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Can I generate a ruby on rails database migration file from a MySQL sql file

Hi, I have a sql script file that upon import creates a table in a MySQL database and fills it with 2800 record. These are all the postal codes for the country Belgium. Now I would like to make a Ruby on Rails database migration file from this. Any idea how I can do this? Maybe there is a way around? Telling in a database migration fi...

php cli script hangs with no messages

Hi-- I've written a PHP script that runs via SSH and nohup, meant to process records from a database and do stuff with them (eg. process some images, update some rows). It works fine with small loads, up to maybe 10k records. I have some larger datasets that process around 40k records (not a lot, I realize, but it adds up to a lot of wo...

mysql syntax error for timestamp

I have this piece of SQL that is being fed to Mysql. CREATE TABLE pn_history( member INT, action INT, with INT, timestamp DATETIME, details VARCHAR(256) ) But is comes back as an error about the syntax. #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syn...

Best way for saving infinit playlists (arrays) into db? (php mySql)

So client gives me a string like "1,23,23,abc,ggg,544,tf4," from user 12 . There can be infinit number of elements with no spaces just value,value,... structure. I have users table (with users uId(key), names etc). I have streams table with ( sId(key), externalID, etc values). User sends me externalId's. And I need to hawe externalId's ...

C#: datagridview.Refresh () problem.

Hi.In my WinApp I am using DataGridView in tab control.When I am adding to table in another tab ,it does not update datagridview. After closing and re-opening app it shows new value.I connected my table with wizard to datagridview. And in my Button action after adding new value to data base I used this.BindingContext[this.dataGridView...

SQL: Interrupting a query

I've worked on a project using a proprietary non-SQL DB where queries could be interrupted and in the codebase there were quite some spots where that functionnality was used and made perfect sense (for example to stop a long running query that gets cancelled by the user, or when a more recent query takes place and renders the previous qu...

Mysql on duplicate key update + sub query

Using the answer from this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/662877/need-mysql-insert-select-query-for-tables-with-millions-of-records new_table * date * record_id (pk) * data_field INSERT INTO new_table (date,record_id,data_field) SELECT date, record_id, data_field FROM old_table ON DUPLICATE KEY UP...

sql statement question. Need to query 3 tables in one go!

Hey there, I have an sql database. In this database is 3 tables I need to query. The first table has all the item info called item and the other two tables has data for votes and comments called userComment and the third for votes called userItem I currently have a function which uses this sql query to get the latest more popular (in te...

formatting mysql data for ouptut into a table

Following on from a question earlier today this answer was given to read the data into an array and separate it to print vehicle type and then some data for each vehicle. <?php $sql = "SELECT * FROM apparatus ORDER BY vehicleType"; $getSQL = mysql_query($sql); // transform the result set: $data = array(); while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc...

Order mysql results without identifier

Usually I would have a table field called ID on auto increment. That way I could order using this field etc. However I have no control over the structure of a table, and wondered how to get the results in reverse order to default. I'm currently using $q = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ServerChat LIMIT 15"); However like I said there i...

SQL to display an event on start date, end date and any days in between.

Hello, This should be fairly simple, but I can't get my head around it. I have an event in my database with a startDate and an endDate. I need to display this event (based on the current date) on every day the event occurs. So if the event starts on the 3rd of May and finishes on the 7th of May, the SQL query must find it on every si...

Help combining these two queries

I need a SQL query that returns results matched by EITHER of the following SQL queries: Query 1: SELECT "annotations".* FROM "annotations" INNER JOIN "votes" ON "votes".voteable_id = "annotations".id AND "votes".voteable_type = 'Annotation' WHERE (votes.vote = 't' AND votes.voter_id = 78) Query 2: SELECT "annotations".* FROM "annota...

Database Replication

I have tried to follow the steps outlined in http://www.howtoforge.com/mysql_database_replication for Database Replication. I have created the database exampledb, and create some tables and load them with values. But when I execute USE exampledb; FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK; SHOW MASTER STATUS; I do not get any output, it says 0 rows ...

Is it safe to kill a mysql process during a REPLACE INTO query? (myisam)

I have a REPLACE query running for a few days now on a few MyISAM tables, the largest having 20+million records. I need it to stop. It is, basically: REPLACE INTO really_large_table (a,b,c,d) SELECT e,f,g,h FROM big_table INNER JOIN huge_table ON big_table.x LIKE CONCAT('%', huge_table.y, '%'); I need to KILL it, and I am worried ...

SQL to retrieve the latest records, grouping by unique foreign keys

I'm creating query to retrieve the latest posts in a forum using a SQL DB. I've got a table called "Post". Each post has a foreign key relation to a "Thread" and a "User" as well as a creation date. The trick is I don't want to show two posts by the same user or two posts in the same thread. Is it possible to create a query that contai...

Testing performance of queries in mysl

I am trying to setup a script that would test performance of queries on a development mysql server. Here are more details: I have root access I am the only user accessing the server Mostly interested in InnoDB performance The queries I am optimizing are mostly search queries (SELECT ... LIKE '%xy%') What I want to do is to create rel...

PHP MySQL INSERT fails due to unique constraint

On insert I am catching the unique constraint mysql_errno() 1062. This works fine but I want to find the existing row to re-instate or modify it. Is there are method to obtain the row id on insert fail? I tried mysql_insert_id() but realised that would only return the row I'm inserting (or failed to insert) therefore, I get 0. Is the...

How to select latest change done in the given Table structure?

I have a Table structure as id, trackid, table_name, operation, oldvalue, newvalue, field, changedonetime Now if I have 3 rows for the same "trackid" same "field", then how can i select the latest out of the three? i.e. for e.g.: id = 100 trackid = 152 table_name = jos_menu operation= UPDATE oldvalue = IPL newvalue = IPL...

get me the latest Change from Select Query in below given condition

I have a Table structure as id, trackid, table_name, operation, oldvalue, newvalue, field, changedonetime Now if I have 3 rows for the same "trackid" same "field", then how can i select the latest out of the three? i.e. for e.g.: id = 100 trackid = 152 table_name = jos_menu operation= UPDATE oldvalue = IPL newvalu...

How do I load a sql.gz file to my database? (importing)

is this right? mysql -uroot -ppassword mydb < myfile.sql.gz ...