Re: Creating a database with MySQLTcl

From: Helmut Giese (hgiese_at_ratiosoft.com)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:49:38 GMT

On 10 Feb 2005 06:03:44 -0800, "Christopher Nelson"
<cnelson@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

>> I posted it on Jan. 25 with the topic "Create data base using
>> mysqltcl"
>
>Ah, I searched for "create database mysqltcl".
>
>> and there was no response :(
>
>Did you solve it?
Sure :) - by using phpMyAdmin ...
> It occured to me that the solution may be to
>establish a connection to the system database (I think that's what
>MySQL calls it) then ignore all the tables you may have access to and
>just do [$db mysqlexec "create database foo"] (that syntax may not be
>quite right, I haven't tested this).
Maybe I'll try it out some time - we have some other problems right
now and a deadline is lurking.

Now, this "system database": What's this? I never heard the term
before (but then I was never doing database stuff before, either).
Best regards - and thanks for bringing the topic up again
Helmut Giese