From: Dan Nelson
Date: June 20 2003 2:09pm
Subject: Re: extending MySql
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In the last episode (Jun 20), Prem Soman said:
> that was very useful for me. can these UDF's provide a better way to
> access the sever specific information such as the date and number of
> times the server was restarted

The server does not know how many times it has been restarted.  You can
easily enough write a wrapper script that keeps count, though.  As for
the date, just call gettimeofday() or time() from C, or SELECT NOW()
from MySQL.

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	Dan Nelson
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