Presuming your csv is set up in the structure of your table - this may help
BULK INSERT tablename
FROM 'C:\filelocation\my_data.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR =',',
ROWTERMINATOR ='\n'
)
I am going through a SQL class and this is the method we are using to bulk
insert into our tables. Works like a champ.
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: axis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: What's the best way to INSERT a long list of email addresses and
names into a TABLE?
Hi,
I have a long list of email addresses, and names in a text file in csv
format, and I want to know what's the best approach to quickly INSERT them
into my customers TABLE.
Initially I thought it could be easy to just add SQL INSERTs to the database
dump but, the problem is I have to manually add some fields and that can be
a tedious and slow process, is there a better approach?
This is the table structure:
CREATE TABLE `customers` (
`customers_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`purchased_without_account` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`customers_gender` char(1) NOT NULL default '',
`customers_firstname` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
`customers_lastname` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
`customers_dob` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`customers_email_address` varchar(96) NOT NULL default '',
`customers_default_address_id` int(11) default NULL,
`customers_telephone` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
`customers_fax` varchar(32) default NULL,
`customers_password` varchar(40) NOT NULL default '',
`customers_newsletter` char(1) default NULL,
`customers_group_name` varchar(27) NOT NULL default 'Retail',
`customers_group_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`customers_id`),
KEY `purchased_without_account` (`purchased_without_account`)
) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=60 ;
I only have Name and Email in the text file.
Sincerely,
Axis
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