Greetings, fellow monks!

I've recently been trying to create something that has a ... rather large assortment of MySQL tables. Now, generating all of them within the install file is an option, but I've recently been look at something called Mediawiki, and while inspecting their (PHP) source, I found something called "tables.sql". It would appear to be a file that is run to generate all of their tables for them, along with keeping all their table generating information in a single file, which makes it easier to track.

However, Mediawiki is built in PHP. And I want to do this with Perl. However, a few quick google searches have not revealed anything, so I'm here to ask you, my fellow monks: how do I use an external file to perform all of my SQL table generating queries?

Thanks,
Spidy
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In reply to Using an External SQL Query file? by Spidy

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