Update MySQL table from a local file

Question

I have a table in a database, and I\'d like to update a column which I have offline on a local file. The file itself has two columns

1. an ID which corresponds to

Answer 1

Another way could be ...

Since you already know the table name as well have the ID and actual value ... what you can do is ... directly write the update statements in a file, like

update mytable set value_col = value where ID_col = ID;

Second Update Statement

Third Update statement

.......

Save the file as *.sql like, updatescript.sql and then execute that script directly like

mysql -h  -u root -p  < "E:/scripts/sql/updatescript.sql"