Thanks Lars. Sorry, then I have another question. How do I find the size of the record?
Thanks Denis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Olsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Denis L. Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "PHP general list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:36 PM Subject: [PHP] Re: Amount of data in the database > A pretty easy way of doing it is to add a size field to the table. > Whenever you INSERT INTO or UPDATE the table, update this field to > contain the size of the data for the current record. Then, whenever you > need to check the amount of data for a particular user, just use this query: > > "SELECT SUM(size) FROM sometable WHERE user=someuser" > > Hope this helps > > > /Lars Olsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > PS. Ive done this in a file upload script I created a while ago. If you > want, I can mail you the relevant bits and bytes. DS. > > > > Denis L. Menezes wrote: > > Hello friends. > > > > I have a need for checking how much data(in kb) exists of each of the user members in the MySQL so that when they upload more data I can restrict/warn them of the amount of data they have on the server at present. > > > > can anyone please tell me how to check the amount of data on the mysql for each record? > > > > thanks very much > > Denis > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
