Question

I need to be able to import from a csv file (which I cant change) into a mysql database dates and times that look like this in the csv = 201210021015

ie YYYYMMDDHHMM …but no seconds

when I import 201111221420 into a DATETIME I get odd results like 2020-11-11.

A TIMESTAMP format ignores the hours and minutes.

Can anyone advise please?

Answer 1

Use the str_to_date() function like this:

Something like this should work:

load data infile 'myfile.csv'
into table xxx 
fields terminated by ',' 
lines terminated by '\n' 
(@col1)
set 
  col1 = str_to_date(@col1, '%Y%m%d%H%i')