How to easily import multiple sql files into a MySQL database?

Question

I have several sql files and I want to import all of them at once into a MySQL database.

I go to PHPMyAdmin, access the databa

Answer 1

I know it's been a little over two years... but I was looking for a way to do this, and wasn't overly happy with the solution posted (it works fine, but I wanted a little more information as the import happens). When combining all the SQL files in to one, you don't get any sort of progress updates.

So I kept digging for an answer and thought this might be a good place to post what I found for future people looking for the same answer. Here's a command line in Windows that will import multiple SQL files from a folder. You run this from the command line while in the directory where mysql.exe is located.

for /f %f in ('dir /b \') do mysql --user= --password=  < \%f

With some assumed values (as an example):

for /f %f in ('dir /b c:\sqlbackup\*.sql') do mysql --user=mylogin --password=mypass mydb < c:\sqlbackup\%f

If you had two sets of SQL backups in the folder, you could change the *.sql to something more specific (like mydb_*.sql).