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Asked: 2026-05-11T13:27:35+00:00

I am trying to create a batch script that would connect to a mySQL

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I am trying to create a batch script that would connect to a mySQL database and issue a delete command:

@echo off echo Resetting all assessments... mysql -hlocalhost -urdfdev -p%1 rdf_feedback delete from competency_question_answer;

I will run this script providing the password as a command-line argument, but all this script does is, connects to the database, and the mysql> prompt will be shown. After I exit from mysql, the rest of the batch commands get to execute (and fail, no surprise).

How can I pass the SQL commands from the batch script to the mysql console? Is this even possible?

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  1. You need to use command line tools. I don’t know if there exists any for MySQL but for SQL there is SQLCMD and for Oracle there is OSQL.

    What you can also do is something like this.

    mysql -uuser -ppass < foo.sql

    Where foo.sql is the commands you want to execute.

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