problem with installing MySQL 5.5 on OS Lion

2011-11-12 Thread Martin Mueller
I had MySQL 5.5.15 running on OS X Lion, deleted it, and tried to install 5.5.17. I have run into problems that I cannot solve. To begin with the end, I can run start mysqld with the skip-grant-tables option and connect with mysql. If I issue the command select * from mysql the result returns

MySQL install on OS X Lion does not create root account

2011-11-15 Thread Martin Mueller
I have been struggling with installing MySQL 5.5.17 on a Mac running OS 10.7. My machine had 5.5.15 on it. I keep getting user denied access messages (Error 1045). I thought at first it was a matter of a password not being flushed from a previous installation and went through repeated install

how do I make utf8 the default encoding for my MySQL installation

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Mueller
Is it possible to make utf8 the default for all databases and transactions in a MySQL installation? The current default is Latin1. There is a suggestion on the Web to edit the my.cnf file as follows [mysqld] init_connect=’SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci’ init_connect=’SET NAMES utf8′

Re: Uninstall MySql Service

2011-11-19 Thread Martin Mueller
There is good advice by Rob Allen at http://akrabat.com/computing/uninstalling-mysql-on-mac-os-x-leopard/ for the Mac To uninstall MySQL and completely remove it (including all databases) from your Mac do the following: * Use mysqldump to backup your databases to text files! * Stop the database

table comments

2014-09-07 Thread Martin Mueller
or some notebook where you never find it again? Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University

unicode case insensitive but diacritics sensitive

2014-11-24 Thread Martin Mueller
Is there a unicode setting on mysql that is case insensitive but diacritics sensitive? Given 'Ete', 'été', 'ete' a group by routine for such a setting would return two values: 'été', 'ete'. I couldn't find it, but I may not have known where to look. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus

Re: unicode case insensitive but diacritics sensitive

2014-11-25 Thread Martin Mueller
Thanks for that answer. It squares with my solution: have an additional column that has the lower case values of the case sensitive unicode setting. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 11/25/14 6:48 AM, Rik r...@grib.nl wrote: Not a unicode

update and control flow

2014-12-09 Thread Martin Mueller
COMMENT = 'b' END IF But this gives me an error message. What am I doing wrong? MM Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql

Re: create_time

2015-05-04 Thread Martin Mueller
:-) - Original Message - From: Johan De Meersman vegiv...@tuxera.be To: Pothanaboyina Trimurthy skd.trimur...@gmail.com Cc: Martin Mueller martinmuel...@northwestern.edu, MySql mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Monday, 4 May, 2015 16:11:24 Subject: Re: create_time That sounds logical. I have

create_time

2015-04-30 Thread Martin Mueller
I had thought that MySQL remembers the date when a table is first created and stores it in the create_time column of Information Schema. But this doesn¹t seem to be the case.On my machine it seems to record the date of most recent access. Which seems odd. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a

Re: create_time

2015-05-01 Thread Martin Mueller
months all of a sudden showed a create_time that was more or less identical with the last update of the table. Which surprised me. From: Pothanaboyina Trimurthy skd.trimur...@gmail.commailto:skd.trimur...@gmail.com Date: Friday, May 1, 2015 at 12:15 AM To: Martin Mueller martinmuel

time stamp specific to columns

2015-04-08 Thread Martin Mueller
I understand how a timestamp column automatically changes when there is a change in a data row. Is it possible to limit the update to changes in particular columns? I have a table where I care about changes in any of four different columns, but I don¹t care about changes in other columns or added

moving inno tables

2015-08-20 Thread Martin Mueller
are identified as not existing, although it is there on the hard drive with substantial byte counts. Is there something I can do about this or is it an intrinsic problem to moving INNO tables? Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University -- MySQL General

installation problem of MySQL on OS Lion

2015-07-29 Thread Martin Mueller
without updating file. I'll be grateful for any help Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Mueller
path mention, but neither does the my.cnf file on a laptop, which works. So there seems to be nothing wrong with the location or content of the my.cnf file. On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Martin Mueller martinmuel...@northwestern.edumailto:martinmuel...@northwestern.edu wrote: I have installed

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Mueller
not a very experienced programmer and have trouble wrestling with the command line. But I think I did my due diligence and didn't find any open doors. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 7/31/15 3:36 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Mueller
help you a lot to practice a little courtesy and refrain from vulgar language. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 7/31/15 9:12 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 31.07.2015 um 15:40 schrieb shawn l.green: 1. Log on to your

pid-file quite

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Mueller
and MySQL is a very popular database. So I don't quite understand why very basic installation and operating procedures are so complicated. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 7/31/15 8:40 AM, shawn l.green shawn.l.gr...@oracle.com wrote: On 7/31

password problem

2015-07-30 Thread Martin Mueller
uninstalled and re-installed the program, but the results are always the same. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql

utf8 options under Mysql

2016-04-21 Thread Martin Mueller
MySQL has a bewildering variety of unicode collation choices. Most of them are language specific, but what is the difference between "utf8-general-ci", "utf8-unicode-ci", and "utf8-unicode-520-ci." Do they differ in the range of characters they can handle or is it just a matter of the cort

parallel installations of mysql

2016-04-20 Thread Martin Mueller
keep the old along the new, just in case something goes wrong/ My friends tell me to use sqlite, and they are probably right since file management is so much simpler. But I find the many builtin functions of MySQL very helpful and don't particularly want to learn a new set. Martin Mueller

... ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file

2016-07-04 Thread Martin Mueller
and unknown dependencies in that approach? Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University

corrupt INNO table

2016-07-02 Thread Martin Mueller
I run MySQL 5.6 on OS 10.11. There is a table that appears to be corrupt: it does not respond to queries, and the command to drop it does not execute. The database seems to be OK in other respects. What can I do to get rid of the table? Would it be safe just to remove the two .frm and .ibd

Re: parallel installations of mysql

2016-07-02 Thread Martin Mueller
on writing called the “curse of ignorance,” the fact that one neither knows nor cares about what the other person doesn’t know. On 7/2/16, 9:11 PM, "Hal.sz S.ndor" <h...@tbbs.net> wrote: 2016/07/02 18:49 ... Martin Mueller: > It’s clear from Section 6.6 of the Reference

Re: parallel installations of mysql

2016-07-02 Thread Martin Mueller
organized functions, and it’s a joy to work with once you have it actually installed an running. I’ll be grateful for any help. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 4/21/16, 5:42 PM, "shawn l.green" <shawn.l.gr...@oracle.com> w

Re: MySQL Platform Migration

2016-09-11 Thread Martin Mueller
. And biting your tongue might be a good thing for others MM Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 9/11/16 12:27 PM, "Ryan Coleman" <ryan.cole...@cwis.biz> wrote: >Because they want to be belittled by european jackasses online. > >

rescue Inno tables from an abandoned data directory?

2016-12-03 Thread Martin Mueller
I abandoned a MySQL 5.22 database that quite suddenly andthat I wasn’t able to start up again. The data directory consists of a mix of ISAM and Inno tables. I was able to copy the ISAM tables into a new 5.6 version, and they work. I understand that INNO tables are different because different

a curse on OS sierra and MySQL?

2016-12-02 Thread Martin Mueller
I have been trying repeatedly and in vain to install the community edition of MySQL 5.7.16 on an iMac running OS sierra. I religiously followed the instructions for uninstalling previous versions found at http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/uninstall-mysql-mac-os-x, and installation

Re: a curse on OS sierra and MySQL?

2016-12-02 Thread Martin Mueller
nk.net> wrote: On 12/2/2016 16:59, Martin Mueller wrote: > I have been trying repeatedly and in vain to install the community edition of MySQL 5.7.16 on an iMac running OS sierra. I religiously followed the instructions for uninstalling previous versions found at https://urldefens

Re: a curse on OS sierra and MySQL?

2016-12-03 Thread Martin Mueller
/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start starts it On 12/3/16, 4:40 PM, "Peter Brawley" <peter.braw...@earthlink.net> wrote: On 12/3/2016 13:58, Martin Mueller wrote: > I was able to install a version of MySQL 5.6 on OS Sierra. It appears that the “launchdaemon’