Mike wrote:
> In working with some non profit groups I need to be able to send a complete
> program that is installed and ran fairly easy.
> To me MySQL is easy in most cases but to someone not familiar with it it can
> be a daughtening task. Is there a way to send a setup program using MySQL?
> Most of the time it's just a few tables so if there was an alternative way
> to make the tables and use them in a program that would be great.
In UN*X land, you could send a shell script, e.g.:
#!/bin/sh
#
echo "Setting up the test_table..."
mysql db -u user -ppassword <<'EOF'
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test_table;
CREATE TABLE test_table ( a char, b char );
EOF
echo "Done."
Not really portable, 'thogh.
--Bill
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