How I can Import data from CSV to MySQL?

You can specify the columns and mark the unnecessary columns as ‘@dummy’.

LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.csv'
INTO TABLE t1
(column1, @dummy, column2, @dummy, @dummy, @dummy, @dummy, @dummy, @dummy, @dummy)
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' ENCLOSED BY 
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES;

Replace t1, column1 and column2 as you like. To set other columns which are not in the data file, you can do it like this:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.csv'
INTO TABLE t1
(column1, @dummy, column2, @dummy, @val, @dummy, @dummy, @dummy, @dummy, @dummy)
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' ENCLOSED BY 
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES
SET column3 = "test", column4 = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, column5 = @val/10;

For further reference, I recommend you to take a look at the MySQL reference.

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