Is there a way to use mysqladmin (or mysql) to truncate a table as a one-off command from the command line?
I have an issue with importing data from one database into another, but the second database might have columns that the first did not. On database 1, I use mysqldump to grab certain tables, and when I try to simply "overlay" those tables onto the new database, I get an error ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 24: Duplicate entry '378-4' for key 1 So we're thinking we should truncate the table first, but it appears this must be done manually in the mysql> shell, which won't work... this operation needs to be scripted, or to be presented as one command line that can be copy-and-pasted. How can I do something like : mysqladmin -h db_server -u user -pPASSWORD <DATABASE> truncate table table1 ? -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org