From: Johan De Meersman
Date: April 4 2012 10:16am
Subject: Re: create multiple tables in a single query
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> From: "joe j" <joe.stata@stripped>
> 
> So what I am trying to get is a script that runs through a list of
> country names (US, UK, NL, etc) and create tables for each one of
> them as above. Is this feasible in MySql?

You can't create multiple tables with one statement; but you *can* put multiple statements on a single line. However, this does nothing for performance - nor readabiltiy, for that matter :-)

You could (on *nix) write a simple commandline loop for it, I suppose. Something along the lines of 

for x in UK US BE FR; do mysql -e "create table ${x}_table_new as select blahblahblbah"; done



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