Hi Anonymous Monk...

I'm not set up to test this, but I think your problem here is that you're trying to load a LOCAL file (i.e. on the server) but your file is on your windows box. It would help if you provided the error message, if any.

Solutions could be:

• copy the file to the server then use the local loading command,
• use Perl to split the file and load the data with INSERTs (could be slow, and error prone...)
• or see if you can load from a stream - e.g. STDIN and print the file down the stream to the server. This is what I would do with Postgres, but I don't know MySQL so well.

Hope this helps. You will probably get a better reply, but since no-one has replied and I think I can see the problem at least, I thought I would make my first post on here.

F. V. Shrub

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