Re: does mysqlimport actually recreate the table schmea as well as import data?

2002-10-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 20), Peter J. Schoenster said: A cohort wrote a script to import tab delimited files. He uses mysqlimport. He uses the -d option to ONLY empty the data from the table before importing the new data. My cohort believes that mysqlimport is also dropping the table and then

does mysqlimport actually recreate the table schmea as well as import data?

2002-10-20 Thread Peter J. Schoenster
Hi, A cohort wrote a script to import tab delimited files. He uses mysqlimport. He uses the -d option to ONLY empty the data from the table before importing the new data. My cohort believes that mysqlimport is also dropping the table and then recreating the table from somewhere and then