here is my 3 tables: table 1 -- stores user information and it has unique data table 2 -- stores place category such as, toronto, ny, london, etc hence this is is also unique table 3 -- has duplicate information. it stores all the places a user have been. the 3 tables are linked or joined by these ids: table 1 has an "table1_id" ta...
How do I save the results of EXECUTE statement to a variable? Something like SET a = (EXECUTE stmtl); ...
I have question about normalization. Suppose I have an applications dealing with songs. First I thought about doing like this: Songs Table: id | song_title | album_id | publisher_id | artist_id Albums Table: id | album_title | etc... Publishers Table: id | publisher_name | etc... Artists Tale: id | artist_name | etc... Then as I t...
I'm working on a web app for a quality control checklist. I already have a table set up, but I have a hunch that our model is sub-optimal and I could get some better performance. Please not that I'm using mysql, so I'm limited to its capabilities. Each checklist has dozens, sometimes hundreds of questions. Each question has between 2 an...
My current database design uses MyIsam mainly as the storage engine, I wonder if its possible to split some of the tables into MyIsam and some into Innodb in the same database. Reason of switching some of the tables to Innodb is because i need row-based locking which Innodb offers. I am not too sure whether this would have any effect on ...
while executing the following query, i get an error that there's an error in the syntax near line 9. since i'm using mysql workbench, i can't really figure out what could be wrong: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `proquotes`.`thquotes` ( `idQuotes` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , `vAuthorID` VARCHAR(8) CHARACTER SET 'utf8' NOT NULL , ...
I have few thousands of records with few 100 fields in a MySQL Table. Some records are duplicates and are marked as such. Now while I can simply delete the dupes, I want to retain any other possible valuable non-null data which is not present in the original version of the record. Hope I made sense. For instance : a b c d e f key dupe...
Hello When using: SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE id IN(4,2,1,3,5); The resulting order is: 1,2,3,4,5 What can I do to return the results in the same order I queried them in? thanks ...
I want to merge data. Following are my MySQL tables. I want to use Python to traverse though a list of both Lists (one with dupe = 'x' and other with null dupes). This is sample data. Actual data is humongous. For instance : a b c d e f key dupe -------------------- 1 d c f k l 1 x 2 g h j 1 3 i h u u 2 4 u r t 2 x ...
I have a table with thousands of rows and hundreds of columns (not my design). I'm trying to find out which columns are never used so I can simplify the table a little. How can I find which of the columns have no value in all rows? ...
Hey all i am new to ASP.NET and VB.net code behind. I have a classic ASP page that connects to the mySQL server with the following code: Set oConnection = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") Set oRecordset = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") oConnection.Open "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver}; SERVER=xxx.com; PORT=3306; ...
I make use of generic views and I am attempting to query my MySQL db (utf8_bin collation) in a case insensitive manor to try to find all my song titles that start with a particular letter. view.py def tracks_by_title(request, starts_with): return object_list( request, queryset = Track.objects.filter(title__istartswi...
Help me figure out a solution to a (not so unique) problem. My research group has gps devices attached to migratory animals. Every once in a while, a research tech will be within range of an animal and will get the chance to download all the logged points. Each individual spits out a single dbf and new locations are just appended to the...
SELECT * FROM company c INNER JOIN city ci ON ci.city_id = c.city_id INNER JOIN state s ON s.state_id = c.state_id WHERE MATCH ( c.name, ci.name, c.zipcode, s.name ) AGAINST ( 'los angeles' ) ...
I'm getting average prices by week on 7 million rows, it's taking around 30 seconds to get the job done. This is the simple query: SELECT AVG(price) as price, yearWEEK(FROM_UNIXTIME(timelog)) as week from pricehistory where timelog > $range and product_id = $id GROUP BY week The only week that actually gets data changed and is worth ...
I have a dict object. I dumped the data using this: for alldata in data: # print all data to screen print data[alldata] Each field had brackets [] and 'None' values for NULLS and date.datetime for date values. How do I dump this dict to MySQL table? Thank you! print data displays something like this : {'1': ['1', 'K', abc, 'xyz...
I have this mySQL code that connects to my server. It connects just fine: Dim MyConString As String = "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};" & _ "SERVER=xxx.com;" & _ "DATABASE=xxx;" & _ "UID=xxx;" & _ "PASSWORD=xxx;" & _ "OPTION=3;" Dim conn As OdbcConnection = New OdbcConnection(MyConString) conn.Open() Dim MyCommand As New Odb...
Hi, I am working on a project, involving large amount of data from the delicious website.The data available is at files are "Date,UserId,Url,Tags" (for each bookmark). I normalized my database to a 3NF, and because of the nature of the queries that we wanted to use In combination I came down to 6 tables....The design looks fine, however,...
select SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS DISTINCT media.*, username from album as album, album_permission as permission, user as user, media as media , word_tag as word_tag, tag as tag where ((media.album_id = album.album_id and album.private = 'yes' and album.album_id = permission.album_id and (permission.email = '' or permission.user_id = '') ) o...
I would like to have questions marked as "Edited", but I dont know what the best way to do this would be. Users post a question, people answer/comment on the question, and if necessary the user edits/updates the question (just like SO). I would like to note that the user edited the question, but I'm not sure of the best way to do this. ...