>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.

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