Question

Currently, We have a table similar to this:

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ID | AField | BField|
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The ID is Auto Increment

How do I create a CSV that can let the database auto populate the ID field with auto increment number?

We’ve tried the following CSV but it doesn’t work:

afieldvalue, bfieldvalue (With Column definition but still doesn't work)
0,afieldvalue,bfieldvalue 
NULL,afieldvalue,bfieldvalue

Answer 1

The best thing to do is just include the 2 non-auto-increment columns in the CSV, and then explicitly set the ID column to NULL in the load data infile statement.

Something like this:

LOAD DATA INFILE '/tmp/data.csv'
INTO TABLE your_table
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
(AField, BField)
SET ID = NULL;