MYSQL import data from csv using LOAD DATA INFILE

Question

I am importing some data of 20000 rows from a CSV file into Mysql.

Columns in the CSV are in a different order than MySQL table\'s columns. How to automatically assi

Answer 1

Before importing the file, you must need to prepare the following:

• A database table to which the data from the file will be imported.
• A CSV file with data that matches with the number of columns of the table and the type of data in each column.
• The account, which connects to the MySQL database server, has FILE and INSERT privileges.

Suppose we have following table :

CREATE TABLE USING FOLLOWING QUERY :

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `survey` (
  `projectId` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
  `surveyId` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
  `views` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
  `dateTime` datetime NOT NULL
);

YOUR CSV FILE MUST BE PROPERLY FORMATTED FOR EXAMPLE SEE FOLLOWING ATTACHED IMAGE :

If every thing is fine.. Please execute following query to LOAD DATA FROM CSV FILE :

NOTE : Please add absolute path of your CSV file

LOAD DATA INFILE '/var/www/csv/data.csv' 
INTO TABLE survey 
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' 
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES;

If everything has done. you have exported data from CSV to table successfully

Answer 2

I was getting Error Code: 1290. The MySQL server is running with the --secure-file-priv option so it cannot execute this statement

This worked for me on windows 8.1 64 bit using wampserver 3.0.6 64bit.

Edited my.ini file from C:\wamp64\bin\mysql\mysql5.7.14

Delete entry secure_file_priv c:\wamp64\tmp\ (or whatever dir you have here)

Stopped everything -exit wamp etc.- and restarted everything; then punt my cvs file on C:\wamp64\bin\mysql\mysql5.7.14\data\u242349266_recur (the last dir being my database name)

executed LOAD DATA INFILE 'myfile.csv'

INTO TABLE alumnos

FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','

ENCLOSED BY '"'

LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'

IGNORE 1 LINES

... and VOILA!!!

Answer 3

You can load data from a csv or text file. If you have a text file with records from a table, you can load those records within the table. For example if you have a text file, where each row is a record with the values for each column, you can load the records this way.

table.sql

id //field 1

name //field2

table.txt

1,peter

2,daniel

...

--example on windows

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'C:\\directory_example\\table.txt'
INTO TABLE Table
CHARACTER SET UTF8
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'; 

Answer 4

let suppose you are using xampp and phpmyadmin

you have file name 'ratings.txt' table name 'ratings' and database name 'movies'

if your xampp is installed in "C:\xampp\"

copy your "ratings.txt" file in "C:\xampp\mysql\data\movies" folder

LOAD DATA INFILE 'ratings.txt' INTO TABLE ratings FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' IGNORE 1 LINES;

Hope this can help you to omit your error if you are doing this on localhost

Answer 5

Syntax:

LOAD DATA [LOW_PRIORITY | CONCURRENT] [LOCAL]
INFILE 'file_name' INTO TABLE `tbl_name`
CHARACTER SET [CHARACTER SET charset_name]
FIELDS [{FIELDS | COLUMNS}[TERMINATED BY 'string']] 
[LINES[TERMINATED BY 'string']] 
[IGNORE number {LINES | ROWS}]

See this Example:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE
'E:\\wamp\\tmp\\customer.csv' INTO TABLE `customer`
CHARACTER SET 'utf8'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES;