CSV-to-SQL?

[Richard Miller]

Thanks to everyone who helped me with my question below.  Here is the 
solution I found:

1.  I found a website that has a CSV-to-SQL utility.  Halfway down the 
page you'll see a form where you can upload a CSV file and it will 
display corresponding SQL statements, both to create the table and to 
populate it with the data.

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

2.  Since my files were too large for the web form, I used "head -n 100 
largefile.csv > smallfile.csv" to create smaller files with enough data 
that the column types would be generated correctly.

3.  I then executed just the CREATE TABLE statements and populated the 
tables with LOAD DATA INFILE:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'largefile.csv' INTO TABLE `abc` FIELDS 
TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '\"';


Thanks to the owner of the website (Antje Binas-Holz) for the free 
CSV-to-SQL utility!

Richard


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Miller <richardkmiller@stripped>
> Date: April 5, 2005 6:17:34 PM MDT
> To: Mysql <mysql@stripped>
> Subject: CSV-to-SQL?
>
> I have a dozen, very large CSV files that I would like to put into a 
> MySQL database, with 1 table per file.  Does anyone know of a PHP (or 
> other) script that can read the first few lines of a CSV file and 
> create an appropriate CREATE TABLE statement based on the data it 
> finds?  (Even better, it could import the file afterwards!)  I'm not 
> picky about data types here; I'd simply like to get this data into 
> tables so I can work with it more easily.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard Miller
>
>
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