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Solr autocommit and autooptimize?

I will be uploading my website to a VPS soon. It is a classifieds website which uses Solr integrated with MySql. Solr is updated whenever a new classified is put or deleted. I need a way to make the commit() and optimize() be automated, for example once every 3 hours or so. How can I do this? (Details Please) When is it ideal to optim...

MySQL INJECTION Solution...

I have been bothered for so long by the MySQL injections and was thinking of a way to eliminate this problem all together. I have came up with something below hope that many people will find this useful. The only Draw back I can think of this is the partial search: Jo =>returns "John" by using the like %% statement. Here is a php solu...

MYSQL Select Statment with Modification to tuple values

Hi, I have the following table: bar_id, bar_name, subscription_id_fk, sub_name eg: 1, Hard Rock, 2, Gold 2, TGIF, 1, Free Now I need and SQL to extract this table, but where sub_name = Gold, I need to double the subscription_id_fk. Can you please help ? Edit: I need this value to be only changed in the result of the SQL statment...

Why does MySQL autoincrement increase on failed inserts?

A co-worker just made me aware of a very strange MySQL behavior. Assuming you have a table with an auto_increment field and another field that is set to unique (e.g. a username-field). When trying to insert a row with a username thats already in the table the insert fails, as expected. Yet the auto_increment value is increased as can be...

How to "redefine search" or correct "misspelling" from the database

Hello i want to add new feature to the search in my website. i'm using PHP and MYSQL. mysql database containing a table to the items that the user will search for, for each item there is a "keyword" column that's comma separated keywords "EXAMPLE: cat,dog,horse". after the user search in my website i want to get the words that are let ...

select more rows as a column

I have a MySQL issue i want to have the result of the next query into a var and use it to update into the trigger i am trying to get the names comma separated The query returns more then one row SELECT t.naam FROM trefwoorden t INNER JOIN organisaties_has_trefwoorden AS o ON (t.id_trefwoorden = o.id_trefwoorden) WHERE o.id_organ...

MySQL 'user_id' in where clause is ambiguous problem

How can I correct the problem I keep getting from the code below which states 'user_id' in where clause is ambiguous. Thanks for the help in advance. Here is the mysql table. SELECT user.*, user_info.* FROM user INNER JOIN user_info ON user.user_id = user_info.user_id WHERE user_id='$user_id' ...

Converting a date string which is before 1970 into a timestamp in MySQL.

Not a very good title, so my apologies. For some reason, (i wasn't the person who did it, i digress) we have a table structure where the field type for a date is varchar. (odd). We have some dates, such as: 1932-04-01 00:00:00 and 1929-07-04 00:00:00 I need to do a query which will convert these date strings into a unix time stamp, h...

MySQL subqueries

Can we do this query without subqueries? SELECT login, post_n, (SELECT SUM(vote) FROM votes WHERE votes.post_n=posts.post_n)AS votes, (SELECT COUNT(comments.post_n) FROM comments WHERE comments.post_n=posts.post_n)AS comments_count FROM users, posts WHERE posts.id=users.id AND (visibility=2 OR visibility=3) ORDER BY date DESC LIMI...

MySQL: Order by time (MM:SS)?

I'm currently storing various metadata about videos and one of those bits of data is the length of a video. So if a video is 10 minutes 35 seconds long, it's saved as "10:35" in the database. But what I'd like to do is retrieve a listing of videos by length (longest first, shortest last). The problem I'm having is that if a video is "...

php & mySQL: Space taken up by a TEXT column

Hi all, I have a column with it's structure as TEXT. I would like to know how much space the 3 rows take up considering the following data in it against the TEXT column. TEXT column ROW1 ROW2 Hi ROW3 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ... (really long, let's say 1500 characters) We have 3 rows above. Row1 is empty. Row2 has only 2 ...

Optimize slow ranking query

I need to optimize a query for a ranking that is taking forever (the query itself works, but I know it's awful and I've just tried it with a good number of records and it gives a timeout). I'll briefly explain the model. I have 3 tables: player, team and player_team. I have players, that can belong to a team. Obvious as it sounds, playe...

Integer in MySQL Subqueries in store procedure

I made simple procedure just to demonstrate CREATE PROCEDURE `demo`(demo_int int) BEGIN DECLARE minid INT; SELECT min(id) FROM (SELECT id FROM events LIMIT demo_int,9999999999999999) as hoo INTO minid; END$$ The problem is with demo_int, if i change it to LIMIT 1,9999999999999999 it works but LIMIT demo_int,9999999999999999 D...

Does this query fetch unnecessary information? Should I change the query?

I have this classifieds website, and I have about 7 tables in MySql where all data is stored. I have one main table, called "classifieds". In the classifieds table, there is a column called classified_id. This is not the PK, or a key whatsoever. It is just a number which is used for me to JOIN table records together. Ex: classifieds ...

NHibernate will insert but not update after move to host with shared server running mysql.

Hi, I have a site running MVC and Nhibernate (not fluent) using standard session per request in an http module, runs fine locally (also with mysql) but after a move to a hosting provider no update statements are being issued. I can insert but not update, no exceptions are raised, I have the 'show_sql' option switched on which locally s...

MYSQL JOIN SELECT Statment - omit duplicated

Hi, I am tying to join the following 2 queries but I am having duplicated .... it is possible to remove duplacted fro this: ( SELECT bar_id, bar_name, town_name, bar_telephone, (subscription_type_id *2) AS subscription_type_id FROM bar, sportactivitybar, towns, subscriptiontype WHERE sport_activity_id_fk =14 AND bar_id = b...

INSERT INTO othertbl SELECT * tbl

Current situation: INSERT INTO othertbl SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE id = '1' So i want to copy a record from tbl to othertbl. Both tables have an autoincremented unique index. Now the new record should have a new index, rather then the value of the index of the originating record else copying results in a index not uniq...

UTF-8 character encoding battles json_encode()

Quest I am looking to fetch rows that have accented characters. The encoding for the column (NAME) is latin1_swedish_ci. The Code The following query returns Abord â Plouffe using phpMyAdmin: SELECT C.NAME FROM CITY C WHERE C.REGION_ID=10 AND C.NAME_LOWERCASE LIKE '%abor%' ORDER BY C.NAME LIMIT 30 The following displays expected va...

problem parsing JSON Strings

var records = JSON.parse(JsonString); for(var x=0;x<records.result.length;x++) { var record = records.result[x]; ht_text+="<b><p>"+(x+1)+" " +record.EMPID+" " +record.LOCNAME+" " +record.DEPTNAME+" " +record.CUSTNAME +"<br/><br/><div class='slide'>" +record.REPORT +"</div></p></b><br/>"; } The above co...

user generated / user specific functions

I'm looking for the most elegant and secure method to do the following. I have a calendar, and groups of users. Users can add events to specific days on the calendar, and specify how long each event lasts for. I've had a few requests from users to add the ability for them to define that events of a specific length include a break, of...