>Jan Steinman wrote >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!
Good suggestion. But I am a perl/unix illiterate. However I may learn in them future-you never know! >hsv wrote >I yet suggest that you write an SQL procedure with a constructed string passed >to PREPARE. If the shell command works- I'll try that on a new set of tables soon-then I'd stick with that because I use mysql only sparingly so don't know advanced techniques. But I'll keep this in mind, just in case. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql