RE: Platform vs. Performance

2003-09-18 Thread Greg_Cope
> > Pros? Cons? I know the windows box would need a good reboot now > > and then and what is the performance hit on a WinTel 98/XP Pro > > platform vs Linux? Looking at a 40K record database with maybe > > 3 users at a time running 5-10 Large (length of the select > > statment is over 500 chara

RE: Compression: Security or Zipping?

2003-10-07 Thread Greg_Cope
> Hi group, > > I have read in the MySQL manual that the client/Server > Compression protocol adds some security to the application. > > Does anyone have more information on this? > It adds security by compressing the network trafic, which is more security by obscurity, as this might stop a ca

RE: guru needed - large configuration MySQL-Max InnoDB - 4.0.16

2003-10-30 Thread Greg_Cope
I'd up your buffer sizes - the mysql manual has some clues as to setting these values? You might want to increase the query cache size. I'd then run it and watch the stats. Greg -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysq

RE: MySQL 4.0.16 on RHEL3 AS AMD64

2003-11-03 Thread Greg_Cope
Hiya, tried LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5? See here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2003-06/msg00032.html May work, then again your machine may blow up! So use at your own risk as I am guessing! Greg > -Original Message- > From: Owen Scott Medd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03

locking issues

2002-12-09 Thread Greg_Cope
Hi All, I may be confused here but it would appear that when you issue a LOCK TABLES tbl_name { READ|WRITE }; You cannot read from another unlocked table in the same connection eg: mysql> LOCK TABLES users read; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from Logger limit 1; ERROR 110

locking issues

2002-12-12 Thread Greg_Cope
Hi All, I may be confused here but it would appear that when you issue a LOCK TABLES tbl_name { READ|WRITE }; You cannot read from another unlocked table in the same connection eg: mysql> LOCK TABLES users read; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from Logger limit 1; ERROR 110

RE: Can MySQL handle 120 million records?

2002-12-18 Thread Greg_Cope
> From: Michael She [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > I have no problems using MySQL as a lightweight database > for simple > > > chores, but I'm a bit weary about putting into a mission critical > > > environment. > > > >Why, exactly? > > > Mainly for 2 reasons: > > 1. MySQL hasn't been "proven

RE: how to write a scheduled job for MySQL

2003-01-20 Thread Greg_Cope
> From: Akash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 January 2003 11:52 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: how to write a scheduled job for MySQL > > > Hi, > I want to periodically delete some records from a table. > Is there any > mechanism by which I can schedule a job, which will execute a

./support-files/mysql.server bug

2003-02-12 Thread Greg_Cope
Hi All, Downloaded mysql-standard-4mysql-standard-4.0.10-gamma-sun-solaris2.8-sparc.tar.gz. If this is NOT installed in /usr/local/mysql and you try and start it using support-files/mysql.server it fails with error: $ ./support-files/mysql.server start ./support-files/mysql.server: /usr/local/my

open_files_limit bug in 4.0.10

2003-02-13 Thread Greg_Cope
Dear All, It would appear that setting: set-variable= open_files_limit = 200 Within the [mysqld] stanza in a data/my.cnf does not appear to work as mysqld exits with: ERROR: unknown variable 'open_files_limit = 200' Yet a bin/mysqladmin variables has: open_files_limit 0 I cannot fi

RE: RAID

2002-03-18 Thread Greg_Cope
> -Original Message- > From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Here's what I recently wrote about RAID tables. Try to ignore the > funny markup. :-) > > snip lots of usefull stuff. > > Does that answer your question a bit? > Thanks Jeremy, I was a bit unsure as to RAID

RE: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures

2002-04-03 Thread Greg_Cope
> -Original Message- > From: pwxgao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: PERL/SQL, again? - Re: Procedures > > I have been using languages like Smalltalk, Perl and Java for about xx years. I am a huge fan of putting one in the DB for embedded server procedures. I also beleive the bes

RE: How to automate bin-log clean-up with replicated MySQL servers?

2002-04-11 Thread Greg_Cope
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Prewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 April 2002 14:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: paul > Subject: Re: How to automate bin-log clean-up with replicated MySQL > servers? > > > PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT > --

RE: Rotating mysqld.log

2002-06-10 Thread Greg_Cope
You need to get logrotate to flush-logs otherwise mysql will still write to the old file. eg add after the create 0644 mysql mysql line: postrotate if test -n "`ps acx | grep mysql`";then /path/to/mysqladmin -u logflusher -ppassword flush-logs fi endscript Assuming a mysql users called

RE: Rotating mysqld.log

2002-06-11 Thread Greg_Cope
> From: Ramasubramanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Hi, > I tried to flush the logs but still the rotation doesn't happen. > What else could be the problem ?? > I get the same message again > My config file read like this > "/var/log/mysqld.log" { > ro

RE: Migrating Oracle To MySQL

2002-08-16 Thread Greg_Cope
> From: Francois Joubert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 16 August 2002 14:46 > To: MySQL List > Subject: Migrating Oracle To MySQL > > Hi > > I am new to the world of databases. We will be installing an Oracle9i > database shortly as the backend for our current financial package. We > hope t

RE: 64bit mysql and gcc

2001-12-04 Thread Greg_Cope
> -Original Message- > From: Sinisa Milivojevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 December 2001 12:47 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 64bit mysql and gcc > > > PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT > --

RE: 64bit mysql and gcc

2001-12-05 Thread Greg_Cope
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Widenius > Yes; Our Solaris binaries are currently 32 bit. > Hi, > The main reason for this is that I haven't seen any reports that gcc > should be able to produce production quality code on 64 bit sparc. > I've been involved with 64bity stuff h

RE: Cluster?

2001-12-06 Thread Greg_Cope
> -Original Message- > From: Barry Roomberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] A few notes: > 1) All data is readonly. No write requirement except > monthly load. use myisam pack to compress the data / indexs. Also use -rq --analyse --sort-index as myisam arguments to rebuild the index

RE: Annoying article about MySql

2001-12-10 Thread Greg_Cope
> -Original Message- > From: Richard S. Huntrods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I have database mysqldump outputs that were 15 megabytes (now 10 megs, > as I removed some report storage from the system). I have restored my > system from these dumps many, many times. I have 4 systems in u