identifying foreign keys

2003-06-13 Thread Michael Conlen
hat colums are foreign keys and what they reference without having to tell the code? I use 'describe table' to get most of the information out I need. Oh yes, MySQL 4.0.12 on FreeBSD using INNODB tables. Thanks much. -- Michael Conlen -- MySQL General Mailing List For

Re: selecting PRIMARY KEY when there is no unique value

2003-06-19 Thread Michael Conlen
always puts the number in there for me and I know it's going to be unique unless MySQL does something it should not do. The id field just takes the guesswork, mess and headaches out of the code (well not *all* of them, but enough) and with the size of disk space these days the extra space isn

Re: Help me!!!

2003-06-19 Thread Michael Conlen
e can. -- Michael Conlen Luis Enrique Bauzá Peña wrote: Hi, I need some link to a spanish mysql list, would you ...? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Distributed/Fault Tolerant DB operation... possible?

2003-06-19 Thread Michael Conlen
AN link fails the IP addresses will show up on the other WAN link even though it's from a different provider. This is just a quick run down of immediate issues in a 24x7x365, it's not exhaustive. Think about every cable, every cord, every component, from a processor to a memory chip an

Re: Distributed/Fault Tolerant DB operation... possible?

2003-06-20 Thread Michael Conlen
many 9's do you need? I'd look at having two servers, one a master and another a slave, and some software that can tell when one of them goes down then promote the salave to master, and take over the IP address of the down system. -- Michael Conlen Rick Franchuk wrote: On Thu, 1

Re: Anyone had a chance to try an Opteron yet?

2003-06-24 Thread Michael Conlen
old 20 disks internally and there's PCI slots for a lot more if you need large files. On the other hand I think "need 64 bit" and "affordable" are rare situations. -- Michael Conlen Mike Wexler wrote: Not necessarily. People that need relatively affordable 64 bit syste

Re: slow performance on simple queries

2003-06-26 Thread Michael Conlen
Do you have disk performance data? My guess would be it's the time to read the information off the disk. I think redhat has the iostat command. Try running iostat 1 in one window while you run your query in another, what result do you get from the iostat? -- Michael Conlen Bob Oste

Re: freebsd 5.1 + mysql 4.0.13

2003-07-02 Thread Michael Conlen
ntire OS and getting everything installed that you want. If you need more assistance shoot me a line, off the MySQL list (as it's no longer a MySQL issue) and I'll answer what I can. -- Michael Conlen -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: License?

2003-07-02 Thread Michael Conlen
talk to a lawyer if there's a license issue. -- Michael Conlen Joel Rees wrote: What does internal distribution mean? Is it another thing than copying? I've wondered that myself. See http://www.gnu.org or http://www.fsf.org to get more information on the GPL. Licensing, e

Re: NFS or replication?

2003-07-02 Thread Michael Conlen
tes to your profile may take a few moments" or some such. Sun, HP and IBM make some very good hardware using their own designs (Sparc, PA-RISC and Power4) -- Michael Conlen Steven Balthazor wrote: I am interested in any thoughts that people may have for creating a scalable mysql infrastruct

Re: simplify query?

2003-07-02 Thread Michael Conlen
and d) or (a and e) or (a and f) or (b and d) ... -- Michael Conlen Reto Baudenbacher wrote: hi Sorry for this newbie-question: is it possible to simplifiy the following (working) query? "SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE ((col1 LIKE '%test%') OR (col2 LIKE '%test%') OR (

Compilers

2003-07-10 Thread Michael Conlen
f not, does anyone have access to the Intel compilers to benchmark this with? -- Michael Conlen -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

4.0.13 or 4.0.14

2003-07-15 Thread Michael Conlen
I'm getting ready to upgrade a server from 4.0.12 and was wondering if anyone knew the time frame for 4.0.14, or if I should just go with .13 for now. -- Michael Conlen -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[

Re: Stopping MySQL taking down a server?

2003-07-16 Thread Michael Conlen
What Operating system are you using and how are you measuring unresponsiveness? -- Michael Conlen Tim Fountain wrote: This may be a silly question but what can be done to stop load-intensive MySQL processes taking down a server? Things like adding fulltext indexes to very large tables, or

Show Status data

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Conlen
I'm developing a net-snmp module that executes a 'show status' command on a MySQL server and advertises the values. My choices seem to be super concrete: one server, one set of results, the variables don't change, ever... moderatly concrete: multiple possible servers, one set of results each, t

Re: max clients

2003-07-31 Thread Michael Conlen
ially in terms of quantity of rows, and see what it handles. Measure performance and system usage metrics and go from there. -- Michael Conlen NEWMEDIAPLAN wrote: Can mysql handle 5000 concurrent webusers sending queries to the db through a web search engine. Is it possible (with a very big serve

Re: MySQL Replication

2003-08-12 Thread Michael Conlen
Something to ask yourself in all this is, how fast can I change out a piece of hardware? If I needed a high availability system, on the cheap (ie, not a million dollars US worth of Sun hardware) I'd probably go with a bunch of SuperMicro 2U rack mount servers with the hot swap SCSI drives. You