Thanks for the suggestion, Tom. I may need to go that route.
Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:31 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Trying to read a text file of data and input into db... > > On Thursday 26 Jun 2008, Rick Faircloth wrote: > > Hi, Tom... it's MySQL 5. > > By coincidence, I'm doing bulk loads into that too. > You can use CFQUERY to do: > LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/a/file/on/the/web.server' > INTO TABLE demoTable > FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' > LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' > ignore 1 lines > (aStr, > @dummy1, > @dummy2, > @dummy3, > aInt) > set aDate=str_to_date(@dummy1,'%d/%m/%Y'), > aDatetime=str_to_date(@dummy2,'%d/%m/%Y %T'), > aTimeStamp=str_to_date(@dummy3,'%d/%m/%Y %T') > > It's very very quick. > -- > Tom Chiverton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308198 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
