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Load and execute SQL from multiple line file?

 
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Kindly I would like to ask what is the preferred way of loading a file containing multiple sql-statements (CREATEs and INSERTs) into a (MySQL) database?

In the setUp()-method of a JUnit-test, I would like to freshen up the test-database by dropping all tables and loading a new default state. Since some of the INSERT-statements contain quotes (") or other special characters, I cannot just load everything into a single Statement.

Is there a convenient way to encode the data so it can be used in a simple statement.executeQuery(sql)?

Thanks for your time,
Mark
 
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Mark,
You could parse the file (by statement termination character) and executeUpdate() for each statement. Alternatively, you could do a batch update and save on trips to the database.
 
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Thanks for your thoughs Jeanne. I solved it like this:

 
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