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running a stored procedure inside a sql trigger

Hi all, the business logic in my application requires me to insert a row in table X when a row is inserted in table Y. Furthermore, it should only do it between specific times(which I have to query another table for). I have considered running a script every 5 minutes or so to check this, but I stumbled upon triggers and figured this mig...

software to auto-backup MYSQL + images etc on Server to Network HD in my house?

While i'm sure i can write a CRON to do this and some how open the ports on a network hd in my house, to be honest i'd rather spend a bit of money on some good software with a nice visual interface! are there any such all-in-one server backup systems? nightly backups of the MYSQL db weekly backups of entire site (images etc) my serv...

How can several different datatypes be saved in one table

This is my situation: I am constructing an ad-like application in Django and Mysql. I am using a flexible-ad approach where we have: a table with ad categories (several categories such as home, furniture, cars, etc.) id_category name a table with details for the ad categories (home: area, squared meters. car: seats, color.) id_det...

MySQL primary/foreign key size?

I seem to see a lot of people arbitrarily assigning large sizes to primary/foreign key fields in their MySQL schemas, such as INT(11) and even BIGINT(20) as WordPress uses. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but even an INT(4) would support (unsigned) values up to over 4 billion. Change it to INT(5) and you allow for values up to a quadrillio...

Search number entries on a mysql database with COUNT

I have a mysql database which allocate: iid, name, description, url, namecategory, idcategory, nametopic, idtopic How can i know the number of entries that has categoryid=1 and topicid=1? I've tried $result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(id) FROM videos WHERE idcategory = 1 ...

Data files from EXCEL for MySQL

Hello to everybody, I was trying to output Excel's data to a text file to use them in MySQL, nevertheless i was not able to find an easy solutio because at the end of each row I have to add manually a "TAB" ! Otherwise there are always errors in the MySQL table, is there any special data format to export these data from Excel 2003 ? Tha...

How to disable the same person to play my RPG game as two different persons?

Ok, so title says it all. Of course, I store all players' ip addresses in mysql and I can check if there is a person with the same ip address before he registers, but then, he can register to my page at school or wherever he wants. So, any suggestions? ...

not null usage in mysql

Hi, I use syntax like name varchar(20) NOT NULL in mysql..i have a big confusion over here. typically does it mean that this field is mandatory? but when i store a space in this field it accepts it.is it correct. its like while insert i say '".$_POST['name']."'. even if the name does not have any value query is executed. can any1 ...

Display a MYSQL field using CAKE

I am trying to display a field in our users table on the users profile. The field is "rating" we want the 2-3 digit number to appear next to the gravatar. We have a "Rating" table in our mysql db. I want to display this number on our user profile page. JUST BELOW THE GRAVATAR. here is the code in app/views/user/view.ctp <div class="nh...

what's the difference between php time and sql time

Can anyone tell me why the timestamp generated by the php time() function is so different from SQL datetime? If i do a date('Y-m-d', time()); in php, it gives me the time now, as it should. If I just take the time() portion and do: $now = time(); //then execute this statement 'SELECT * FROM `reservation` WHERE created_at < $now' I ge...

MySQL INSERT and SELECT Order of precedence

Hi, if an INSERT and a SELECT are done simultaneously on a mysql table which one will go first? Example: Suppose "users" table row count is 0. Then this two queries are run at the same time (assume it's at the same mili/micro second): INSERT into users (id) values (1) and SELECT COUNT(*) from users Will the last query return 0 or...

datesub question

Hi, is it possible to use date_sub like this ? $dt = date("Y-m-d h:i:s"); $query = "INSERT INTO `table` (`date`) VALUES ('DATE_SUB('$dt', INTERVAL 15 DAY)')"; $result = MYSQL_QUERY($query); Thanks ...

Why Am I Getting MySQL Error #1312 when Using a Simple Stored Procedure?

Hi, I'm trying to learn how to use MySQL stored procedures. MySQL accepted my procedure: CREATE PROCEDURE SimpleProc() BEGIN SELECT * FROM myTable; END (In phpMyAdmin, I set // for delimiter. The real version has the name of an actual table instead of myTable.). But, when I call the procedure with CALL SimpleProc();, I get...

3-clique counting in a graph

I am operating on a (not so) large graph having about 380K edges. I wrote a program to count the number of 3-cliques in the graph. A quick example: List of edges: A - B B - C C - A C - D List of cliques: A - B - C MySQL Table structure: +-------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default...

PHP Class Question

Hi all I am trying to build a PHP class to check the username and password in MySql. I am getting "mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in D:\2010Portfolio\football\main.php on line 38" database has errors:" message. When I move my userQuery code out of my Class, it works fine. Only if it is inside my C...

Parse custom date format into internal MYSQL format using PHP

Hi, I've got dates being generated which look lke these: Sun May 16 23:59:59 GMT 2011 I want to convert them into storable MYSQL form and so that i can read/compare them via php. I am using php. How can i convert the above into something MYSQL will understand? ...

sql query to incrementally modify where condition until result contains what is required

I need an sql query to select some items from a table based on some condition which is based on a category field. As an example consider a list of people and I fetch the people from a particular age group from the database. I want to check if the result contains at least one result from each of a number of categories. If not I want to mo...

Compare 2 database

I have 2 identical databases. abc15 and abc18. But one of the database has one extra table and I need to find that. I thought the following query should return it, but is it not showing the record that I expect. select * from information_schema.tables as a left join information_schema.tables as b on a.TABLE_SCHEMA=b.TABLE_SC...

Getting rows which include a value with MySQL

I have a MySQL query which gets including some vars like that: messages TABLE receiver cols user1 rows : 1,3,5 user2 rows : 2,3 user3 rows : 1,4 I want to get rows which includes '3' value. So I will get 'user1' and 'user2'. I tried that but naturally it doesn't work. mysql_query("SELECT * FROM messages WHERE receiver='3'"); How...

SQL for total count and count within that where condition is true

Hello, I have a single user table and I'm trying to come up with a query that returns the total count of all users grouped by date along with the total count of users grouped by date who are of a specific client. Here is what I have thus far, where there's the total count of users grouped by date, but can't seem to figure out how to get...