MYSQL :: How To Universally Act On All Cells In A Table, Turning Blanks To NULLS

Turning On Logging
I have a database that has various information submitted to it from the internet. I am having problems with people hacking/submitting info that shouldn't be submitted. I don't know how they are doing it but I though that if I turned on the Logging for that particular DB maybe it would give me some clues i.e. IP addresses, ISP, date/time info, SQL Statement executed etc.What form of logging would I need to turn on?

Turning Off Foreign Key Checks
Is it possible to temporarily turn off foreign key checks in a db? I know how to do it from the mysql prompt but I have a number of scripts using Java, etc which seem to be breaking because of the table ordering with respect to foreign keys does not seem to be honored (tables with FKs are declared before the tables the keys refer to).

If there was some way to turn off checking for a db, run all the creation and import scripts I have, then turn the checking back on it would save a ton of effort.

Apostrophes Turning Into Question Marks?
This may be easily resolved but I haven't ever encountered it before. I am entering text into my mysql database that contains apostrophes. This field is generally around 500-800 characters. When I add the information, there are apostrophes but when I go back to use the information, all of the apostrophes have been changed into question marks.
Any ideas how to keep the apostrophes? or why they are being changed?
Also, if I go through and change all the question marks back to apostrophes, they will stay apostrophes!

Turning On Slow Query Logging?
Background: I paid a young admin set me up on a database server. He installed the basic I needed for the server...at my request...No Cpanel...mysql and apache and some tight security w/o even a domain name to SSH into. Unfortunately, he's a busy kid, and teens sometimes don't realize that people depend on them...and well, I can't really seem to get him to do much so I gave up and figured it's a good way to force me to learn all this myself...
Well anyway, now I want to turn on Slow Query logging. But before I do that, I need to know how MySQL is running. Is SQLogging turned on already? Where is it logging to? So first thing I want to look up is, when the server is rebooted, what's the command to restart mysql? No clue. How do I change the setting? And of course, the server is production, so when I make the change, it needs to be quick, it needs to be smooth, and I need to be able to roll back to the previous config if necessary.
I'm running Redhat Enterprise.

Turning Localhost To A Network Server
I have a small home network with two computers. On my computer I am running MySQL 4.1.21-community as localhost. I have only be using this for development work.

My husband wants to learn SQL so I would like to be able to have Mysql Query Browser installed on his machine, with him accessing all the databases I have set up on my machine.

How do I go about giving him access to my databases?

My machine runs Windows XP and his runs Windows 2000.

Turning Off Allowing Multiple Non-unique Rows
I feel lazy and I am busy so i don't want to fix my perl code to only alllow insertion of unique rows. I know mysql is set to allow multiple rows of the same thing but I would like to turn that feature off. Is that possible?

NULLS 2
if I have a table for:

PHONE_NUMBERS

that can be associated with FKeys to one or more COMPANY_ID and/or a PERSON_ID how would you construct the columns/relationships?

Assuming a PHONE_NUMBER_ID as PK then a n:m relationship to both the COMPANY and the PERSON tables??? (i.e. a new table with a compound PK of phone_number_id plus company_id plus person_id) but then I'd have to allow either the company_id or the person_id to be null wouldn't I?

NULLS
if you had a table with columns:

Prefix_ID ---> data for say 75% of rows normalized to Mr/Mrs./Ms
FirstName ---> data for 50% of rows
MiddleName ---> data for 25% of rows
LastName ---> data for 100% of rows
Suffix_ID ---> data for 5% of rows normalized to Jr./Sr./III

would you:

1.) make suffix_ID NULL-able ?

2.) make any other column NULL-able?

3.) make Suffix_ID default to 1 where Suffix_ID 1 = ''?

4.) make FirstName and/or MiddleName default to '' ?

or other alternatives/suggestions for best practices?

Concatenating Nulls
I would like to concatenate two columns where one is potentially null. The result I get now is if one is null, the concatenated value is null. Here's what I would like:

Column1 = '123', Column2 = null, return '123' (not null)
Column1 = null, Column2 = 'abc', return 'abc' (not null)
Column1 = '123', Column2 = 'abc', return '123abc'

The statement that isn't working is something like:

SELECT CONCAT(Column1,Column2) FROM Table WHERE id=12

Joins And Nulls
I have three tables containing information about companies. The first lists companies, each with an id. The second defines what information (attributes) can be held about each company and format it takes (eg address, postcode, owner, etc). The third table lists the specific values of each attribute for each company.

Each attribute value for each company has its own line.

Now, I am trying to select data from this group of tables. The problem is that not every company has complete information. Some, for example, don't have a postcode. But where they do, I'd like to display that. Which brings me to this SQL: Code:

NOT NULLs With Default
I'm cleaning up a database but I see this all over the MySQL world. I understand that having defaults speeds things up. But what I don't understand is why someone would make a field NOT NULL and then put a null default in it? This makes no sense to me at all. Is this the fault of using phpMyAdmin to create tables?

Here's a sample:
CREATE TABLE `listnames` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`list_name` char(30) NOT NULL default '',
`display_name` char(100) NOT NULL default '',
`active` char(3) NOT NULL default '',
`last_modified` timestamp(14) NOT NULL,
UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
)

Ok, so you don't want NULLs in your data but there is no default. It's very likely that the data will be wildly differently. So setting a default makes no sense -- or does it?
I don't want to drop the default '' if it makes sense & I'm just not getting it.

Finding NULLS
I am querying with the following hoping NULL and not NULL:

SELECT *
FROM pet
WHERE sex='NULL';

returns empty set, but there should be one record.

SELECT *
FROM pet
WHERE death<>'NULL';

also returns empty set when there should be one record.

Count Of NULL And NOT NULLS
How would I write a query to count the number of instances where a the
PREP field is NULL and when it is not null. I know how to do it
seperately, can I get the numbers in the same query. I want something
like this:

Project #PREP_NOTNULL #PREP_NULL

Ignoring NULLs In Indexes
Access has a nice feature that allows creation of indexes WITH IGNORE NULL which means that records with null values are ignored in the index, so the index will be
shorter and faster to search. Is there any equivalent for this in MySQL?

Equality Testing With NULLs?
When I do "SELECT count(1) FROM table_name WHERE 0 <> 2", I get the total number of rows in the table. When I do "SELECT count(1) FROM table_name WHERE NULL <> 2", I get 0. Shouldn't I the same answer as I did with WHERE 0 <> 2?

SQL Select Statement Returning NULLS
when I run this SQL qry:

SELECT
DATE_FORMAT(recDate, '%Y-%m-%d') AS a_date,
recTitle, recBody,
recID
FROM j_plug
ORDER by recID DESC
LIMIT 15;
The 'recTitle' column often returns a NULL. Is there any way I can change the SQL statement to return an actual value if there is a NULL, such as 'NOTHING'.

This is probably a silly request - obviously if it is a NULL, then that should be that. Trouble is that I am having a problem with my ASP code when the value is NULL, and it'd be useful if it returned an actual value for NULL records.

Unexpected NULLs When Using 'left Join'
I'm trying to select all records from a table, plus the appropriate values from other tables to which my first table has pointers. I quickly discovered the benefits of LEFT JOIN over WHERE clauses but then found that I was getting more NULLs than expected. For example: Code:

Unique Index With Nulls Where Is It Stored
The memory space defined by DataMemory is also used to store ordered indexes, which use about 10 bytes per record. Each table row is represented in the ordered index. A common error among users is to assume that all indexes are stored in the memory allocated by IndexMemory, but this is not the case:

Only primary key and unique hash indexes use this memory; ordered indexes use the memory allocated by DataMemory. However, creating a primary key or unique hash index also creates an ordered index on the same keys, unless you specify USING HASH in the index creation statement. This can be verified by running ndb_desc -d db_name table_name in the management client. if i issue a :

create unique index idx_b on tablename(b);

where b can contain nulls is this index stored in index memory and in data memory or just data memory?

NULLs And Empty Strings, Treating Them Equally?
I've built a database class in PHP which, when given an empty string for a field value, converts it to NULL, simply because although their technically not the same thing, as far as useful data goes, they are equally useless.

I want to use the NOT NULL flag on fields to dictate which fields should have data, and which shouldn't, and really, an empty string is no data.

I was just wondering what other peoples opinion was on this, and weather or not it is a reasonable restriction to enforce, I cant think of any situation where data is required for a field (NOT NULL), and an empty string would be a reasonable value.

LOAD DATA INFILE, Updates All Other Fields With Nulls.
I am using the following command to update three fields ONLY in the destination table. The infile that I am using was created using:
..........................................................
select code, desc2 , qty_on_hand from plu_tmp
into outfile "c:mp.txt"

..........................................................
LOAD DATA INFILE "c:mp.txt"
REPLACE INTO TABLE `plu` (code, desc2 , qty_on_hand)

I expect to update only the three fields, without touching the other fields.
What happens is that the specified fields are updated, and all the rest of the fields are reset to nulls as they have not been specified.

Is there any way I can use the load inifile to insert / Update just the
specified fields.

NULLS (was "Is This Normal?")
to have empty cells in the results?
like...i have one column called 'specs' but only a few rows in the result have actually a value in it, the rest is NULL
i know beforehand that the result will be like this most of the time...is it bad?

Table Design Question? House Table, Owner Table, Code Violations Table - Best Way?
Given the tables:

HOUSE
house_ID
address

OWNER
owner_ID
name
telephone...

HOUSE_OWNER_JOIN
?

CODE_VIOLATION_HISTORY
house_ID
violation_ID
violationStatement
...

My goal is to be able to track code violations of the house PER owner.

For example, I need to display a page that shows the current house with it's coe violations and a link to show the HOUSE's history of violation regardless of owner, Like:

House 1009283
Address
Past history (link to the following)

House History
2001-01-04 Owner: John Smith Code Violation: Gutter issue
1999-06-01 Owner: John Smith Code Violation: Faulty Steps
1998-03-02 Owner: Sam Spade Code Violation: Driveway carcks
1990-01-12 Owner: Keith Sledge Code Violation: Grass untidy

For the design of the HOUSE_OWNER_JOIN table, I thought of two ways I could go on this and this is where I need your help.

Option 1:
Have the HOUSE_OWNER_JOIN table keep dates so I can track the ownership changes that way:

HOUSE_OWNER_JOIN
houseID
ownerID
dateOwnershipBegan
dateOwnershipEnded

then I could look up all code violations by date and associate them with their rightful owner.

==================================================
Option 2:
Have the HOUSE_OWNER_JOIN table be the primary keeper of identity data by adding a new primary key and changing the CODE_VIOLATION_HISTORY table to reference that table by chaning the referencing key from house_ID to house_owner_ID:

HOUSE_OWNER_JOIN
house_owner_ID
houseID
ownerID
dateOwnershipBegan
dateOwnershipEnded

CODE_VIOLATION_HISTORY
house_owner_ID
violationStatement
...

Two Table Query: Grab Rows From One Table Even If No Related Row In Other Table
PHP

$gettray = mysql_query("SELECT trailers.title,
trailers.link,
trailers.movie,
movie.title AS mtitle
FROM trailers,movie
WHERE trailers.movie=movie.word
ORDER BY trailerid
DESC LIMIT 6",$connm);

It works great, but there is one problem. It will not grab any rows from the 'trailers' table if a corresponding movie row does not exist in the 'movies' table.

I want it to pull ALL rows from the 'trailers' table, even if the corresponding row in the 'movies' table does not exist yet.

If the row does not exist in 'movies', the program than uses the entire trailer title like so

PHP

if($ttray['mtitle']) {
$newttitle = explode("-",$ttray['title']);
$newttitle = array_reverse($newttitle);
$ttitle = $newttitle[0];
$ttitle = $ttray['mtitle'] ."- ". $ttitle;
} else {
$ttitle = $ttray['title'];
}

Thanks
Ryan

Create Virtual Table During Query Or Load Table To Memory From Text File
I have access to my application database via a secure link, so I cannot link a local database to it, only run queries on the remote server and download the result.

The database is missing some useful information, and I cannot add a table at this stage. I would like to achieve the result by creating a virtual table or the like. ...

Delete Rows From Table A, Which Dont Exist In Table B (base On Column X)
I have 2 tables identically structured.

A & B

Table A, has column: Product (product code) as primary key

Table B doesn't.

Apart from that they have the exact same fields.

There's also a column: supplier

I want to

Delete * from table A, where does not exist in B (based on column: Product) & where supplier = apples

So to elaborate. Table A is my main table, but it now contains outdated products from supplier apple. Table B has the latest list of products from supplier apple. So I want to remove old products from A that supplier apple no longer makes.

mysql version 4.0.27

Inserting Multiple Items (# Unknown) Into A Table Using Primary Id From Master Table
In my database I have a master table for products using a auto-num id column. One product may have several purchase options (items) which have to be entered into another table.

To enter a new product and items I use a form that gathers the information for the master product and one item. This information is then inserted into the database. For the items I use mysql_insert_id() to get the id into the items table.

My challenge is getting this same id for additional items. Once the user has input the initial product and first item they hit a submit button to call a form for adding any additional items, and this is repeated until all items for that product are entered.

The new items are inserted into the database okay, but always with an id of 0. The mysql_insert_id() no longer works. Is there a way to pass this id from the previous insertion to the new one by passing a variable? or echoing input type"hidden"?

Or even better yet, Im wondering if I can ask the user at the time of entering information for the product how many items that particular product has and then bring up that many form fields to enter multiple items? Can this be done using something like an incremented loop to call form fields?

Multi Table Query, Grab More Than Single Row From Secondary Table
I have a query like so:

PHP Code:

$selectt = mysql_query("SELECT trailers.trailer_id,
trailers.trailer_title,
trailers.description, trailers.file_url,
trailers.runtime, trailers.views,
trailers.rating, trailers.tt, trailers.keyw, trailers.date,
tags.snub,
films.film_title, films.studio, films.keyw, films.image
FROM films,tags,trailers
WHERE trailers.trailer_id=tags.trailer_id
AND trailers.film_id=films.film_id
ORDER BY trailers.trailer_id DESC LIMIT 8",$dbh);

I know this is pretty sloppy, I have multiple 'tags' per trailer ID, and I was hoping to grab all of them in a single query; maybe into an array? So that it shows the row, and then all the tags that belong to it.

Possible?

ALTER TABLE Deleted The Rows - Error: Table Is Full
Today when I tried to insert data in a table i received the error that 'table is full'. On SHOW TABLE STATUS, I noticed the size of table is grown to 4GB (rows 5359211).

mysql> SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'messages' G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Name: messages
Engine: MyISAM
Version: 9
Row_format: Dynamic
Rows: 5359211
Avg_row_length: 801
Data_length: 4294967288
Max_data_length: 4294967295
Index_length: 45783040
Data_free: 0
Auto_increment: 5406252
Create_time: 2007-04-20 18:26:38
Update_time: 2007-08-22 09:55:22
Check_time: NULL
Collation: latin1_swedish_ci
Checksum: NULL
Create_options:
Comment:
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Here is the table structure.

CREATE TABLE `messages` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`subject` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`message` text NOT NULL,
`attachment_path` varchar(255) default NULL,
`new` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default Ɔ',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

On searching I found the this link.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/full-table.html

According to manual i executed the following query

MySQL
ALTER TABLE messages MAX_ROWS=20000000000;
I skipped AVG_ROW_LENGTH from the query, I was confused what should be the value for this.

After executing the query, when i check the table status it displayed totally different picture. Now there were only 170109 rows left.

mysql> SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'messages' G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Name: messages
Engine: MyISAM
Version: 9
Row_format: Dynamic
Rows: 170109
Avg_row_length: 649
Data_length: 110563036
Max_data_length: 281474976710655
Index_length: 1961984
Data_free: 0
Auto_increment: 5409214
Create_time: 2007-08-23 10:07:08
Update_time: 2007-08-23 13:41:57
Check_time: NULL
Collation: latin1_swedish_ci
Checksum: NULL
Create_options: max_rows=4294967295
Comment:
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
What could be the reason of this rows deletion?

I am on 32 bit system.
MySQL version: 4.1.18-standard-log
Operating System : CentOS 3.x
Memory: 4 GB DDR

3,000,000 Unique INT(11) Low-Hi Ranges In My TABLE, Am I Stuck With FULL TABLE SCAN?
I have a table with 3,000,000 different IP netranges.

each row has a unique range: ie: 1xxxxxxx-1xxxxxxx2
..

I try to find the primary_index when querying WHERE var BETWEEN lowIP and highIPrange.

Since there all of the netranges are unique, it seems like my INDEXES are useless, so the only way to optimize this would be to horizontally partition the data? The query is extremely slow ~1 second in MyISAM, and ~.50 second in MEMORY table format.

I'm assuming the only option is to horizontally position the data to improve performance, am I correct?

ERROR 1005: Can't Create Table './db/table.frm' (errno: 150)
I found the key to solve this problem in:

http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/mysql/do...onstraints.html

You'll probably need an INDEX for that new foreign key you are declaring in
older versions this isn't neccesary but in latest ones it is a restriction.

You can have more info about the error description if you have root access
by typing
mysql> show innodb status;

LATEST FOREIGN KEY ERROR
------------------------
030807 1:27:10 Error in foreign key constraint of table database/table:
There is no index in the table database/table where the columns appear
as the first columns. Constraint:
foreign key (key) references database.table(key) on delete cascade)
type=innodb

also if you type:
shell> perror 150

you obtain:
150 = Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed

I hope this to be enough...

Trying Abort One Select Accessing One Table Locked By Lock Table.
I'd like to configure one time to abort one transaction that are accessing one table locked by lock table write command ex:

Transaction A
mysql> start transaction;
mysql> lock table mytable write;

After I'll start new transaction B (another connection)

mysql> start transaction;
mysql> select * from mytable;

It's will become long time to wait...

My transaction B never "die".

I tried to configure innodb_lock_wait_timeout=20 in my.ini without success,

Copying Column Names And Properties From An Existing Table To A New Table?
I've got a table with 42 columns, set to different types (string, datetime, date, integer). It has 8 million rows. I want to make a new table with the exact same columns, but with no data in it. Is there an easy way to do this without re-defining every column?

Updating Rows In Table B Based On Related Field In Table A
Ver 4.1.8-standard for apple-darwin7.6.0 on powerpc (Official MySQL-standard binary)

I am trying to do some data migration based. I have several tables that contain our legacy pkey field and I want to update the tables with new ID's.
I need to do this several times and have tried it several ways to no avail.

Table A
---------
companyID int(10) pKey
legacyID int(10) old legacy pkey

Table B
---------
bAID int(10) pkey
companyID int(10)
legacyID int(10)

Table A has values for both companyID (unique key) and legacyID.
Table B has values for bAID (unique key) and legacyID but companyID is empty.

I need to update tableB.companyID with tableA.companyID based on tableb.cSerialID to tablea.cSerialID relationship.

I need a query that will update ALL rows.

Transform Or Pivot(?) Or Crosstab(?) Table In MySQL. One Data Table.
I have a table in the form:

year | season | hits

2004 | Summer | 42
2004 | Autumn | 43
2005 | Spring | 51
2005 | Summer | 52
2005 | Autumn | 53
2006 | Spring | 61

I want to generate a transform or pivot or crosstab - I'm not sure what the correct term is - to return the data in form

year | Spring | Summer | Autumn
2004 | ------ | ----42 | ----43
2005 | ----51 | ----52 | ----53
2006 | ----61 | ------ | ------

Could anyone suggest a mysql query to generate the required output?

1 Simply Query Problem. Please Help With Insert Into 1 Table From Another Table
I have Table A that has some records already in and then I have Table B that does a few things and gets updated regularly.

With Table A, I want to get it updated every 8 hours or so with new data that has been inserted into Table B.

I will do this using the Cron.

But what would be the best insert query to use so that it does the process really quick.

The query that I have so far is:

Quote:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO table a (id, title, descrip) SELECT id, title, descrip FROM table b where app=1");

With the above query the id's match in both tables. But I only want the new records to be inserted into Table A where app=1 in Table B and the row is not already in Table A.

How can I add to the query so that it does this.

Query Table A And Return Records Not Found In Table B.
Given table A and table B.  Table A is a master table and table B is a list of authority or reference which is fed by selecting records from table A (via an UI I wrote in PHP).

The interface is working fine but I am left with one problem.    If I need to edit my table of authority, the source table (table A) should return ONLY entries not previously selected.

That said, if the A.key is in B.key, records from table A matching B.key should be omitted.

I could do this by looping through the query results from table A and querying table B, if no match, show A.key.  This I think is a bit antiquated and possibly too involved.

Is there a joint query command I can use?

ALTER TABLE `table` ORDER BY `column_a` DESC
I try to get better performance by implementing this:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/alter-table.html

"ORDER BY allows you to create the new table with the rows in a
specific order. Note that the table does not remain in this order after
inserts and deletes. This option is mainly useful when you know that
you are mostly going to query the rows in a certain order; by using
this option after big changes to the table, you might be able to get
higher performance. In some cases, it might make sorting easier for
MySQL if the table is in order by the column that you want to order it
by later."

I run this SQL query on one of the table:

Not Unique Table/alias: <tablename> For Temporary Table
Iâ€™m converting an application from Paradox to MySQL (first time Iâ€™ve used this) and am replacing Paradox local tables with MySQL temporary tables â€“ I understand each user will have a unique copy of the table. Basically I issue the following two commands :

'drop temporary table if exists <tablename>'

'create temporary table <tablename> like <tablename>'

where <tablename> is a table structure in the database with 0 records. This strategy was successful while I was working with a local copy of MySQL on my development PC, but when I run the system from a server on the office network I get the following error :

#42000Not unique table/alias: <tablename>

The environment I work in is Windows XP Pro SP2, Delphi 5 and CoreLabs MyDAC data access components. Iâ€™ve searched this site and Googled to no avail. Hoping someone has seen this before.

Renaming Table In Database, Restoring Data To Table
A consultant recently hired at my company overlayed/wiped- out a table in a database I created for him. This database was a copy of a live database so I have the original table data he deleted.

How do I rename the product table he created to os-product, it must live in the same database?

How do I create a the product table and import the original data from the live database?

Fixed Table, Variable Number Of References To Another Table?
I have two tables A and B. I want to have a column in table A that can reference to zero or more rows in table B. Is there a way to do this without making my table dynamic? I want to keep it fixed. Is there a solution or workaround?

1036:Table Read Only Error, Cant Add A New Column To My Table
I have a table with arround 30 columns, and I am trying to add another column to it with the following query.

alter table tablename add column column_name varchar(10);

and I get the following error.
ERROR 1036: Table 'ProfilesDesc' is read only

what could be wrong?

Updating Table Based Upon Matching Field In Second Table
I have a database of books that was originally created as a flat file.
Each record has a number of fields, including the authors name. I'm
trying to convert the database to something a little more efficient.
I've created a new table (called Authors) of unique authors names and
assigned each one a unique ID. I've added a new field in the original
table (called Books) for the author's ID. Now, I need to update the
original table with the author ID from the Author's table.

Something like this:

UPDATE Books SET AuthorID = Authors.AuthorID WHERE AuthorName =
Authors.AuthorName

This obviously doesn't work. Any assistance on how to forumulate this
query (or, if I'm headed down the wrong path, the correct way to do this
operation) greatly appreciated.

Check Table And Repair Versus Optimize Table
I am confused about the difference between running a CHECK table and REPAIR(if necessary) versus running an OPTIMIZE table. It's not very clear in the documentation, but seems that OPTIMIZE table does a check and repair in addition to the other functions performed by optimize.

I have inherited some legacy code that does a check and repair and optionally follows it with an optimize. That seems redundant to me and I would like to streamline the code to make it an "either-or" selection.

Can't Create Table -- Error 1050 - Table Already Exists
I tried to create a table in the database. Here is the query sentence :

CREATE TABLE word (aff_code varchar( 10 ) NOT NULL default '',position tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0',flag tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '0',PRIMARY KEY ( aff_code, position )) ENGINE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARSET = latin1;

I was expecting to create a three column table. However, MySQL kept reporting error : ERROR 1050 (42S01): Table 'word' already exists. The fact is there is no table in this database. I then changed the table name, engine type, MySQL still report the same problem. I've tried changing database name. Still the same problem.

Prior to the query, I run a program that created (and inserted data as well) 65,000 tables in another database (same server although). I'm wonderring would this cause some kind of dead lock that result in the problem of not able to create any more table?

Can anybody give me some tips on how to solve the prolem?

How To Universally Act On All Cells In A Table, Turning Blanks To NULLS

i should be able to do this, but it's actually been a pain for a while. how can i turn all the blanks in a table to NULLS?