Re: mysqldump

2001-02-19 Thread Hardy Merrill
By "even as root", do you mean that you did something like this: $ mysqldump -u root -p db_name > db_name.sql ? The "root" user *in* MySQL should have privileges to run mysqldump. Describe the situation in a little more detail if you're still having problems - like: * what is the exact mysq

3.23 "Online Table Maintenance"?

2001-02-23 Thread Hardy Merrill
erver? TIA. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list ar

Re: 3.23 "Online Table Maintenance"?

2001-02-23 Thread Hardy Merrill
y* database in MySQL? TIA. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com Sinisa Milivojevic [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hardy Merrill writes: > > In the 3.23 news article, at the bottom it says this: > > > > > > > >

mcrypt and encrypted field length

2001-02-26 Thread Hardy Merrill
the "mysql" client when I query the row containing the encrypted field, mysql displays a bunch of strange characters - I can refer to the row by the non-encrypted key although the same key does *NOT* display properly in mysql(the encrypted column must be screwing up the displayi). Anyone ha

Re: trying to install on RedHat 7.0 and need help

2001-03-05 Thread Hardy Merrill
Charles, you need to be more descriptive about exactly what problem you're having. Spell out your hardware, OS, MySQL version, etc., and describe what isn't working. Charles L. Hagen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I cannot seem to get this database program to work correctly. I am asking for any

Re: What does this mean

2001-03-16 Thread Hardy Merrill
BE AWARE that it is advisable to create a UNIX *NON* "root" lesser-privileged user for MySQL administration purposes (running "mysqladmin" for instance) - then scheduled jobs for MySQL can be run from that non-root user - you could put an option file

Re: What does this mean

2001-03-16 Thread Hardy Merrill
home directory in the .my.cnf file, as I outlined below. Mark Maggelet [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I think it would be easier to just go: > mysqladmin -uuser -ppassword > > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:09:37 -0500, Hardy Merrill > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Charles, >

skip-locking on Redhat 6.1 Linux

2001-02-02 Thread Hardy Merrill
atabases/tables. Nightly, I'd like to 1. run myisamchk to check all databases (not sure if this is necessary every night) 2. backup --all-databases using mysqldump 3. do flush-logs(probably with mysqldump) so that a new u

incremental backups?

2001-02-02 Thread Hardy Merrill
Are incremental backups possible in MySQL? I haven't seen any reference to "incremental" in the mysqldump or anywhere else for that matter. TIA. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncr

Re: need some help here...

2001-02-05 Thread Hardy Merrill
employee works for, you can use the company_id stored in the Employee table to find the Company. Pretty simple example, but hopefully it helps. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com Chris Toth [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > I'm

update log sequence

2001-02-05 Thread Hardy Merrill
I'm running mysql with --log-update=update_log with no extension, so every time I flush the logs I get the next sequential number appended as an extension to the new update_log file. If I flush the logs regularly every day, that sequence number will continue to grow - is there any way to reset t

Re: need some help here...

2001-02-05 Thread Hardy Merrill
field as the primary key to a table. Keeping the numeric keys used for basic retrieval separate from the user viewable/updatable fields makes for a smaller, less-complex, and more flexible program. Again, just my opinion. HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missi

update logs and locking

2001-02-05 Thread Hardy Merrill
e log confusion at flush-logs time? Can locking be enabled on a Linux system? How? Will this solve my update log confusion with flush-logs? Is there a way to to manually locking in the script that does the mysqldump? TIA. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc.

--skip-locking on Redhat 6.1 Linux

2001-02-06 Thread Hardy Merrill
Can/should MySQL be started *without* --skip-locking on Redhat 6.1 Linux? TIA. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com

Re: --skip-locking on Redhat 6.1 Linux

2001-02-07 Thread Hardy Merrill
e this update log confusion? I did notice that when I inserted a sleep 1(or 2) between the mysqladmin flush-logs and the "mv" that I haven't been able to "make" the update-logs get confused, but I'm not very confident that this is "the" right soluti

Re: --skip-locking on Redhat 6.1 Linux

2001-02-07 Thread Hardy Merrill
to finally(after posting this 3 times, and reading all the related documentation I could find) get a response. Thank you very much! -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com > > Now that I know what you are trying to achieve, I can honestly say I'm

Re: Need help with Install of MySQL

2001-02-09 Thread Hardy Merrill
cd /dir/to/mysql.server ./mysql.server start There's quite a bit more to consider, like what user you want to start the server as, but try that first and see if that will start the server for you. HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com Matt Dav