Question

I’m involved is a project to migrate a project from Oracle to MySQL. In Oracle I have the ability to create a SQL script that references or inlcudes other external SQL script files when the batch is run via command line. I Have a script called CreateAllTables.sql that looks like this internally:

@tables\Site.sql
@tables\Language.sql
@tables\Country.sql
@tables\Locale.sql
@tables\Tag.sql

I’m already aware of the MySQL command line “Source” command, but my goal is to invoke a single main .sql script file that includes other scripts via one single command line call like this:

mysql --user=root --password --database=junkdb -vv < CreateAllTables.sql

So my question is how do I do this with MySQL?

Answer 1

source works for me.

# -- foo.sql
DROP TABLE foo;
source bar.sql

# -- bar.sql
CREATE TABLE bar (i INT NOT NULL);

$ mysql ... < foo.sql

Now table foo is gone and bar is created.