I'm doing all kinds of exercises and tutorials to get up to speed on MySQL on my PowerBook with OS X.2 running. I just tried an exercise that, for the first time, had me creating a table not right in the MySQL monitor, but, rather, via a script that I saved as a textfile--Temp.sql--and then call the script up from the command line in the MySQL monitor.
Here's the script: CREATE DATABASE Temp; USE DATABASE Temp; CREATE TABLE Test_Table (Test_ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, Test_Name VARCHAR(30), Test_Date DATETIME, Test_Giver VARCHAR(30)); INSERT INTO Test_Table (Test_ID, Test_Name, Test_Date, Test_Giver) VALUES (NULL, 'Test','2000-03-02','Etienne'); The line I used to call the script up is: bin/mysql -p <bin/mysql -p </[the complete pathname, honest]/Temp.sql I didn't get the expected result, receiving the following message: ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'bin/mysql -p </Users/stephent/Sites/Temp.sql' at line 1 Can anyone see what I've done wrong? Thank you. Steve Tiano -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php