Mysql CSV

The LOAD DATA INFILE statement provides you the way to import data from a plain text file into database. Mysql CSV is used to load the text file and add to the table in database have the same format

Understand with Example

The Tutorial provides you an elaborate example on Mysql CSV. To understand and grasp example, we create a text file 'C:/g.csv' and load this text file into table employee12 that has same format as of text file g.csv.

data inline : The keyword is used to import the data from text file to database in Mysql.

Query for loading table data from csv file:

mysql> load data infile "C:/g.csv"
    ->  into table employee12
    ->  fields terminated by "\t"
    ->  lines terminated by "\n"
    ->  ;
Query OK, 6 rows affected (0.05 sec)
Records: 6  Deleted: 0  Skipped: 0  Warnings: 0

Query for viewing loaded data of table named employee12:

mysql> select * from employee12;
+-------+----------+--------+------------+
| Empid | Empname  | Salary | DOB        |
+-------+----------+--------+------------+
|     1 | Habib    |   2014 | 2004-12-02 |
|     2 | Karan    |   4021 | 2003-04-11 |
|     3 | Samia    |     22 | 2008-02-23 |
|     4 | Hui Ling |     25 | 2008-10-15 |
|     5 | Yumie    |     29 | 1999-01-26 |
|    10 | NULL     | 210000 | 2009-01-12 |
+-------+----------+--------+------------+
6 rows in set (0.01 sec)

Mysql CSV

Mysql CSV

Mysql CSV

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