From Mysql docs: You can also discard an input value by assigning it to a user variable and not assigning the variable to a table column: LOAD DATA INFILE ‘file.txt’ INTO TABLE t1 (column1, @dummy, column2, @dummy, column3);
Try this command load data local infile ‘file.csv’ into table table fields terminated by ‘,’ enclosed by ‘”‘ lines terminated by ‘\n’ (column1, column2, column3,…) The fields here are the actual table fields that the data needs to sit in. The enclosed by and lines terminated by are optional and can help if you have … Read more
These steps can be used to emulate this functionality: Create a new temporary table. CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE temporary_table LIKE target_table; Optionally, drop all indices from the temporary table to speed things up. SHOW INDEX FROM temporary_table; DROP INDEX `PRIMARY` ON temporary_table; DROP INDEX `some_other_index` ON temporary_table; Load the CSV into the temporary table LOAD DATA … Read more
Instead of writing a script to pull in information from a CSV file, you can link MYSQL directly to it and upload the information using the following SQL syntax. To import an Excel file into MySQL, first export it as a CSV file. Remove the CSV headers from the generated CSV file along with empty … Read more
This will do what you want. It reads the fourth field into a local variable, and then sets the actual field value to NULL, if the local variable ends up containing an empty string: LOAD DATA INFILE ‘/tmp/testdata.txt’ INTO TABLE moo FIELDS TERMINATED BY “,” LINES TERMINATED BY “\n” (one, two, three, @vfour, five) SET … Read more
You can use the LOAD DATA INFILE command to import a CSV file into a table. Check the link MySQL – LOAD DATA INFILE. LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ‘abc.csv’ INTO TABLE abc FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’ ENCLOSED BY ‘”‘ LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\r\n’ IGNORE 1 LINES (col1, col2, col3, col4, col5…); For MySQL 8.0 users: … Read more
Use mysqlimport to load a table into the database: mysqlimport –ignore-lines=1 \ –fields-terminated-by=, \ –local -u root \ -p Database \ TableName.csv I found it at http://chriseiffel.com/everything-linux/how-to-import-a-large-csv-file-to-mysql/ To make the delimiter a tab, use –fields-terminated-by=’\t’