\_ SMTP quoth Sundar on 2/11/2003 08:28 as having spake thusly: \_ [...] \_ Mike - I don't want to load a text file to a table, rather to just one \_ column. Something like CLOB in oracle. I believe that if you feed the parameters properly to mysql for 'LOAD DATA ...' it will slurp it all into a row for you. Still, an exercise for the reader. Possibly even a faq. David