From: hsv Date: June 15 2012 2:45pm Subject: Re: Which Database when lot of insert / update queries to execute List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/227687 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>>> 2012/06/15 18:14 +0900, Tsubasa Tanaka >>>> try to use `LOAD DATA INFILE' to import from CSV file. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/load-data.html <<<<<<<< "Try" is the operative word: MySQL s character format is _like_ CSV, but not the same. The treatment of NULL is doubtless the biggest stumbling-block.