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    Excellent tip. It works with -A. I have overlooked it.  Thanks
    Rhoda.<br>
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    Regards<br>
    Prem<br>
    <br>
    On 22/02/11 09:45, Rhoda Kinsella wrote:
    <blockquote
      cite="mid:DB4D1F97-ADF7-4F47-A016-24B53C6A0979@ebi.ac.uk"
      type="cite">Hi Prem
      <div>When you are connecting to the marts it is advisable to use
        -A as the Ensembl marts are quite large. This option skips auto
        hashing and allows faster access to the tables. </div>
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      <div>mysql -uanonymous -hmartdb.ensembl.org -P5316 -A</div>
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      <div>If there are issues in future with the <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.biomart.org">www.biomart.org</a>
        servers, you can also access the Ensembl marts at <a
          moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="http://www.ensembl.org/biomart/martview">http://www.ensembl.org/biomart/martview</a></div>
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      <div>I hope that helps,</div>
      <div>Regards</div>
      <div>Rhoda</div>
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          <div>On 22 Feb 2011, at 09:12, Premanand Achuthan wrote:</div>
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            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hi Steve<br>
              <br>
              Thanks for getting back. You are right, the biomart site
              is alright now. But still have issues with mysql server.<br>
              <br>
              xxx@xxx-vm:~$ mysql -uanonymous -hmartdb.ensembl.org
              -P5316<br>
              Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.<br>
              Your MySQL connection id is 85312<br>
              Server version: 5.1.34 Source distribution<br>
              <br>
              Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the
              buffer.<br>
              <br>
              mysql> use vega_mart_61;<br>
              Reading table information for completion of table and
              column names<br>
              You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup
              with -A<br>
              <br>
              Database changed<br>
              mysql> use ensembl_mart_61;<br>
              Reading table information for completion of table and
              column names<br>
              You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup
              with -A<br>
              <br>
              ===<br>
              I have waited here for more than 10 minutes, still it
              doesn't switch. vega_mart_61 seems to be fine, but not
              able to use ensembl_mart_61.<br>
              <br>
              Not sure if it has to do with my vms memory. Anyway, I can
              still go ahead with the biomart service.<br>
              <br>
              Thanks<br>
              Prem<br>
              <br>
              <br>
              <br>
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              On 21/02/11 23:32, steve trevanion wrote:
              <blockquote cite="mid:4D62F5F8.8080206@sanger.ac.uk"
                type="cite"> Hi Prem,<br>
                <br>
                Ensembl does not maintain the biomart website, please
                see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                  href="http://www.biomart.org/contact.html">http://www.biomart.org/contact.html</a>.
                However their site does now appear to be OK<br>
                <br>
                We do maintain martdb.ensembl.org and that is responding
                fine for me. We have not had any other reports of
                problems, can you confirm you are using port 5316 ?<br>
                <br>
                Regards,<br>
                <br>
                Steve<br>
                <br>
                On 21/02/2011 17:35, Premanand Achuthan wrote:
                <blockquote cite="mid:4D62A259.2000003@cimr.cam.ac.uk"
                  type="cite"> Hi All<br>
                  <br>
                  I have been trying to use biomart (<a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martview/">http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martview/</a>)
                  since afternoon, and I keep getting the following
                  message <br>
                  '<span class="Apple-style-span"
                    style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0,
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                      style="font-family: sans-serif;">Serious Error:
                      Could not connect to mysql database
                      ensembl_mart_61: DBI
                      connect('database=ensembl_mart_61;host=dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca;port=3306','bm_web',...)
                      failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on
                      'dcc-qa-db.oicr.on.ca' (113) at
                      /srv/biomart_server/biomart.org/biomart-perl/lib/BioMart/Configuration/DBLocation.pm
                      line 98'<br>
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                      Also not able to connect to </span></span>martdb.ensembl.org.ensembl_mart_61
                  through mysql client.<br>
                  <br>
                  Anybody having similar issues?<br>
                  <br>
                  Thanks<br>
                  Prem<br>
                  <br>
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                  <div>Rhoda Kinsella Ph.D.</div>
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                    <div style="margin: 0px; font: 12px Helvetica;">Ensembl Bioinformatician,</div>
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                  <div>European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),<br>
                    Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, </div>
                  <div>Hinxton<br>
                    Cambridge CB10 1SD,</div>
                  <div>UK.</div>
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