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where is the actual data in a mysql db stored on a linux machine?

Which files are the actual files holding the data in the tables in a mysql db? I went to /var/lib/mysql/ and I can see there a bunch of relatively small directories corresponding to my tables, and a lot of files named servername-bin.0000001 etc. Is the data stored in those files? ...

How to approximate how much time is left for an indexing process on mysql

I am running a long indexing process. I know there is no concrete way of knowing the remaining time for the process, but how can one get a rough estimation I read somewhere that I can get some approximation by looking at the size of the table before the indexing and comparing that with size of the temp table being created. Is this true?...

NHibernate and MySql Keywords

Why Nibernate HQL can not handle the following query: from Deal D where (D.ApprovalDate + INTERVAL 1 Year) < current_timestamp() < (D.RenewalDate + INTERVAL -1 Year) knowing that INTERVAL and YEAR are keywords in MySQL, so this is kind of mixing Sql within Hql (unless Hql can handle date functions like so and I don't know) . The dia...

Best way to construct this query?

I have two tables set up similar to this (simplified for the quest): actions- id - user_id - action - time users - id - name I want to output the latest action for each user. I have no idea how to go about it. I'm not great with SQL, but from what I've looked up, it should look something like the following. not sure though. SEL...

How can this SQL be wrong? What am I not seeing?

Can anybody please spot my error, this should be a legal query in SQL shouldn't it?? Unknown column u.usr_auto_key in the ON clause This is the database schema: User: (usr_auto_key, name, etc...) Setting: (set_auto_key, name etc..) User_Setting: (usr_auto_key, set_auto_key, value) And this is the query... SELECT ...

MYSQL Insert: How to save Query in the database only one time - duplicate key doesn't work!

hello, I want to save a query only one time in the database, this is my code: $querystat = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['q']); $datetime = time(); if( ($querystat != $_SESSION['prev_search']) OR ( ($datetime - $_SESSION['datetime']) > 60) ) { $insertquery = "INSERT INTO `query` ( `searchquery` , `datetime`) VALUES ( '$q...

mysql filtering result using left outer join

my query: SELECT content.*, activity_log.content_id FROM content LEFT JOIN activity_log ON content.id = activity_log.content_id AND sess_id = '$sess_id' WHERE activity_log.content_id IS NULL AND visibility = $visibility AND content.reported < ".REPORTED_LIMIT." AND conte...

Deleting Duplicates in MySQL

Query was this: CREATE TABLE `query` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `searchquery` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', `datetime` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM first I want to drop the table with: ALTER TABLE `querynew` DROP `id` and then delete the double entries.. I tried it with: INSERT...

how to 'scale' these three tables?

I have the following Tables: Players id playerName Weapons id type otherData Weapons2Player id playersID_reference weaponsID_reference That was nice and simple. Now I need to SELECT items from the Weapons table, according to some of their characteristics that i previously just p...

Mysql storing quotes as &#39;

I have some PHP code which stores whatever is typed in a textbox in the databse. If I type in bob's apples, it gets stored in the database as bob&#39;s apples. What can be the problem? The table storing this has the collation of latin1_swedish_ci. ...

create new db in mysql with php syntax

I am trying to create a new db called testDB2, below is my code. Once running the script all I am getting an error on line 7 Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysqlquery() in /home/admin/domains/domain.com.au/public_html/db_createdb.php on line 7 This is my code <? $sql = "CREATE database testDB2"; $connection = mysql_connect...

Set to null a parent record so that children are removed: howto?

How to delete a child row (on delete cascade ?) when setting a null value on a parent? Here's the db design. table A [id, b_id_1, b_id_2] table B [id, other fields...] b_id_1 and b_id_2 can be NULL if any of them is null, it means NO B records for corresponding FK (there are 2 of them) so (b_id_1,b_id_2) can be (null,null), (100,...

Find Rows in Vertical Line-separated values in MySQl?

Let say i have a field 'category' with the value '1|2|3'. I want to search in mysql such that it will return all rows matching my search parameter into the values of the category. for example: $cat_id = 1; SELECT * FROM `myTable` WHERE cat_id is equal or found in category with values '1|2|3'... something like that..i do not know how ...

Fail2Ban - Log to mysql

Hi! We have a few servers with SSH public (using sFTP). Obviously, the attacks ar too many. We want put the banned logs into a MySQL DB for make stats and etc. Have anyone tryied this? Thanks ...

Mysql Query - Order By Not Working

I'm running Mysql 5.0.77 and I'm pretty sure this query should work? SELECT * FROM purchases WHERE time_purchased BETWEEN '2010-04-15 00:00:00' AND '2010-04-18 23:59:59' ORDER BY time_purchased ASC, order_total DESC time_purchased is DATETIME, and an index. order_total is DECIMAL(10,2), and not an index. I want to order all purchases...

onUpdate in MySQL means?

i know that if you create a foreign key on a field (parent_id) in a child table that refer to a parent table's primary key (id), then if this parent table is deleted the child class will be deleted as well if you set onDelete to cascade when creating the foreign key in the child class. but what happens if i set it to onUpdate = cascade?...

mysql count, distinct, join? COnfusion

hello i have 2 tables: tblItems ID | orderID | productID 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 2 1 4 3 2 tblProducts productID | productName 1 ABC 2 ...

What can cause legit MySql INSERT INTO command to fail?

I can't figure out what's causing my INSERT INTO's to fail to certain table in MySql. I can manage them to other tables. The table looks like: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `Match` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `match_no` int(11) NOT NULL, `season` int(11) NOT NULL, `hometeam` int(11) NOT NULL, `awayteam` int(11) NOT N...

Database schema for multiple category/product relationship

I want to design a database for an e-commerce application with category/subcategory management. Please suggest a database schema where we can create categories and subcategories and add products to those categories. Each product can have multiple categories and we can select products belong to multiple categories using a boolean database...

Mysql SET NAMES UTF8 - how to get rid of?

In a very busy PHP script we have a call at the beginning to "Set names utf8" which is setting the character set in which mysql should interpret and send the data back from the server to the client. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-applications.html I want to get rid of it so I set default-character-set=utf8 In our server...