Add rows into a mysql table from a .sql file - mysql

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I have a question on How I can insert a .sql file into a MySQL table which already contains lot of data ?
My .sql file looks like (1200 rows) :
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-- Descriptif plan comptable SYSCOHADA (utf-8)
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INSERT INTO llx_accounting_system (rowid, pcg_version, fk_pays, label, active) VALUES (10,'SYSCOHADA', 49, 'Plan comptable Ouest-Africain', 1);
INSERT INTO llx_accounting_account (rowid, fk_pcg_version, pcg_type, pcg_subtype, account_number, account_parent, label, active) VALUES (15000,'SYSCOHADA','CAPITAUX','XXXXXX','1',0,"Capital",'1');
INSERT INTO llx_accounting_account (rowid, fk_pcg_version, pcg_type, pcg_subtype, account_number, account_parent, label, active) VALUES (15001,'SYSCOHADA','CAPITAUX','XXXXXX','101',15000,"Capital social",'1');
INSERT INTO llx_accounting_account (rowid, fk_pcg_version, pcg_type, pcg_subtype, account_number, account_parent, label, active) VALUES (15002,'SYSCOHADA','CAPITAUX','XXXXXX','1011',15001,"Capital souscrit, non appele);
My MySQL table looks like :
mysql> describe llx_accounting_account ;
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-----------------------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-----------------------------+
| rowid | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| entity | int(11) | NO | | 1 | |
| datec | datetime | YES | | NULL | |
| tms | timestamp | NO | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP |
| fk_pcg_version | varchar(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| pcg_type | varchar(20) | NO | | NULL | |
| pcg_subtype | varchar(20) | NO | | NULL | |
| account_number | varchar(32) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| account_parent | varchar(32) | YES | | NULL | |
| label | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | |
| fk_user_author | int(11) | YES | | NULL | |
| fk_user_modif | int(11) | YES | | NULL | |
| active | tinyint(4) | NO | | 1 | |
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------+-----------------------------+
13 rows in set (0.00 sec)
My MySQL table is not empty. There is already data and I want to add my .sql file after my data table.
I didn't execute this command because I think it's false :
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'data_3.9.sql'
INTO TABLE llx_accounting_account
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
Do you have the solution ?
Thank you :)
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Solution :
With comments by #RakeshKumar and #PaulF, I found a way to solve my problem :
1) I deleted all rows where fk_pcg_version = 'SYSCOHADA':
delete from llx_accounting_account where fk_pcg_version = 'SYSCOHADA' ;
2) I imported the .sql file :
mysql -u root -p****** dolibarr < data_3.9.sql
3) I modified one information because account_number was 1 instead of 10 where rowid = 15000 :
UPDATE llx_accounting_account SET account_number = 10 WHERE rowid=15000 ;
Seems good :)
Thank you ;)

Answer 1

Use following way to import file
mysql -u username -p'password' dbname < filename.sql
Your import didn't work because you had already your same old SYSCOHADA rows in your table.
You can delete all rows where fk_pcg_version = 'SYSCOHADA' and import again your file corrected.

Answer 2

I had the same error importing data from a SQL file that was created from a mysqldump table output to file command. The reason was that the SQL file has the DROP TABLE IF EXISTS and CREATE TABLE statement at the start of the file.
Once this is removed, then it effectively appends the rows to the existing records.
Maybe this will help others.