MYSQL :: Testing If Mysql Is Running

MySQL Testing
I just recently installed MySQL and am also running an APACHE 2.0 server on my computer (Windows XP machine). I followed the instructions in the help document on installing MySQL and I believe it is installed properly, no errors occured, it was pretty straight forward.
However, when it comes to testing, the documentations on give commands using the "Windows Command Line Client" and not the MySQL Command Line Client.
I installed MySQL as a service, that turns on and off with Windows.

Testing SSL Conections W/ MYSQL
I recently installed all MySQL 4.1.1 including max RPMS. During the
installation i used "--nodeps" on MAX package and at Shared-compat
cause they were requiring the libssl.0.9.6 and libcrypto.0.9.6. I am
using a RH 9 and these files are installed on my system.

The result for mysql query :

show variables like 'have_openssl';

is

have_openssl | YES

I created a user using the grant command with 'require ssl' like
this:
[color=blue]
> grant insert,select on MyDatabase.* to myssluser@myhost require ssl;[/color]
Query OK

I can connect using this username and CLIENT_SSL param (isn't this
param just for php 4.3 or higher?):

mysql_connect($dbserver, "myssluser", $dbpass, CLIENT_SSL);

It runs on my php 4.2.2 compiled with openssl 0.9.7, but i need to

TEST if this is a real ssl connection.

Load Testing MySQL
I know this is quite a bit off topic, but i was wondering if anyone else
out there had any experience with Segue's Silk Performer load testing
tools. More specifically, i am trying to compile a test script to allow
me to perform some transactional database testing to load test a MySQL
4.0.13 database server running behind some apache webservers. I have
obtained an ODBC driver from MySQL and have some specific queries i
would like to use in the test. I am have used SP to load test the
webservers specifically, but i am not 100% sure how to run this against
a database server now.

If anyone has any experience they can share, please feel free to email
me off list.

Testing Access To MySQL-DB In Windows-Network
Background: I am writing in C# a program, which reads data out of a MySQL-DB. When the DB is on my local developer PC everything is fine. But when trying to access the MySQL-DB on a server in our Windowsnetwork, I receive the message: "Host '**' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server".

Testing For Bit Set In Int Field
Say I have a column of type int(4) and it represents a bitmapped pattern, so bit pos 1 means "apples", 2 means "oranges", 3 means pears etc. The value 3 is "apples & oranges". How would I construct a query such that I could return these?

For example, if I was searching for oranges and the bitmap field was called type in table fruit the logic would be

SELECT FROM fruit WHERE (type & 0x02) > 0;

All my tests so far just return all values.

DB Testing Software
Are there any available tools for testing mysql db performance?
What do you guys typically use for testing your db's performance and data integrity?

How Do I Set Up My System As A Testing Server
I work on a Windows XP Pro. Platform and I am having trouble setting my system up as a Testing Server for PHP pages. I want to be able to test scripts and build my database. I tried downloading and installing MYSQL and PHP but it still does not work. Is there some kind of Configuration I need to do in the PHP.ini file?

Load Testing Tools
We are developing an application using PHP and MySQL 4.0.16, that we need to stress test. Can someone please point me to some testing tools we can use?

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?

Load Testing Tools
We are developing an application using PHP and MySQL 4.0.16, that we need to
stress test. Can someone please point me to some testing tools we can use?

Testing On Update & Delete Cascade
When I added indexes and foreign keys to my tables I also inserted ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE.
However, when I tried testing that this works by entering:-
select * from address, name where address.name_ID=name.ID;
It says empty set. What am I doing wrong?

Testing Speed And Query Cache
I'm trying to test performance on some queries with a million of registers on my table, using various keys.

The problem is that the first time i run the query, it takes about 4/5 seconds, but after that it takes about 0.02 seconds. I know that query cache can be flushed with reset query cache, flush query cache, flush tables also modifing some caps at the sql query, but i'll never take 4/5 seconds again.

for example:
select * from table where id=2 order by index_field desc; 4/5 seconds.
select * from table where id=2 order by index_field desc; 0.02 seconds.

select * from table where id=3 order by index_field desc; 4/5 seconds.
select * from table where id=3 order by index_field desc; 0.02 seconds.

etc, etc...

Testing On Update & Delete Cascade
When I added indexes and foreign keys to my tables I also inserted ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE.

However, when I tried testing that this works by entering:-

select * from address, name where address.name_ID=name.ID;
It says empty set. What am I doing wrong?

Testing Parameters Within A SELECT Statement
I am building a SELECT statement where I will be passed search parameters depending on what user has entered. Each parameter may have a value or maybe NULL.

What construct (CASE, IF, etc) can I use to build my WHERE clause so that the passed value is included or if NULL, all rows are returned.

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE col_a = val_a (or if VAL is NULL then all rows)
AND col_b = val_b (or if VAL is NULL then all rows)
AND col_c = val_c (or if VAL is NULL then all rows)
etc ...

Bogus Datasets For Database Testing
I'm teaching myself mysql and wonder if there are any sources of
inane, complex, bogus data that I can download and insert into a
table(s.) I have created some very small sets to practice joins and
whatnot but they are not very big or complex, or exciting.

compressed tar of text strings (no blobs) could have plenty of data
but still be a manageable download. It would also be a nice test of my
machine and tuning skills.

ERROR 1045 When Testing In The Control Center
In the MySQL Control Center 0.9.4-beta, I right click the top level server name and choose the Edit option. Then I have entered a User Name and a Password in the General TAB. I then mark the option "Promt for Password" and hit the "Test" button.

I get a small window where I should enter the password for User name@Host name. I enter the password and hit the OK button. Now I get the error message "ERROR 1045; Access denied for user; 'User name@Host name' (Using password: YES)"

When looking in the Help menu, the Contents - F1 is not activated, so I can't get any online help.

I'm just wondering why the test for the password failed and why there are no online help in the consol?

Testing The Database? Backing Up, General Checks
I want to know what else I can be doing to check the stability of our database. Currently what I do every evening is download the complete database through PHPMyAdmin on our dedicated server, once downloaded I start up the Wamp Server and import the database locally through PHPMyAdmin on my own machine.

The next thing I do is run the Check Tables command on all the tables to see if everything is where it is. It always comes back as OK on each table so I presume everything is ok?

Is there anything else I should be doing, or is what I am doing correct?

Every so often we delete auctions to free up space in the database. Once this is done we have overhead in the tables. Sometimes this can be 2-10mb, so what I do then is run the optimise command on the tables, again am I correct in doing this?

Finally our database is now over 40mb, to me this massive as the largest database I have worked on before has been 4mb, please dont laugh.

What sort of database sizes have you seen in MySql or are you running at present? What is MySql like in the long run stability wise. If looked after can we get many years of good service from it.

Help Please Running Mysql On Os X
I am very new to mysql. I am using the sitepoint book 'Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP and MYSQL. I have installed mysql mysql-5.0.41-osx10.3-powerpc. Under preferences/mysql it indicates that the mysql server is running. When I try to access mysql through the terminal window I get a message - command not found. Or no permissions. I can go to the bin directory and list the contents - they seem to be there. I can't get past page 21/22 Post-installation setup tasks. I am also new to using the terminal window. I suspect I have missed something really basic - any suggestions on how I can get up and running would be much appreciated!

Need Some Help In Getting MySQL Set Up And Running.
I wasn't sure if someone would be able and willing to help me, but I am new to installing MySQL on a Windows 2003 server (actually .. any server), but I am installing it on a Windows 2003 server right now. I also installed a new version of PHP on the same server. Everything looks fine, but when I go to phpinfo.php I don't see anything saying MySQL. (I saw somewhere that if MySQL is installed properly, it should be displayed on the phpinfo.php page.)

I am currently trying to set up and run Cerberus Help Desk, but it isn't finding the MySQL database that I installed.

So, I would really appreciate it if someone could not just help me via email or postings in here, but actually by using Instant Messenger (AOL, Yahoo! or MSN) to walk me through the set up, testing, etc. so I can get things up and running properly.

I was hoping that someone with more experience than I might be willing to help me in this manner.

Could Not Get MySQL Running
I went to MS-DOS to start the MySQL application by typing mysqld into the bin directory of where I installed MySQL but once I did typed the command and pressed enter this is all I got :

A moment passed before I am shown the path of bin with no indication of MySQL server started. And also I have installed this as a window service.

Running MySQL 5.0
I've just downloaded and installed 5.0 on my Pc/ win 98se.
When I run the program MySQL Command Line Client, it appears to run for a second then disappears. I see the program flash open for a second and then it is gone.Complete newb needs some help.

MySQL 4.1 Running
I've been running mysql 4.1 for sometime and using phpMyAdmin (v2.6.2) to administer the databases.

Using php scripts I can also update/insert etc the databases (maintained on my laptop Mac OS X Tiger).

Suddenly, I can't get phpMyAdmin to load in the browser. I've also tried other MySQL GUI tools like CocoaMySQL and Navicat....they won't run either. I downloaded and installed phpMyAdmin 2.6.3-pl1 as well but no improvement.

Why would mysql run but the admin apps not work?

Running MySQL From A CD-ROM?
I have used PHP and MySQL for a few years now. Just today I can across an application that had a MySQL database running locally off a CD ROM. I did not know this was posible. When the application runs it starts up the MySQL database without the user even knowing they are running it. It is pretty amazing.

So I want to do the same thing. Is there any documentation on how to run MySQL locally. I would like to know how to build the database and create tables under these curcumstances.

Running MySQL
I have installed mysql-3.23.54-win and it all seems to have gone OK .... now i want to run it and setup a database. I dont have an icon on the desktop and there is nothing in Start - Programs ..... start it from DOS prompt via C:> C:mysqlinmysql.exe and i get error 2003 cant connect to MySQL server on localhost <10061>

Testing For An Empty Set Returned By A Nested Select Statement
For those of you following the "While Loop Within Select" thread... I've been restructuring my database to incorporate the changes. Now I've got a table of skipped stops rather than a table of stops (I need it that way for various reasons) and I need to return the schedule to the user as long as the user's stop isn't in the list of skipped stops. SO say something like:

SELECT
yada yada yada
FROM
schedule AS 's1'
WHERE
(
SELECT
skippedstop_id
FROM
skippedstops
WHERE
schedule_id=s1.schedule_id
AND
location_id=$origin
) == "EMPTY SET"

Only I have no idea how to actually test for the empty set from the nested select...

MySQL Is Running, But I Can't Connect
I really need some help with this. MySQL will not start on boot despite
everything I've done to make sure that it is set to do so.

When I start it as root from a terminal with "/usr/bin/mysqld_safe
--skip-grant-tables &" I show several mysqld procs. and one mysqld_safe,
but I can't connect:

[root@adamsmdk madams]# ps -aux| grep mysql
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
root 3650 0.0 0.1 2276 664 ? S 11:09 0:00
/usr/lib/courier/authlib/authdaemond.mysql start
root 3654 0.0 0.1 2316 792 ? S 11:09 0:00
/usr/lib/courier/authlib/authdaemond.mysql start
root 3655 0.0 0.1 2276 664 ? S 11:09 0:00...............

Gdb Bus Error When Running App With Mysql 5.0
When linking with mysql 5.0 library, I can't no longer use gdb to debug
my app anymore. It cores immediately with a bus error. I've also
noticed that the size of the executable is more than doubled compared
with one linked with mysql 4.0

Running MySQL In RAMDisk
Have a very large database and due to performance requirements it seems that running MySQL in RAMDisk might be a good solution. Access to the database is through PHP. Any suggestions or experiences?

Running Two MySQL Versions
Actually what I want to do is remove 4.1 because I downloaded 5.0 and installed w/o removing the previous version. I now have port 3307 for 5.0. Is this a problem and how can I change it back to 3306 so e.g. when I use Apache/PHP evrything works?

MySQL Running Very Slow
I have the following INSERT SQL, which runs very slow (For 2 full days it had not done anything) on a 2 processor Compaq machine running Suse Linux. Code:

On What Port Is MySQL Running?
I'm running MySQL on my Mac, and I'm trying to figure out on what port MySQL is running. What can I type into Unix terminal to figure this out? Or can I find out some other way?

Slow Running MySQL?
I'm hoping someone may have an idea what could be causing the slow loading pages of my web-site. I'm not positive, but I'm relatively sure that it's related to a problem with MySQL database.

I purchased a program called Sam3 for broadcasting our radio signal over the internet. The software requires the use of MySql in order to set up web pages for our web site.

The problem is, that while everything works GREAT (requests can be made from the site, songs can be searched, the history of what we've played shows up) the pages load PAINFULLY slow. Other users of this software have had no such problems so I'm at a loss.

I know from testing that the PHP script for the web pages is fine, I have plenty of bandwith both upload and download available on my DSL line, and while the computer running MySQL is behind a router I have tried plugging the DSL line DIRECTLY into the host computer and it makes no difference.

For all appearances it seems the problem is that it takes MySQL forever to gather and provide the information needed for these pages. Does anyone have any idea what I should be looking at to solve this problem?

I do not know the MySQL program at all, so I get somewhat lost when people start throwing out technical terms, but this has been really frustrating because no one else seems to have the problem and everyone so far has just told me to check the things I've already checked.

MySQL Config Not Running
i'm trying to set up MySQL with IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista Home Premium. After you install MySQL, there's a check box to launch the config app.

if i leave it checked, the app does not load. if i try to run the app by double-clicking its icon it gives me an error saying, "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail." I cannot find the application event log, though.

Running Mysql From Shell
I need to run this sort of querys from shell:

delete from 3dinformatica where preco = " " ;

CREATE TABLE tudotest AS SELECT DISTINCT * FROM 3dinformatica;

DELETE FROM 3dinformatica;

INSERT INTO 3dinformatica (cr_datetime,produto,vendedor,preco,link) SELECT DISTINCT cr_datetime,produto,vendedor,preco,link FROM tudotest;

DROP TABLE tudotest;

i wanted to put the mysql cmd in a file like mysql.sh and run it from crontab.
i have about 100 querys like that i need to run at the same time.

Running Mysql On Old Computers
IÂ´m running mysql on a Pentium 166 Mhz with 16 Mb of RAM. Pretty old, right?

I want to know if there is a way to improve performance. I donÂ´t know, something about reducing the number of queries that it will respond or cutting out some features.

Running MySQL In RAMDisk
Have a very large database and due to performance requirements it seems
that running MySQL in RAMDisk might be a good solution. Access to the
database is through PHP.

Running Two MySQL Versions
It seems that my computer is running two different mysql versions. When I'm trying to login to the database it refuse my password and giving me access to the test configuration. This is what i get in the event viewer.

Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ?
Event id 100.

The problem occur when I changed my password for the database. I have turned off Mysql in local services but i think that that's the original version. When I start the xampp i think it starts the winmysqladmin version (not sure). How do I reconfigure the hole thing and how can I see what's running on my machine.

I actually have another question to. I'm trying to run and open the shell mysqladmin which doesn't work. It's just a flash, which one of them am I supposed to run?? You have several options like mysqladmin, mysql, mysqld, mysqld-nt....etc. I opened the winmyslqadmin which i think wasn't that good.

Running Backup For Mysql
Can anyone suggest a reliable and inexpensive backup service for mysql? I have about 50 tables, of which I've been doing database backups daily on the server, then downloading the backup every couple days or so. The backup files are starting to get relatively large, and I'd like to find a service to backup to off site.

MySQL Database Running
How do i find out if a MySQL database is running or not?

Running MySQL Win32
I'm an absolute beginner and would really like to read something in the manual to solve this problem, but the manual just take care of Unix and Linux users.
Because we develop on NT we wanted to install MySQL with Apache and PHP3 on a NT workstation for faster testing beside our Linux station.
But I have problem to start the program (mysql.exe). It just gives back an error:
Error 2003: can't connect to MySQL server on localhost 10061
Network is running, I can ping localhost. I don't know what to do to get it running.

MYSQL Running Query On Data Through Php...
I am trying to take address info from 5 different fields in mysql, concatenate them into one string of text and have then run through a POST, like you would in a form, and have them spit out on the other end into the database the Lat and Lon of the address... I can do it manually, but I would like to do it automatically...

I would like to know if I am going at this right...

Psuedo

QUERY=SELECT addressNumber, addressStreet, city, state, zip FROM table
$addressStr=addressNumber + " " + addressStreet + ", " + city + ", " + state

RUN IT THROUGH A POST SOMEHOW??? and call GEOCODER from my manual insert script...

$sql=INSERT INTO table SET lat='$lat', lon='$lon'

Ever Thought About Running Mysql Without My.cnf File ?
I installed from source mysql on Fedora3 and started mysql demon without my.cnf by chance and it was running . I m wondering did it happen with somebody else too?

MySQL Administrator GUI Running Slowly... WHY?
We have created an instance or schema that contains over 14000 tables. It is a lot of tables. When we attempt to browse the tables in the GUI it literally takes 5 minutes or more for it to come back. Granted when using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio it is slow but doesn't take that long. After about a minute or so it gives the list and is kind of slow to scroll.

Can this be fixed by optimizing the database? Is this just too many tables for mySQL to handle?

Running MySQL Using A Dos Batch File
I am used to use MySQL on Unix, now I have to do some development for MySQL running on Windows machine. The following script works well in Unix but I am unable to run it on Windows. "MY_FLAG" is the one which is causing issue. Due to certain restriction in my framework, I can use the normal batch by supplying the .sql file while opening the mysql connection ( infact i need to run multiple source files) Code:

How To Verify If MySQL Is Running On My Windows XP?
I uninstalled that and reinstalled that. Then it doesn't work anymore... I check the process of the "Windows Task Manager", but I couldn't find the fimilar mysql-nt.exe...

Do you have any idea how should I fix this problem? Should I reinstall the whole XP system?

MySQL + SQL Server 2000 Both Running On XP Pro?
I've had mysql on my machine plenty of times with no trouble currently i have SQL Server 2000 Trial running but never both at once. Unfortunately i have to have them both on at the moment.

So before i install and mess everything up, Does anyone here have this setup?

I basically want to get php/mySQL/MSSQL running with IIS

Error Running MySQL Administrator On RH8
I have downloaded the latest version of mysql administrator 1.0.18. I followed the installation instructions, but when i am unable to run the program. I get an error saying:

./mysql-administrator-bin: relocation error: ./mysql-administrator-bin: undefined symbol: gdk_display_get_type

Do you have any clue about what is happening?

Running Mysql Code Within A Php File?
I have been given a some mysql code that I have to run within a website - I am familiar with mysql in terms of insert info and querying a database but I at a loss as to how to make this work.

the mysql code works in mysqladmin, but how do I call it into my php code?

BTW the mysql code creates a new record in the database .......

Also, I need to tweak the code so it runs in a loop for different variables - in php I would run a FOREACH query, how do I do it in mysql?

Testing If Mysql Is Running

how can i test if mysql is running on my machine?