How to import CSV into MySQL??

Hi, im quite a newbie when it comes to MySQL but i heard that its possible to import data from a CSV into a mysql table.

Can anyone enlighten me on how to do it please? Im running CentOS and usiong MySQL Workbench to connect and run queries.

I have my CSV formatted so that the first row has the names of my columns on the table that I want to import it to and the following rows are the data that needs importing.

Cheers,

Chris,

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Originally Posted by GreenSkyChris

Hi, im quite a newbie when it comes to MySQL but i heard that its possible to import data from a CSV into a mysql table.

Can anyone enlighten me on how to do it please? Im running CentOS and usiong MySQL Workbench to connect and run queries.

I have my CSV formatted so that the first row has the names of my columns on the table that I want to import it to and the following rows are the data that needs importing.

Cheers,

Chris,

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Hey try this out ..
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'uniq.csv' into table tblUniq
fields terminated by ','
enclosed by '"'
lines terminated by '\n'
(uniqName, uniqCity, uniqComments)
Note:Place the 'data.csv' file into the mysql databases directory before executing the command.

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Originally Posted by crazyswap

Hey try this out ..
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'uniq.csv' into table tblUniq
fields terminated by ','
enclosed by '"'
lines terminated by '\n'
(uniqName, uniqCity, uniqComments)
Note:Place the 'data.csv' file into the mysql databases directory before executing the command.

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Could you tell me where my Mysql databases directory is? Im running CentOS.

Thanks.

Never touch the database files themselves! You'll corrupt the database.

Enter the database with the following command:

mysql -u database_username -p name_of_database

You'll be prompted for the database password, then you can type crazyswap's commands from the mysql> prompt

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Originally Posted by GreenSkyChris

Could you tell me where my Mysql databases directory is? Im running CentOS.

Thanks.

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/var/lib/mysql/

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Originally Posted by crazyswap

/var/lib/mysql/

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Thank you!