> From: joe j <joe.stata@stripped>
>
> Thanks. I was looking for a loop--not to gain speed but to reduce the
> length of my script file:) I'll try and hopefully it will work!
Is there any reason (besides human keystrokes) that you want a short script?
If not, how 'bout the best of both worlds: create a UNIX (or perl) script that loops
through the country names and creates an SQL script? That would be fast entering AND fast
performing!
> J
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Johan De Meersman <vegivamp@stripped> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> 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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