Re: left not working [solved]

2005-10-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/21/05, Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 06:34 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Why would this work: > > SELECT question, short, longa, technical FROM -snip- WHERE > > filename='$filename' > > > > But this not: > > SELECT question, short, left(longa,40), te

Re: implicit cast forces table scan?

2005-10-20 Thread Michael Stassen
Olaf Faaland wrote: Hi, I am currently using mysql 4.0.18 as distributed with red hat Linux. I find when I perform a select on a varchar(30) field, the index is used only if I have quoted the value in the where clause. Otherwise, mysql performs a table scan. A varchar(30) field is a string,

Re: left not working

2005-10-20 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 06:34 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Why would this work: > SELECT question, short, longa, technical FROM -snip- WHERE > filename='$filename' > > But this not: > SELECT question, short, left(longa,40), technical FROM -snip- WHERE > filename='$filename' If you want it to work l

left not working

2005-10-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
Why would this work: SELECT question, short, longa, technical FROM -snip- WHERE filename='$filename' But this not: SELECT question, short, left(longa,40), technical FROM -snip- WHERE filename='$filename' The line that looks like this: $long =mysql_result($result, 0, "longa"); Is throwing this er

Re: Terrible MySQL Administrator

2005-10-20 Thread Scott Haneda
on 10/20/05 4:01 AM, Rich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks. > > Since I installed MySQL Administrator on OS X and tried to put a schedule in > for a backup, the thing simply won't go away. It sends an email into my > mail app in the terminal on a daily basis and it's driving me > mad...slo

Re: Terrible MySQL Administrator

2005-10-20 Thread Ryan Escarez
On 10/20/05, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks. > > Since I installed MySQL Administrator on OS X and tried to put a schedule in > for a backup, the thing simply won't go away. It sends an email into my > mail app in the terminal on a daily basis and it's driving me > mad...slowly...bit b

Re: Dropped a field, need fix emergency

2005-10-20 Thread SGreen
Scott Haneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/20/2005 08:11:27 PM: > I dropped a field in a table, I have a backup, so is what I have done is > imported the backup of the table to a new table, so I have table "sessions" > which has a empty field for "session_key" > > I now have sessions_backup wh

Re: one product in more categories

2005-10-20 Thread SGreen
Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier today. I have had a busy day. Comments embedded... "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/20/2005 04:35:30 PM: > Could you please tell me should this work? > > CREATE TABLE categories ( > cat_id INTEGER(8) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, >

problems with key_buffer_size > 4 GBytes

2005-10-20 Thread Lopez David E-r9374c
solaris box with 16 Gbytes of memory os using 5.8, mysql at 4.0.20_64bit with key_buffer_size set to 6144m, the mysqld crashes and re-starts (mysql_safe) under heavy load (1day to 1week). prior to this, key_buffer_size set to 1.5G and no crashes since early 2004. the process size is 2G even tho

Dropped a field, need fix emergency

2005-10-20 Thread Scott Haneda
I dropped a field in a table, I have a backup, so is what I have done is imported the backup of the table to a new table, so I have table "sessions" which has a empty field for "session_key" I now have sessions_backup which has all the data, there is a pk called id I need to run a sql update that

Compiling a MySQL Client using Apple's xCode

2005-10-20 Thread Bruce Martin
Hello all, I have been working on a MySQL client which I wrote in Apple's xCode. The client works as long as it is on my machine which has MySQL installed, however if I send the client to another computer which does not have MySQL installed it does not work. I am under the impression I need t

Re: Input on Materialized Views

2005-10-20 Thread Pooly
2005/10/20, Heikki Tuuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrew, > > how about using triggers to recompute materialized views? A challenge is to > write an automatic program that can compute the required triggers based on > the view definition. The materialized view would be a normal table. Triggers > would

Re: one product in more categories

2005-10-20 Thread Peter Brawley
Yep, now you try to build a frontend around it, then the users will tell you what's wrong with it ("the purpose of the first solution is to understand the problem"). PB - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somethign like this? insert into products values (null, 'AP1520', 'Ultra Blend 50/50 Sport

Bug in 4.0? 'CREATE TABLE `db`.`table ..' fails silently on replication slave

2005-10-20 Thread Atle Veka
I ran into a problem on a replication setup, where if you issue the following CREATE statement on the master the table will get created and the query entered into the binlog, however the slave ignores it silently: CREATE TABLE `db`.`table` (a INT DEFAULT 0) I have duplicated this exact iss

Re: one product in more categories

2005-10-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Somethign like this? insert into products values (null, 'AP1520', 'Ultra Blend 50/50 Sport Shirt', '5.6 ounce, 50% cotton/ 50% polyester fabric. Contoured collar and cuffs, double-stitched seams. Clean finished placket with reinforced box and 3 woodtone buttons. Sizes M-3X.', 'Neutrals - White

Re: one product in more categories

2005-10-20 Thread Peter Brawley
afan, The model is progressing. The test for how well it works is what happens when you ask it to represent all presently known types of products. What happens when you hae to apply two 'methods' to one product? PB - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please tell me should this work?

Re: one product in more categories

2005-10-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could you please tell me should this work? CREATE TABLE categories ( cat_id INTEGER(8) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, cat_name VARCHAR(45) NULL, cat_description TEXT NULL, cat_parent INTEGER(4) UNSIGNED NULL, cat_status ENUM('0','1') NULL, PRIMARY KEY(cat_id) ) TYPE=InnoDB; CREATE TABL

Re: Input on Materialized Views

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew Roth
On 10/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So... which of the many storage engines are you hoping to extend? It would > be nice if you could do them all but I think we all anticipate that InnoDB > will pose special challenges. After a bit of group consultation, we've decided to

Re: reinstall mysql show innodb error

2005-10-20 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Shuming, http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-configuration.html you have to specify the right size for: innodb_log_file_size=14M in your my.cnf or my.ini. Please also check from: C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\data how many ib_logfiles you have. If you have more than 2, s

Re: Input on Materialized Views

2005-10-20 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Andrew, how about using triggers to recompute materialized views? A challenge is to write an automatic program that can compute the required triggers based on the view definition. The materialized view would be a normal table. Triggers would update it. Regards, Heikki Oracle/Innobase -

Temp tables

2005-10-20 Thread Erich C. Beyrent
Hi all, I am running into a brick wall with a query that is running against a MySQL 3x database, and the temp tables are filling up before the query can run. Here is the query: SELECT Avails.ResortID, Inventory.ID as InventoryID, Avails.ID as AvailabilityID, DATE_FORMAT(Avail

MySQL 4.1.15 has been released

2005-10-20 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi, MySQL 4.1.15, a new version of the popular Open Source Database Management System, has been released. The Community Edition is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ and mirror sites. Note that not all mir

Re: load data infile

2005-10-20 Thread sheeri kritzer
Yemi, For a first debugging step, have php print out the $sql variable to a screen. Then copy and paste that to a mysql client, and make sure you get the same error. That's good to debug any script -- make sure the query that the script is doing can actually run. Sometimes it's in how php parse

Re: copy database other than mysqldump

2005-10-20 Thread sheeri kritzer
You could also try the mysqlhotcopy binary, if it exists in your bin/ directory. I don't remember when that came out, but you might have it. You don't have to stop the instance for that. -Sheeri On 10/20/05, Clyde Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could copy the entire mysql directory stru

Re: copy database other than mysqldump

2005-10-20 Thread Clyde Lewis
You could copy the entire mysql directory structure to an isolated area on disk. This will involve stopping the instance though. Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Hi. I'm using 4.0.18 and for legacy reasons I can't upgrade that. However I'm upgrading the database to a new schema. I want to copy the da

Re: ARCHIVE storage engine and INSERT DELAY in MySQL 4.1

2005-10-20 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 04:34 pm, Mihail Manolov wrote: > It's the way our code is written, and I just changed the table type and > began getting this error. We have lots of data to insert into this > table, therefore the optimal option is to use DELAYED and insert them in > blocks. > > Not s

reinstall mysql show innodb error

2005-10-20 Thread wang shuming
Hi, Our mysql 4.1 database server on win2000 was uninstalled by mistake, but reinstalled , caused the follow errors: InnoDB: Error: log file .\ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 14680064 bytes InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 10485760 bytes! 051020 19:30:42 [ERROR] Can't init databases 0

load data infile

2005-10-20 Thread 'Yemi Obembe
i'm having a problem with the load data infile command...i'm actually running the script from a php script that goes this way: the script and the txt file movies.txt reside on the same directory. runnign the page, i get the error: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version my m

load data infile

2005-10-20 Thread 'Yemi Obembe
i'm having a problem with the load data infile command...i'm actually running the script from a php script that goes this way: the script and the txt file movies.txt reside on the same directory. runnign the page, i get the error: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version my m

Terrible MySQL Administrator

2005-10-20 Thread Rich
Hi folks. Since I installed MySQL Administrator on OS X and tried to put a schedule in for a backup, the thing simply won't go away. It sends an email into my mail app in the terminal on a daily basis and it's driving me mad...slowly...bit by bit. Can someone suggest how I get rid of these email

Re: database won't load after machine reboot

2005-10-20 Thread Scott Haneda
on 10/19/05 7:47 PM, Luke Vanderfluit at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't access the database as root anymore. > Accessing as other users doesn't allow me to set any GRANT statements. > Is there any way I can reset the root password? (Ouch). You probably want to start it up with the skip grants

Re: mysql on raid 1 or raid 5?

2005-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 16:57:36 +0800, Hiu Yen Onn wrote: > hi all, > > currently, i have a machine with raid 1 and raid 5 (backplane). in order > to boost up the mysql performance, does it advise install /var/ (mysql > data directory) into raid 1 or raid 5? please advise. thanks RAID-5 o

Repeated, occasional 2002 Connect errors/Aborted connections

2005-10-20 Thread Viktor Fougstedt
Hi. We have a MySQL database as backend on our 15.000 user mailserver. This MySQL instance receives a large amount of connections, each performing just a small amount of processing (a few SELECT:s) before disconnecting. Our mysql.err log is filling up with lines like the below: 051020 1

mysql on raid 1 or raid 5?

2005-10-20 Thread Hiu Yen Onn
hi all, currently, i have a machine with raid 1 and raid 5 (backplane). in order to boost up the mysql performance, does it advise install /var/ (mysql data directory) into raid 1 or raid 5? please advise. thanks -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To

Re: Checking Multiplicity Constraints and Retrieving Details from Error Messages

2005-10-20 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 20 Oct 2005 10:13:56 +0200, Harald Fuchs wrote: > Jochem van Dieten writes: >> >> Back in reality you don't enforce this using DDL. Apart from the fact >> that I wouldn't know a single database that implements ASSERTIONs >> according to the SQL standard, can you imagine having to run some >> SEL

Re: Checking Multiplicity Constraints and Retrieving Details from Error Messages

2005-10-20 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Back in reality you don't enforce this using DDL. Apart from the fact > that I wouldn't know a single database that implements ASSERTIONs > according to the SQL standard, can you imagine having to run some > SELECT fk

Re: Multiple INNER JOINS

2005-10-20 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 10/19/05, Peter Brawley wrote: >> >> I am having problems with the following query: I am >> trying to join Tax_Bands and Property_Types to Properties >> but the query seems to be joning Tax_Bands to Properties. > > That query generates no error in 5.0.13. There have been several cascading > join

Re: Checking Multiplicity Constraints and Retrieving Details from Error Messages

2005-10-20 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hello Jochem, > >> That doesn't help: check constraints are evaluated only on insert and > >> update, not on delete. That's why you need an assertion. > > > > Hmmm, would that be SQL standard? Or implementation specific? > > It is at the very least implied in the SQL standard. > > > > From a logic

Re: Checking Multiplicity Constraints and Retrieving Details from Error Messages

2005-10-20 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 10/20/05, Martijn Tonies wrote: >> >> That doesn't help: check constraints are evaluated only on insert and >> update, not on delete. That's why you need an assertion. > > Hmmm, would that be SQL standard? Or implementation specific? It is at the very least implied in the SQL standard. > From

can i replicating innodb table?

2005-10-20 Thread Hiu Yen Onn
can i replicating innoble tables? does the master db and the slave db will having the same of information when they are doing replication? thanks. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

copy database other than mysqldump

2005-10-20 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. I'm using 4.0.18 and for legacy reasons I can't upgrade that. However I'm upgrading the database to a new schema. I want to copy the database before I make changes to the schema, so that if anything goes wrong, I can revert back. I have a dump file of the database but that is around 5GIG,