Hi, On Jan 1, 2008 6:22 PM, Miguel Vaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to import a big database of around 140 tables from xls > to mysql. It works fine using navicat mysql, but i am running into a problem: > > Navicat tries to predict the field types, but makes a mistake on > long text fields whose type needs to be "text", instead it makes them > varchar(255), which is not enough for the content. > > I can solve the issue if i manually choose all field types to be > "text", but since mysql has the alter table command to change field > type, i was wondering if there is a way to change all fields from all > tables to "text" automatically. This way i could import the table > structure first, change all fields to type "text" and import tha data > afterwards (the import is for an intermediary process, so no worries > on all fields being "text" at this point). > > Something like: > > ALTER TABLE * CHANGE * * TEXT > > But obviously this doesnt work. > > Is this even possible using MYSQL? I could do it programmatically > using PHP, i guess, but a single command would be far better. :-)
It's not possible. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
