Server at 99%

2006-06-26 Thread Kim Kohen
Folks, please forgive the newbie panic but I believe I've gotten myself into trouble. After experiencing some problems with a db I decided to run the 'Repair' commands from the MySQL Administrator program. After failing to find anything significant I (somewhat foolishly) ran the Use FRM

Converting varchar field into primary key

2006-05-16 Thread Kim Kohen
Hello, I'm creating a new MySQL database from an existing Filemaker db. My problem is that some of the existing 'numbers' in one column (it was a text field in FMP) have leading zeros. eg: 003, 0007, 012, 001234. I need to maintain these numbers 'as is' - complete with zeros. I've tried

Re: How To Learn php and mysql.

2003-11-24 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Braulio What is the best way to learn php and mysql? What book is recommended for self study of both ? As an absolute newbie I used Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP MySQL from http://www.sitepoint.com/books/phpmysql1/ It got us up and running pretty painlessly.

Re: Removing MySQL from OS X Jaguar

2003-11-05 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Brian I've installed the latest MySQL from www.mysql.com to my computer, but decided later to try the Complete series of web tools to get access to Apache v2. Complete Apache v2 and Complete PHP is installed, but I have to remove the original install of MySQL to install the Complete

Re: MySQL Package Install for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)

2003-10-29 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Sam I am upgrading to Panther and I need to install MySQL. Does anybody know if the Mac OS X Installer Package v10.2 (Standard) works with 10.3? If it doesn't then what would be the best installation method on a clean 10.3 installation? FWIW, I upgraded to Panther on the weekend

Quotes and loading

2003-10-19 Thread Kim Kohen
Hello all I have a bit of a problem with some characters I'm loading from a Filemaker Pro database. The single quotes are stored in MySQL as ASCII character 155 (an 'O' with a tilde over it). I have tried everything I can think of to replace this with the PHP I use to query the db but I have

Connection and query on one line (newbie)

2003-09-16 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day all I'm trying to run a connection and query from one line (it will eventually be called as part of a 'do shell script' Applescript on Mac OSX) The connection works fine: /library/mysql/bin/mysql -uroot -ppassword mydatabase And then I want to load a file using: load data infile

Re: Connection and query on one line (newbie)

2003-09-16 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Victoria You can use mysql in a batch mode like: mysql -e LOAD_DATA_command_here That's perfect, thanks. Exactly what I was looking for and now up and running. Cheers and thanks again kim -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Re: Setting up MySQL on Mac OS X

2003-08-22 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Bob I'm a novice Unix user, and I can't get MySQL set up properly on my Mac. It seems to have installed OK, but when I try to run the mysql_install_ db script, I get errors. I can't set the root password either that the documentation tells me to. There is an alternative

Re: Joins and Unions

2003-08-14 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Jim What about this? That's it, thanks! I'll be fiddling a bit to get a few other columns but so far this seems be be what I want. The only book I have which handles Unions is the MySQL Cookbook (Paul Dubois) and the examples didn't include any 'where' clauses so I didn't realise

Joins and Unions

2003-08-14 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day all, I'm pretty new to MySQL and very new to v4. This is probably going to sound strange, but is it possible to create a union using the logic of a join? I have 4 tables and I need to join data from them, but I'd like to display them like a Union. If I do a straight join, I get lots of

Re: Joins and Unions

2003-08-14 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Nils no offense, but are you actually using the JOIN syntax correctly ? No offence taken - that's why I'm asking the question - I don't know whether I'm approaching this correctly. As I said, I'm new to MySQL ... Could you post your query please ? OK. Adtrack - holds data

Re: Joins and Unions

2003-08-14 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Nils Well, I can't speak for Daniel, and I'm not really up on his tables, but I'm not using left joins. The situation I have is not one where I need to display items that don't exist from one table or another. The data I get from a basic join is the _data_ I want - I just can't get it to

Re: Joins and Unions

2003-08-14 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Nils just send a reply a minute ago. I got it now. You want to change the way the data is presented at the screen and thats a different issue. You would have to make this in your apllication, not with mysql itself I believe. You basically want the DISTINCT function within the JOINS -

Re: client side RAD

2003-02-11 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Charles I am desperately searching for a GUI RAD environment to develop database applications for MySQL. Try www.servoy.com and you might find what you're looking for cheers kim - Before posting, please check:

Re: Problem when POSTING

2002-06-10 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day César I have a problem when posting. The thing is that every time I post to the mailing list, I get an error saying that the message could not be delivered but it does indeed. It's getting delivered to the list OK but one of the subscribers to the list is rejecting it. I've seen

Re: Filemaker Pro and Dates

2002-05-30 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Cameron Of course MySQL stores dates in -MM-DD whilst filemaker uses DD-MM- and so when I import my delimited text file MySQL interprets the dates incorrectly. I can't seem to find a way of changing the date format in Filemaker, This can be done easily (we do it every

Re: search character by character

2002-05-11 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Nic Just by typing part of the word ,how can I make a search in databse possible by using something like SELECT in SQL? Seems like you just need the % wildcard character SELECT LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME, DEPARTMENT FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE LASTNAME LIKE %searchdata%; cheers kim

Re: A very humour game

2002-05-01 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Dave What was this? I just threw it in the bin without opening, but it looks very smelly(presumably even more so if you use OE)! Yes it' a virus - one of the klez variants that are rampant at the moment. It exploits a security hole in IE and creates its own smtp server/socket to

Re: Range of MEDIUMINT, and BIGINT of mySQL type ? (sql query)

2002-04-09 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Son Nguyen Do anybody knows the range of MEDIUMINT, and BIGINT type to use when I do the create table in mySQL ? From the manual at http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/o/Column_types.html MEDIUMINT[(M)] [UNSIGNED] [ZEROFILL] A medium-size integer. The signed range is -8388608 to 8388607.

Load Data Problem

2002-04-03 Thread Kim Kohen
Hello All, I'm having a problem when using Load Data where the single and double quotes in the text file are getting nuked. It appears that the escape character is not being respected but I'm not sure why. It is also knocking out characters near the quotes. The command I'm running is: load

Re: Load Data Problem

2002-04-03 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Colin load data local infile '~/Documents/web export.txt' into table stories fields terminated by ',' enclosed by '' escaped by '\\' lines terminated by '\r' (StoryName,Writer,Heading,Caption,Body,ListDate,Section,Publication); Thanks for your suggestion but sadly it didn't fix

Re: Load Data Problem

2002-04-03 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day All kimtest,Kim,,,this is kim¹s test stories¹ to see how we c¹n accommodate single Œquotes¹ There are a ³couple² of ³double² quotes here to. And ³here are some Œsingle¹ quotes that¹re enclosed in doubles²,2002-4-4,, I seem to have found the problem to my own question and it didn't

Re: filemaker to mysql

2002-03-30 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day rory it is possible to link his filemaker database to the MySQL database Perhaps this php class would be of use to you. From the Read Me: FX.php is a PHP class for accessing FileMaker Pro data. FX is free and open-source. Thanks to FX.php, FileMaker enthusiasts can now access

Re: Trapping for no user input in a query

2002-03-26 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Ron, all Tailor your query to the request of your user(s). if ($param1) $sql .= (ad_copy) against ('$param1'); if ($param1 $param2) € Thank you for your reply. If at all possible though, I'd like to do it from the mysql side rather than the php side of things. Is there such a

Re: Searching on multiple indexed columns

2002-03-20 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Arjen FULLTEXT search generally uses an index (the FULLTEXT index), so the server will not use an index on Writer. So far for the answer to Kim. So is an index on Writers worthless in this circumstance? My concern would be if someone did a query using the writer's name as the

Searching on multiple indexed columns

2002-03-19 Thread Kim Kohen
Hi All, My apologies for asking what may be a very newbie question. I'm having trouble getting my head around searching multiple indexed columns. I have read the MySQL docs 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.4.5 and 6.8 full text and have scoured Paul's book but haven't been able to find an answer. We have a

Searching on multiple indexed columns

2002-03-19 Thread Kim Kohen
Hi All, My apologies for asking what may be a very newbie question. I'm having trouble getting my head around searching multiple indexed columns. I have read the MySQL docs 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.4.5 and 6.8 full text and have scoured Paul's book but haven't been able to find an answer. We have a

Re: Searching on multiple indexed columns

2002-03-19 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Paul Thank you for your response. Sure, but no index will be used for the LIKE pattern match part of the query because your pattern doesn't begin with a literal string. I realised after I sent the previous post that I should have omitted the first '%'. I had mentally noted this

Re: [PHP] Re: A stupid question...

2002-03-10 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Daren $query = SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE LEFT(last_name, 1) == '$letter'); NOTE: LEFT() is a special function, I'd consider it a derivative of SUBSTRING() Does MySQL have a function that can selectively return words from a column? What I'm looking for is the equivalent of

Re: [ANN] Blue World Announces Lasso vs PHP White Paper

2002-03-07 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Cathy we feel it only fair to be given the opportunity to correct said misinformation. You're forgetting that your original mail was forced upon us by you - in my eyes, your right of reply is dissolved with this action. If you don't like the negative response, don't make the

Re: SQL-Problem with three tables and joins

2002-02-13 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day all, For some reason I am receiving messages from the MySQL list (only) which I have already received - some more the a week ago. Is anyone else getting repeat posts? kim - Before posting, please check:

Re: urgent respnse

2002-01-29 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day Michael, (I can't believe I'm _really_ replying to you:-) I don't agree that we should make the list subscribers only, as this would be a big drawback for newcomers to MySQL. I'm a classic newcomer to mysql and have only been on the list for a week or so. It surprised me how much