Thank you very much!! that was very helpful. By the way, is there any other way to get rid of duplicate records from a text file?
Thanks again Nato -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:00 PM To: Natividad Castro Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Deleting duplicate records On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:48:06PM -0500, Natividad Castro wrote: > I'm new using mysql. I'm trying to load data from a text file to one > of my table. This text file contains duplicate records. My question > is how do you tell mysql to delete duplicate records and load just > the ones that are not duplicate? I already tried the REPLACE and > IGNORE key words but is I dont get the result that I want. Any idea If the data is in a text file, elimiate the duplicates before MySQL is even involved: cat myfile.txt | sort | uniq > nodups.txt Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.47-max: up 25 days, processed 842,341,115 queries (386/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
