Posted by NC on 10/13/63 11:44

Dave wrote:
>
> I am doing a job to migrate an informix database server to mySQL DB. There
> are 20 12 database which contains 300 tables.
>
> I have made table data move working by using LOAD series SQL commands.
> But it is very slow to copy table structure. Rightnow I create table one by
> using (CREATE TABLE ......... ).
>
> Is there any smart way of importing table structure?

Sure. Put all your CREATE TABLE queries into one text file (let's call
it q.txt) and run the following command line:

mysql -u [username] -p[password] [db_name] < q.txt

Note that there is no whitespace between -p and the password...

Cheers,
NC

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