mysqld_safe starts, but mysqld(API) node "not connected"

2004-10-19 Thread John Stile
I start the management node, then the ndbd node, followed by mysqld API node. mysqld (api node) starts, and I can log into it (mysql -u root -p), but it is not listed as a "connected" mysqld(API) using ndb_mgm show. Is there some thing I have to clear? It did connect once, but will not reconnect

OT sites mirroring the list

2004-10-19 Thread martin fasani
Just did a google search on my company email because I'm receiving a lot of spam and discovered that a lot of sites are taking mysql list and publishing our emails everywhere. E.g www.webservertalk.com archives.neohapsis.com/archives/mysql/ Is there any way to hide our emails so they don't appear

Re: Date as Primary ID

2004-10-19 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
Ferhat BINGOL wrote: Hi Scoot, I do my table structure like that CREATE TABLE `test_table` ( `timestamp` date NOT NULL default '-00-00', `data` varchar(5) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`timestamp`), KEY `timestamp` (`timestamp`) ) TYPE=MyISAM; Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think t

Re: Script question

2004-10-19 Thread Philippe Poelvoorde
mysql> system echo hi there; mysql> system ls -ls; mysql> system uname-a; all work on the 2.4.22-10mdk kernel and the semi-colon is optional. mysql> system echo "hi there" should be also working, the first parameters 'echo' is recognized as the command to execute, and the folowings strings the

Re: Varchar and InnoDB

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Filip, - Original Message - From: "Filip Rachunek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:33 AM Subject: Varchar and InnoDB Hello, I have a big table in my InnoDB database (more than 10 million rows) and it contains a column of varchar(4

Re: Which Filesystem to choose?

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Chris, - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:24 AM Subject: Which Filesystem to choose? Hi, I'm trying to set up a new Opteron-Based MySQL-Server. The only thing I'm unsure about is which filesystem to choose.

Re: Table creation Time stamp

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:43 PM Subject: RE: Table creation Time stamp --=_alternative 005527E185256F2C_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" By Jove! you are right! Sorry! I can't

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Re: CORRECT WAY TO SQUEEZE INNODB 4.0.17

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Massimo, - Original Message - From: ""Massimo Petrini"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 7:57 PM Subject: CORRECT WAY TO SQUEEZE INNODB 4.0.17 I my network I have 1 master and 4 slaves. I need to squeeze the innodb on my master; which

Re: Chinese

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hassan, - Original Message - From: "Hassan Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 6:55 PM Subject: Chinese Hi, How do I handle Chinese text (along with regular English) in my database? I am using INNODB tables. you can use MySQL-4.1

Re: Innodb foreign keys names

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Richard, you have to use a fairly recent 4.0 or 4.1 version of MySQL. Best regards, Heikki Tuuri Innobase Oy Foreign keys, transactions, and row level locking for MySQL InnoDB Hot Backup - a hot backup tool for InnoDB which also backs up MyISAM tables http://www.innodb.com/order.php Order MySQL t

From .txt to MySQL

2004-10-19 Thread roime puniran
Hi.. I have 30 text file that contains of sort of data about wheather...Each text file contains the information about weather in one day. So, i have 30 text file, which contains all the info about weather in 30 days(1 month). All the attributes in all the text files are same (date, date, rain scal

Re: corruption after database restore

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Baba, - Original Message - From: "Baba Buehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 12:34 AM Subject: corruption after database restore I'm having a corruption problem after doing a backup and then a restore with ibbackup (v1.40). Afte

Re: Preserving backslashes in DML

2004-10-19 Thread Wolfram Kraus
Tom Kirkman wrote: What are the options available for inserting\updating a MySQL table VARCHAR with a string containing backslash characters so that the backslash characters are preserved as is? For example, the UNC string '\\MyServer\MyDir ' would be changed on the way in to the VARCHAR to becom

Re: Innodb foreign keys names

2004-10-19 Thread Martijn Tonies
Heikki, > you have to use a fairly recent 4.0 or 4.1 version of MySQL. Does a newer version allow you to change/set the names yourself? With regards, Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL Server. Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com >

Sequences and Synomyms

2004-10-19 Thread lakshmi.narasimharao
Hi, I am new to mysql. I want to create sequences in mysql 4.0 which should be equivalent to oracle sequences. I gone through the mysql manual, Auto_Increment(), C API mysql_insert_id() and LAST_INSERT_ID() are there for sequences. Last_insert_id() gives the last value. I want actual migration

Re: Sequences and Synomyms

2004-10-19 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hello, > I am new to mysql. I want to create sequences in mysql 4.0 which > should be equivalent to oracle sequences. I gone through the mysql > manual, Auto_Increment(), C API mysql_insert_id() and LAST_INSERT_ID() > are there for sequences. Last_insert_id() gives the last value. > I want act

Sequences and Synomyms

2004-10-19 Thread lakshmi.narasimharao
Hi, I am new to mysql. I want to create sequences in mysql 4.0 which should be equivalent to oracle sequences. I gone through the mysql manual, Auto_Increment(), C API mysql_insert_id() and LAST_INSERT_ID() are there for sequences. Last_insert_id() gives the last value. I want actual migratio

Re: Modify type

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Jerry Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have field date type of "datetime". I need to modify to "timestamp". > If I alter the table and mofiy the field will this crash the data in > the field. MySQL server will crash? Please show us the error message. -- For technical support contract

Re: Ask for help on a mysql problem

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Teng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's really clear what you want. Please specify. If what you basicaly want is just a tree structure, then it's done like that: CREATE TABLE something ( id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, parent INT NOT NULL, data1 CHAR(255

Re: Unable to Start MySQL on FreeBSD4.10 box

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
"Lynette Tillner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm setting up a development box with FreeBSD 4.10 and installed MySQL = > 4.0.12 on it. Everything in the install appeared to work smoothly.=20 > > However, when I go to start MySQL I get an error that says:=20 > > database list could not be retrie

Re: create table....select * from table anomaly..

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
It's rather a different behaviour. We suggest to upgrade to 4.0.21 in this case. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Egor Egorov /

Re: hotcopy - segfault

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
James Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to run mysqlhotcopy on multiple Debian stable systems, am getting > segfaults on some of them. We're using mysql-4.0.20 from the binary > release off mysql.com. strace says: > [] > I'm no expert - can anyone identify the fault? Running as root use

Re: Transactions dilemma

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Stuart Felenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a slight dilemma. I am using transactions to > insert data into multiple tables. All but one table > is Innodb. That one is Myisam and it's left as such > because its one text column, so I want the benefits of > full text search. > > Still

Re: strange user permissions error

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Check tables in mysql database with myisamchk. This might me some kind of table corruptions. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Eg

Re: Ask for help on a mysql problem

2004-10-19 Thread Martijn Tonies
Egor, others, > It's really clear what you want. Please specify. > > If what you basicaly want is just a tree structure, then it's done like that: > > > CREATE TABLE something ( > id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, > parent INT NOT NULL, > data1 CHAR(255), > data2 CHAR(255), > ... > > );

Re: Problems with mysqldump

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/GRANT.html -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMA

Re: Which Filesystem to choose?

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up a new Opteron-Based MySQL-Server. > The only thing I'm unsure about is which filesystem to choose.. > > ext3? ReiserFS? XFS? > What's your experience? ext3 is the safest. For both others I'd suggest you to have UPS for your se

Re: Blob question

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Steve Grosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just getting into the whole MySql (was using access). Is it better > to create a Blob type and insert a image into it, or to create a char > file type and have a directory structure to the specific file? It's FAQ. One of the most FA Q. Store image

Re: just testing, sorry.

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
tibyke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pls delete it Done, deleted from my computer. :-)) -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Egor E

Re: MySQL TMPDIR.

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
You can be sure that MySQL won't loose any data in this case. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_

Re: Fatal Error on db

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not a MySQL error. it's a bug in the application. > > I am using php/mysql for a program and everything > installed fine but when I try to open it up I get this > error: > > Fatal Error : Couldn't find local config file. > File Name : /program/admin/index.php >

Re: Transactions dilemma

2004-10-19 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Egor, Thank you , I wasn't sure anyone would ever respond to this post :) What I wound up doing is , from the application level, running an if / else. The if checks to see if each $query has succeeded. If any of them failed, I do a rollback. If they all have succeeded, I then do a committ. No

Re: From .txt to MySQL

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
"roime puniran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is, how can I dump all the data from text file into > mySQL without specifies the names of the text file..It's mean > that, we only specifies the extention of text file (*.txt) then > by that way i can dump all into mysql?... You can write

Re: Tables and performance

2004-10-19 Thread Egor Egorov
Yves Arsenault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does a very large number of tables in a database affect MySQL's performance? Strictly saying, yes. But the difference won't really matter. So read - no, it won't affect performance. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com

Re: Ask for help on a mysql problem

2004-10-19 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hello, > The only difference is that you have moved parent outside main table. > No benefits at all. You have to create two records I two tables instead of > one. You have to make joins to see what is the parent of particular child. > I am strongly against this. Why? 1) relational theory clearly

Re: InnoDB deadlock problem

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
David, next-key locks are purely inhibitive. Even though transaction (2) has an X-lock on the 'supremum' of the index, it cannot insert because also transaction (1) has an X-lock on the 'supremum'. Why is it allowed that two transactions can both have an X-lock on a 'gap' in the index (the suprem

Re: Innodb foreign keys names

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Martijn, List: mysql Subject:Re: Innodb foreign keys names From: "Martijn Tonies" Date: 2004-10-19 9:53:28 Message-ID: <01ad01c4b5c1$7c1e69a0$0a02a8c0 () martijn> [Download message RAW] >Heikki, > >> you have to use a fairly recent 4.0 or 4.1 version of MySQL. > >Does a new

Re: how to use mysql client source command through DBI/DBD

2004-10-19 Thread gerald_clark
Sanjeev Sagar wrote: Hello All, I am trying to create a perl DBI/DBD script for creating a database initial build. My input is a extract file, which is a mysqldump result file with --opt and -B option. I am using DBIx::DWIW. I am able to open a successful database handler. I am having code like

Re: Weirdness (or bug) with DROP TABLE

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Adolfo, the following patch in the 4.0 tree may fix the misleading error message: D 1.222 04/10/12 18:11:50+03:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 357 356 1/1/5101 P sql/ha_innodb.cc C Change error code to HA_ERR_ROW_IS_REFERENCED if we cannot DROP a parent table

Re: innodb monitoring

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Boyd, sorry, only the output of innodb_monitor can be accessed through an SQL statement. The other monitors contain information mostly for special error situations. But it is in the TODO to implement SHOW LOCKS ... That would be useful for application developers. Best regards, Heikki Innobase

Re: many fields or many tables? (Understanding DB design)

2004-10-19 Thread SGreen
You have already gone a long way to describing your table structure by describing your data elements and their relationships to each other. Let me try to summarize you descriptions and see if I can show you how to translate your text descriptions into table descriptions. 1. There are things ca

Re: MySQL Database Corruption (InnoDB), according to Innodb Hot Backup

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
David, I am sorry for a late reply. The corruption clearly is in the ibdata file of the production database. InnoDB Hot Backup checks the page checksums when it copies the ibdata files. Since CHECK TABLE fails, the corruption probably is in that table. You can try to repair the corruption by dum

Re: InnoDB backup + replication problem?

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! Guilhem has now fixed this bug to 4.0.22. Best regards, Heikki Innobase Oy InnoDB - transactions, row level locking, and foreign keys for MySQL InnoDB Hot Backup - a hot backup tool for InnoDB which also backs up MyISAM tables http://www.innodb.com/order.php Order MySQL support from http://

Re: first day of week/month

2004-10-19 Thread Eamon Daly
You can use DATE_FORMAT to recreate the first of the month: mysql> select d, DATE_FORMAT(d, '%Y-%m-01') FROM date_val; +++ | d | DATE_FORMAT(d, '%Y-%m-01') | +++ | 1864-02-28 | 1864-02-01 | | 19

Re: many fields or many tables? (Understanding DB design)

2004-10-19 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Oct 19, 2004, at 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have already gone a long way to describing your table structure by describing your data elements and their relationships to each other.  Let me try to summarize you descriptions and see if I can show you how to translate your text descri

Re: InnoDB crash issue

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Ian, FILE I/O I/O thread 0 state: waiting for i/o request (insert buffer thread) I/O thread 1 state: waiting for i/o request (log thread) I/O thread 2 state: waiting for i/o request (read thread) I/O thread 3 state: waiting for i/o request (write thread) Pending normal aio reads: 0, aio w

Re: Ask for help on a mysql problem

2004-10-19 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Martijn Tonies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is ONE way to store a tree structure :-) > Another would be: > ITEMS > (ItemID INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, > other stuff) > ITEM_PARENT > (ItemID int, > ParentID int > primary key (ItemID, ParentID

Re: Ask for help on a mysql problem

2004-10-19 Thread Martijn Tonies
> > That is ONE way to store a tree structure :-) > > > Another would be: > > > ITEMS > > (ItemID INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, > > other stuff) > > > ITEM_PARENT > > (ItemID int, > > ParentID int > > primary key (ItemID, ParentID) > > ) > > > > I prefer the latter. > > The latter is n

Re: many fields or many tables? (Understanding DB design)

2004-10-19 Thread SGreen
Timothy Luoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/19/2004 11:11:12 AM: > > On Oct 19, 2004, at 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You have already gone a long way to describing your table structure by > > describing your data elements and their relationships to each other. > > Let me try t

what is wrong woth this statement?

2004-10-19 Thread Josh Howe
if (select count(*) from z_mail_systems > 0) then [insert statement] endif; How do I do this kind of conditional insert? Thanks.

Re: what is wrong woth this statement?

2004-10-19 Thread SGreen
First, assume you want to insert records, then only insert the records you want to add to the destination table. INSERT destinationtablename () SELECT FROM sourcetablename WHERE Basically if you can build a query to return the records you want to INSERT, you can stick an INSERT clause to

Re: Chinese

2004-10-19 Thread Elim Qiu
> you can use MySQL-4.1.6 and the UTF-8 character >set for both Chinese and European languages. What's the default character set for MySQL 5.0.1? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Chinese

2004-10-19 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Elim, - Alkuperäinen viesti - Lähettäjä: "Elim Qiu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lähetetty: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:07 PM Aihe: Re: Chinese > > you can use MySQL-4.1.6 and the UTF-8 character >set for both Chinese and > E

Text field how to handle aliases

2004-10-19 Thread Lewick, Taylor
I need help on the best way to handle a field that could have many different ways of naming something. For instance, school name Let's take Saint Joseph's University This could be Saint Joseph's Univeristy, U. of St. Joe, SJU, Univ. St. Joe, etc... In this case, I don't think I can always get w

Re: Text field how to handle aliases

2004-10-19 Thread SGreen
Don't think "file" think "table"! ;-) CREATE TABLE universitysynonyms ( ID int auto_increment primary key, synonym varchar(40) not null, university_id int not null, UNIQUE(Synonym, university_id) ) Each time you run into something you don't have in your "universit

Re: Text field how to handle aliases

2004-10-19 Thread Eldo Skaria
Hi, For this only RDBMS came into being. You keep your master data in a table with relevent descriptions, codify the item. Use the code in other location. In qa web page always search against/show the full desc of what others require. Add a category like school/university/pre-matric etc. this coul

Char to Varchar on Innodb

2004-10-19 Thread Gary Richardson
Hey, >From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Silent_column_changes.html: If any column in a table has a variable length, the entire row becomes variable-length as a result. Therefore, if a table contains any variable-length columns (VARCHAR, TEXT, or BLOB), all CHAR columns longer than three cha

Re: MySQL Database Corruption (InnoDB), according to Innodb Hot Backup

2004-10-19 Thread David Griffiths
No worries about the late reply. We took down the master, took a hot backup from the slave (I still need to convert that 30-day license into a permanent one), moved it to the master, started the master, and then took a hot backup and re-initialized the slave. Took all of a few hours, and things

Strange results from a query

2004-10-19 Thread David Griffiths
One of our developers came to me yesterday with strange results from a query. I've created a simple version of the example. I've pasted the table definitions at the bottom if someone really needs to see them. This is on mysql 4.0.18. insert into master (col1) values (1), (2); insert into sub (c

incredible performance difference

2004-10-19 Thread YL
The following are the real tests but not the real logic i'll apply:-) i have 4 very simple script files below and like to show you the performance differece tst0.sql: select t1.participation_id id, t1.owner_id from participation t1 where (t1.participation_id in (24,469)) and (t1.property_dic

Configure error

2004-10-19 Thread Marek Gimza
Description: The linker does not seem to be correctly set !!! I am not sure what these error messages are really saying ld: fatal: library -ldir: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure: failed program was: #l

Re: incredible performance difference

2004-10-19 Thread SGreen
No, but you can. Modify your scripts so that the word EXPLAIN is the first thing in each one then re-execute them. This will product the optimizer's execution plan for each query. The results of all of those EXPLAIN SELECT statements will give us the most information to work from. Thanks.

Re: From .txt to MySQL

2004-10-19 Thread Amer Neely
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Hi.. | I have 30 text file that contains of sort of data about | wheather...Each text file contains the information about weather | in one day. So, i have 30 text file, which contains all the info | about weather in 30 days(1 month). All the attribute

Re: incredible performance difference

2004-10-19 Thread Elim Qiu
Cool! Thanks a lot Shawn. > No, but you can. Modify your scripts so that the word EXPLAIN is the first > thing in each one then re-execute them. This will product the optimizer's > execution plan for each query. The results of all of those EXPLAIN > SELECT statements will give us the most inf

Re: Strange results from a query

2004-10-19 Thread Michael Stassen
Before I think about this, which is it? insert into master (col1) values (1), (2); or insert into master (col1) values (1), (2), (3); Michael -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange results from a query

2004-10-19 Thread David Griffiths
Sorry - removed some data to make it clearer. insert into master (col1) values (1), (2); is correct. David Michael Stassen wrote: Before I think about this, which is it? insert into master (col1) values (1), (2); or insert into master (col1) values (1), (2), (3); Michael -- MySQL General Mailing

B-tree index question

2004-10-19 Thread Phil Bitis
Hello, We want to be able to insert records into a table containing a billion records in a timely fashion. The table has one primary key, which I understand is implemented using B-trees, causing insertion to slow by log N. The key field is an auto_increment field. The table is never joined to ot

Trying to match on something that is not there

2004-10-19 Thread Jonathan Duncan
I have a user who is using the following query to try and delete rows from one table based on the lack of a user id in another table: SELECT s.questionid, s.userid, s.questionanswer FROM Users u, SurveyAnswers s WHERE u.id != s.userid The corresponding user rows have already be deleted from the t

Re: Trying to match on something that is not there

2004-10-19 Thread Brian
select s.userid from surveyanswers s where s.userid not in (select distinct u.id from users u) On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:30:29 -0600, Jonathan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a user who is using the following query to try and delete rows > from one table based on the lack of a user id in

Re: Tables and performance

2004-10-19 Thread Yves Arsenault
Thanks for the reply. Yves On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:22:01 +0300, Egor Egorov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yves Arsenault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does a very large number of tables in a database affect MySQL's performance? > > Strictly saying, yes. But the difference won't really matter.

counting rows

2004-10-19 Thread Marco
I would like to count all of the resulting rows of my query. But my query contains a "group by", so select count(*) from table group by field will select an individual group count for each group. Instead, I would like to count the number of groups. Thanks, Marco -- MySQL General Mailing List For

Re: B-tree index question

2004-10-19 Thread mos
At 04:15 PM 10/23/2004, you wrote: Hello, We want to be able to insert records into a table containing a billion records in a timely fashion. The table has one primary key, which I understand is implemented using B-trees, causing insertion to slow by log N. The key field is an auto_increment fiel

Re: what is wrong woth this statement?

2004-10-19 Thread Leo
i didnt fully catch you... is this the kind of query statement you want? INSERT INTO some_other_table SELECT some_field_list FROM z_mail_systems HAVING COUNT(any_field)>0 On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:45:30 -0400, Josh Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if (select count(*) from z_mail_systems > 0) then

Re: counting rows

2004-10-19 Thread Eric Bergen
When you get the results of the query use mysql_num_rows(res) to get the number of groups. Or if you only want to return the number of groups in a query use something like. select count(distinct field) from table; -Eric On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:03:47 +0200, Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wou

Help with ALTER TABLE error

2004-10-19 Thread John Stile
I have Mysql Cluster (version 4.1.16-gama) running, and now I need to convert database tables from engine MyISAM to NDBCLUSTER, but ALTER TABLE fails on some tables. Does anyone know what the error means or how to get around it? mysql> use database1; mysql> alter table attr engine=NDB; ERROR 1005

Re: Help with ALTER TABLE error

2004-10-19 Thread John Stile
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 21:42, John Stile wrote: > I have Mysql Cluster (version 4.1.16-gama) running, and now I need to Sorry, I meant version mysql-max-4.1.6-gamma-pc-linux-i686. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Script question

2004-10-19 Thread Gerald Taylor
Philippe Poelvoorde wrote: mysql> system echo hi there; mysql> system ls -ls; mysql> system uname-a; all work on the 2.4.22-10mdk kernel and the semi-colon is optional. mysql> system echo "hi there" should be also working, the first parameters 'echo' is recognized as the command to execute, and