Can I use mysqlimport / LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE inside stored procedure

Question

I am using mysqlimport to get rows from a text file to a table easily like so:

mysqlimport -u root -p --local mytest employee.txt

Can I do this from a stored procedure? All attempts so far have failed I'm afraid this may only be available using command line? The objective is to have a job call a SP, this SP extracts rows from a text file (tab delimited), then the SP compares each row with an existing table, if found it will update, else insert.

Thanking you

Answer 1

Stored procedures execute on the server and do not have access to remote filesystems.

A rough equivalent of this is a call LOAD DATA INFILE :

LOAD DATA INFILE 'employee.txt' INTO TABLE mytest

This requires employee.txt to reside on your server. The --local option requires the mysqlimport client to bridge that data in.

Answer 2

Load Data INFILE doesnt work with stored proc. you would like to use perl script or else to do this