I am trying to import a Text File into a MySQL through Navicat DB software.
I am struggling to import(append) a text file into a MySQL table.
The text file fields are seperated by | ;
example : |Name|Email|Address|
When i import this through the Navicat import wizard it ask for " Which delimeter seperates
the fields. So instead of selecting Tabs, ; , or any other i select | as field seperator.
But still the fields in the file do not match(sync) with the fields of the table...
Can anyone suggest any advice here?
I actually have exported the text file from another MySQL DB thru export functionality from PHPMyAdmin,,
I assume your name column is null and the values appear instead in the email column?
I suspect the problem lies in the fact that your fields are not only separated by a pipe, your rows also begin and end with a pipe.
Think of a CSV: name,email,address, not ,name,email,address,, because that would be interpreted as 5 columns, the value of the first and last field being null.
You'll have to choose a different delimiter for your rows and fields.
Beyond that, you can try importing the data into a new table and then write an insert query to map the temp fields to the ones in your database. The screen after the one where you choose the target table has a table where you can map your import fields to the target ones.
Let me know how that works out.
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Ok so I am trying to import data from a CSV file into mySQL database table. The table is called serial_code, however when I try to upload the CSV file I have an error message. I have tried taking the column names out, also adding NULL to the last column EngineSerialCode and I have also viewed the CSV in a text editor and it shows the columns correctly with , comma.
Invalid column count in CSV input on line 1.
Version of phpMyAdmin and mySQL
Database Fields
CSV Fields I want to import
Ok so I found the issue and it was quite frustrating. I had a serial code in my data that had a "," comma instead of a "-". Also I noticed that my CSV file EngineSerialCode was placed in column E and not D as I only have 4 columns in my database. From the image column C is overlapping column D hence my mistake.
I have a csv file from a legacy dbase dbf file. The data contains a few columns which have number values with hyphens. Like this '661-'. I am trying to import the csv into MySql using 'Import External Data' in MySql Yog. The issue is, the columns that have values with hyphens are getting imported as decimals resulting in '-661.0000'.
This is odd as the column format in the csv (via MS Excel) is 'general' not 'number' and I am trying to import these values into varchar fields. Seems MySql is ignoring the settings.
Has anyone faced something like this or have any suggestions on how I can get the data in as a string not a decimal?
Thanks
ANSWER - sorry to be answering my own question but I did solve it with some group input.
The file needs to be saved with all fields (that you want to be treated as string) in quotes. MS Excel DOES NOT seem to have an option for this. Apache Open Office does. Open the file in AOO and save as text.csv. From there you can edit the filters and set all cells to be in quotes. Problem solved.
I am trying to import a csv file into my mysql database using phpmyadmin but keep getting errors.
Here is how the csv looks:
Then I import like this:
And get the error: "Invalid parameter for CSV import: Fields enclosed by". I have tried to put the columns in quotes " or put a semicolon after each column, but keep getting errors.
Yeah, you have an extra field in there. For instance, with your example line of:
itemId,date,description,amount
,1,2/13/2013,Fabrics,44
the date maps to "description" because of the leading comma, which basically gives an empty (or null, depending on how the import is handled) value to itemId, which doesn't seem to be what you want. Where'd that extra comma come from -- was this an export from some program?
Also, in this case you don't have anything enclosing the fields so you should just be able to leave that value empty, which seems to have worked for you once you got the column count corrected.
I had to remove the first line of the csv (containing the column names) and that solved the issue. Everything got imported properly.
Note, the date field needed reformatting to match SQL's date format yyyy-mm-dd.
I've read through some other posts and nothing quite answers my question specifically.
I have an existing database in phpMyAdmin - a set of pin codes we use to collect contest entries.
The DB has about 10,000 pin codes in it.
I need to add 250 "New" codes to it. I have an excel file that is stripped down to a single column .csv, no header - just codes.
What I need to do is import this into the table named "pin2" and add these to the row called "pin"
The other rows are where entrants would add names and phone numbers, so are all "null"
I've uploaded a screen grab of the structure.
DB Structure http://www.redpointdesign.ca/sql.png
any help would be appreciated!
You need to use a LOAD DATA query similar to this:
LOAD DATA INFILE 'pincodes.csv'
INTO TABLE pin2 (pin)
If the pin codes in the csv file are enclosed in quotes you may also need to include an ENCLOSED BY clause.
LOAD DATA INFILE 'pincodes.csv'
INTO TABLE pin2
FIELDS ENCLOSED BY '"'
(pin)
If you wants to do using csv
Then you need to need to follow these steps
Manually define autoincremented value in first comlumn.
In other column you have to externally define it as a NULL,
otherwise you will get Invalid column count in CSV input on line 1.
because column with no value is not consider by phpmyadmin
Them click on import in phpmyadmin and you are done ..
I'm trying to import a text file into an access database. It's not one I've written myself but the spec for the delimited text file is set up properly and the file imports properly using the wizard. When I try to use the import functions of the app itself, the ImportError table tells "Field Truncation" for one of the fields. Any help would be appreciated.
I would suggest examining each column that you're bringing in, and then measuring that against your table column properties in table "Design" mode.
Common things I've seen throw this error are:
Imported text exceeding the 255 character limit of a field (in which case you can change the field type to memo)
Date fields being set up as short date format, and then trying to import long dates/times into the field.
Text other than "yes/no/true/false" being imported into Yes/No/True/False fields.
Double-check your columns for similar names, and then check the data being imported. Sometimes when multiple people are working on a project and appending data, columns with similar names can get confused...especially if the column is collapsed so that its name is not entirely showing.