Re: [PHP-DB] advantages/disads of primary keys and indices?

2001-06-23 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello Noah, On 22-Jun-01 21:17:35, you wrote: what are the advantages and disadvantages of primary keys and indices? A primary key is a unique index. Use indexes for the fields that will be most looked up in the first condition of the WHERE clause of your SQL queries, especially if your

RE: [PHP-DB] ORACLE 8 randomly unsucessful execution

2001-06-23 Thread Graeme Merrall
Do you get an Oracle error code back? What version of PHP are you using? Cheers, Graeme -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ludo Sent: Saturday, 23 June 2001 1:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] ORACLE 8 randomly

[PHP-DB] RE: php: $array[fieldname] gives undefined index err

2001-06-23 Thread Al Savage
** Reply to note from Jonathan Hilgeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:44:57 -0700 Jonathan asks: Whats your query look like? Do you perform any joins? $query = SELECT * FROM $table WHERE CustNo='$CustNo'; Pretty vanilla stuff. [ . . . ] BUT! If the field is NULL, php spits out

[PHP-DB] Design conundrum...

2001-06-23 Thread Jesse Scott
I'm trying to figure out the most elegant way to solve my database design problem and I thought I pick some at the brains on this list. The problem involves 2 tables, one of editors and one of categories, both have unique ID numbers. Each editor can have authority over an arbitrary number of

[PHP-DB] Oracle-PHP (contd.)

2001-06-23 Thread Vandana
With reference to my previous problem in connecting to the oracle database, I found out some additional information. I defined the TNS_ADMIN variable in the startup file and added this line to my php-script: putenv(TNS_ADMIN=/ora1/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/network/admin);

RE: [PHP-DB] Design conundrum...

2001-06-23 Thread Kristian Duske
The problem involves 2 tables, one of editors and one of categories, both have unique ID numbers. Each editor can have authority over an arbitrary number of categories, and conversely, each category can have an arbitrary number of editors. So what is the best way to represent this in the

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP+Linux+MSSQL

2001-06-23 Thread snpe
On Friday 22 June 2001 15:03, Martin Pavlas wrote: Hi all, I'm totaly lost. I have a Linux server (Debian Potato), which runs Apache (1.3.14) + PHP (4.0.5) and MySQL (3.23.39). Now, I need to connect to other machine (NT) which runs MS SQL 7 and I need to insert some data to this machine.

Re: [PHP-DB] advantages/disads of primary keys and indices?

2001-06-23 Thread Ermanno Iannacci
With indices you speed SELECTs, but slow INSERTs and UPDATEs. Noah Spitzer-Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto nel messaggio 9h0n6v$l2h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9h0n6v$l2h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... what are the advantages and disadvantages of primary keys and indices? - Noah -- PHP Database

Re: [PHP-DB] Design conundrum...

2001-06-23 Thread Antonio Mármol Albert
El sábado 23 de junio de 2001 (13:52), Kristian Duske escribió: The problem involves 2 tables, one of editors and one of categories, both have unique ID numbers. Each editor can have authority over an arbitrary number of categories, and conversely, each category can have an arbitrary

Re: [PHP-DB] .htaccess

2001-06-23 Thread Chadwick Rolfs
I just found the apache.org docs on this yesterday. Read about it there, then form a more specific question, as .htacess can do lots of things url: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ that's where I'd begin. Chadwick Rolfs On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, vipin chandran wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me

[PHP-DB] Maximum connections

2001-06-23 Thread Vandana
I am running oracle-8.1.6 on RH 7.0 with apache 1.3.14 and php4.0.4. We are developing a system which might be required to take very heavy loads. How do we improve the load factor so as to enable maximum number of connections simultaneously? What changes have to made to either

Re: [PHP-DB] advantages/disads of primary keys and indices?

2001-06-23 Thread Noah Spitzer-Williams
I see, What about if you had 3 or 4 columns that would always be unique, is there an advantage to naming them as primary keys? does this slow inserts because it has to check if theres a duplicate entry? Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL

[PHP-DB] Load data infile + NULL

2001-06-23 Thread TomazSa
I get *.csv file like this (1 string): 7,'Markovic Stevo','NULL','NULL' When I use LOAD DATA INFILE syntax I get word NULL in cell (MySQL table) q: I want cell to be empty (in table), where the NULL is (in *.csv), how? tomaz, Slovenia

Re: [PHP-DB] advantages/disads of primary keys and indices?

2001-06-23 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello Noah, On 23-Jun-01 12:10:20, you wrote: I see, What about if you had 3 or 4 columns that would always be unique, is there an advantage to naming them as primary keys? does this slow inserts because it has to check if theres a duplicate entry? What really slows down is updating the index

Re: [PHP-DB] advantages/disads of primary keys and indices?

2001-06-23 Thread Noah Spitzer-Williams
Yeah the keys would be part of the first condition of the where clause... this table is like this: username | siteid | bannerid | clicks | someotherstat an update would be like: update tbl set clicks=clicks+1 where username='something' and siteid='something' and bannerid='something' a select

[PHP-DB] Re: Extracting enum/set values from database

2001-06-23 Thread Al Savage
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Jun 2001 06:24:11 - Hello, Todd: Is there a way to dynamically build an option list from an enum/set type? In other words, if I don't know the possible values of the enum or set field ahead of time, how can I retrieve that information at

[PHP-DB] RE: php: $array[fieldname] gives undefined index err

2001-06-23 Thread Al Savage
** Reply to note from Jonathan Hilgeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:44:57 -0700 Jonathan asks: Whats your query look like? Do you perform any joins? Hmmm . . . everything after $query got chopped off, and didn't display in the digest version I received. Well, I'll try again: *

Re: [PHP-DB] advantages/disads of primary keys and indices?

2001-06-23 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello Noah, On 23-Jun-01 14:29:58, you wrote: Yeah the keys would be part of the first condition of the where clause... this table is like this: username | siteid | bannerid | clicks | someotherstat an update would be like: update tbl set clicks=clicks+1 where username='something' and

Re: [PHP-DB] advantages/disads of primary keys and indices?

2001-06-23 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Thank you! this wont slow updates or inserts? Not the updates. The update query will use the index to lookup find the table line that it will update. Then, since you will not change any of the indexed columns the index does not need to be updated too. Manuel Lemos - Original

[PHP-DB] session_end()

2001-06-23 Thread Chadwick Rolfs
dear list I have attempted to use session end to no avail. I have a self-referencing form with a button, that when checked and sent, calls session_end(). I get a call to undefined function error. Does there need to be something compiled into the php module? Everything else seems to work with

Re: [PHP-DB] Design conundrum...

2001-06-23 Thread Stephen van Egmond
Antonio M?rmol Albert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: With index in the third table, How would it be ? It depends on the dynamics of the application. 1) If you have to ask what cateogories does the editor edit?, you create an index on editor. 2) If you have toa sk what editors does this category

RE: [PHP-DB] session_end()

2001-06-23 Thread olinux
try session_destroy() olinux -Original Message- From: Chadwick Rolfs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] session_end() dear list I have attempted to use session end to no avail. I have a self-referencing form with

[PHP-DB] PhpDEV

2001-06-23 Thread Brett Shaw
www.oosha.com/phpdev/index.php3 Ive had some great response to the site but not as much as id hoped if you have any ideas please email them to me and ill implement them -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] Design conundrum...

2001-06-23 Thread Kristian Duske
With index in the third table, How would it be ? PRIMARY KEY (editor, category) or KEY (editor), KEY (category) What's the better (more efficient and correct) ?? I don't really know - I personally use a third id field as a primary key, but if you want to use REPLACE to update / insert

[PHP-DB] Subtracting times?

2001-06-23 Thread Matthew Cothier
I really need help here. What I am trying to do is the following. - $today = date(m.d.y); $time = date(g:i a); if($row[3] == $today){ if(($row[4] $time) and ($time $row[6])){ print(Now Showing); } else { print(Today at $row[4]); } }

Re: [PHP-DB] Subtracting times?

2001-06-23 Thread Ted Rolle
check out http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php If you still need assistance, I'm here. On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Matthew Cothier wrote: I really need help here. What I am trying to do is the following. - $today = date(m.d.y); $time = date(g:i a); if($row[3] ==

Re: [PHP-DB] MAIL from php

2001-06-23 Thread Andreas D. Landmark
At 22.06.2001 16:22, you wrote: Very strange Warning: mail() is not supported in this PHP build in /virtual/sergio/public/prova.php on line 18 What's this ? This is _totally_ unrelated to php-db, and should have been posted on the php-general list! But basically your php install hasn't

Re: [PHP-DB] MAIL from php

2001-06-23 Thread TomazSa
e, sergio (oz. admin), rekompajlaj php na serverju z mail() funkcijo omogoceno, oz. jo omogoci kako drugace, ce znas:) p.s. in ni prova, nego je proba :) lp, tomaz At 22.06.2001 16:22, you wrote: Very strange Warning: mail() is not supported in this PHP build in