Question

I have around 1000 html files in my local computer and I have to import them into database table in a single column . I mean one full file into one cell and 1000 HTML files into 1000 rows .

Table structure

CREATE TABLE `content` (
  `ID` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `data` text ,
  PRIMARY KEY (`ID`)
)

one row contains ID and one html file contents

I tried

load DATA LOCAL INFILE 'C:\\Users\\userD\\Desktop\\data\\alter-data.html' INTO TABLE content LINES TERMINATED BY '</html>';

since each file end line is </html> but that didn’t help to load any data ..

Can any one help me on this?

Thank You

Regards

Kiran

Answer 1

I needed to do the same thing and spent ages working it out but it turned out to be simple.

Note the test table, test_html field was defined as a “text” field

truncate table test;
load data local infile 'data.htm' 
into table test
fields terminated by '</html>'
lines terminated by '</html>'
(test_html);