Re: Mysql docs

2005-11-17 Thread Scott Haneda
on 11/16/05 7:06 PM, Jasper Bryant-Greene at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Haneda wrote: Google this: subselect site:dev.mysql.com And I get mostly non English stuff, limiting to english and I get a whopping 37 pages, none of which seem to help me much. Try googling for subquery,

Re: Mysql docs

2005-11-17 Thread Jigal van Hemert
Scott Haneda wrote: Hello, with the release of 5, I seem to have all dead links to my old docs for mysql 4. The way they keep changing the urls is a little maddedning :-) I usually search using: http://www.mysql.com/keyword http://www.mysql.com/subquery will lead to:

Re: Foreign characters in the shell

2005-11-17 Thread Götz M. Ritter
Hello Gleb! The answer to the scrambled characters in the shell und XP is, as you assumed, that the shell simply does not handle characters like the Windows-GUI does... . Now, that I know about this fact it's no longer a problem ( perhaps a feature, ;-) ?). Thx again have a good time, Goetz

Re: How to search the manual

2005-11-17 Thread Götz M. Ritter
sheeri kritzer schrieb: Hi folks, You might be amazed getting answers that link right to the MySQL documentation. The documentation is fabulous, but of course we cannot memorize it! One tip I picked up in a MySQL course (which was worth the $$ of the course itself), which is IMMENSELY

Re: Money making plan

2005-11-17 Thread Raz
Kyle, you're a twat for sending s**t like this to this list... -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Money making plan

2005-11-17 Thread Peter J Milanese
Don't know if that's the word I'd use, but credibility is lost for that nonsense. No proffesionalism whatsoever. If I were admin I'd ban for less. - Sent from my NYPL BlackBerry Handheld. - Original Message - From: Raz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/17/2005 05:08 AM To:

Re: Money making plan

2005-11-17 Thread Raz
Yeah, sorry for that language, but I couldn't believe what I had just read and lost it... On 17/11/05, Peter J Milanese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know if that's the word I'd use, but credibility is lost for that nonsense. No proffesionalism whatsoever. If I were admin I'd ban for less.

Re: MySQL Innodb Crash on 2 concurrent select

2005-11-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 16 November 2005 at 20:40:35 +0700, Ady Wicaksono wrote: I have MySQL with about 12 billion rows when i try to create 2 process, each select count(*) on the same table after a long time about 30 minutes it crashed :( ANy information? ... InnoDB: We intentionally generate

using dinamic table name inside stored procedure

2005-11-17 Thread AESYS S.p.A. [Enzo Arlati]
I need to pass to a stored procedure a var a table name. But I don't known how use the variable in the sql statement. If I use the method described belowe I get an error, the procedure use the variable name as the name of the table. Someone can help ? CREATE FUNCTION `myFunc`( tbl_name

dynamic fieldname to assign to

2005-11-17 Thread C.R.Vegelin
Hi All, I have a simple problem and hope you can help me. I have an input table Updates with various fields, incl. Month and MonthlyValue. The field Updates.Month ranges from 1 to 12. I also have a target Data table with 12 fields, called Jan, Feb, Mar, ... `Dec`. Depending on Updates.Month the

Re: How to reload my.cnf?

2005-11-17 Thread SGreen
uhh.NO! That's what databases are for, to remember things. They do that by writing data to disk and reading it back to you when you ask for it. What exactly do you think you will be losing by stopping and restarting the server daemon (service to you MS-types). What data do you think

Re: Background tasks performed by MySQL?

2005-11-17 Thread Viktor Fougstedt
Hi, and thank you both for valuable tips. The MySQLd in question runs on a mailserver, and a large amount of processes (Postfix, Maildrop and Squirrelmail) connect to it, run one or two simple queries, and then disconnects. There is only one client that is constantly connected, namely a

A bit of SQL help for a MySQL novice.

2005-11-17 Thread Rick Dwyer
Hello All. I am hoping for a bit of help with some code that has really given me some trouble. If this is not he correct forum for this any help in pointing me to a more suited list would be appreciated. I have a MySQL 4.1.x database containing records with phone numbers. Most of the

Re: Joins - where clause, booking system

2005-11-17 Thread Brent Baisley
Not sure what you are asking for. If you are trying to get the opposite of what you are getting, try adding AND student_accom.start_date IS NULL to the end of the query. You can actually use just about any field instead of start_date. For easier readability, you can rephrase your query to

Re: A bit of SQL help for a MySQL novice.

2005-11-17 Thread SGreen
Rick Dwyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/17/2005 10:28:51 AM: Hello All. I am hoping for a bit of help with some code that has really given me some trouble. If this is not he correct forum for this any help in pointing me to a more suited list would be appreciated. I have a MySQL

Re: A bit of SQL help for a MySQL novice.

2005-11-17 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: Rick Dwyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:28 AM Subject: A bit of SQL help for a MySQL novice. Hello All. I am hoping for a bit of help with some code that has really given me some trouble. If this is

Re: A bit of SQL help for a MySQL novice.

2005-11-17 Thread Rick Dwyer
Unfortunately, the phone numbers come from text logs that get imported into mysql. Because the phone number is often displayed on a document for the customer, they will dictate how they want it to appear (i.e. with ( ) etc.). The phone logs simply record those values as they are so data

Re: A few questions about triggers in MySQL 5

2005-11-17 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. 4. triggers reference another table They're allowed as of MySQL 5.0.10. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-trigger.html Jenny Chen wrote: Does the current latest MySQL 5.0 support: 1. column based triggers 2. trigger restriction 3. multiple triggers of

Re: mysqld doesn't starts with Fatal Error

2005-11-17 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. 051116 16:27:54 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables:= Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist Have a invoked mysql_install_db? See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/unix-post-installation.html Jörg Nowak wrote: Hello list, I compiled I

Re: Remove all non-alpha characters?

2005-11-17 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. I haven't said that this is the most effective solution, however, in my opinion it should work :) Fan, Wellington wrote: Gleb, Thanks; using REPLACE(), as I understand it, would require me to list ALL non-alpha characters, and assuming just ASCII characters, approx (127 -

Re: MySQL Administrator crash on Mac OS X

2005-11-17 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. At least there is one verified crash of MySQL Administrator on Mac OS, however, not during the connection process: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=14269 You have a good description of your problem, and may want to report it at: http://bugs.mysql.com Yves Goergen wrote:

Re: A bit of SQL help for a MySQL novice.

2005-11-17 Thread Rhino
The fact that the data is coming from the text logs doesn't really change anything; _something_ is generating the text logs so that something could be changed to force users to supply phone numbers in whatever format you want. Of course, that doesn't mean _you_ can force those changes to take

Command Denied on Stored Procedure

2005-11-17 Thread Jesse Castleberry
I'm trying to execute a MySQL Stored Procedure from my ASP.NET page: Cmd=New MySqlCommand(sp_InsertNewCamper,Conn) Cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure paramReqID = Cmd.Parameters.Add(return,SqlDbType.Int) paramReqID.Direction = ParameterDirection.ReturnValue

Re: A bit of SQL help for a MySQL novice.

2005-11-17 Thread Peter Brawley
Rick I need to read the first 4 positions in the phone number to determine it's location. My statement looks like this: 'Select mid(phone, 1,4) as phoneareacode from phonetable' This works but if the number is entered as 1(203)-555-1212 the above would return 1(20 which is not what I am

Newbie Query: Error starting MySQL.

2005-11-17 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hi all First usage of MySQL. Newbie in Linux as well as MySQL. Using CentOS 4.2 with MySQL 4.1.12, rpm install. Changed the data directory. My /etc/my.conf --- [mysqld] datadir=/home.dbdata/mysql socket=/home.dbdata/mysql/mysql.sock # Default to using old password format for

RE: A bit of SQL help for a MySQL novice.

2005-11-17 Thread Mikhail Berman
Hi Rick, Below are some MySQL functions that might help with your problem. Sorry, for not much of direct answer. But the idea is that you can combine some of these (string) functions - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html to parse out the string you are looking for. If

SELECT with WHERE and GROUP BY -- can it go any faster?

2005-11-17 Thread René Fournier
I have the following table: CREATE TABLE history ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, time_sec int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', account_id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (id), KEY account_id (account_id), KEY time_sec (time_sec), ) TYPE=MyISAM

Re: LIMIT in subquery or GROUP_CONCAT

2005-11-17 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. I've written a stored procedure that can help you. However, I'd like to see a solution which will work for 4.1 as well. Here is the results. First group is select from the original table, second group is select from the temporary table with the results. id value 1 10

Can't get REGEXP to work properly with utf8

2005-11-17 Thread Oskar Joelson
Hi! I hope this is the right mailing list for my problem. :) I recently changed the collation/character set in the whole database for a project I'm working on to utf8. After a while I realized that REGEXP didn't work as it used to. I looked in the manual and saw that REGEXP was not multibyte

Re: Can't get REGEXP to work properly with utf8

2005-11-17 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Oskar Joelson wrote: I found this in http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-comparison-functions.html : REGEXP and RLIKE use the current character set (cp1252 Latin1 by default) when deciding the type of a character. Warning: These operators are not multi-byte safe. These operators are

A key question

2005-11-17 Thread Mikhail Berman
Hello everyone, Is it possible or makes sense to key a field that is a part of Unique Index already? Regards and thank you Mikhail Berman

Re: A key question

2005-11-17 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Mikhail Berman wrote: Is it possible or makes sense to key a field that is a part of Unique Index already? It's possible, but it doesn't make sense. A unique index is a normal index with an added unique constraint. Adding another index on the same field would make no sense (unless the field

Re: SELECT with WHERE and GROUP BY -- can it go any faster?

2005-11-17 Thread René Fournier
OK, after reading http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/order-by- optimization.html I have learned improved the speed somewhat by creating a multi-column index on account_id and time_sec, such that: -- SELECT

RE: A key question

2005-11-17 Thread Mikhail Berman
Dear Jasper, I may not have been precise in my question, but the Unique Index in question is a two fields index, and I was looking to find out wisdom from the List if there is sense and/or experience in keying second(left) field on in the Unique Index to speed up a search. I am dealing with 32M

Re: SELECT with WHERE and GROUP BY -- can it go any faster?

2005-11-17 Thread SGreen
René Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/17/2005 04:19:25 PM: OK, after reading http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/order-by- optimization.html I have learned improved the speed somewhat by creating a multi-column index on account_id and time_sec, such that:

Re: a question of specifying Times for Recovery

2005-11-17 Thread sheeri kritzer
What does your my.cnf configuration for mysql say? Check out: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html I think you want character_set as your variable, not default_character_set. Just my guess, not seeing any of your config files. -Sheeri On 11/16/05, wangxu [EMAIL

Re: mysqld crash with archive engine 2gb

2005-11-17 Thread sheeri kritzer
Marc: Define crashing the server. Does the whole machine shut down? The mysqld process? What do error logs say? What version of MySQL are you using? What's the create table statement? what's the current avg_row_length and max_rows? What is ulimit -f as the MySQL user say? -Sheeri On

RE: mysqld crash with archive engine 2gb

2005-11-17 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Hi Marc, Is there any message in the log files? or any error message from the OS? Regards David Logan Database Administrator HP Managed Services 148 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000 Australia +61 8 8408 4273 - Work +61 417 268 665 - Mobile +61 8 8408 4259 - Fax -Original Message- From:

Re: SELECT with WHERE and GROUP BY -- can it go any faster?

2005-11-17 Thread René Fournier
On 17-Nov-05, at 2:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: René Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/17/2005 04:19:25 PM: OK, after reading http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/order-by- optimization.html I have learned improved the speed somewhat by creating a multi-column index on account_id

Re: A key question

2005-11-17 Thread Peter Brawley
Mikhail, Is it possible or makes sense to key a field that is a part of Unique Index already? MySQL won't stop you, but it's a waste of space cpu cycles unless there's a high-priority query performance need for it. PB - Mikhail Berman wrote: Hello everyone, Is it possible or

Re: A key question

2005-11-17 Thread Jeremy Cole
Hi Mikhail, I may not have been precise in my question, but the Unique Index in question is a two fields index, and I was looking to find out wisdom from the List if there is sense and/or experience in keying second(left) field on in the Unique Index to speed up a search. If you have a

Re: mysqld crash with archive engine 2gb

2005-11-17 Thread Marc Rossi
Is there any message in the log files? or any error message from the OS? David - When the mysqld process restarts, there is nothing in the logfile except the basic startup info. I have listed it below:0:33). 051116 10:06:33 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version:

Re: dynamic fieldname to assign to

2005-11-17 Thread Roger Baklund
C.R.Vegelin wrote: Hi All, I have a simple problem and hope you can help me. I have an input table Updates with various fields, incl. Month and MonthlyValue. The field Updates.Month ranges from 1 to 12. I also have a target Data table with 12 fields, called Jan, Feb, Mar, ... `Dec`. Depending on

RE: mysqld crash with archive engine 2gb

2005-11-17 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
Hi Marc, I would be a bit suspicious of the version of zlib or something similar. If it has only been compiled with a 32bit compiler, this could be causing an artificial limit of 2Gb on a pointer. The ARCHIVE engine uses the zlib for its compression, that comes with mysql. I am presuming if it

To upgrade, or not to upgrade...

2005-11-17 Thread René Fournier
...that is the question. I have some queries that would possibly benefit from subqueries, which means upgrading my stock Mac OS X Server 10.3.9 installation of MySQL (version 4.1.10a). The question is, and I would appreciate any comments, should I go just to 4.0.26 for the subqueries, or

Mysql 4.1 full table (nearly) - best practice to alter?

2005-11-17 Thread Simon
Hi There, We are reaching 4GB with one of our tables (v4.1 on debian sarge) and are needing to run: ALTER TABLE tbl_name MAX_ROWS=10 AVG_ROW_LENGTH=nnn; as per the documentation.. I would be greatful for any input on best practices to do this, as the database needs to be offline for

Re: Joins - where clause, booking system

2005-11-17 Thread sheeri kritzer
Your query was: SELECT distinct accomodation.accom_id FROM accomodation LEFT JOIN student_accom ON accomodation.accom_id = student_accom.accom_id where ((student_accom.start_date Between '2005-10-01' And '2005-11-30') OR (student_accom.leave_date Between '2005-10-01' And '2005-10-30')) The

solution for preventing injection attacks

2005-11-17 Thread douglass_davis
I have an idea for preventing sql injection attacks, however it would have to be implemented by the database vendor. Let me know if I am on the right track, this totally off base, or already implemented somewhere... Lets say you could have a format string such as in printf $format= SELECT %s

Re: solution for preventing injection attacks

2005-11-17 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an idea for preventing sql injection attacks, however it would have to be implemented by the database vendor. Let me know if I am on the right track, this totally off base, or already implemented somewhere... Lets say you could have a format string such as in

Re: MySQL Innodb Crash on 2 concurrent select

2005-11-17 Thread Ady Wicaksono
Ok greg, I'll report this bug Thx Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 16 November 2005 at 20:40:35 +0700, Ady Wicaksono wrote: I have MySQL with about 12 billion rows when i try to create 2 process, each select count(*) on the same table after a long time about 30 minutes it

Re: a question of specifying Times for Recovery

2005-11-17 Thread wangxu
Follow is a part of my my.ini. --- [client] port=3306 default-character-set=utf8 --- If