I have a table with a "SortID" column that is numbered using consecutive numbers. Whenever a row is deleted, it leaves a gap. Is there a way using pure SQL to update the rows with their row number? Something like this: UPDATE tbl SET SortID={rowindex} ORDER BY SortID (I realize this isn't valid SQL, that's why I'm asking for help) Th...
Hi, I just reinstalled Mac Os X 10.6.2 and had to reinstall/update my MySQL server. I run phpMyAdmin inside my localhost and I used to be able to login without a hitch. Since the updated (latest version MySQL 5.1.45 & PMA 3.3.1) versions I only get the following error when trying to login with phpMyAdmin: phpMyAdmin - Error Cannot st...
I have a PHP program that has been written keeping in mind a single server, so there are inherent limitation to how much it can handle. For example, the developer says that his current webhosting service provides him with "50 MySQL connections" which he interprets as that only 50 people can be simultaneously logged onto it. What do we n...
I am considering replicating a production MySQL database to my development machine so I've always got current data. The production database is externally hosted. My development machine is behind an unreliable internet connection. It is entirely possible that the development machine could be disconnected from the internet for extended pe...
I found something that works with updating one field at here: http://www.karlrixon.co.uk/articles/sql/update-multiple-rows-with-different-values-and-a-single-sql-query/ UPDATE person SET name = CASE id WHEN 1 THEN 'Jim' WHEN 2 THEN 'Mike' WHEN 3 THEN 'Precious' END WHERE id IN (1,2,3) My question is how...
I'd like to count and group rows by specific values. This seems fairly simple, but I can't seem to do it. I have a table set up similar to this: Table: Ratings id pID uID rating 1 1 2 7 2 1 7 7 3 1 5 4 4 1 1 1 id is the primary key, piD and uID are foreign-keys. Rating contains values between 1 and 10, and...
Hello, I am creating a simple MySQL query that will be built from the user selecting options from 2 dropdowns. The issue I am having is that I would like each drop down to default that if they do not actually choose an option, do not filter by that dropdown parameter. So, if they come in, and simply hit submit without choosing from a ...
If I load the data of user_x into memory with memcache, how long will this data stay available? If a user only logs in once a year this data is unnecessary in the memory. Or am i looking at this the wrong way? ...
I want to take the id of the most recent item in a database, increment it by one and insert that new id in to another table. I tried: $select = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM tableName ORDER BY id DESC"); while ($return = mysql_fetch_assoc($select)) { $id = $return['id']; $newId = $id++; } mysql_query("INSERT INTO anotherTable (...
Hi This is a doubt on mysql select query let me axplain my doubt with a simple example consider this is my query SELECT dbCountry from tableCountry tableCountry has fields dbCuntryId, dbCountry and dbState I have the result as dbCountry india america england kenya pakisthan I need the result as 1 india 2 amer...
Hello, My code contain SELECT * FROM newchap WHERE company LIKE '%$company%' OR Category LIKE '%$cat%' It works perfectly however, when the field $company contain empty, it return all result in MYSQL. How to prevent it? ...
i have 2 table ok catgories and artilces i have this structure catgories web > design > photoshop > layers web > design > photoshop > effects and each one is a catgory and layers catgories has 100 article and effects catgories has 50 article now i want when count the articles 'web' catgory it show 150 article how i can do this give m...
Hi guys I'm working on my web based ordering system and we would like to maintain a kind of task history for each of our orders. A hsitory in the sense that we would like to maintain a log of who did what on an order like lets say an order has been entered - we would like to know if the order was acknowledged for an example. Or lets say ...
An update on my attempts to implement a 505,000,000-row table on MySQL on my MacBook Pro: Following the advice given, I have partitioned my table, tr: i UNSIGNED INT NOT NULL, j UNSIGNED INT NOT NULL, A FLOAT(12,8) NOT NULL, nu BIGINT NOT NULL, KEY (nu), key (A) with a range on nu. nu ought to be a real number, but because I only have...
How do we monitor that the connectivity between the rails app and the database is established. will rails try to re-connect the connection with mysql if it closes? ...
i have two tables table1 fields fid,fname,fage a ,abc ,20 b ,bcv ,21 c ,cyx ,19 table2 fields rcno,fid,status 1 ,a ,ok 2 ,c ,ok 3 ,a ,ok 4 ,b ,ok 5 ,a ,ok i want to display rectors like this fid from table1 , count(recno) from table 2 and fage from ta...
users table +-----+-----------+ | id | username | +-----+-----------+ | 1 | tom | | 2 | jelly | | 3 | foo | | 4 | bar | +-----+-----------+ groups table +----+---------+-----------------------------+ | id | user_id | title | +----+---------+-----------------------------+ | 2 | ...
Please look at this image here is 3 tables , and out i want is uid from table1 industry from table 3 of same uid count of fid from table 2 of same uid like in the sample example output will be 2 records Thanks ...
I have first names stored in one table and last names stored in another. I know this is silly but I am trying out different things as I'm just starting with MySQL. Anyway is it possible to select the first name from one table and the last name from another in one query? And put the result inside a PHP variable? ...
Hi I have the following tables CREATE TABLE `files` ( `fileid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `filename` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `filesize` int(11) NOT NULL, `folder` int(11) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`fileid`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; CREATE TABLE `folders` ( `directoryid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `d...