Jim Lucas wrote:
> Waynn Lue wrote:
>> Wouldn't using LOAD DATA INFILE be better than writing your own script?
>>
>
> depends, does the data file match the table column for column?

Doesn't have to.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/load-data.html

By default, when no column list is provided at the end of the LOAD DATA
INFILE statement, input lines are expected to contain a field for each
table column. If you want to load only some of a table's columns,
specify a column list:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'persondata.txt' INTO TABLE persondata (col1,col2,...);


But load data infile requires extra mysql privileges.

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