Alan,
Wednesday, October 23, 2002, 2:06:05 PM, you wrote:
AM> Is it possible to update a field using SQL with the contents of a text file
AM> previoously written to disk?
AM> I want to update a mediumtext field with the contents of c:\data\mytext.txt
AM> file.
AM> update mytable set mymediumtext= filecontents where id=number... ?
UPDATE mytable SET mymediumtext=LOAD_FILE('c:\data\mytext.txt') ...
You can find desription of LOAD_FILE() function here:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/String_functions.html
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