I've been trying to export data from a Virtuemart installation into an excel file, so that it can be easily imported into Magento. The problem I'm having is that any fields containing HTML are causing line breaks and breaking the formatting of the file.
I've tried using semicolon as the delimiter as well as tab, but that didn't seem to address the issue because the odd line breaks were still there.
Is removing the line breaks and praying for it to work the only way around this?
Thanks!
It's not clear whether the problem comes from unescaped commas or newlines in your CSV file, but either way there should be a means to properly escape them so they don't affect your import.
I'm also not quite clear what programs you're using in what ways; you've tagged this as phpMyAdmin and in the title ask about an export from phpMyAdmin, but reference Virtuemart and Magento in the post, so I'm guessing you're using phpMyAdmin to do the import/export of the database used by those other ecommerce programs.
Can I strongly suggest using the SQL file type instead?
Within phpMyAdmin, you can select custom values for "Lines terminated with" on both import and export for CSV files. Perhaps you can leverage that to make, for instance, § your line termination value. Incidentally, my understanding is that as long as each field is properly escaped ("Columns enclosed with" and/or "Columns escaped with"), an extra newline or comma in your content shouldn't matter to your import/export. Open up the exported file in a text editor and look at a few of the entries to make sure they're properly escaped and perhaps post a few lines that fail as an example here (obscuring any sensitive information, of course).
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I'm trying to import the following file into a MySQL Db:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WbRdNgqVre3wN4DpJZ-08jtGkJtCDJNQ?usp=sharing
Using the "data import wizard" on MySql Workbench, for some reason I'm getting "218\223 lines imported successfully", whereas the file contains close to 100K.
I tried looking for special chars around lines 210-230, also removing all of them, but still the same happens.
The file is a CSV of Microsoft Bing's geo locations, used in Microsoft Advertising campaigns, downloaded from Microsoft's website (using an ad account there).
I've been googling, reading, StackOverflowing, playing with the file and different import options...
I tried cutting the file into small bits, and the newly created file was completely corrupt somehow...
Encoding seems to be UTF-8, line breaks all "\n". I tried changing them all into "\r\n" using notepad++, but still the same happens.
File opens normally in Excel, looks normal, passes CSVlint.io...
The only weird thing is that the file contains quotes on some of the values but not on the rest (e.g. line 219. Yeah I know it sounds like this would be the problem, but I removed it, and all the rest of the lines with quotes, and it still happens... Also tried loading with ENCLOSED BY ", see below).
I also tried using SQL statements to import:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'c:\\Users\\Gilad\\Downloads\\GeoLocations.csv'
INTO TABLE aw_geo_map_bmsl
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
(tried also with: ENCLOSED BY '"')
LINES TERMINATED BY '/n'
IGNORE 1 ROWS;
(had to add OPT_LOCAL_INFILE=1 to the connection on Advanced for MySQL Workbench to be allowed access to local files on my computer)
This gives 0 rows affected.
Help?
Epilogue: In the end I just gave up on all these import wizards and did it the old "make your SQL statements from Excel" way.
I imported the CSV data into Excel. Watch out: in this case I found I needed to use a data import wizard from Excel (but that one worked perfectly) to be able to change the encoding to UTF, which Excel 2010 chose as "windows" which was wrong.
After processing the data a bit to my liking, I used the following Excel code:
=CONCATENATE("INSERT INTO aw_geo_map_bmsl (`Location Id`,Name,`Canonical Name`,`Location Type`,Status,`Adwords Location Id`)
VALUES (",
A2,
",""",B2,"""",
",""",C2,"""",
",""",D2,"""",
",""",E2,"""",
",",F2,");")
to generate INSERT statements for every line, then copy-pasted and pasted only values, then pasted into an editor, removed additional quotes that Excel adds, and ran it in MySQL Workbench, which runs it line by line (takes some time), and you can see the progress.
Saved me hours of unsuccessfully playing around with "automatic tools" which fail for unknown reasons and don't give proper logs ootb.
Warning: do NOT do this for unsanitized code as it's vulnerable to SQL injection. In this case it was data from Microsoft so I know it's fine.
I've been given a mySQL database from a custom-coded CMS and I need to get its data into a CSV file for importing into Excel for further futzing.
The problem is that the data in the database has a lot of HTML code in it (<p class="foo"> and that type of thing), so exporting as a CSV gets screwed up as some of the text has commas and other control characters in it.
Looked at all the export options via phpMyAdmin but couldn't really find anything that would work.
How can I get this into Excel?
Try tu use MySQL Workbench and there's excel xml export format, it should work also with html inside.
Actually, by searching here I found the answer tho had to take a bit of a different approach.
I used \t as the separator (tab character), Columns enclosed with ~, Columns escaped by \, put column names in the first row.
I had to use LibreOffice to import the sheet as Excel didn't have the flexibility needed. Got it working now!
I'm doing a simple CSV import to MySQL via DATA LOAD INFILE. I have lots of strings with commas inside, and the CSV file is saving these strings with double quotes around them; e.g.
"The Good\, The Bad & The Queen"
I am using OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'but, if I have edited the CSV file at all using TextEdit (Mac) and thus saving the file again, then the result in MySQL is:
“The Good, The Bad & The Queenâ€
How can I stop this occurring please? Can anyone recommend a Text Editor (or something) that wouldn't cause this sort of thing, unlike TextEdit?
Cheers :o)
I have a CSV file that I need to format (i.e., turn into) a SQL file for ingestion into MySQL. I am looking for a way to add the text delimiters (single quote) to the text, but not to the numbers, booleans, etc. I am finding it difficult because some of the text that I need to enclose in single quotes have commas themselves, making it difficult to key in to the commas for search and replace. Here is an example line I am working with:
1239,1998-08-26,'Severe Storm(s)','Texas,Val Verde,"DEL RIO, PARKS",'No',25,"412,007.74"
This is FEMA data file, with 131246 lines, I got off of data.gov that I am trying to get into a MySQL database. As you can see, I need to insert a single quote after Texas and before Val Verde, so I tried:
s/,/','/3
But that only replaced the first occurrence of the comma on the first three lines of the file. Once I get past that, I will need to find a way to deal with "DEL RIO, PARKS", as that has a comma that I do not want to place a single quote around.
So, is there a "nice" way to manipulate this data to get it from plain CSV to a proper SQL format?
Thanks
CSV files are notoriously dicey to parse. Different programs export CSV in different ways, possibly including strangeness like embedding new lines within a quoted field or different ways of representing quotes within a quoted field. You're better off using a tool specifically suited to parsing CSV -- perl, python, ruby and java all have CSV parsing libraries, or there are command line programs such as csvtool or ffe.
If you use a scripting language's CSV library, you may also be able to leverage the language's SQL import as well. That's overkill for a one-off, but if you're importing a lot of data this way, or if you're transforming data, it may be worthwhile.
I think that I would also want to do some troubleshooting to find out why the CSV import into MYSql failed.
I would take an approach like this:
:%s/,\("[^"]*"\|[^,"]*\)/,'\1'/g
:%s/^\("[^"]*"\|[^,"]*\)/'\1'/g
In words, look for a double quoted set of characters or , \|, a non-double quoted set of characters beginning with a comma and replace the set of characters in a single quotation.
Next, for the first column in a row, look for a double quoted set of characters or , \|, a non-double quoted set of characters beginning with a comma and replace the set of characters in a single quotation.
Try the csv plugin. It allows to convert the data into other formats. The help includes an example, how to convert the data for importing it into a database
Just to bring this to a close, I ended up using #Eric Andres idea, which was the MySQL load data option:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/path/to/file.csv'
INTO TABLE MYTABLE FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n';
The initial .csv file still took a little massaging, but not as much as I were to do it by hand.
When I commented that the LOAD DATA had truncated my file, I was incorrect. I was treating the file as a typical .sql file and assumed the "ID" column I had added would auto-increment. This turned out to not be the case. I had to create a quick script that prepended an ID to the front of each line. After that, the LOAD DATA command worked for all lines in my file. In other words, all data has to be in place within the file to load before the load, or the load will not work.
Thanks again to all who replied, and #Eric Andres for his idea, which I ultimately used.
Good Day
I have created a bat file to import a text file to my MySQL database and it looks as follows:
sqlcmd /user root /pass password /db "MyDB" /command "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'file.csv' INTO TABLE TG_Orders FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'"
My problem is that I cannot get the "Treat consecutive delimiters as one" to work...
How would I add that?
Now that we have actually got to the real crux of the problem, this is not a consecutive delimiter problem - it's a CSV file format problem.
If your CSV file contains fields like B121,535 and they are not enclosed within quote marks of some kind and your delimeter is , then no amount of SQL jiggery-pokery will sort out your problem. Un-quoted fields with commas like this will always be interpreted as two separate fields unless enclosed within quote marks.
Post a sample line from the CSV file which is causing problems and we can diagnose further. Failing that, export the data from the initial system again making sure that the formatting is correct (either enclose everything in speech marks or just string fields)
Finally, are you sure that your database is MySQL based and not Microsoft SQL? The only references to SQLCMD.EXE I can find all point to Microsoft sites in relation to SQL Server Express but, even then, it has a different option structure (-U for user rather than /user). If this is the case you could have saved a lot of hassle by putting the correct information tags. If not then I would say that SQLCMD.EXE is a custom written application from somewhere and the problem could all stem from that. If that is the case then we can't help if the CSV formatting is correct - you're on your own