From: Fuad Abdallah Date: March 23 1999 4:33pm Subject: Progress monitor and outer join sytax List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/839 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, waiting for a query that may take days i wonder if it would be a good idea to extend the "mysaladmin pro" output by something like "percent done" or similar things. A second point is the syntax for outer joins. Although it is of course not a problem to use the mysql syntax i consider the oracle style syntax using "(+)" to denote tables that will be outer parts of the join much easier to write and to read - perhaps including this as an alternative syntax would not be too much work but (at least in my case ;) a big help. best Regards, Fuad -- Fuad Abdallah Max-Planck-Institut fuer Zuechtungsforschung / ZWDV Tel.: 0221/5062-739 / Priv: 0170/4816941