Re: Mysql Updation problem

2004-07-30 Thread Matthew McNicol
How are you trying to do the updates (command line, web application, etc.)? Matthew McNicol T UmaShankari wrote: Hello, Actually i am running mysql in my localpc. when i was trying to update some contents during runtime it is not updating. But mysql is running. Can anyone please tell me where

Re: Data loading

2004-07-30 Thread Matthew McNicol
infile is a lot faster. Matthew McNicol Michael Gale wrote: Hello, I have a question about data loading using mysql 4.0.20. If you need to load let's say 50,000 items into a database. Now 50,000 is not a lot for a DB. So my question is would it be fast to load the file using the local i

Re: Tuning MySQL for Large Database

2004-07-22 Thread Matthew McNicol
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Re: Commas Missing.

2004-07-18 Thread Matthew McNicol
ng a MySql table. Thanks in advance, Braulio. -- _____ Matthew McNicol yellowmarker.co.uk PHP / MySQL web development -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

odbc

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew McNicol
would like to be able to use MS Access for reporting purposes. I don't think odbc is available via the hosted webspace so I may have to export the data periodically to the MS Access database using cron/scheduling. Any recommendations? Matth

Re: Can I change the date format...

2003-08-16 Thread Matthew McNicol
- Original Message - From: "Victoria Reznichenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Can I change the date format... > Karam Chand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there anyway to change the default date format > > (possibly

Re: Cant login as a user I thought I created

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew McNicol
It's not enough to just specify the user name in the grant statement. You need to specify the host or '%' for any host (section 4.3.1 GRANT and REVOKE Syntax in the manual). Try... mysql> grant all on marksstuff.* to 'mark'@'localhost' identified by 'password'; mysql> flush privileges; Then to l

Re: USE database prompt

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew McNicol
see section '4.8.2 mysql, The Command-line Tool' in the manual if you normally see 'mysql>' as your prompt. the following command would do it: mysql> prompt \d> resulting in, for example, the prompt of 'test>' where you are using the database 'test'. '\u' would give you the username, e.g. mysq

Re: Updating table based upon matching field in second table

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew McNicol
you were close, try:- update books, authors set books.AuthorID = authors.AuthorID where books.first_name = authors.first_name and books.last_name = authors.last_name; Notes - you have loaded the existing flat file into a MySQL table called books. - you mentioned that you have altered the b

Re: Can MySQL 4.0.14 store HTML? Among other things....

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew McNicol
Yes, you can store HTML, Javascript, and Flash code in MySQL (since they are processed by the client web browser). And yes, you can store PHP code in MySQL, but since this has to be processed on the server side you need to use the eval() function to execute it once it is retrieved from the databa

Re: Filtering special-chars

2003-08-12 Thread Matthew McNicol
try the PHP function htmlspecialchars() see the following article:- http://www.yellowmarker.co.uk/articles/unicode/index.php - Original Message - From: "Steffen Gebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: Fi

Re: Using a foreign character set in MYSQL

2003-08-11 Thread Matthew McNicol
This isn't a complete answer but it may point you in the right direction... I had some experience of using localized text (most of the popular languages) in a database a couple of years ago. That was using Oracle but the lessons are the same. Initially Oracle was not UTF-8 enabled. Alot of text c

Re: MySql Control Center

2003-08-09 Thread Matthew McNicol
In Windows MySQLCC open a query window; select query menu; query window options; query options tab; set SQL_BIG_SELECTS=1. http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SET_OPTION.html Quote: SQL_BIG_SELECTS = 0 | 1 If set to 0, MySQL will abort if a SELECT is attempted that probably will take a very long time. T

Re: Nested SELECT statements problem

2003-08-03 Thread Matthew McNicol
>The only problem I see is when there are concurrent access to the table >"livreTemp", e.g. when there are multiple simultaneous requests of that >kind. Is there a better way for achieving this under mySQL 3? Yes, concurrent access would be a problem. I think I have the answer using a single que

Re: retrieving rows by insertion order

2003-08-01 Thread Matthew McNicol
You should use what you referred to as an insertion counter field. I'd call it a "id" field that uses auto_increment. It's very useful to use this and by definition it enables you to retrieve the data in the order that it was inserted. > - Original Message - > From: "Murad Nayal" <[EM

Re: Check table wildcard syntax?

2003-07-29 Thread Matthew McNicol
no one is using the tables while you are running myisamchk. In MySQL Version 3.23 the easiest way to avoid this problem is to use CHECK TABLE instead of myisamchk to check tables. - Original Message - From: "Sigurd Urdahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

Re: Check table wildcard syntax?

2003-07-29 Thread Matthew McNicol
The recommended way to quickly check all tables is: myisamchk --silent --fast /path/to/datadir/*/*.MYI isamchk --silent /path/to/datadir/*/*.ISM that's from the mysql manual, sectio 4.4.6 Using myisamchk for Table Maintenance and Crash Recovery - Original Message - From: "Sigurd Urd