MYSQL :: Importing Text File

Importing A Text File To MySQL
I've looked at the other issues involving importing a text file and it appears my situation is different. I have a web host which provides me with a MySQL database, however, I also use the MySQL Administrator on my XP PRO machine at home. I use it to log into my account on the web host and can do some work that way. I'd really like to import a text file to a table but I can't figure how to do it.

Importing Japanese Characters From Text File
I have a tab-delimited text file I'm trying to import with Navicat Import Wizard. The first field of each line is in Japanese (SJIS format). Even though I've tried setting up the fields with Design Table for the field of the new database to be coded for SJIS (and every permutation I can think of), I only get question marks in the generated table.

Importing Data Via Text File. Size Limit!
I am running mysql/php on my local machine (xp-pro). I am trying to import a lot of data into the database. I have about 50 thousand records. Here is a example of a recordset.

"13-01-103-007","32835 BRUGGEMAN","Warren Consolidated","95380","95380","94160","100.000","60.000","120.000","0.165","0","0","Apartment ","0","1.00","1307","C ","Brick ","1626","399","2","1626","1.00","0","1","1 Story","1980","A "

The fields are seperated by "," and enclosed by " "" ".
When I use phpmyadmin and limit the insert to about 30 records every thing works fine. But when I try to do the entire batch (50,000) it times out or I get a generic error "page can not be found" .

I noticed in phpmyadmin that the limit of file size is 2048kb. Could this be the problem? If so can I increase the size of the file? Mines is 14.9 MB. Or not have it timed out.

Need To Insert Data From A Text File Into A Medium Text Field.
How can I go about inserting data into a MEDIUMTEXT field from an existing text file using Java.

Importing Text Files.
I have an excel file... The first row in the excel file contains the names of fields in the MySQL database. (There are only four fields in my DB in a single table.) The following rows contain data that should be inserted into those fields. Well...

I can't figure out how to get that data from the excel file imported into the MySQL database. I have saved the excel file as a .csv file for testing purposes... On my web server I have phpMyAdmin installed...

It has a feature that says "import from text file"... However, whenever I try to import the csv file, it only grabs the first row (containg the field names) and part of the second row... When it grabs this data it puts it all into the first field in the DB... I can't figure out how to get it organized and get all of it inserted.

Importing Text Files
I'm importing our DOS data base (Dataflex) to Mysql I have a table with
174,638 records that I convert into a tab delimetered Text file however,
Mysql only reads 87,035!.

I checked the text file & it apperars fine is there
any limitation?

Insert Text File In A Text Field
2 questions:

1) How can I insert a text file into a TEXT field (of a table)
by a mysql instruction ?;

2) How can I insert a microsoft word file into a BLOB field (of a table)
by a mysql instruction?

Importing Data From Text Files
Can anyone show an example MySQL command to import a text file into a table?

I have a massive qty of data to get into a MySQL database on a server over
the internet. Shouldn't I be able to do this with a bulk operation instead
of a script with many tens of thousands of INSERT statements? I can deliver
each tables data as comma delimited text files.

Do I need to start with an empty MySQL table or can I import the text table
directly?

I am working with a remote Apache server using an ssh telnet jailshell
window. I have to ftp compressed files since the amount of data is large
and the uplink speed is slow.

Convert Text To HTML While Importing
I am importing data into a table and one field is text that will be displayed on an HTML page. Right now it's plain text, but I want it to be displayed with line and paragraph breaks on the web site.

Is there a way to convert line and paragraph breaks to <br> and <p> while importing and store it that way in the table?

Or is this rather done with PHP when pulling the data from the table?

Importing A CSV File
I have serveral CSV files that I collect each morning, that I would like to automate the updating of hte tables. I have been doing a litlte research, and I am not sure if mysqlimport is the correct tool I should be using. Is it possible to use mysqlimport to update a specific table in my database?

Importing A .sql File
I have used PhpMyAdmin to export a .sql file. I want to use it to populate a differently named database locally to check if everything works before uploading it. There is a button for export but to import I need a line or two of script.

Importing Csv File
How do I import a csv file into my mysql database. MyphpAdmin only gives me the option of importing a sql file.

Importing From CSV File
I have a pretty small CSV file with 12 columns and about 150 rows. Some of the fields have names which have commas in them like this, John R. Smith, Jr. So I can't use commas a delimiter. Excel adds "" around the field swith a comma or period in them. What can I do to get around this and bulk import this data into my table?

Importing A Csv File
I have a csv file I would like to import into a table. The csv file has many duplicate rows that I do not need. How can I import this into a table without any duplicates? I still need the rows just not duplicates. Also the schema is not yet created for the table.

Importing A .sql File
I have very little experence with mysql. i receved a backup file from my ISP of the db i was using. (filename.sql). I just installed mysql 5.0 on a server here and want to import this backup file to the server here.Is there step by step directions for doing this ? or can some one help my import the file.

Importing Data Containing Large Text Fields
I'm in the middle of importing a very large database in MDB format into MySQL.

The data consists of a fairly disgusting list of redundant columns, and one of those columns contains plain text, including line feeds and carriage returns.

I've been bashing my brains out trying to import this data into MySQL WITHOUT resorting to using a BLOB (binary or otherwise) field to stick all that text data into. Varchar fields are fine, but there's a problem importing that data.

The problem is that since the textual data in that field contains linefeeds and carriage returns, exporting it as quote-delimited text is fine, except that there's no way for MySQL's LOAD DATA statement to see the linefeeds in that text as anything except newlines - and since most data export tools I have only provide simple CR/LF (linefeeds and carriage returns) as row delimiters, MySQL kept complaining about missing columns when it got to a field containing that raw text.

The fix was to append a text column to the raw table, containing an identical string in every row - I used XYZ, but almost anything goes. Then I re-exported the whole table using " string delimiters and CR/LF line terminators as usual. Code:

PHPMYADMIN Importing .csv File
I get an error message that says "Invalid field count in CSV input on line 17." But I have removed all extra commas and the number of fields in my CSV matches the number in MYSQL table.

I looked on lines 16,17 and 18 for extra commas or anything that might cause it to fail and it looks fine.

What am I missing here?

You know, its the "simple" stuff that frustrates me the most

Importing Csv File Into Mysql
I have a rather big csv file (exported from excel) and I am trying to import this into mySql db with the follwoing code.

CODEmysql > load data local infile '/home/kkohakur/Hotel_All_Active07-05-05.csv'
-> into table hotelinfo
-> fields terminated by ','
-> lines terminated by '
'
-> (HotelID,Name,AirportCode,Address1,Address2,Address3,City,StateProvince,Country,PostalCode,Longitude,Latitude,LowRate,HighRate,MarketingLevel,Confidence,HotelModified,PropertyType);

Importing A CSV File Into Table
i backed up my table entries onto a csv file a long time ago.. im using mysqladmin to review my database and recently i had to upload the back up files back into my table.
when using the actual import function in mysqladmin i keep on getting the failed message.
i was wondering if there any way to import the entries using some kind of mysql or php script.

Importing Data From A Log File
I am to trying to get data into a table using the LOAD DATA INFILE command from a log file that is generated automatically by a piece of software the following is an example of lines from the log file. The Lines that include START are less important to me but I could make use of them.

29.03.2005 00:55 START ID: 14; Port 14597; Amount: 763
29.03.2005 01:37 FINISH ID: 16; Number: (177, 201, 0) 378; Amount: 6232

The problem that crops up comes from the fact that the lines obviously have a completly different number of potenital data fields also they do not necessarily alternate from a START to FINISH line, there may be 3 STARTS(short ones) followed by 6 FINISH(long ones) then 2 START ect. Code:

Importing .txt File Through PhpMyAdmin
I'm having problems trying to run a query into phpmyadmin. The error:

There is a chance that you may have found a bug in the SQL parser. Please examine your query closely, and check that the quotes are correct and not mis-matched. Other possible failure causes may be that you are uploading a file with binary outside of a quoted text area. You can also try your query on the MySQL command line interface.

The MySQL server error output below, if there is any, may also help you in diagnosing the problem. If you still have problems or if the parser fails where the command line interface succeeds, please reduce your SQL query input to the single query that causes problems, and submit a bug report with the data chunk in the CUT section below: Code:

Importing A Data.sql File
I am using phpMyAdmin 2.70 to try and import a database that I was given.

It is a data.SQL file

It is a fairly big database at 3.5 meg
so I incresed my php.ini settings:

I edited my php.ini file so that
of upload_max_filesize = 7M
memory_limit = 8M
post_max_size = 8m

These changes appear so work becaese max import file shows Max: 7,168KB

my database.sql is 3.5M so there should be no problem - but I get this error

"ERROR:You probably tried to upload too large file. Please refer to documentation for ways to workaround this limit."

Importing CSV File Into MySQL
I am trying to import a file called info.csv into MySQL 4.1.7 using phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-pl3. I created a table called mail, with 2 columns (e-mail Subscribe_to_Newsletter), what is the best way to get the data into it?

Importing .csv File To PhpMyAdmin
I am trying to import a csv file into PhpMyAdmin. I get an error saying 'invalid field count'.
As far as i can tell i have the exact amount of fields in both csv file and database.
Is there anything i'm missing or anything i can check?

Importing Txt File To Table
i got text file with more than 500 names order like this:

john
clay
alex
martha
dan
smith
...

there is not , ; . only name in each line
and i need it for <select form
how can i import such a list into mysql table...
i'm using mysql administrator+word and you:D

Importing .DBF File Into MYSQL
I'm having a file in Foxpro dbf file format which I want to import in MYSQL database which is remotely located. Is there any syntax which directly imports a dbf file into MYSQL or I'll have to convert it first into a flat file and then import.

Importing Flat File
I need to take flat files and insert them into MySQL tables via a PHP script. The problem is, the book I'm using to learn PHP and MySQL states that all text that is to be entered into a table needs to be enclosed in quotes. Each record needs to end with a newline character (/n). The flat files' data does not have quotes around each item of data.so first, I would need to create a PHP script that encloses each item of data in quotes. I'm not sure how I would begin such a script. I expect it has been done before, and I wouldn't want to re-invent the wheel. If you know of the existence of such a script

Importing (or Appending) Csv File To Table
I have a table called information in the employee database. It has 6 fields or columns. I started entering the information through phpMyAdmin.

It seems easier to do it in Excel, save it as a *.csv file, and tehm load the data into the table. I did this with another table through the MySQL Monitor and it worked great.

Now that I have done 15 rows in the table thru phpMyAdmin,how can I bring the information.csv file into the information table? Is there an append or insert into command? I can find where I can bring in single lines but not from a *.csv file.

If there is, can someone please help me? I could delete the rows I already have but would be much happier if I could append the new file to the information I already have in there.

If there is a way, could you please type it out for me? Or point me to a place where I can get the information? It's so hard to look if you don't know the exact term, such as LOAD DATA, etc.

Also, is it case-sensitive? Is LOAD DATA the same as load data?

I am sorry for asking questions that are probably so basic but I have been searching for the answers for several days! This is a project I am trying to do on my own and I am looking for some classes that don't go into the technical server setup but just the how to make it work end.

Importing Data With Load File
is it possible to run the command below with variable values i.e putting %1, %2 in for the file name

This works fine:

load data local infile c:/contacts.txt into table itextit.import_contacts fields terminated by ',' lines terminated by '
'(%1, surname, mob_number);

but i can't get this working, it is possible

load data local infile %1 into table itextit.import_contacts fields terminated by ',' lines terminated by ''(%1, surname, mob_number);

Importing .sql File In SQL 3.23 On Linux 7.1 Server
I've got a .sql file and was going to import it into mysql.
The file contains around 30000 data but after i've typed:

mysql> source /xx/file_name.sql;

Table of the sql file is created but contains no data. But it poped an error notice without any message:

ERROR: <----like this

the .sql file is version 4.0. Is there any problems on version 3.23 while importing a v4.0 file? If so, could any brother please help on resolving this problem?

Importing Drop Down List From A Csv File?
I have a csv file exported from an Access 97 database. The database had a few fields that were drop down lists. When I look at the contents of these cells in Excel these lists are all separated by a square character.

Let me explain the Access enteries a little more. They are filled in by the user, not pre-populated, it is a list of family members of the main employee. I hope that explains what I am dealing with.

My question is when I try to import csv file, it either errors out or it adds the enteries in on the bottom of the table starting with the first column again. It kind of looks like it takes the first set of info and fills it in correctly, then does a carriage return to the first column and puts in the rest of the information from the lists. My last statement is just for descritive purposes of what the actual out put looks like in MySQL to me.

How do I import these fields correctly? I tried SET and LONGTEXT for those columns, that didn't work or did I just not do it right.

Importing CSV File Into Mysql Database
I have a csv file with over 300 columns. I do not want to manually create the table with that many columns, then import the csv file to fill the data.

Is there a way to import the csv file and have the first row in the file create the table column names?

Method For Importing Large Database File To Mysql
I use phpMyAdmin on my shared hosting accounts.
On my development computer I have a large mysql table (270MB) that I want to import into the website database. I believe LOAD DATA won't work for this size and I don't think copying/pasting 600,000 INSERT statements into the SQL query box makes sense (maybe it does?).
Has anyone been successful getting importing a large file into mysql?

Importing Large Dump File Into Mysql On Windows
I have a 80 meg dump file created with mysqldump. I need to import it
into a mysql db on Windows.

On linux, I say "shell>mysql dbname < dumpfilename"
But that does not work on Windows. Importing via phpmyadmin is not
possible either since we are limited to 2 Meg file size.

Text File
I have a CSV text file. Is possible insert that file in mysql database from command line script running from console?

Using Text File
I am using the book "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Sams Publishing to learn MySQL. The authors provide a CD with lots of source files in text format. They give a command to run or these files, but the path to the files is unclear. It just lists the file names and not any path from C: to the actual directory. I've tried specifying the full path from C:documents and settingsmy user name...file.sql but this does not work. I've also tried forward slashes.What do I do to specify the path to run a file to input commands in MySQL? Or how do I change the working directory to the place where the file is located?

Re-write Text File
i'm creating a log file regarding database operations. My problem is i want to append a new record into the log file each time i update my database. Previously I've used the following method to create a file:

SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'c:/"+fileName[i]+" '
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|'
LINES TERMINATED BY '
'
FROM "+tableName[i]+";

MY problem is I cannot re-use the file created. Is there any way to call the same file for the purpose of re-use. Or maybe the OUTFILE do not allow file created to be re-use.

How To Import Text File?
I am using MAMP and am trying to import a large text file (up to 30mb) that is defined by position i.e., space 1-8 = ID, space 9-14 = Description, etc. The only option for import is via SQL or CSV file.

Loading A Text File
To insert information into my tables ive been trying to create a .txt with all the information in. bit when i try to load it by entering
mysql> LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/path/"name".txt' INTO TABLE "name"; it comes up with
ERROR 2 (HY000): File 'path"name".txt' not found (Errcode: 2)
ive been saving my .txt file onto the desktop.

Text File Import
I'm importing a large text file (8 million lines) into a mysql table via the heidisql front end. Each line has 42 fields (tab separated) so there's a lot of data to bring in.

I tested the import with a truncated version of the text file (10,000 lines) and the import worked fine. It took about a minute (i think) to import. Now though, the full version (which is 800x as long) has been importing for nearly 48 hours. Heidisql seems to be still working - it hasn't frozen, it's busy.

Is it normal for a file of this size to take so long to import?

Updating A Text File Using Php
well I have this text file "lingo.txt" that has a list of abbreviations which are used in a game I play. to make thing interactive i was hoping that visiters would be able to add there own abbreviation and the meaning of it to the "lingo.txt" file and then other people can download it

I know you can easily do this with a MySQL database (which I do have)but I wont them to be able to downlaod the list of words

I have found a way to update the file using the fwrite and fopen comands but thats deletes the last input where as i want them all save to a long list.

Inserting Text File
I've created a simple database that stores various little bits of information using varchar datatypes. But for each record i need to store a textfile that specifically has 60 characters per line. What i want to do is load the text in a way such that it remebers the new line characters, so that when i print it out on a webpage using perl cgi / dbi it prints the file out the way i want- i.e 60 characters per line and therefore multiple lines. Is there a way i can do this?

Read Text From A File
I have a text file which contains the following data

1&david&0248814&software engg&1973
2&thomas&8475623&commerse&1965

I have created a table <info> with the attributes
nr
name
reg_nr
sub
born_yr

I need to somehow read the data from the file n insert them into the table attributes...
does anyone over here know how could this be done ?
to insert the data to the table could be done with insert into <table> values <value> but the problem is how can i read it from the file...leaving the '&' sign ?

Text File Input
Just started to use mySQL and just also bought the mySQP Administrator's Guide - so sorry if simple question.
I need to create a new table with 25 columns, can I define this command line input via a text file?

i.e. instead of
mysql>CREATE New_Tab (col1_name, col1_type, etc....

I assume that you can use text files this way, but how do you run them.

I have seen the importing data from a file into a table;e.g.

mysql>load data local infile "myfile" into table New_Tab;

Loading From A Text File
I am using Xampp tool for a project which has to do with processing of lot of data. The problem is that hundreed thousands of data is generated every day in text file (comma separated or pipe separated doesnt matter) and all I want to do is to insert all these values in the appropriate tables. I looked for this feature in mysql GUI tools byt I couldnt find anything.
Another thing; Could be text file be imported automatically in any time we desire?

Import A Text File
I have a utf8 txt file to import in a MySQL db, cause I must create a
web-application in PHP for reading this information on-line.
I have create a new DB in MYSQL 4.1.1a setting CHARACTER=utf8,
then I have create a table t1 with character set utf8 and some fileds
also with CHARACTER=utf8.
Then I imported the Txt file (really in UTF8 format, with 22600
records!) in my db. MySQL have imported the non-utf8 field correctly,
26000 records.
When I try to read this utf8 filed they appear like "???-?-???".
Then, also my PHP application show this field with stranges
characters. I have try also with PHPfunction utf8_encode with no
success