Left Join Problem

2001-09-20 Thread Scott Gerhardt
OY.workplace to be the same. _____ Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies _ - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual

FW: Please read the manual

2001-01-11 Thread Scott Gerhardt
My pennies worth: The manual is excellent, read it! Be patient, it may take you a while to find exactly what you are looking for. You can always try entering "mysql your_key_words_here" in the google search http://www.google.com to see what else pops up. Actually the MySQL docs search is pretty

Foreign Key Info error in manual

2001-01-16 Thread Scott Gerhardt
I was reading the information on foreign keys in the manual http://www.mysql.com/doc/e/x/example-Foreign_keys.html and noticed that there is no mention of locking the tables. It seems to me that using the example verbatim could lead to loss of referencial integrity if INSERTS did not occur in seq

RE: Foreign Key Info error in manual

2001-01-16 Thread Scott Gerhardt
So referential integrity is maintained but AUTO_INCREMENT values may not be chronological? Connection A's LAST_INSERT_ID() may be 3 at 15:20 AND Connection B's LAST_INSERT_ID() may be 4 at 15:18 - Scott > In the last episode (Jan 16), Scott Gerhardt said: > >

RE: Foreign Key Info error in manual

2001-01-16 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Thanks for your responses Jeremy, I'm just trying to clarify any misunderstandings I may have. So, as far as the example goes, the relationships between shirts and people is maintained by using the LAST_INSERT_ID (in one connection) but referential integrity is not maintained in terms of foriegn

RE: Foreign Key Info error in manual

2001-01-16 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Thanks for clearing that up Benjamin! It all makes sense now :-D - Scott > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:22:48PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So referential integrity is maintained but AUTO_INCREMENT > values may not be > > chronological? > > > > Connection A's LAST_INSERT_ID()

RE: Foreign Key Info error in manual

2001-01-16 Thread Scott Gerhardt
6, 2001 at 07:22:48PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > > So referential integrity is maintained but AUTO_INCREMENT > values may not be > > chronological? > > > > Connection A's LAST_INSERT_ID() may be 3 at 15:20 > > AND > > Connection B's LAST_INSERT_I

RE: date_format

2001-01-17 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Hello Cindy, I posted this in response to another date formatting question, hope it helps. The link should be helpful if you haven't found it already. SELECT fields, DATE_FORMAT(datefield, '%M %d, %Y'); I just looked it up myself...It's all in the manual at: http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/a/Date_an

RE: uh oh...(Revised)

2001-01-17 Thread Scott Gerhardt
BD, Sorry I can't help you with your corrupted data but here are some related links for backing up MySQL data the proper way: There are also some good "canned" shell scripts out there tha do what you want as well. It is a good idea to stop the server or lock the tables when copying or backing up

RE: MySQL vs. PostGress

2001-01-17 Thread Scott Gerhardt
This is a slightly biased overview of all the negative things about MySQL vs. Postgress http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html > > > > Does someone want to point out the main differences or send me a link that > might explain the differences of MySQL and PostGress. I am quite familia

RE: What degree of concurrency does MySQL support?

2001-01-18 Thread Scott Gerhardt
As far as hardware goes, you should be able to increase performance with more RAM and faster disks such as UW-160 SCSI. Also, I don't think they make dual processor motherboards for Athalons. - Scott > (The total throughput we need is on the order of 100 indexed updates > per second; currently

RE: Frontend Dilema

2001-01-18 Thread Scott Gerhardt
You can connect to the DB on Linux using ODBC over any TCP/IP network, and you don't need to worry about NFS, File sharing, Samba etc. All you need is MySQL on Linux connected to your network and ODBC will connect on port 3306 over TCP/IP, that's all you need. A system built this way can use many

RE: mySQL vs Oracle

2001-01-22 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Hello Ann, The answer to you question depends on how you plan to use the database (i.e. financial trancactions, serving data on the web etc.) as well as financial considerations. MySQL is free and Oracle is expensive. Here are some questions you should answer: 1.) Do you need full Transaction

RE: mysql mail madness

2001-01-24 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Dear mail overload, Here are some things you can do: 1.) Make sure that you set your mail client to delete messages off the server when deleted. 2.) Download the messages and Delete all the messages you don't want. 3.) Make sure to remove yourself from the list before you go away next time. 4.)

RE: Uninstalling and Troubleshooting RPM

2001-01-25 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Sir, What OS are you running? What version of MySQL are you trying to install? What RPMs are you trying to install? - Scott > -Original Message- > From: lkeeton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: January 25, 2001 10:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Uninstalling and Troubleshoo

RE: I am failing to optimize this left join ...

2001-01-25 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Does this help? SELECT ArgumentCalendar.Docket , ArgumentCalendar.Date , DATE_FORMAT(ArgumentCalendar.Date, '%W, %M %e, %Y') AS formatted_date , CaseID.CASEID , CONCAT(Party1, ' v. ', Party2) AS name , Blurb FROM ArgumentCalendar , CaseID , Part

RE: Newbie: difference between tinytext and varchar

2001-01-25 Thread Scott Gerhardt
The answer to your question depends upon depends on the nature of the text information you are going to store: - The length of text you want to store. - Database size and fragmentation considerations. - Uppercase/Lower case significance - Indexing (prior to 3.23). > I am trying to determine w

RE: Help Pub Crawl display

2001-01-25 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Your Query is making me thirsty ;-) Unfortunately your tables got garbled so I had to improvise. Next time don't paste the tables beside each other... Also, I'm not sure if I understand your problem or what you are trying to accmplish. Are you trying to de-normalize your data and display the Be

RE: Help Pub Crawl display

2001-01-25 Thread Scott Gerhardt
of data such > as the hosts name and the events date. What seems to be making it > difficult is grabbing only the begining and ending points of the crawl. > > I appreciate you help. > > Richard > > Scott Gerhardt wrote: > > > > Your Query is making me thirsty

RE: how many colums can i create before it becomes unusable?

2001-01-26 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Hello Anna, According to the MySQL Crash-Me the maximum numbers for 3.23.xx are: - Columns in table 3398 - max table row length (without blobs) 65534 - table row length with nulls (without blobs) 65502 If you understand the concepts of DB normalization don't bother reading the following: 300

GRANT Privileges

2001-01-26 Thread Scott Gerhardt
I was just wondering what the "USAGE" privilege is good for and where it would be used? Pauls's book says that USAGE is a special "no privileges" privilege. ___ Scott A. Gerhardt P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

RE: (+) Help needed

2001-01-27 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Slight correction, for some reason the query below does NOT work on my sample DB unless I quote the date values. This should work now: SELECT IP, Size, Date FROM your_table WHERE Date BETWEEN '2001-02-01' AND '2001-05-01'; > > so and i have Mysql table with > IP | Size

RE: 3 million+ records problems.

2001-01-27 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Have you tried adding an index on id? > -Original Message- > From: taree [mailto:taree]On Behalf Of Manuel Capinha > Sent: January 27, 2001 12:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 3 million+ records problems. > > > Hi! > > I've got a table with 3 million+ records. This table has o

RE: 3 million+ records problems.

2001-01-27 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Adding another 192megs of ram or so would really boost performance. When I increased the RAM on my PIII 450Mhz from 128 to 256Mb, performance almost doubled for most queries on a 72k record table. > > From a mysqldump: > > > > # > > # Table structure for table 'names' > > # > > CREATE TABLE n

RE: Mysqld eats up RAM and CPU

2001-01-30 Thread Scott Gerhardt
What sort of hardware are you running? - Amount of RAM - CPU speed. > > Hi There.. > I'm running mysql Ver 9.38 Distrib 3.22.32, for pc-linux-gnu > (i686) on a RedHat 6.1 Os. > The server is installed and the configuration is almost by default. > The problem is that most of the time the m

RE: How to select the 10 last items from a table?

2001-01-30 Thread Scott Gerhardt
SELECT * FROM item ORDER BY ID LIMIT 10 or change to "ORDER BY ID DESC" to get the desired result. - Scott > May be it could work > SELECT * FROM item ORDER BY ID LIMIT count(*)-10,10 > or > SELECT * FROM SELECT * FROM item ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 10 ORDER BY ID > > >

RE: Severe problem in handling timestamp column type

2001-02-01 Thread Scott Gerhardt
MySQL always updates the first timestamp column on update, regardless. > -Original Message- > From: Alex Dusty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 1, 2001 7:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Severe problem in handling timestamp column type > > > >Description: > There is a