[ic] Interchange and MySQL

[Joshua Lavin]

On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 11:20  AM, Grant wrote:

> [snip]
>
>> The way we reload our products database is: copy the old products.txt
>> to a backup, post the new products.txt, then move products.sql to
>> products.oldsql. The database is rebuilt on the next page request.
>> There aren't any quote marks, but I haven't tried it another way.
>>
>> Josh
>
> Does moving products.sql to products.oldsql actually back up any data? 
>  My
> .sql files are all 1 byte-ers.  I figured they're like place holders 
> that
> signal a rebuilding of the database tables from text source files when
> they're missing.  Is that right?
>
> - Grant

You're probably right. I figured it couldn't hurt. ;-)

Josh