MYSQL :: Using Import To Update Table

Import A Csv To Update Only Certain Rows Of Data?
I have an existing mysql table and a csv. I want to import the csv into the table, but it is at a different sort order. There are too many records to sort my csv by hand to match. There is a common 'cd_code' field that both have.

Is it possible to import a csv to the table so that each row of the csv is inserted in the correct row of the table, based on the common 'cd_code' field?

For example, if I sorted by cd_code asc, it would match the csv, but how to I import the csv into a particular sort?

PhpMyAdmin: Export Table - Import Table
I find in PhpMyAdmin where I can export a table, however when I click the "GO" button where is the exported file? And how do I name it?

When I go to import a table I can select the file to import and that makes sense.

My goal is to take a table from one database and use it in another database, so I hope I am in the correct place?

Table Import
MySql limits the size of the records that you can import in one time. I have a large table coming from MS Access and I like (need) to import this in MySQL to work afterwards with this. What are the different ways to import in one time a large table. This MySQL database is my backend for a php driven website.

A conversion to a csv file first ?

Import Big Table
I have a 19 meg MySQL table in a .sql file that I need to import into a database. Both phpMyAdmin and MySQL Administrator seems to time out and never imports (I'm assuming it's the 2 meg file limit).
How can I get this 19 meg table imported?

Import One Table Only
I manage to export only one table by:
mysqldump -u username -p databasename tablename > file.sql

But how if I want import one table using sql?

Need To Import Data Into Table
Newbie here needing to import data into a dbase file table named "template". The file containing this data is "template.dump".

Import From Foxpro Table
I have a database in FoxPro I want to convert it to Mysql can anyone give a shortcut

Also how can I import data from FoxPro with out converting the tables to txt first?

Trying To Import Data From Csv Into Table
I am trying to use mysqladmin import tool to import data into a table.

I used mysqladmin to export a table in a csv excel format. I then opened that spreadsheet and filled in a bunch of info.

Now I am trying to import that spreadsheet back into the table, but everytime I do I get an error: Invalid field count in CSV input on line 1.

I am using the import tool using csv as the format, and I am not changing any of the options...

MySQL - 4.1.18-standard-log
Protocol version: 10
phpMyAdmin - 2.8.0.2

Import Into A Table With A File
Our Database server has moved off of the local machine and is by itself. When I try to run:

load data local infile '/Users/test/Documents/CC.txt' into table bi_kinkead.new_macbook;
test.reseller_cc

I get an error because the file is not located locally. It is locaed on a server called Pluto. What is the formating to use so I can get this file imported?

PHP Script To Import Textfiles Into Table
I have a MySQL table which remote users need to be able to add/replace records to by uploading a text file from their machine. (similar to phpmyadmin's 'Insert data from a textfile into table')

I was thinking that I would be able to do this with php by: uploading the file - reading the file line by line adding insert/update statements and then executing the query

Import Data Via Ssh Into An Existing Table
I want to import data from several .sql files into an existing database, into one table.

I tried using the following command:
mysql -e [sqlfile] [db_name]

But the problem was when I imported the next file, it would overwrite the previous imported data.

Could anyone let me know how to do this correctly, please?

Import Large Size CSV File Into Table
I need to import a large size CSV file, around 1 million records into a table, I found that the speed is very slow, it takes 1 minute to import 1400 records. If I import the whole file, it will takes more than 10 hours.

How To Import Data Into Existing Rows Of A Table?
I have moved 665 records off of Filemaker into mysql-4.0.18. I had a
great deal of trouble exporting a text field, possibly because it had
control characters that interferred with my field delimiter (also it
was from a Mac, and I'm new at this.)

So I have a table called invoices and another table called tasks, that
has only an invoice number and the work billed on that invoice number.
To see the work billed along with the other invoice data I have to do
a join, and this works but is clumsy for me. Since tasks.work is a
text field of 'infinite' variety I don't see the sense of keeping it
in a separate table like I would with clients' info; it belongs *in*
the invoice table, not just with it.

Is it possible to import this text data into a field in the invoice
table? I've messed around with this but it always appends the data as
new records. Perhaps I was doing an insert back then. Is the answer
something like 'load data infile 'workdone.csv' into invoices
(workdone);'

The invoices table was filled in a certain order (by invoice number)
and the workdone.csv was exported in the same order, so each invoice
row should get its correct text.

Is this a good thing, or am I thinking too 'flat-file-ish'?

Import Data From .txt File Into MySQL Table
i have text files which are generated daily and stored in a folder on the C: drive. I was wondering what would the mySQL command be to import that data into a mySQL table. The text file does not have a header with the field names so would i have to make that table first with the desired columns?? Also, does the file have to be in the databse directory or can it be anywhere on the machine??

Command To Import Tabulated Txt File Into A Table
some of my clients are asking me to do a "import system" in my program, to they import xls data into their database...

So i know that there is a code to import tabulated txt files to a sql table.. but i didnâ€™t know the command...

can someone help me? just say me the query command that I need to use pls -=^.^=-

Adding A Random Number To A Table Field During Import?
By habit, my ID fields are usually md5() generated - 32 character varchar field.

When I import data using LOAD DATA INFILE, is there a way to generate that number for the have a table field since it is not in the infile?

If not, is there another mechanism for importing that would allow for that?

If not, are there operational security issues you guys are concerned with using auto-increment like being bale to guess another record number?

Import Additional Field Data To Existing Table
I've got my data all set-up in a mysql table and all functioning well.

We have decided that we need some additional bits of data for each record and we have that data in a csv file. We've created the fields in the mysql table.

In the csv file, I have the userid (to match that in the current sql table) and the additional data with the column names in the csv file matching exactly the new fields in the sql table.

The additional fields in the original sql table are empty, so we can just simply write-over these fields with the data from the csv file.

But...we are having problems with the import using the MySql administration tool on our server.

If I select a csv file upload, I get a number of fields is not same error
If I use csv load data upload, it just overwrites the first few lines of current data and doesn't put the new data in the correct fields.

Can anybody help, please? If csv load data is the correct format to use, what do I put in the import tool for these variables (given that I have a standard csv file that has been created using excel)

Replace table data with file (yes/no default is no)
Ignore duplicate rows (yes/no - default is no)
Fields terminated by(default is
Fields enclosed by(default is ")
Fields escaped by(default is )
Lines terminated by(default is auto)
Column names (default is blank)
Use LOCAL keyword (yes/no - default is yes)

Alter Table Based On Comment Header In Import File
I have a text file which is the output of a Perl script that parses Windows Media Log files into a media analytics table. There are some additional columns which are defined by the customer so the actual table format can and does change. The engineer who provides this table has created a comment header with revision information as well as column names. Is there anything I can do to have MySQL look at the comment header and alter my table to include the newly added columns without destroying any data in the table? The column names would always be in the same line in the import file and when a new field is added, it would be appended to the field list, not added anywhere in between existing fields.

Example:

# FIELDS: client_ip,date_YYYY-MM-DD, time_HH:MM:SS,http_method,c_url,status_code,
total_bytes,transfer_time,"referrer",referrer_host,"user_agent",
total_object_size,byte_range_start,byte_range_end,last_byte_served_flag,
first_byte_served_flag,all_bytes_served_flag, akm_c_ip_country, akm_c_ip_dma, akm_c_ip_lat, akm_c_ip_long,CPROG,MARKET,NG_FORMAT,SITE_ID,STATION_ID,PCAST_TITLE,PCAST_AUTHOR,
PCAST_CAT

Update Column In Table A With The Count Of Another Table
Having my SQL-background in Oracle I'm looking for the MySQL equivalent for:

update tableA
set column1=(select count(*) from tableB where tableA.key= tableB.key)

cannot find anything similar in the manual, but probably overlooking
something.

Update One Table Value With Values From Another Table
I am trying to update one table value with values from another table, and I cannot get it to work. What am I doing wrong?

This is my SQL-command:
UPDATE tabel1 SET tabel1.name=tabel2.name WHERE tabel1.ID=tabel2.ID

Update Table A For Every Instance In Table B
I have learned how to select records from two tables but now, I need to update every record in table A based on keys found in table B.

I have a KEY which I can match to records in table B and table B has a field which I can match to records in table A. I need to update table A and possibly table B.

How do I go about this?

Update Table With Info In Other Table
i have a case like this:

table table1 (key, accumulator)

table table2 (key, counter)

i want to, for each table1.key = table2.key, update accumulator with the info in counter, something like this:

update table1 set accumulator=accumulator+table2.counter where (? counter is the value related with the same key as the one in table1)

how do you write a sentence like this one?

Update Table From Temporary Table
I have an import process that creates a temporary table and then dumps a large amount of records into it. I need to update an existing table against this temporary table. So where the record exists I either want to update or replace (probably based on parameter but can be a separate query for each) it in the live table, and if it does not exist i want to add it.

The temporary table can contain a large number of records (100000-200000). How can I create a fast and efficient process for doing this? Is there a query I could write to do this or would I have to do this through through code (i'm working in a java environment). I think a query would be faster than processing that many records via jdbc.

Update Table With API
I'm trying to develope a getway between matlab and mysql. I would like to
write the result of matlab routine into mysql table without "UPDATE
.....SET..." statement, because I've have to write a different value for each
row and I have to write a lot of row. I would like to write table row by row
sequentially.

UPDATE Table SET
Does anyone know how to implement this into a php form CORRECTLY? I have all the proper syntax but then the server gives me a message that says the mysql version may not go along with the syntax. How do I work around this then? I need to update query strings and such and nothing will work.

Update From One Table To Another ????
I have two tables with linked fields, a one to many relationship. It is a item sold table to work order table where there are many items sold linked to a single workorder. I want to add up all the item taxes for the particluar workorder and instert it into the appropriate workorder. I have tried something like this:

update set workorder.tax (sum)woitem.tax where workorder.id=woitem.linkid

Can someone show me where I am going wrong?

Table Update
How do I relate such a way that I update a column of the main table, another secondary table's column related to the main table gets updated automatically?

UPDATE From One Table To Another
This should be so simple but I'm getting a very strange error??

I'm using MySQL version: 4.1.12-log

I've got an outdated country table that I'd like to update info from an ISO table. Pretty straight forward if you ask me.

Here's the query:
UPDATE country, isocountry SET country.un_numcode=isocountry.numcode
WHERE country.country_code=isocountry.iso;

I created a column called un_numcode and then I'd like to put the iso numcode info in my table where the country_code = iso code (same data, different field names in different tables).

It goes along really well for 38 rows out of 239 rows?? And then I start getting 127 in ALL the un_numcode fields even though that value does NOT exist in the country.numcode table!

Update Table
Im trying to update a table, but Im getting the following error...
Syntax error or access violation: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 5

Here's my code...

<cfquery>
UPDATE printers SET name= 
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.name") AND #FORM.name# NEQ "">
'#FORM.name#'
<cfelse>
NULL
</cfif>
WHERE printerid=#FORM.printerid#
</cfquery>

Update Table
What is the right syntax of UPDATE command, I want to use multiple (more than 5) WHERE clauses and update more than 2 fields.
UPDATE table SET UPDATE1 =â€™xyzâ€™ UPDATE2 = â€˜abcâ€™ WHERE 1=â€˜zxcâ€™ 2=â€™werâ€™ â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦?

Update Table
I want to update a number in a column adding a 1 to the current number, however I don't want to select the table first.

Update Table
everytime it tried to update row in any table, it takes very longtime, it locks the table, then i run out of connections and mysql crashes.

2-table UPDATE
I am running the following query through PHP's mysql_query:

UPDATE hotel, hotel_brand
SET hotel.hotel_brand_id=0, hotel_brand.hotel_brand_parent_id=0
WHERE hotel.hotel_brand_id=6 AND hotel_brand.hotel_brand_parent_id=6

In actuality, it's two queries combined into 1. I am deleting a value that rows in these 2 tables reference, and want to set the values to 0.
Of course, the problem is the values aren't changing to 0.

Is splitting these up the best solution?

Update One Table
I have 2 tables one for the team standings one for the scores, this select statement will calculate win loss :

SELECT
SUM((homescore>awayscore and home=teamid)
OR (awayscore>homescore and away=teamid)
) as wins,
SUM((homescore>awayscore and away=teamid)
OR (awayscore>homescore and home=teamid)
) as losses
FROM scores, teams
order by teamID

UPDATE Table
Code:

UPDATE table SET field='select concat(field1,field2) from table'

This gives me a zero in my field
I can select concat separately without any problem

Update A Table Being Selected?
Is there a relatively easy way to fix this bad decision I made long ago? I created a table thusly:

CREATE TABLE `blah` (
`mod_date` date NOT NULL default &#55612;&#57200;-00-00',
`mod_time` time NOT NULL default ༼:00:00',
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
I added a new field to the table that looks like:

`modified` datetime NOT NULL default &#55612;&#57200;-00-00 00:00:00'
I thought I could update it with:

UPDATE blah
SET modified=(SELECT CONCAT(mod_date, ' ', mod_time) FROM contacts);
But a search in this forum showed that one can't UPDATE a table that is being SELECTed from. There was mention of a temp table (and perhaps JOIN(?)), but further searching has left me wanting.

UPDATE Based On Value In Another Table
How do I update a table to remove orphaned references to a second
table? I've deleted rows in the second table, which has a unique
auto_increment key. The first table now has references to keys that no
longer exist. I need to update the first table, setting the value to
NULL where the referenced key no longer exists. Something like:

UPDATE table1 SET table2ID = NULL WHERE table1.table2ID NOT FOUND IN
table2.ID;

The NOT FOUND IN isn't SQL, of course, but I'm not sure what should go
there.

Update Based On Other Table
I know this is how this query would be written in SQL but I think something isn't working correctly since this is mySQL.

SQL query:
UPDATE watches SET watches.totalhits = ( SELECT COUNT( id ) AS totalhits
FROM watchtracker
WHERE watches.id = watchtracker.watchid )

MySQL said:
#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SELECT COUNT(id) as totalhits
FROM watchtracker
WHERE watches

Update A Table With Values In Another
I have the following table

tableA
column_a
column_x
column_y
column_z

tableB
column_x
column_y
column_z

How do I update the rows of tableA that match rows of tableB (all rows
of tableB are unique)

What I want to acheive is a check against tableA.column_x with
tableB.column_x, if they match, then update the row in tableA.column_y
with the value of tableB.column_y and tableA.column_z with
tableB.column_z

Update Table Problems
I'm trying to update a table where specific values are in another table. Here is the update statement I am using:

UPDATE Route_Detail,Routes SET Route_Detail.Trip_Calc='S'
WHERE Routes.Route_ID = Route_Detail.Route_ID
AND Routes.Project_Code = 'OSUT'
AND DATE_FORMAT( Route_Detail.R_Date, '%m%Y' ) = 072006

This statement runs but does not update any rows.

This select statement returns 11 rows:
SELECT RDetail_ID
FROM Route_Detail
INNER JOIN Routes ON Routes.Route_ID = Route_Detail.Route_ID
WHERE Routes.Project_Code = 'OSUT'
AND DATE_FORMAT( Route_Detail.R_Date, '%m%Y' ) = 072006

How do I get the UPDATE statement to update those 11 rows.

I'm using MySQL 4.1.21-standard version.

Very Slow Table Update
I have two tables. One is really a subset of the other. However, they came in different data files and I would like to pull data from one and put it into the other. However, it is VERY slow!

Once the tables are setup I will only read from them and perform operations. I will never update or insert. However, I can't get things setup to that point. Code:

Update Table By ID Ranges
How do i use the UPDATE statement to update a range of Primary Key id
numbers. (let say 100 through 1000).

Example,

UPDATE testTable set testField='9999' WHERE
test_id in (100:1000);

Fields In Table Will Not Always Update,
I'm using C#, ASP.NET and MySQL, The language is no problem (not to much) but the rest well I wonder. I have a DB table that has 5 seperate fields. A main one that
is Integer and the rest are VarChar(50). each of the 4 others are identical in setup. I can change some records and others I can't.

ID int(10),
std varchr(50),
atd varchr(50),
dtd varchr(50),
ctd varchr(50)

I update say 'atd' with new data, Date, Time and a code of 15 letters/numbers.This one takes, I change to another record and try to update ctd and it shows like it takes but when I use the Command Line it shows no updates on ctd. this is random on this also.
If I change to another record it may all work or not. Any Ideas at all?

Update Fields In Table
I am trying to update multiple records,rows,fields in a table. Below is what I am placing in the sql field in phpmyadmin. It works with one update line but not more. What am I missing here?

UPDATE Products SET TitleTag='U.S. Air Force Retired Shop On-Line for Flags of the world - US, International Flags ' Where Product_ID=28;

UPDATE Products SET TitleTag='Vietnam Veterans of America Shop On-Line for Flags of the world - US, International Flags ' Where Product_ID=29;

Update Table Values
I have a csv.txt file with contacts and their information in it. Then I also have a table in mysql with the same contacts and their various information. I need to merge these to so that if a field value in the database is NULL the value that is in the csv.txt file is inserted into the database field.

I have been looking at the mySQL site on how to do this but have not been able to produce a working solution. Below is a more detailed example of what I am looking for. Code:

UPDATE Based On Value In Another Table
How do I update a table to remove orphaned references to a second
table? I've deleted rows in the second table, which has a unique
auto_increment key.

The first table now has references to keys that no
longer exist. I need to update the first table, setting the value to
NULL where the referenced key no longer exists. Something like:

UPDATE table1 SET table2ID = NULL WHERE table1.table2ID NOT FOUND IN
table2.ID;

The NOT FOUND IN isn't SQL, of course, but I'm not sure what should go
there.