> > Then use an ORDER BY in your query. If you're relying on the database to > > spit out rows in the order they went in, then you're wrong. > > Hey man thanks for pointing that out... !!!! I know it's wrong, I didn't > design it but it's what I have to work with and I'm not being paid to > fix it. And quite frankly clients being as ignorant as they tend to be > at times just know that its worked fine for years and don't want to hear > that they have to spend money fixing something that as far as they can > tell has always worked fine. That being said, in this instance, due to > poor design, I need this stuff to be in there in a particular order. If > that's not possible then I'll just have to suck it up and rebuild this > thing for free but if I can find a way around that for the time being > then....
Then don't use LOAD DATA INFILE if it's not working for you. Write a PHP script to read each line of the file and insert it. Yes, it'll be a little slower, but then you could also add an auto_increment or timestamp field that'll keep track of how things were inserted... ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
