Thank you! Unfortunately with the internal dataset the null parameter
doesn't change anything and with the external dataset it only adds a
warning that it cannot parse the null value:

WARNING: Code: 1 "HYR0124: Parsing error at
/Users/nicholassantini/Downloads/test 2.csv line 2 field 3: empty
value"


On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:33 AM Ali Alsuliman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Nicholas,
>
> If you are using Mike's DDL, here is what you need to do:
> CREATE EXTERNAL DATASET csv_set(csv_type) USING localfs
> (("path"="127.0.0.1:///Users/nicholassantini/Downloads/test 2.csv"),
> ("format"="delimited-text"), ("delimiter"=","), ("null"= "") );
>
> If you are using your load statement, try this and see if it works:
> LOAD DATASET csv_set USING localfs
> (("path"="127.0.0.1:///Users/nicholassantini/Downloads/test 2.csv"),
> ("format"="delimited-text"), ("null"= "") );
>
> Thanks
> Ali
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 12:11 AM Nicholas Santini <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> As I'm still learning SQL I'm not sure where to specify the ("null": "")
>> option. I didn't want to ask here since it seems to be a very rudimentary
>> question but I have yet to figure it out.
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:25 AM Michael Carey <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> @Nicholas:  Did this solve it, hopefully?
>>> On 5/9/22 7:10 PM, Ali Alsuliman wrote:
>>>
>>> Nicholas,
>>> The parser does not know how to handle (or rather what value to produce
>>> for) empty values when the field is numeric as in your case (int32). That's
>>> why it's complaining. The parser cannot produce 0 for empty values,
>>> for example.
>>>
>>> Try specifying the option: ("null": ""). This option tells the parser to
>>> produce NULL for empty values.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ali
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 10:38 AM Nicholas Santini <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you so much for providing that example code. I am really learning
>>>> to swim in the deep end here as I have no experience with SQL.
>>>> Unfortunately, when I run your snippet I get the following error
>>>>
>>>> WARNING: Code: 1 "HYR0124: Parsing error at 
>>>> /Users/nicholassantini/Downloads/test 2.csv line 2 field 3: empty value"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 7:40 PM Mike Carey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> PS - Here is a snippet from my approach to grading (I use SQL++) based
>>>>> on SQL++'ing against CSV data:
>>>>>
>>>>> CREATE EXTERNAL DATASET Grades(GradeRecord) USING localfs
>>>>>
>>>>> (("path"="localhost:///Users/mikejcarey/Desktop/Teaching/CS122a/CS122AStudentData2021.csv"),
>>>>>        ("format"="delimited-text"), ("delimiter"=","));
>>>>>
>>>>> For you I guess this would be:
>>>>>
>>>>> CREATE EXTERNAL DATASET csv_set(csv_type) USING localfs
>>>>> (("path"="127.0.0.1:///Users/nicholassantini/Downloads/test 2.csv"),
>>>>>        ("format"="delimited-text"), ("delimiter"=","));
>>>>>
>>>>> Try that?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/5/22 2:11 PM, Nicholas Santini wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Im using the following code to load a csv file into my database,
>>>>> However, any time there is an empty field it seems to skip the entire row.
>>>>> For example test,1,3 works but test1,1,  doesn't create an entry. Does
>>>>> anyone know why it does this or how to fix it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> drop dataverse csv if exists;
>>>>> create dataverse csv;
>>>>> use csv;
>>>>>
>>>>> create type csv_type as {
>>>>>     Cross_Street: string,
>>>>>     lat: int32,
>>>>>     long: int32?
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> create dataset csv_set (csv_type)
>>>>>   primary key lat;
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   load dataset csv_set using localfs
>>>>>       (("path"="127.0.0.1:///Users/nicholassantini/Downloads/test
>>>>> 2.csv"),
>>>>>        ("format"="delimited-text"));
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  SELECT *
>>>>>      FROM csv_set csv_type
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>
> --
> Regards,
>

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