Question

Just getting started with db2.
Quick question about giving it SQL commands from a file.

If I run:

db2 -f mySQLcommands

and all my commands are one line sql commands they execute with no problems. if I put newlines in the middle of my sql statements then db2 comes back with “expected such and such a character after”
Here is an example with new lines:

CREATE TABLE Example (
              id int)

If there was no newline it would run. I tested quickly in nano, so that means it’s using the \n character probably.

Answer 1

Use the -t command line switch to enable multi-line statements that are by default terminated with a semi-colon ;

e.g.

db2 -t -f mySQLcommands

CREATE TABLE Example (
              id int);