On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:27:10PM -0800, Ben Huot wrote: > > > > I copied and pasted exactly from the email and put it in the MySQL GUI > > query box and hit execute query. And the database daemon was up and running. > > cut'n paste to a file, say file.txt, then on the command line > > $ mysql -u $user -p $database < file.txt > > where $user is your mysql username and $database is your database
Many of the gui/wui tools include fancy code to add semicolons at statement endings, do fancy quoting tricks and other such niceties that are meant to allow you to focus on the logic not the syntax. This can work. sometimes. but you should know the syntax else it will bite you when fancy web tool drops in extra ; and then complains about extra statements or incomplete expressions. just my USD 00.02 > > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
