How to query on part of a date column?

2006-07-20 Thread Barry Newton
d') = 2004; return no rows. I can extract any piece of that date I want in a SELECT, but can't seem to use it in a WHERE clause at all. There has to be something really obvious that I'm missing? Barry Newton -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql

RE: mysql + LVS highjacked (mysql + NFS ramfs)

2006-07-25 Thread Barry Newton
At 02:05 PM 7/25/2006, Winn Johnston wrote: after talking to a few people on the #mysql irc someone suggested using NFS to create a ramfs to get 100GB+ RAM shared memory to load the entire database into the RAM. Can anyone offer any Pros or Cons to this setup, drawing from personal expierence? t

Re: swapping column values in update

2006-08-01 Thread Barry Newton
At 06:35 PM 8/1/2006, Martin Jespersen wrote: I just ran the following sql (on mysql 4.1.20): update tbl set col1=col2, col2=col1 To my surprise, mysql updates col1 via col1=col2 before reading it for use in col2=col1, so I end up with the same value in both columns, which, of course, was n

Running Totals?

2006-08-02 Thread Barry Newton
Back with another registration db question: Have a convention database which tracks people as they register all year long; the actual convention is held in October. I've got a fairly simple query which shows how many people registered in each calendar month--useful to compare to prior year to

Re: Running Totals?

2006-08-02 Thread Barry Newton
At 11:10 PM 8/2/2006, Peter Brawley wrote: Barry >It would make life easier if I could also show a column >with the cumulative count for each month. Set @cum - 0; Select Monthname(DatePaid) Month, Year(DatePaid) Year, Count(*) as Registrations, Extract(Year_Month from DatePaid

Re: Running Totals?

2006-08-03 Thread Barry Newton
At 04:15 PM 8/3/2006, Brent Baisley wrote: You might look into WITH ROLLUP. That could easily give you cumulative totals for the year, but off the top of my head I can't think of a way to get it for the months. - Original Message - From: "Barry Newton" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Running Totals?

2006-08-04 Thread Barry Newton
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Re: Some questions on Storage engine

2006-08-22 Thread Barry Newton
At 10:20 PM 8/22/2006, Chris wrote: You can't store them in memory. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/temporary-table-problems.html Despite what the doc says, I posted a working script here a couple of weeks ago which creates temporary tables with engine=Memory. Either my specification

Search for column value in a string variable?

2008-01-05 Thread Barry Newton
Hi. . .I'm trying to be lazy and write a query where I stuff a list of names into a variable (@namelist), and then try to find items in column lastname which appear anywhere in that list. It doesn't want to work, and even regexp isn't working, though that's probably my fault. Any suggestions?

Re: Search for column value in a string variable?

2008-01-06 Thread Barry Newton
OK, never mind. I finally found the 'locate' function. I knew it had to be there somewhere! -- Barry -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MySql CPU 100%

2008-01-08 Thread Barry Newton
Nik wrote: I've posted below the output of STATUS and SHOW GLOBAL STATUS. Any and all comments would be much appreciated as to how we can get performance back on track. Wow. . .200 logins? 511 open tables? 277+ million sort rows? On a single PC host? And you're complaining about perform

Re: Sun and mysql

2008-01-17 Thread Barry Newton
Olaf Stein wrote: I am still amazed by the fact that youtube "is worth" 1.5 billion and MySQL AB barely 1 billion. Did they sell under price? Or does Google just have way to much many to spend/waste? Greetings from the just wondering... Olaf MySQL A.B., so far as I know, derives income from trai

Re: Navicat MySQL GUI for Linux version 8.0.23 is released.

2008-01-30 Thread Barry Newton
Hmm. Speaking of Navicat, does anybody out there have an easy way to scrub the control coding from scripts developed under Navicat? I expect that they're there mostly for coloration on displays, but it's kind of obnoxious when you want to do anything else with them. -- Barry -- MySQL Gene

Re: Re: Performance Question And Problem

2006-11-23 Thread Barry Newton
g the subquery 2000 times for the 2000 records in your company file. And will run 500,000 times when you go to production data. Somebody with better math than I should try to project that. His prep query runs once, and his update query runs once. Scales very nicely. Barry Newton -- MySQL Ge

Re: Any good free Case tools for MySQL 5.x?

2006-12-12 Thread Barry Newton
ments are disturbed, but you can now use the single old-style userid to connect with DBD4, and keep your production users as secure as possible. I've just done this on Win XP, and it works very nicely. Barry Newton -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.co

Re: [LICENSING] why so hazy? Comparing to Samba.

2007-02-22 Thread Barry Newton
that as long as you're willing to pay *something*, there's probably a lot of room for negotiation. It's distinctly not in their interest to eliminate collateral development efforts. And there are already several products out there which do connect with MySQL and cost <

Re: Trouble connecting to server

2007-04-23 Thread Barry Newton
At 11:36 AM 4/23/2007, Drew Burchett wrote: I have a mysql v 5.0 server running on Suse Linux 10.1. It has been running steadily and properly for several months now. However, when I came in this morning, my network card in the machine was bad. I replaced the card and reconfigured the network,

Printing

2007-05-08 Thread Barry Newton
I hope this isn't a silly question, or something covered in a FAQ. . .but is there any reason to not have at least some primitive print formatting commands in MySQL? Or am I missing something blindingly obvious? Barry -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/

Re: Integrity on large sites

2007-05-25 Thread Barry Newton
e MS Windows, it would be absolutely possible to configure 3-5 high speed printers and knock out 100,000 bills per hour from an Intel single CPU box. You really have no appreciation of how much power you actually have at your disposal. Barry Newton -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archive

Re: Determining number of vowels in a string

2007-05-31 Thread Barry Newton
I'd rather do it in a sql statement rather than using a scripting language. I'm thinking you might be able to do one select, accumulating 5 siubstring counts (a,e,i,o,u) into 5 variables, and then sum the counts? I'll leave the testing to you. . .:-) Barry Newton -