Question

Can I store data files (e.g. txt files) to the MySql server? If I can, how to store them?

Answer 1

You can use LOAD DATA INFILE to read the contents of a file and store it in a table in the database in a structured format.

This can be considerably faster than reading and parsing the file on the client and then using multiple INSERT statements.

Example:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.txt' INTO TABLE db2.my_table;