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Need to find number of new unique ID numbers in a MySQL table

I have an iPhone app out there that "calls home" to my server every time a user uses it. On my server, I create a row in a MySQL table each time with the unique ID (similar to a serial number) aka UDID for the device, IP address, and other data. Table ClientLog columns: Time, UDID, etc, etc. What I'd like to know is the number of new d...

Cassandra instead of MySQL for social networking app

I am in the middle of building a new app which will have very similar features to Facebook and although obviously it wont ever have to deal with the likes of 400,000,000 million users it will still be used by a substantial user base and most of them will demand it run very very quickly. I have extensive experience with MySQL but a socia...

How to change rows in a table based on other table rows in mysql?

I've a table which has 3 columns: id, a_id and b_id. Suppose rows are like this: 1, a1, b1 2, a1, b2 3, a1, b3 4, a2, b4 5, a2, b5 6, a2, b6 I want to convert it to 1, a1, b1 2, a1, b1 3, a1, b1 4, a2, b4 5, a2, b4 6, a2, b4 So I want to make all the b_id corresponding to a_id same, and equal to the one which is found first. How ...

MYSQL: SELECT Method - but don't show duplicates / GROUP or DISTINCT?

hello, how can I Select and dont'show duplicates? actually it's showing like that: apple | apple | apples | apple this is my code: $search = $_GET['q']; $query = "SELECT * FROM query WHERE searchquery LIKE '%$search%' AND searchquery <> '$search'"; ...

Why is my mysql database timestamp changing by itself?

Hey guys quick question, I have an entry that I put in my database, and as I echo the value, the value in the database stays the same while the data echoed keeps increasing, which is messing up my function. If anyone knows whats going down, would appreciate any suggestions. <?php include("../includes/connection.php"); $query="SELECT * F...

Selecting the most common value from relation - SQL statement

I have a table within my database that has many records, some records share the same value for one of the columns. e.g. | id | name | software | ______________________________ | 1 | john | photoshop | | 2 | paul | photoshop | | 3 | gary | textmate | | 4 | ade | fireworks | | 5 | fred | textmate | |...

Is this so bad when using MySQL queries in PHP?

I need to update a lot of rows, per a user request. It is a site with products. I could... Delete all old rows for that product, then loop through string building a new INSERT query. This however will lose all data if the INSERT fails. Perform an UPDATE through each loop. This loop currently iterates over 8 items, but in the future it...

MySQL fields terminated by tab

I am trying to upload a tab delimitted file with MySQL. I want a query something likes this: LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'file' INTO TABLE tbl FIELDS TERMINATED BY 'TAB' Is there something I can subsitute for TAB to make this work? ...

Select between dates with wildcard mysql

Hi, I am trying to select between two dates, but in the table they have timestamps after them. Example: calldate is 2010-03-16 22:43:28 How would I select this using calldate between '$date1' AND '$date2' to wildcard the timestamp after the date? I tried using like but it didn't work I just want to do between '$date1%' AND '$date2%...

MYSQL Select and group by date

I'm not sure how create a right query to get the result I'm looking for. What I have is 2 tables. first has ID, Name columns and second has date and adminID, which is referenced from table 1 column ID. Now, what I want to get is basically number of times each admin loged in per day during the month. ID | Date ------------------ 4 |...

How to test PHP in MySQL Strict

I had a client who had MySQL Strict which brought up a few errors in my MySQL code... I didn't even know there was a MySQL Strict. I've fixed up a lot of the issues but I want to run some further tests on my local server. How do I enable MySQL Strict for testing purposes and then disable it when I no longer want it? ...

Is there any (performance) difference between Debug and Release?

I'm using MySql Connector .NET to load an account and transfer it to the client. This operation is rather intensive, considering the child elements of the account to load. In Debug mode, it takes, at most, 1 second to load the account. The average would be 500ms. In Release mode, it takes from 1 to 4 seconds to load the account. The ave...

(2006, 'MySQL server has gone away') in WSGI django

I have a MySQL gone away with Django under WSGI. I found entries for this problem on stackoverflow, but nothing with Django specifically. Google does not help, except for workarounds (like polling the website every once in a while, or increasing the database timeout). Nothing definitive. Technically, Django and/or MySQLdb (I'm using the ...

I am not able to update form data to MySQL using PHP and jQuery

What happens is that I'm able to add and delete records from form using jQuery and PHP scripts to MYSQL database, but I am not able to update data which was retrieved from the database. The file structure is as follows: index.php is a file with jQuery functions where it displays form for adding new data to MYSQL using save.php file and...

Searching phpbb's 'topic_title' via MYSQL php, but exact match doesn't work

$sql = sprintf( "SELECT topic_title FROM `phpbb_topics` WHERE `topic_title` LIKE '%%%s%%' LIMIT 20" , mysql_real_escape_string('match this title') ); Which I run this query in phpMyAdmin the results are: (correct) match this title match this title 002 But when I run...

MySQL LINES TERMINATED BY

What are the potential choices for LINES TERMINATED BY in MySQL? I have a CSV file that I am trying to upload and neither \r\n, \n, or \r work. ...

Is it possible for a Grails Domain to have no 'id'?

Is it possible to create a table that has no 'id'? For example, this is my domain: class SnbrActVector { int nid String term double weight static mapping = { version false id generator: 'identity' } static constraints = { } } When I run this SQL statement, it fails: insert into snbr_act_...

how do I update the date type column?

update answers a1 set a1.FilingDate=( select date_sub( a2.FilingDate ,Interval 1000 Year) as FilingDate from answers a2 where Year(a2.FilingDate)>=3000 ) where Year(a1.FilingDate)>=3000 but it gives me t...

How to get common field in ten tables with different field name

Hi all, I am having a common field in ten tables with different field name. example: table1: t1_id     t1_location 1         india 2         china 3         america table2: t2_id     t2_location 4         london 5         australia 6         america Now my...

URL regex search and replace on MySQL (in WordPress)

Hello all, I have a WordPress blog with numerous URL's I wish to replace from this: http://www.oldwebsite.co.il/name/*.asp To this: http://www.newwebsite.com/?p=* For example, from this: http://oldwebsite.co.il/name/65971.asp To this: http://www.newwebsite.com/?p=65971 I believe the following plugin: http://urba...