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Importing json data into MySQL?

Pretty much what the title says :) At the moment I'm using Python to turn the json data into a plain-text tab-separated file, and then mysqlimport to pull that into my MySQL tables. Anyone know a nicer / more direct way? ...

I have a php form dropdown menu that needs to send information

I have a dropdown menu that is filled by a mysql database. I need to select one and have it send the information for use on the next page after clicking submit. It does populate the drop down menu like it is supposed to it just does not seem to catch the data on the next page. Here is what I have: removeMain.php <html xmlns="http://www...

MySQL Order By Symbol Preference

I was wondering if there was a way to make alphanumeric characters have a higher order of preference than symbols when doing an ORDER BY. I.E. 'a' to come before '(' There are many ways round this, but I'd prefer the most elegant db approach. ...

Does a version control database storage engine exist?

I was just wondering if a storage engine type existed that allowed you to do version control on row level contents. For instance, if I have a simple table with ID, name, value, and ID is the PK, I could see that row 354 started as (354, "zak", "test")v1 then was updated to be (354, "zak", "this is version 2 of the value")v2 , and could s...

Unable to compare valuesfrom mysql in a prepared statement

I can't seem to get this to connect to the database so that I can run my prepared statement. Does anybody have an idea what I've forgotten? private function check_credentials($plain_username, $password) { global $dbcon; $ac = new ac(); $ac->dbconnect(); $userid = $dbcon->prepare('SELECT id FROM users WHERE username ...

MySQL ignores the NOT NULL constraint

I have created a table with NOT NULL constraints on some columns in MySQL. Then in PHP I wrote a script to insert data, with an insert query. When I omit one of the NOT NULL columns in this insert statement I would expect an error message from MySQL, and I would expect my script to fail. Instead, MySQL inserts empty strings in the NOT NU...

How to do an additional search on archive in rails if record not found, by extending model?

Hello, I was wondering if somebody knows an elegant solution to the following: Suppose I have a table that holds orders, with a bunch of data. So I'm at 1M records, and searches begin to take time. So I want to speed it up by archiving some data that is more than 3 years old - saving it into a table called orders-archive, and then pu...

MySQL Query exceptions

In one page, it should show records that has the following selected month from the drop down menu and it is set in the ?month=March So the query will do this $sql = "SELECT * FROM schedule WHERE month = '" . Clean($_GET['month']) . "' AND finished='0' ORDER BY date ASC"; But it shows records that has a value of 2 in the finished colu...

live search with Jquery

Hello! I am trying to implement a live search on my site. I am using a script somebody has already created. http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/03/live-mysql-database-search-with-jquery/ I have got the Jquery, css, html working correctly but am having troubles with the php. I need to change it to contain my database information but everyt...

MySQL: Unique constraint on multiple fields

I have two tables --> Variables (id, name) and Variable_Entries (id, var_id, value). I want each variable to have a unique set of entries. If I make the value entry unique then a different variable won't be able to have that same value which is not right. Is there some way to make the value column unique for identical var_id's? ...

How to obtain value of auto_increment field in Access linked to MySQL?

I'm trying to modify and existing Access application to use MySQL as a database via ODBC with the minimal amount of recoding. The current code will often insert a new record using DAO then obtain the ID by using LastModified. This doesn't work with MySQL. Instead I'm trying to use the approach using SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE auto_...

Help with grasping (INNER?) JOIN

I'm having trouble building a query. I can do what I want in 3 different queries. SELECT id FROM table1 WHERE url LIKE '%/$downloadfile' put that in $url_id SELECT item_id FROM table2 WHERE rel_id = '$url_id'" put that in $item_id SELECT rel_id FROM table2 WHERE rel_id = '$item_id' AND field_id = '42'" put that in $user_id But from re...

Export MySQL to CSV using UNIX

Is it possible to Export a MySQL to a CSV using the command line in UNIX? ...

Looking for a web server that include the following technologies ColdFusion, PHP, MS SQL Server, MySQL

Can anyone explain if it is possible to have a web server for all of these technologies: ColdFusion, PHP, MS SQL Server, MySQL I have a web developer insisting that they require all of the above however it doesn't quite make sense to me. Any help or clarification is appreciated. ...

Simplest one-to-many Map case in Hibernate doesn't work in MySQL

I think this is pretty much the simplest case for mapping a Map (that is, an associative array) of entities. @Entity @AccessType("field") class Member { @Id protected long id; @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch=FetchType.LAZY) @MapKey(name = "name") private Map<String, Preferences> preferences ...

Join with three tables

Hello, For the join query below, I would like to pull some data from a third MySQL table called "comment." Each s.title has a corresponding s.submissionid. The field "submissionid" is also the in the table "comment." For each "submissionid" in the table "comment," I would like to count a field called "commentid." How can I do th...

Record Disappeared from Mysql Table, How Can I Find Out What Happened?

I got the fire alarm phone call, AIM messages and email today from a client stating "The site is down!, WTF happened?!" Well, after a little digging, it turns out one of the records in a table had been wiped clean, but without removing the row itself. So, I had the representation of data, but a bunch of empty fields. (needless to say ...

synchronize ms access and mySQL in different host

Hi, Would like to ask is there any way to synchronize Ms Access and mySQL but are hosted in different hosting. If I update the Ms Access, the mySQL database in different Host is updated automatically. Thank you. ...

What database works well with 200+GB of data?

I've been using mysql (with innodb; on Amazon rds) because it's sort of universal default, but it's been ridiculously under-performing, and tweaking it only delays the inevitable. The data is mostly relatively short (<1kB of bytes each) blobs information about 100Ms of urls. There is (or should be, mysql cannot seem to handle it) very h...

Returning a recordcount from a subquery in a result set.

I am attempting to return a rowcount from a subquery as part of a result set. Here is a sample that I've tried that didn't work: SELECT recordID , GroupIdentifier , count() AS total , (SELECT COUNT() FROM table WHERE intActingAsBoolean = 1) AS Approved FROM table WHERE date_format(Datevalue, '%Y%m%d') BETWEEN 'startDat...