--- mos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > At 12:23 PM 

Thanks a lot, Mike.
It works.

I spent many hours with this problem.
I also tried the trick with a temporary table,
but used the "INSERT" command, which didn't help.


All the best to you,    Harald


> 
> Harald,
>          1) load the data into a temporary table
> whose structure matches 
> that of the data in your text file
> 
> CREATE TABLE `tableb` (
>    `Rcd_Id` int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
>    `cust_name` char(10) default NULL
> )
> 
>          2) Load the data into the temp tableb using
> "Load Data  Infile ..."
> 
>          3) Once the data is in a database table,
> you can update an 
> existing table wrt to another table doing something
> like:
> 
> update tablea, tableb  set tablea.cust_name =
> tableb.cust_name where 
> tablea.rcd_id=tableb.rcd_id
> 
> Mike 
> 
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