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From:<sinisa Date:October 5 1999 2:37pm
Subject:Re: Is it faster to import (eg. DBname < filename.txt) or to hard code INSERTs
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Udo Stanja writes:
 > M wrote:
 > > 
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > 1. Is it faster to import a file with thousands of INSERT statements
 > > like this eg.
 > > 
 > > % mysql -h myhost -u me -pmypassword myDB < fileWithInserts.txt
 > > 
 > > 2. Or, to hard code the INSERT syntax into a C program, for example (I
 > > have a C program to extract data from file with fixed length fields),
 > > and insert the data straight into a table (with a loop)? I've done it
 > > this way eg.
 > > 
 > > mysql_query(sock, "insert into temp (product_no, product_name, qty)
 > > values (%s, '%s', %s)"
 > > 
 > > I don't have file privs in the 'user' grant table, so I cannot use
 > > LOAD
 > > DATA INFILE. I'm trying to work out the quickest way of doing this.
 > > Thanks for any help.
 > > 
 > > Michael
 > > 
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 > 
 > Hallo,
 > most there is it possible to use the following
 > 
 > load LOCAL data infile ...
 > 
 > in my case that was the solution. 
 > 
 > Udo
 > 
 > 
 > 


Try:

load data infile local...

Sinisa

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Is it faster to import (eg. DBname < filename.txt) or to hard code INSERTsM4 Oct
  • Re: Is it faster to import (eg. DBname < filename.txt) or to hard code INSERTsMartin Ramsch4 Oct
  • Re: Is it faster to import (eg. DBname < filename.txt) or to hard code INSERTs(Udo Stanja)5 Oct
    • Re: Is it faster to import (eg. DBname < filename.txt) or to hard code INSERTssinisa5 Oct