Question

I have a MYSQL database with 50.000 rows. Each row represents an article. I want the value of the column with they name “articletext” to be split into 50.000 files. One file for each row. I’m new to MYSQL so I’m not sure how to do this.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Answer 1

I created this small java application to solve the problem.

        try {
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        System.out.println("Opening connection");
        Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(
                "jdbc:mysql://localhost/articles", "username", "password");

        String query = "Select title,articletext from articles";

        Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
        ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);

        while (rs.next()) {
            String title = rs.getString(1);
            String text = rs.getString(2);

            try {
                FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter(title + ".txt");

                BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
                out.write(text);
                out.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

        }

        System.out.println("Closing connection");
        con.close();

    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }