Question

I have a database with tables: person, player, coach, and team. All the tables have an auto-increment id field as the primary key. Person has id, firstname, lastname. Player and coach both have the id field, as well as person_id and team_id as foreign keys to tie them to a team.id or person.id field in the other tables.

Now in order to fully populate these tables, I have several csv files with the list of names of the players in each team. Can I write a bash or python script to take this data and input not only the names to the person table, but also have the proper person and team id values put into the player table?

If the question isn’t clear just ask and I’ll do what I can to clarify. Thanks.

mysql> describe person;
+-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field     | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id        | int(11)     | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| firstname | varchar(30) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| lastname  | varchar(30) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
+-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
mysql> describe player;
+-----------+---------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field     | Type    | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-----------+---------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id        | int(11) | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| person_id | int(11) | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
| team_id   | int(11) | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
+-----------+---------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
mysql> describe team;
+-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field     | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id        | int(11)     | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| teamname  | varchar(25) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| location  | varchar(40) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| city      | varchar(25) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| state     | varchar(2)  | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| venue     | varchar(35) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| league_id | int(11)     | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |
+-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

And here is an example of the csv file content:
(AL-Central-Indians.csv)

Fausto,Carmona
Carlos,Carrasco
Kelvin,De La Cruz
Chad,Durbin

Answer 1

You can do this directly using the mysql command as follows:

load data local infile 'AL-Central-Indians.csv' into table player
fields terminated by ','
enclosed by '"'
lines terminated by '\n'
(person_id, team_id)

I got that from here. Although that page also deals with exporting excel into CSV first.