Re: Speaking of Silly Questions

[Gerald Clark]

source getData

"Oson, Chris M." wrote:
> 
> Good Day All,
> 
> I seem to be stuck in a fog.  I know the answer is probably easy
> 
> Let's say I have a query:
> 
> SELECT * FROM myTable;
> 
> and it's stored in a file:
> 
> getData
> 
> Then I can do something like this...
> 
> % mysql -A -uuserID -ppassword databaseName < getData
> 
> and I'll see output.  That's fine
> 
> But what if I'm at the mySQL prompt, how would I get the same file to
> execute?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> chris oson
> 
>