could have an auto_increment field and a date field in your table. Every time you insert a record, you set the date field and the other field will auto_increment

Re: FW: How To Learn php and mysql.

2003-11-25 Thread mike
As for a book, I recommend the one on PHP and mySQL web development by Luke Willing and Laura Thompson. Good luck! Richard I would second that reccomendation. Luke Welling and Laura Thompson have a really good book. ISBN 067232525X. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

Re: web data entry problem

2003-11-25 Thread Ryan Yagatich
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 10:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip However the following (see quotes below) still does not work. Any ideas? Thanks in Advance, Ted What is the output of the php subroutine mysql_error() when used after your db calls?

Re: Functions and Procedures in Mysql

2003-11-25 Thread mike
wanted to know if one can write a Function or a procedure in a mysql 4.0.12..??? This is not going to be supported until MySQL 5. Also about this data dump, i went to C:\ and typed mysqldump test. .. this thing ran for quite some time but where was the dump finally could figure that out ..

Re: Functions and Procedures in Mysql

2003-11-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 25), mike said: wanted to know if one can write a Function or a procedure in a mysql 4.0.12..??? This is not going to be supported until MySQL 5. Mysql has supported user-defined functions since 3.21. http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Adding_functions.html -- Dan

RE: Functions and Procedures in Mysql

2003-11-25 Thread Mike Hillyer
You are correct. I interpreted Function or a procedure to be the questioner referring to stored procedures with two seperate terms. Mike Hillyer -Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 8:06 PM To: mike Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: How To Learn php and mysql.

2003-11-25 Thread Braulio Lumbreras
Thanks Ricard, Mike,Kim,Chris and John. Now thats going the extra mile, giving me the ISBN code to the book. Once again, thanks. Braulio mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] As for a book, I recommend the one on PHP and mySQL web development by Luke Willing and

mysqldump

2003-11-25 Thread Andre Winarko
I have problem with mysqldump. This query results an error. mysqldump danamon [trx_temp2] trx_temp2.sql The error message is : mysqldump : Can't get CREATE TABLE for table '[trx_temp2]' Table 'danamon.[trx_temp2]' doesn't exist I'm sure the trx_temp2 table in danamon database exists. I'm

mysql installation error - version SUNW 1.2 not found

2003-11-25 Thread Manjunath . Sangappan
Description: I am trying to install mysql 4.0.16 on Solaris 8 on a i86pc. I created the user and group and everything went fine until I ran scripts/mysql_install_db. When I run the script I come acoss the error ld.so.1: ./bin/mysqld: fatal: librt.so.1: version `SUNW_1.2' not found

MySqlManager.rc file missing in windows source distribution.

2003-11-25 Thread Prem Soman
hi all., i tried to compile mysql-3.23.58 source distribution for windows using VisualStudio 6 and found that MySqlManager.rc file missing and hence the compilation failed , The MySqlManeger.rc file is not available in the MySqlManager folder downloaded from mysql home site. plz help me out

IN clause trouble

2003-11-25 Thread Kate Porter
I am using 4.0.15 on RedHat 7.3 and ran it to a strangest problem today. SELECT col FROM table WHERE site_id=123; returns a list of data. SELECT col FROM table WHERE site_id IN(123); returns an empty set. Upon further investigation, I found cases when the IN() syntax gets a smaller subset of