Question

I have an export SQL file containing tables and data from MySQL and I want to import it into a Sqlite 3 DB.

What is the best way to do that?

Just importing the file via the sqlite3 tool doesn’t work.

Answer 1

This shell script help you

#!/bin/sh if [ 'x$1' == 'x' ]; then    echo 'Usage: $0 <dumpname>'    exit fi cat $1 | grep -v ' KEY '' | grep -v ' UNIQUE KEY '' | grep -v ' PRIMARY KEY ' | sed '/^SET/d' | sed 's/ unsigned / /g' | sed 's/ auto_increment/ primary key autoincrement/g' | sed 's/ smallint([0-9]*) / integer /g' | sed 's/ tinyint([0-9]*) / integer /g' | sed 's/ int([0-9]*) / integer /g' | sed 's/ character set [^ ]* / /g' | sed 's/ enum([^)]*) / varchar(255) /g' | sed 's/ on update [^,]*//g' | perl -e 'local $/;$_=<>;s/,\n\)/\n\)/gs;print 'begin;\n';print;print 'commit;\n'' | perl -pe '   if (/^(INSERT.+?)\(/) {      $a=$1;      s/\\'\''/'\'\''/g;      s/\\n/\n/g;      s/\),\(/\);\n$a\(/g;   }   ' > $1.sql cat $1.sql | sqlite3 $1.db > $1.err ERRORS=`cat $1.err | wc -l` if [ $ERRORS == 0 ]; then   echo 'Conversion completed without error. Output file: $1.db'   rm $1.sql   rm $1.err     rm tmp else    echo 'There were errors during conversion.  Please review $1.err and $1.sql for details.' fi