script to convert mysql dump sql file into format that can be imported into sqlite3 db

Question

I have an export SQL file containing tables and data from MySQL and I want to import it into a Sqlite 3 DB.

What is the best way to do that?

Just importing t

Answer 1

I had an issue with the mysql db being ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1). When did the conversion to sqlite3 assumed the data was UTF-8 resulting in decoding errors.

It was easy to fix with this:

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 mysql_dump_file > mysql_dump_file_utf8

Incase this helps someone.

Answer 2

This is the best written and well documented shell Script to convert ssql to .db

https://gist.github.com/esperlu/943776

or better use this tools It's amazing and fast ESF Database Migration Toolkit .

after having tried all the script here it didn't work until i did use the esf tool .

Note :

Trial version add a 'T' to the begingn of each text value you have 
 But the pro version worked like a charm :)

Answer 3

At least, with mysql 5.0.x, I had to remove collate utf8_unicode_ci from mysql's dump before importing it to sqlite3. So I modified the script to include the following to the list of seds:

sed 's/ collate utf8_unicode_ci/ /g' |

Update:

MySQL treats boolean fields as "tinyint(1)", so I had to add the following before tinyint([0-9]*) sed:

sed 's/ tinyint(1) / boolean /g' |

Also, since I'm trying to replicate a mysql db (production) to a sqlite3 db (development) of a Ruby On Rails application, I had to add the following line in order to set an auto-incrementing primary key:

sed 's/) NOT NULL/) PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL/g' |

I'm still trying to figure out a way to change the KEY entries from mysql to its corresponding CREATE INDEX entry of sqlite3.