Comments on: Load Delimited Data (csv, excel) into MySQL Server

By: Kedar

Kedar — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:37:19 +0000

Hi mcheali!
I’m not sure in what format you have your date stored in csv.
If you have csv as:
#x.csv
1,2010-05-21
2,2010-05-22
3,2010-05-20

#table x:
CREATE TABLE `x` (
`a` int(10) NOT NULL,
`b` date default NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

then a very simple load data query will fill the date values correctly.

#Query:
LOAD DATA INFILE “c:/x.txt” INTO TABLE x
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’ LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n’;

By: mcheali

mcheali — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:47:43 +0000

how can i convert date from excel csv to date in mysql.
i have to put column in mysql as VARCHAR so then it can read from csv. but if i change to DATE it read as 00-00-0000.
any idea?

By: Shantanu Oak

Shantanu Oak — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:55:49 +0000

Great article!
There is a third party utility to do the same.

http://www.sqldbu.com/eng/sections/tips/normalize.html

By: Kedar

Kedar — Mon, 24 May 2010 09:27:17 +0000

Hi paul,

Good to hear your successful try.
You can of-course go through other topics if you already haven’t.

By: paulmcj

paulmcj — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:32:46 +0000

Just tried it on my site. Works flawlessly. Thanks a bunch!