Re: MySql Limitations??

2006-05-29 Thread peter lovatt
Hi We have tables of 1.5M rows 25 fields, in heavy use with frequent inserts and updates on a P4 with 1GB of RAM. Performance is fine, and the table size is 400MB, so you should not have any problems. Peter On 29/05/06, Chris W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Harish TM wrote: > hi... > I n

Re: select unique ?

2008-02-14 Thread peter lovatt
SELECT DISTINCT Colour FROM tablename Peter On 14/02/2008, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I don't know if it is possible to do this with mysql alone ... > Here goes : > I've got a database list which is like to following : > > Num | Name| Colour > --

Re: Safe DB Distribution

2007-01-30 Thread peter lovatt
Hi You probably cant make it 100% secure, because php is not a fully compiled language, and as such an expert techie could probably add extra code to your app that wouild allow access to the database, BUT you can get pretty close. You will need to encrypt everything in the database using MySql e

RE: designer

2003-11-30 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi try DEZIGN FOR DATABASES http://www.datanamic.com/ hth Peter -Original Message- From: Alaios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 November 2003 20:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: designer Do u know any programme that can degin databases in order to design before i implement them?

RE: mysql remote access on linux

2003-12-02 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi try running GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP,ALTER ON database.* TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENTIFIED BY 'pass'; where 'hostname' is the one in the error message HTH Peter -Original Message- From: Louis van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: SEQUENCES

2003-12-15 Thread Peter Lovatt
Try Insert INTO `table` ( `inc_field` ) values (10) the auto inc field will then generate the next sequential numbers HTH Peter -Original Message- From: Graham Little [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2003 14:01 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: SEQUENCES I was won

RE: Basic error

2003-12-17 Thread Peter Lovatt
try adding an error report after the query $result = mysql_query( "select * from domains" ) or die (mysql_error()); the rest looks OK Peter -Original Message- From: Trevor Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 December 2003 22:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Basic error Hello f

RE: transaction support

2004-01-05 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi We have been running MySql since 1998 and have never had any data corruption We have servers running millions of queries a day and they are bullet proof. > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get a software designer to write us some software using > > MySQL as the database server (he currently requ

RE: Looking for a tool

2004-01-13 Thread Peter Lovatt
phpMyAdmin will do it. http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 January 2004 01:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Looking for a tool Importance: High Several years ago, I used a cgi based tool that allowed me to upload a

RE: SQL Query

2004-01-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
SELECT * >From articles WHERE SectionID=1 ORDER BY EntryDate DESC LIMIT 1,10 the where clause should be after the table name HTH Peter -Original Message- From: Ian O'Rourke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 January 2004 11:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SQL Query Any idea what i

RE: Downloading/Exporting delimited text files

2004-02-04 Thread Peter Lovatt
hi it is very simple in php $query = 'SELECT * FROM table WHERE somefield = "'.$somevalue.'" ORDER BY somefield '; $mysql_result = mysql_query($query, $mysql_link); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($mysql_result)) { $output .= "\"$row["somefield"]\"\t\"$row["so

RE: Can't connect URGENT!

2004-02-07 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi You can only connect as root from localhost for security I think. If you want to connect from elsewhere create a new user and use that - look for GRANT on www.mysql.com Peter -Original Message- From: Duke, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 February 2004 01:50 To: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Sequrity question or am I paranoid?

2004-02-17 Thread Peter Lovatt
no .they really are out to get you :) Security is always a challenge. You can build the most secure system in the world but if the users are not educated in security you have wasted your time. The "no password" relies on a user knowing what to do. The question is this OK default behaviour - t

RE: Help NEWBIE!

2003-06-01 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock is created when MySQl runs, it may be a permissions problem with the directory - does MySql have write permission for this directory Peter -Original Message- From: Vishal Thakur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 June 2003 10:37 To: ABHIJIT NAIK Cc: MySQL; Su

RE: MYSQL DB PROBLEM

2003-06-02 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi This is a bug. You can fix it by adding a line to my.cnf. Can't remember what but search the archives as it has appeared before. Peter -Original Message- From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 June 2003 15:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MYSQL DB PROBLEM > -O

RE: Mysql / PHP image link problem.

2003-06-04 Thread Peter Lovatt
'; ?> Peter -Original Message- From: Becoming Digital [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 June 2003 20:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mysql / PHP image link problem. FWIW, there is a PHP-DB mailing list that might prove more helpful to you. I know certain folk on both lists can g

RE: Which database?

2003-06-10 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi I would echo that support is probably the most important aspect of your choice. Unless you have a particularly technically demanding application that needs features only found in Postgres you would be best with MySql You can get an answer to most support questions via this list, or MySql them

RE: Column or Table issue

2003-06-10 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi can you post the form/php code Peter -Original Message- From: Steve Marquez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2003 14:26 To: MySQL List Subject: Column or Table issue I am attempting to insert an article into a MySQL table on a remote server, via a PHP Forms script. I am able

RE: Which database?

2003-06-10 Thread Peter Lovatt
smaller userbase and no commercial support *combined* mean fewer sources of support. With MySql, support from this *superb* MySQL list :) and MySql AB is likely to be better than Postgres support. Open source support (free or paid for) in general seems to be better than closed source equivalents

RE: selecting DISTINCT and COUNT in MySQL

2003-06-14 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT trEmail ) as clicks , trEmail FROM table GROUP BY trEmail ORDER BY clicks DESC will probably give what you are looking for Peter -Original Message- From: Tim Thorburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 June 2003 00:14 To: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: why me??!

2003-06-21 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi You need nothing or backtics - ` - around the table name - you have quotes INSERT INTO products VALUES (153328, 2, '181150', 'noimage.gif', '154.1000', '2003-06-20 23:03:00', NULL, '-00-00 00:00:00', '0.00', 1, 1, 1, 0); also better to state the field names - if you add or remove a field

RE: Help : my Server dies : "Got an error reading communication packets"

2003-06-25 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi If you log into MySQL on the command line and enter mysql>SHOW PROCESSLIST ; this should show you what is running. You may find a runaway query. also check the temp disk space while the system is stalling - large joins can use huge amounts of disk space. If MySql runs out of disk space it t

RE: SCO UnixWare porting of MYSQL -- stop supporting SCO

2003-06-25 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi I agree the SCO action sucks but Open source software should be just that - open to all, let the courts decide, if it ever gets that far!. Peter -Original Message- From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 June 2003 01:18 To: Daevid Vincent Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Need your help in a search query

2003-06-26 Thread Peter Lovatt
You could try SOUNDEX(str) http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/String_functions.html which might do what you are looking for HTH Peter -Original Message- From: Tom Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 June 2003 14:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need your help in a search query Hi

RE: mysql server wont start

2003-06-29 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi did you run mysql_install_db ? This sets up the mysql database and initial privilages Peter -Original Message- From: Blake Howe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 June 2003 19:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mysql server wont start OK i am having problems starting the mysql server

RE: Access control via a role based security model

2003-07-12 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi You could achive what you want using grant statements, but you still need a user interface to send queries to the database and display the information sent back in a way that is manageble for non techies. There are many ways of building user interfaces, php ( http://www.php.net ) is probably a

RE: Setting max_connections

2003-07-22 Thread Peter Lovatt
search for my.cnf If it does not exist you can create it, http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Option_files.html Peter -Original Message- From: Richard Sumilang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 July 2003 07:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Setting max_connections Where do I go to set t

RE: Two problems

2003-07-22 Thread Peter Lovatt
2) Using the Opera browser, I open my pages and it sends variables through "?var1=value1&var2=value2" perfectly until I tried using a form and realised I am not getting anything back from $PHPSELF... try $PHP_SELF Peter -- http://www.dragonstalon.co.uk/ Latest news at http://www.dra

RE: Error creating database

2003-07-22 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi when you log in to MySQL use mysql -u root you will then be asked to enter a password. On a new instalation the password may be blank - nothing After that you should be able to create databases. You might find information about privilages and GRANT usefull http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/User_A

RE:

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Lovatt
SELECT * FROM TABLE if( mysql_num_rows() == 0) table is empty HTH Peter -Original Message- From: D. K. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2003 08:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hello List; I am developing a php-mysql application for my term project at school and this is where

RE: Category System schema

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Lovatt
you need at least 3 fields CategoryID ParentID Name CategoryID is the key, and identifies the category ParentID is the CategoryID of the parent category Name is the category name When you add a sub category you set its ParentID to the CategoryID To show all sub categories of CategoryID 99 SEL

RE: Secure Database Design Part II

2003-08-16 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Firstly if your application is well designed then your data should not be accessible by the wrong users - if you make sure that there is no way the wrong supplier id can be allocated - put an extra 'are you sure this is correct' check, make it so that the user id can only be allocated once t

RE: apache/mysql errors....

2003-08-20 Thread Peter Lovatt
HI from the command line run GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP,ALTER ON database_name.* TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; (you may want to give more restrictive privileges) that should fix it - you don't have privileges set for the user

RE: Command that I believe should work...

2004-10-15 Thread Peter Lovatt
hi you might want to look at TIMESTAMP which does it all for you. Peter > -Original Message- > From: Robert Adkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 October 2004 20:23 > To: MySQL General List > Subject: Command that I believe should work... > > > ...but doesn't. > > I am attempt

RE: Telephone number column not working

2004-10-02 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi could it be that the - or a space is upsetting things? 111-111- might be calculated to give - or if the user enters a space it is no longer an integer unless you need it to be an integer, telephone numbers are usually stored as a char type HTH Peter > -Original Message-

RE: syntax question..

2004-11-14 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi sub selects are only supported from MySql 4.1 onwards, so it may be invalid if you have an earlier version. you may also cause a conflict by using the database alias (t1) as the name of the result Peter > -Original Message- > From: kalin mintchev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14

RE: Returned mail: Data format error

2004-11-16 Thread Peter Lovatt
Virus! Monty's address was probably spoofed Peter > -Original Message- > From: Spenser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 November 2004 08:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Returned mail: Data format error > > > Did the system just reject Monty Wideni

RE: Row level security requirements, can I still use MySQL?

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi What about encrypting the data using a password that is specific to the user. That way only those that know the password for that row can access it. Locking is really to stop two users editing the same record at the same time, rather than controlling access. HTH Peter > -Original Mess

RE: Row level security requirements, can I still use MySQL?

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
> Sent: 18 November 2004 10:19 > To: 'Peter Lovatt'; 'Mysql (E-mail)' > Subject: RE: Row level security requirements, can I still use MySQL? > > > Yeah you are correct locking is something else I actually meant was > restricted access. > > If I understa

RE: Row level security requirements, can I still use MySQL?

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
t; access to > the groups table and could easily se which password was allocated to each > group and in that way bypass the security system? Or have I misunderstod > your solution. > > In any case, thanks alot for wasting som "brain-time" on this ;) > > Regards > /Jonas &g

RE: Auto-Increment Starting Point? (Multimaster Replication Question)

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
5001 Peter > -Original Message- > From: Robinson, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 November 2004 21:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Auto-Increment Starting Point? (Multimaster Replication > Question) > > > When you set a field to auto-increment, can you tell it where to s

RE: Max connections being used every 10-12 day.

2005-01-01 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi there a are a couple of things that I have found cause occasional lock ups. running out of temp space - MySql builds temp files on bigger queries and if it runs out of temp disk space it grinds to a halt, which causes all the following queries to queue up until max_connections is exceeded. th

RE: Access denied for user - I cant work this out

2005-01-26 Thread Peter Lovatt
hi you are not passing a password to mysql - check your code to see if this is correct. Peter > -Original Message- > From: Christian Biggins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 January 2005 12:27 > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Access denied for user - I cant work this out > > >

RE: Access denied for user - I cant work this out

2005-01-26 Thread Peter Lovatt
' . mysql_error() . ''); } } HTH Peter > -Original Message- > From: Christian Biggins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 January 2005 13:30 > To: 'Peter Lovatt'; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: RE: Access denied f

RE: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi There are two aspects to dates, and your questions include parts of both. When MySql stores dates you have a choice of column types http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/DATETIME.html has the details If you just need to store dates then the DATE type will suit your needs. You just specify it as

RE: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Lovatt
> Subject: RE: New to Dates - Plain English Please > > > --- Peter Lovatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > There are two aspects to dates, and your questions > > include parts of both. > > > > When MySql stores dates you have a choice

RE: MYSQL Setup Question

2004-06-26 Thread Peter Lovatt
hi the error is because you have more or fewer items of data than fields or columns to put it in it is better practice to include fields in your query INSERT INTO sometable ( field1 , field2 , field3 ) VALUES

RE: Database Connection Questions

2004-06-27 Thread Peter Lovatt
hi the /home/lark/public_html/connection.php on line 23 just refers to the file within the context of the whole file system and is fine the rest says that mysql cannot/does not execute the query so there is no result to use. the @ suppresses error messages so it may be best to remove it try

RE: Best options for unique string

2004-08-04 Thread Peter Lovatt
HI MD5 would be a good way of doing it. Just add a column to your user table and UPDATE users SET subscribed = 0 WHERE encryptedID = "md5 hash here" HTH Peter > -Original Message- > From: Scott Haneda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 August 2004 03:37 > To: MySql > Subject: Best

RE: MYSQL RECORDS AND ALPHABETICAL ORDER

2004-08-14 Thread Peter Lovatt
SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY alphabetical_field hth Peter > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 August 2004 08:57 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MYSQL RECORDS AND ALPHABETICAL ORDER > > > Dear Friends, > > I have mysql table which re

RE: Fairly lame question

2004-08-19 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi you try setting the column type to TIMESTAMP :) http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/DATETIME.html Peter > -Original Message- > From: Stuart Felenstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 August 2004 17:50 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fairly lame question > > > I think this c

RE: Root password lost?; can't manage existing database...

2004-08-23 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi the usual syntax is mysql -u root -p if that does not work look into skip grant tables option http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Resetting_permissions.html HTH Peter > -Original Message- > From: DBS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 August 2004 03:50 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: What's Faster? MySQL Queries or PHP Loops?

2004-09-08 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Just my two pence worth. Its not tested or scientific, and is based on gut feeling and experience. Connecting to mysql is resource intensive, particularly if you make a fresh connection for each query. A query will almost certainly involve disk acces which is slow. Sending the result of the qu

RE: Multiple MysQL servers with different IP address on same machine

2004-09-09 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi We have a machine with 2 IP addresses and mysql 3.23 on one and 4.10 on the other. Both using port 3306 One instance listens on localhost, which maps to 127.0.0.1, and also on one of the public IP addreses and the other listens to the other IP address. I use the IP address in the connection s

RE: Copying rows based on query result to another table?

2004-09-14 Thread Peter Lovatt
try INSERT INTO other_table ( field1, field2, etc) SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM wow.resume r INNER JOIN wow.candidate c WHERE r.Section_ID = '1' AND MATCH (r.Section_Value) AGAINST ('+BAAN' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AND c.Candidate_ID = r.Candidate_ID Peter > -Original Message- > From: Eve A

RE: [q] can I start MySQL in READONLY mode?

2003-09-02 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi When you set up the mysql user use a GRANT statement that only gives SELECT access. That is effectivly read only access for that user Peter -Original Message- From: Mark Swanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 September 2003 01:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [q] can I start MySQ

RE: Import from Paradox

2003-09-17 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Install MyODBC Set it up for your mysql database then from Paradox "copy table" to the mysql datasource. You should get a correctly structured table. Depending on the fieldtypes you may have to do a little manual tweaking. You may also not be able to do memo fields. MyODBC can be used as

RE: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi We have a similar challenge. Offsite backups with huge amounts of data, without spending a fortune. We have a local Linux box and the remote server both running rsync. http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ Rsync is brilliant because it only updates file sectors that have changed. We would only use

RE: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit

2003-10-31 Thread Peter Lovatt
--- -Original Message- From: Steve Vernon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 October 2003 14:19 To: Peter Lovatt; Mysql List Subject: Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit Hiya! Thanks for the help!!! Do RSync like big files? Or does it prefer smaller

RE: new install failure

2003-11-12 Thread Peter Lovatt
Have you checked permissions - the files should be owned by mysql Peter -Original Message- From: DePhillips, Michael P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 November 2003 21:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new install failure HI list When installing mysql 4.16 on debian linux 2.4.20-2

RE: programming language

2003-11-24 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi php http://www.php.net would be a good start. Peter -Original Message- From: S Kusumo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2003 12:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: programming language Hello .. I'm a CLIPPER programmer. I'm looking for programming language (like Clipper)

RE: New to MySQL

2004-03-17 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi To use phpMyAdmin you need a webserver and php installed - the code suggests you either are not running through a webserver or that it is not configured for php. If you are not developing for php you might take a look at windows front ends for mysql - search the list for recommendations HTH

RE: Query across two databases on the same server

2004-03-24 Thread Peter Lovatt
select db1.table.field, db2.table.field where db1.table.someotherfield = db2.table.someotherfield Peter > -Original Message- > From: Ed Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 March 2004 23:45 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Query across two databases on the same server > > > Is

RE: 6.5 seconds seems slow for the following search?

2004-03-27 Thread Peter Lovatt
Big tables, a join and a LIKE on middleweight hardware - looks about right to me. Peter > -Original Message- > From: Kyle Renfro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 March 2004 00:48 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 6.5 seconds seems slow for the following search? > > > I am testing MyS

RE: converting from foxpro to mysql ???????

2002-11-27 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Postgre might be a better bet, as it supports more of the features you are looking for. Peter --- Excellence in internet and open source software --- Sunmaia Birmingham UK www.sunmaia.net tel. 0121-242-147

RE: Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource

2002-11-28 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi It means you are refering to/using a result id that does not exist. Maybe the query changed or the database is down? Try echoing the query and the error echo mysql_error ( [resource link_identifier]) if not could you send more details to give us a little more to go on Peter ---

RE: INSERT confirmation? PHP

2002-12-14 Thread Peter Lovatt
hi mysql_insert_id http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php should do it! Peter --- Excellence in internet and open source software --- Sunmaia Birmingham UK www.sunmaia.net tel. 0121-242-1

RE: DBI or CGI perl error?

2002-12-14 Thread Peter Lovatt
You are missing a comma update music set cut = '' , mamended = '20021214013349' where mrecno = '1' HTH Peter --- Excellence in internet and open source software --- Sunmaia Birmingham UK www.sunmaia.net te

RE: An Idea

2002-12-29 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi My first thought was that the docs on mysql.com should do the job, but, although they answer most technical questions, often more down to earth stuff like 'How do I store images' or 'how do I get started with SQL' isn't there, or it is difficult to find. The other problem is that the documenta

RE: An Idea

2002-12-29 Thread Peter Lovatt
unmaia.net tel. 0121-242-1473 International +44-121-242-1473 --- -Original Message- From: JamesD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 December 2002 01:35 To: Peter Lovatt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: An Idea while Paul probably wouldnt say i

RE: An Idea

2002-12-31 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi A faq without questions would be pretty empty! While you have the questions why not keep a note (or send them to me) Once we have some momentum we can put some answers and tutorials together. I thought I would email MySql to see if they like the idea, if not then I will build it. Peter ---

RE: FAQ hosting site (was "Re: An Idea")

2003-01-01 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Like the look of the way its taking shape. I am not sure if there is existing faq software (I've checked sourceforge and freshmeat without much luck) we could use, or if someone can do a better job :) but I have a content management system written, together with a lot of the search functionali

RE: FAQ hosting site (was "Re: An Idea")

2003-01-01 Thread Peter Lovatt
Birmingham UK www.sunmaia.net tel. 0121-242-1473 International +44-121-242-1473 --- -Original Message- From: mnbv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 January 2003 00:23 To: Peter Lovatt; Stefan Hinz, iConnect (Berlin); David T-G; mysql users Subjec

RE: FAQ hosting site (was "Re: An Idea")

2003-01-01 Thread Peter Lovatt
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 January 2003 00:37 To: Peter Lovatt Cc: Stefan Hinz, iConnect (Berlin); David T-G; mysql users Subject: Re: FAQ hosting site (was "Re: An Idea") On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 11:08:58PM -0000, Peter Lovatt wrote: > > I am not sure if there is exist

RE: Query with php

2003-03-01 Thread Peter Lovatt
$result=mysql_query("SELECT items.*, city.City FROM items, city WHERE items.Category='$Category' AND items.CityID='$CityName' AND items.CityID=21 ORDER BY City "); while ($row=mysql_query($result)) {

RE: Can't start mysql

2003-03-01 Thread Peter Lovatt
hi have you run mysql_install_db ? this sets up the mysql database initially Peter -Original Message- From: John Almberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 March 2003 20:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't start mysql I'm trying to install MySQL 3.23 on a RedHat Linux Version 8.0

RE: CREATE syntax wrong?

2003-03-24 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi AUTO_INCREMENT needs to be an integer, NUMERIC is a decimal? not 100% sure but it looks like it Peter -Original Message- From: Cesar Baquerizo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 20:59 To: MySQL Subject: CREATE syntax wrong? Hello, I am on: mysql Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23

RE: Nested SQL QUERY

2003-03-29 Thread Peter Lovatt
HI MySQL does not support sub selects/nested queries :( Peter -Original Message- From: Eric Leupold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 March 2003 16:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nested SQL QUERY I hope someone can help me with a syntax error I'm getting with a nested query. I'm a

RE: update statement, error free but no affected rows?

2003-06-06 Thread Peter Lovatt
-Original Message- From: Christian Calloway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 June 2003 18:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: update statement, error free but no affected rows? update students set counselor_id = 1 , school_attending='Univsity of Maryland' where id = 1; I think Pet

RE: [My Solution] Re: Mailing Labels from MySQL database on web

2003-05-28 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi One more suggestion that does work reasonably well. Generate a basic HTML page with a table laid out to suit the labels, in php, with addresses in place Write the page to your webspace as labels.htm (you will need to set permissions to allow this) You then need a program that will open and pr

Sql gurus

2002-02-05 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi I am working on a search logging script to count the most popular word or phrases searched for. Table I could add a line for each search, and aggregate the results for reports, but I was wondering about the following which would keep table sizes down. | search word | count | =

RE: Sql gurus

2002-02-05 Thread Peter Lovatt
--- > -Original Message- > From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 February 2002 17:58 > To: Peter Lovatt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sql gurus > > > Hi Peter, > > > I am working on a search logging script to count the most > popu

Rebooting MySql

2002-02-13 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Is there any reason to reboot MySql periodically? My server has been up for just under 6 months without a reboot, and some of the queries are noticeably slower. This may well be because the data has grown, but I wondered if there is any memory leakage at all. Anybody with more experience got

RE: Is The MySQL Mailing List On Crack?

2002-02-13 Thread Peter Lovatt
no! about 150 messages today Peter --- Excellence in internet and open source software --- Sunmaia www.sunmaia.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. 0121-242-1473 --- >

Logging visits using a database

2002-02-13 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Excuse the cross post I am thinking about building a logging tool to do visit analysis using SQL, rather than doing log file analysis. The aim is to analyse requests for dynamic pages called via php as well as static pages. Static pages will use an include for logging. Php calls may have two

RE: Security concerns on webserver with PHP & InnoDB

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
> -Original Message- > From: BD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 18 February 2002 21:31 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Security concerns on webserver with PHP & InnoDB > > > I'm creating a web application with MySQL, PHP, InnoDB and I need to know > whether I should split the one l

RE: high reliability and replication

2002-03-04 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi One of my servers was hit by a network DoS attack and was offline for an hour on Thursday and I am looking at high availability solutions. I can make sure the php site is always up by redundancy, but making sure the database is ok is more difficult. The situation I want to cater for is this

RE: [ANN] Blue World ...

2002-03-09 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi A few points 1. 1 (?)Spam, 40 people filling my in box with complaints about it. We get very little Spam on this list, if you don't like it, bin it. 2. MySql users are diverse. We have php, perl, c++, Delphi, Access and VB mentioned regularly. So why shouldn't we be interested in another

RE: SQL query question - using LIKE

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi $query = 'SELECT * FROM Table WHERE FirstName LIKE "%'.$firstname.'%"' ; if($lastname)$query.= ', AND LastName LIKE "%'.$lastname.'%"'; if($region)$query.= ', AND Region LIKE "%'.$region.'%"'; if($loan_officer)$query.

RE: problem with '

2002-03-31 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi php probably adds slashes to all the " and ' in the statement. Is it worth trying backslashing all the variables individually? $field1 = addslashes($field1); $field2 = addslashes($field2); etc $query="INSERT .. VALUES ('$field1','$field2',)'; If they come from form data php4+ adds

RE: output to a file

2002-04-01 Thread Peter Lovatt
hi hope this helps Peter '; $db = mysql_connect( "db", "**", "**"); mysql_select_db( "net3dual_reviews",$db); $r = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM hwureviews ORDER BY num DESC LIMIT 7"); $max = mysql_query("select max(num) from hwureviews"

RE: MySQL on Cobalt Raq2

2002-04-10 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Installation packages for the Raq range can be found at http://pkgmaster.com/packages/raq/ >From the main control panel go to 'Control Panel' and 'Install Software' MySql for Raq2 is not there, though it is for Raq3 and above, so perhaps worth a try. I installed it and it was almost 'hand

RE: -- e-shop

2002-04-10 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi We are in the process of developing Ultra High Availability ecommerce sites based on php and MySql. 1. The software itself is well tested 2. The site is duplicated on two or more servers in separate data centres, with live replication. 3. Nameservers for the domain are on the s

RE: Help w/Query

2002-04-10 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Change your WHERE statement to WHERE stns.stns_id=1 AND table.ent_nws_id <> "3" ' HTH Peter --- Excellence in internet and open source software --- Sunmaia www.sunmaia.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. 0121-2

RE: Sage Line 50 and importing into MySQL with ODBC

2002-04-10 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi I did some digging on this going back. From memory, the ODBC drivers vary a little from version to version of Sage. I think they are also read only, which may not be a problem if data is only being imported into mysql. I contacted a local Sage reseller who was very helpful, and knew Sage over

RE: Uppercase first letter of each word

2002-04-26 Thread Peter Lovatt
this is for php, if you are not using php then try something similar //use explode to create an array with one word in each item $sql_array = explode(" ", $sql_text) //loop thro the array while(list($val) = each($sql_array)) { $val = ucfirst ($val); $new_sql_text .= $val ;

RE: Newbie Question

2002-05-06 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi If you are developing for a Windows desktop, MyODBC with Access, Paradox or Delphi all workm, from experience. If you are developing for Linux desktop, then not sure, but perhaps others have experience Peter --- Excellence in internet and open

RE: Two database servers, same physical server

2002-05-06 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi If the databases are not too big, and are on the same machine, you could just copy the directory with the databases in. If you need to restore the database just copy it back. I think this is OK, though you might want to stop mysql to "lock" the database. I have only done this a couple of ti

RE: Maximum number of rows in the table

2002-05-07 Thread Peter Lovatt
Jeremy at yahoo quoted one with 280 million rows, I think. Peter --- Excellence in internet and open source software --- Sunmaia www.sunmaia.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. 0121-242-1473 --

RE: Distributed MySQL : How to synchronize ?

2002-05-11 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi I have built and am testing a php module that is capable of this. I have an ultra high availability project where it must survive a server or network failure and switch seamlessly to the backup server. All queries are executed through a db abstraction class. It basically does the same as re

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