At 20:55 -0700 7/6/04, John Mistler wrote:
For some reason, the imported information showed up as garbled nonsense.
The file I was importing was an .xls file. Do you know if there is another
"TERMINATED BY" I should be using? If not, I wonder how I can find out?
LOAD DATA will not, I think, read Excel spreadsheets that are in native
format. You'll need to extract the data in some form that LOAD DATA
can use. There are modules available for this task for various programming
languages. There is one for Perl, for example. (If you get the recipes
distribution from http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-cookbook/ and look in the
transfer directory, you'll find a from_excel.pl script that you can use
to yank out the data in tab-delimited format.)
The other question I have is: do I have to create a table within the MySQL
database with exactly the right number of columns ahead of time for the
import to work? - this is what I did. If so, is there a way to import info
from a .dbf or .xls file without knowing the structure of the table ahead of
time?
The aforementioned recipes distribution has a guesstable.pl script (also
in the transfer directory) that might be useful for this. It requires
input in tab-delimited format, reads the information, and displays a
CREATE TABLE statement that fits the data.
Thanks,
John
on 7/6/04 3:59 PM, Chinchilla Zúñiga, Guillermo at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Try, for example:
LOAD DATA INFILE 'myfile.cdf' INTO TABLE mytable
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';
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De: John Mistler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enviado el: Martes, 06 de Julio de 2004 04:51 p.m.
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: DBF to MySQL
I am wanting to parse the info in a .dbf file (or .xls file for that matter)
and place it in a table in a MySQL database. Is this something that I can
do with the server side MySQL application, or do I need to figure out a way
to do it on the client side? Any description of the method would be very
welcome!
For what it is worth, I am a Mac OSX.3 user.
Thanks,
John
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