RE: innodb/myisam performance issues

2008-09-04 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hello Josh, why you moved your table to InnoDB? Your description doesn't sound like the tables rows are accessed concurrently and need to be locked? Are you sure you need InnoDB for this table? If you need InnoDB you probably need to redesign your queries and table structure to get them more

RE: innodb/myisam performance issues

2008-09-04 Thread Tom Horstmann
The rows in this table are accessed concurrently as any activity on the site is recorded/added/updated to this table. We have several others which serve similar purposes, (sessions, totaltraffic, etc...). Is the performance lag occurring with read-only queries and updates/inserts to the

RE: innodb/myisam performance issues

2008-09-04 Thread Tom Horstmann
between 16-32MB if you have many transactions. TomH -Original Message- From: Tom Horstmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:15 PM To: 'Josh Miller' Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: innodb/myisam performance issues The rows in this table are accessed

RE: innodb/myisam performance issues

2008-09-04 Thread Tom Horstmann
To: Tom Horstmann Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: innodb/myisam performance issues Tom Horstmann wrote: Addendum.. Please also try increasing your innodb_log_file_size to a much higher value if you have lots of writes/transactions. Maybe 250MB is a good first try. You need to delete/move

RE: Large Query Question.

2008-09-03 Thread Tom Horstmann
Right... and perhaps try MySQL Enterprise Monitor. A trial is available from mysql.com. It may give you hints on your mysql.cnf. Kind regards, TomH -Original Message- From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:35 PM To: Jim Leavitt Cc:

RE: URGENT: Question on table storage

2006-12-19 Thread Tom Horstmann
. And after that time you could simply create a new table. hth, Tom Horstmann -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Reload Problem - Mass-Reload crashes DB

2006-01-14 Thread Tom Horstmann
Dear Marco, i'm not sure, this can be solved by MySQL itself, but if you're e.g. using php you may try to use mysql_pconnect () instead of mysql_connect (). Please see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-pconnect.php and http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php In your

RE: [OT] Reload Problem - Mass-Reload crashes DB

2006-01-14 Thread Tom Horstmann
PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:27 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Reload Problem - Mass-Reload crashes DB Thanks for your quick reply. Thanks a lot for your help Marco Tom Horstmann wrote: Dear Marco, i'm not sure, this can be solved by MySQL itself

RE: Strangely large InnoDB file

2005-06-14 Thread Tom Horstmann
I have MySQL 4.1.12 running on a MacOS X 10.4.1 development setup where I often load a 1Gb db and later on drop it/reload/generally make a mess. I just noticed that though the database is holding only 4 small records totalling less than 1k, my ibdata1 file is sitting at over 800Mb. I'm

RE: Repost: Lower Case Problems with Win XP Pro and 5.0.6 MySQL

2005-06-14 Thread Tom Horstmann
mysql create table ABC (col1 varchar(10)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec) mysql show tables; +--+ | Tables_in_userdb | +--+ | abc | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql NOTE THE FACT THAT THE TABLE IS created in

MySQL-Ado.net- Provider

2005-01-21 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hi, i need some assistance in choosing an ADO.NET- provider for MySQL. We will port an app from Visual Objects to C# soon. Currently we are using the C-API. Our tables are mainly innoDB and we use transactions. We will use relations. Most of our customers have - 5-20 concurrent users - the

RE: number of connections

2005-01-21 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hi Marcelo, Hi I was wondering if there is a way to give the a number of connections that I want simultaniusly to the database, supose I only want that 8 computers to access the database at the same time try max_connections to limit the connections the server allows.

RE: Best way to access field name in C

2004-10-11 Thread Tom Horstmann
Dear Matthew, PHP --- $res = mysql_real_query($mysql,SELECT col1, col2 FROM table); while($row = mysql_fetch_row($res)) { print $row['col1']; print $row['col2']; } Is the only way/best way to do the above in C by using a nested for-loop? Ex: fields =

RE: Import DBF data into MySQL table

2004-09-02 Thread Tom Horstmann
Is there a way to directly import DBF data into MySQL table or do I HAVE to convert it into CSV (Using EXCEL) or some other method? Not as far as i know, but there are some tools out there. Do a google for dbf2mysql. Regards, TomH -- PROSOFT EDV-Loesungen GmbH Co. KGphone: +49 941 /

(innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 0) == 1

2004-08-31 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hi all, do you know how to set innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 0? Why is it to be 0? Regards, TomH -- PROSOFT EDV-Loesungen GmbH Co. KGphone: +49 941 / 78 88 7 - 121 Ladehofstrasse 28, D-93049 Regensburg cellphone: +49 174 / 41 94 97 0 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Axel-Wilhelm Wegmann [EMAIL

RE: help!

2004-08-23 Thread Tom Horstmann
I know i have to connect first to the server. I tried issuing the command like this: mysql mysql -h localhost -u root -p; but it says error in syntax. if i take out the semi colon, the shell would just add a '-' below. You are already running mysql by typing that. You should have read the

RE: newbie question on scrolling through a table one record at a time

2004-08-20 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hi Kerry, The problem is more fundamental with the scrolling through the records/rows of Master. [..] It is not sensible to allow 200 million pieces of data to be transferred to the Delphi PC to build a local Dataset to scroll through. [..] Getting the first row is easy select * from

skip through records (dbf-mysql)

2004-06-18 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hi all, i try to simulate dBase-like record-skips through a compound (dbf-) order. Anybody did that before? Please give me a hint. thx in advance, TomH -- PROSOFT EDV-Lösungen GmbH Co. KG phone: +49 941 / 78 88 7 - 121 Ladehofstraße 28, D-93049 Regensburg cellphone: +49 174 / 41 94 97 0

RE: Unique IDs

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hi Craig, I have a very large web app that uses timestamp for unique IDs. Everything was rolling fine until we started getting many users per second, causing some of the unique IDs to not be unique -- users were being assigned the same timestamp. Since the web app is so large we don't want

DB layout - solutions needed

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hi all, i want to store an unfixed number of object-characteristics of an unfixed datatype for 1-8000 objects. Data is mostly read, rarely written. Is there an quite optimal table-structure for that? If i use one table for all characteristics i need as many columns as there are datatypes used.

RE: DB layout - solutions needed

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Horstmann
Thanks Chris, Will you have an object hierarchy of any type to speak of? no hierarchy, they're all roots. Which language are you looking at building this funky thing in? If it's Java or C++, you might want to look at persistant object stores that are specifically for this purpose (for

RE: DB layout - solutions needed

2004-01-16 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hi Brad, create table entity ( ent_id number primary key, ent_namevarchar(50) ); create table nameval ( nv_id number primary key, nv_ent_id number, nv_name varchar(50), nv_val varchar(50) ); That is

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: 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: Urgent problem

2003-11-13 Thread Tom Horstmann
I did something very stupid: I locked myself out of the MySQL server (all accounts, incl administrator)... My problem: I use MySQLFront to change the allowed hosts and did it for all users. They were 'localhost' and I set them to 'localhost; EcolMod1' where the EcolMod1 is the name of

RE: please help out

2003-10-28 Thread Tom Horstmann
Now, how can I save only these 1000++ data into a file in my pc? Normaly you should get the data into a file with that something you sent the query to mysql with. What is that something in your case? Regards, TomH -- PROSOFT EDV-Lösungen GmbH Co. KG Geschäftsführer: Axel-Wilhelm Wegmann AG

RE: SELECT 9 BETWEEN 1 AND 0

2003-10-21 Thread Tom Horstmann
The question is how can I use some sort of statement using mysql and php to select all rows between 1 and 0 NOT 0 and 9 like the above statement performs. Sure, an option was nicer, but isn't the following possible? SELECT ... WHERE ... AND ( x BETWEEN 1 AND 9 OR x BETWEEN 0 AND 1 )

RE: Database Design and Bianry Operations

2003-10-14 Thread Tom Horstmann
Lee, I get the feeling there is a more efficient method using binary operations (only one field populated with zeros and ones) but I can't find anything to help in the manuals. i think you should try to avoid such thing as much as you can. Storing more than one piece of data in a column