Miguel...

Miguel, Thanks for the reply. ............................. > MySQL has a command-line tool called 'mysqldump' which will output a text > file containing all the table creates and inserts necessary to recreate > the database. O.K. Now I have a .txt file of my sql statement. .................................. > As others have suggested, you can use phpmyadmin to import this file, or > you can just pipe it into the mysql command-line tool on the server once > you've created your database. Look inside the file created by mysqldump > and all will be much clearer. I take that to mean (the ISP's remote server where my website resides). Right? How can I get the compete mysql statement onto the ISP's server? Please advise. ................................ What I would like to know is: I would like to find out the steps one takes in going from the process of having the mysql data reside on my harddrive - localhost - in development - to my ISP's server when it goes live. The site resides on a remote server (the ISP's) when it is published (or goes live). Thank you. Tony Ritter ....................................