Re: very basic questions

2006-07-09 Thread Martin Jespersen
1: .sql files are usually textfiles with sql statements in them delimited by ; 2: do the following 1) start the client - /path/to/mysql -u -p 2) select your database (if nescessary) - use 3) import the sql file - source /path/to/fill_help_tables.sql [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new

Re: very basic questions

2006-07-09 Thread Jo�o C�ndido de Souza Neto
SQL files are just text files that has sql commands in. If you want to load a sql file from mysql prompt you can do like this. mysql -u root -p mysql mysql> load file.sql; It's better to remember you that you'll have to be in the folder where the file.sql is before call the mysql prompt. Hope