On Thursday 20 July 2006 12:48 pm, Bing Du wrote: > Hello everyone, > mysql>update research set publications='loooong text in a file' where > uid=319;
You already have the data in a storage system ( a file on the filesystem ). That said, use what you have, store the location to the file, then grab that and use it to open the file and get the contents, using that for whatever purpose you may have. -- Chris White PHP Programmer/DBlarg Interfuel -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]