Sorry for the delayed responce due to some “tech” issues on d’ blog I couldn’t answer you on timely basis.
Btw surely you can use strtotime function to convert it into date-time value.

Cheers,
Kedar.

i had csv file where date is in dd:mm:yyyy format and time in hh:mm format can u plz suggest me a LOAD command to load the csv file to mysql table…..

thanks in advance…..

load data infile ‘FILEPATH/FILENAME’ IGNORE into tablename…

Make sure you have key column defined for the stuff to work.

I assume if you use simple load command, it will insert the data ignoring the extra column. You should get warning! This is the case when you want to ignore last (4th) column.

Now there is very tricky but easy solution for inserting last 3 values and ignoring 1st column
What you’ll do here is specify columns:

load data infile ........ fields terminated by 'STRING' ... (col1,col1,col2,col3);


Cheers,
Kedar.

Thanks it’s helps me lot.

I’m in a bit hurry! So I’d like you to try this kind of “workaround”:

1. Load your csv as it is.
2. Try Splitting the row later as shown in this article: http://kedar.nitty-witty.com/blog/mysql-stored-procedure-split-delimited-string-into-rows

Thanks,
Kedar.

First great appreciation for your nice work.

I am having CSV file which holding column like

col-1:”TC1″,col-2:”TC2″,col-3:”id1,id2″col-4:”TC4″

Note that col-3 has 2 values, i have to add each rows into table and repeat the other column values for col-3 each value

Isn’t any possible to do this?.

Advance Thanks.

Well I assume you’ll have to manually compile the source on Windows.
The Source is availble on the download page itself.

You may refer ronald’s blog for further compiling help: http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2007/09/creating-mysql-udfs-with-microsoft.html

I hope this helps,
Kedar.

I refered to your link kedar.nitty-witty.com/blog/using-load-data-infile-with-stored-procedure-workaround-mysql.

But the thing is I am using Windows XP. Can you tell me what should i do to make this work in Windows? I am a new bee to my sql.

Your syntax appears proper to me and works perfectly when I tried! I hope you’ve your file at proper place with right permission for mysql to get hold of it.

In the mean time if you’re in too hurry to find & shoot the problem with LOAD DATA, I can suggest you a quick work-around:
1.
- alter your table -> `aging_date` date default ’2007-09-30′
- run you syntax above without passing aging_date, it will be populated as default.

2. if you can’t alter, just fire an update query.

load data local infile ‘/uploaded_files/aging_file.txt’ into table aging_pre_2007 fields terminated by ‘\t’ escaped by ” lines terminated by ‘\r\n’ (branch_number, customer_number, document_number, apply_to, order_number, document_date, due_date, order_type, line_amount, freight_tax) set aging_date = ’2007-09-30′;

Table Details:

`aging_number` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`aging_date` date default NULL,
`branch_number` char(2) default NULL,
`customer_number` varchar(6) default NULL,
`document_number` varchar(6) default NULL,
`apply_to` varchar(6) default NULL,
`order_number` varchar(6) default NULL,
`document_date` date default NULL,
`due_date` date default NULL,
`order_type` varchar(6) default NULL,
`line_amount` double(15,2) default NULL,
`freight_tax` double(15,2) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`aging_number`),
UNIQUE KEY `aging_number` (`aging_number`)

Tab delimited text file includes branch_number, customer_number, document_number, apply_to, order_number, document_date, due_date, order_type, line_amount and freight_tax. I need to add the aging date because it cannot be added to the text file, but I know what it is.

Thanks.

Nice work! I’m having a doubt regarding values from the file columns that have characters like ‘,’ (comma). how to handle these kind of columns while uploading?
E.g. If there is file Example.csv which has col1: item1 col2:”Some description like a,b,c”. We are uploading based on ‘,’ delimiter. So, how to ignore ‘,’ from the values from a given column?

Thanks,
Vaibhav.

LOAD DATA INFILE ‘c:/example.csv’ INTO TABLE example FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’ LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n’ set col3=if(col3=”,0,col3);

and same for the next.

Hope this works… I’m in bit hurry

Is there a way of handling input data with missing values?

for example, what if a line had a missing value which should ideally be signified by a zero? Is there a way of making the 1st input below read: a 2 0

col-1,col-2,col-3

a,2,

Likewise, what about a zero value in the middle of the input line, like this,

col-1,col-2,col-3

a,,3

Thanks if you’re able to offer any ideas on this!!

What exactly you want to do?

This is the CSV to MySQL tool. The tool was developed through the use of html5 and file api. The tool works best on firefox and google chrome browser(latest version). Be that as it may,pls. be advised that importation of large data would require a substantial amount of time to complete, and may also cause memory limit error so use the tool with caution.

Sorry for the delay but here you go with steps:

http://kedar.nitty-witty.com/blog/using-load-data-infile-with-stored-procedure-workaround-mysql

- Kedar.

Please understand what group by is doing. count(*) is not limiting number of records to one, but its taking all records which are not duplicated in table.

Below query’s result will give you more understanding:

select *,count(*) as occurrences from z group by a,b,c;

if a have table as below:

col1 col2 col3
———————
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 4
1 2 5
1 2 4

can it show? ->

col1 col2 col3
———————
1 2 4
1 2 5
1 2 4

if i use ur coding it will only return 1 record which is:

col1 col2 col3
———————
1 2 5

any suggestion? i’m dying here

create table z
(
a int,
b int,
c int
);

insert into z values (1,2,3), (1,2,3), (1,2,4);

select * from z group by a,b,c having count(*)=1;

is it possible to select only not same record?

table1
=====

col1 col2 col3
—————————-
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 4

expected output
===========
col1 col2 col3
———————————
1 2 4

i’ve try selfjoin query but it not give the result i want

select distinct p1.col1,p1.col2,p2.col3
from BOEdata as p1, BOEdata as p2
where p1.col1 = p2.col1 and p1.col2=p2.Scol2 and p2.col3 != p1.col3

it give this output
——————-
col1 col2 col3
—————————-
1 2 3
1 2 4

load data infile ‘path/to/file.csv’ into table TABLENAME fields terminated by ‘,’ (col1,col2,@TRUEFALSECOLVAR) set TRUEFALSECOL=case @TRUEFALSECOLVAR when ‘true’ then 0 when ‘false’ then ’1′ end;

You may even try with if(@variable=’true’,0,1).

Hope this helps,
Thanks.

Thanks!

Please understand what you’ve done in your query.
As you’re joining on StepName, you will get data where StepName from t1 and t2 will be same. So, IF condition is always going to fall in true part. So, when you write “false,true” it will show false and the reverse.

select
if(t1.StepName=t2.StepName,’true’,'false’) as StepName
from ProcessSpec t1,VerifiedData t2
where t1.StepName=t2.StepName;

it give all the output as true. if i write ‘false’,'true’
it will give all the output as false..

1. About your comment on load data query… below is the output:

mysql> load data infile ‘d:/test.csv’ into table my2 fields terminated by ‘,’ (a
,c,d);
Query OK, 3 rows affected, 3 warnings (0.01 sec)
Records: 3 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 Warnings: 3

mysql> select * from my2;
+——+——+——+——+
| a | b | c | d |
+——+——+——+——+
| 1 | NULL | b | d |
| 1 | NULL | bb | dd |
| 1 | NULL | bbb | ddd |
+——+——+——+——+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

I’m not sure what you’re upto and what are you doing.

2. About ur true/false output you can join both tables:

select if(t1.col1=t2.col1,’true’,'false’) as Col1 from table1 t1,table2 t2 where t1.SMCOL=t2.SMCOL;

You may further mail me your exact requirements.

example:
——-
table a
——-
col1 | col2 | col3 | col4
————————-
a | b | e | d
w | x | y | z

table b
——-
col1 | col2 | col3 | col4
————————-
a | b | c | d
w | x | m | n

the compare table – the result after compare two table
——————————————————

col1 | col2 | col3 | col4
————————-
True | True | False| True
True | True | False| False

–can anyone help me here? (T_T)

example:
——-
table a table b
——- ——-
col1 | col2 | col3 | col4 col1 | col2 | col3 | col4
————————- ————————-
a | b | c | d a | b | e | d
w | x | y | z w | x | m | n

the compare table – the result after compare two table
——————————————————

col1 | col2 | col3 | col4
————————-
True | True | False| True
True | True | False| False

–can anyone help me here? (T_T)

load data infile into table mytable fields terminated by ‘,’ (a,c,d);

–> it insert into a,b,c column instead

See below example:
Table:
——
CREATE TABLE `mytable` (
`a` int(11) default NULL,
`b` varchar(5) default NULL,
`c` varchar(5) default NULL,
`d` varchar(5) default NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

CSV:
—-
1,b,d,c
1,bb,dd,cc
1,bbb,ddd,ccc

Syntax:
——-
Load data infile ‘d:/test.csv’ into table mytable fields terminated by ‘,’ optionally enclosed by ‘”‘ lines terminated by ‘\r\n’ (a,b,d,c);

This loads data in proper order.

about the your earlier suggestion..

LOAD DATA INFILE ‘file.csv’ INTO TABLE tablename (col1,col3,col5,col2…);

i do it but it still not in order.. it does not follow the (col1,col3,col5,…..).. it just insert from col1,col2 until the end…

any suggestion?

I managed to make it using perl.. just not yet captured the font color..

–> just wanna ask if u know how to autogenerate the excel file either to text or csv with the font color as one column after the next? mmm.. example is like below:

i want output in csv like this: (is it possible)

Zeera, blue, 22, blue, London, black

its mean Zeera and 22 are in blue color while London in black color..

i need to make comparison afterwords..

Hope this helps.

-what if the file is uploded by the user? how to know the column order?

but how about the csv file is uploaded by the user?

how am i supposely know the table order?

and i won’t know what column is nullable for the file..

- i’m using php with mysql -

any idea to solve my solution? thanks in advance