Question

I’m migrating an old Sybase database to a new MySQL db.
Since the moment that Sybase can export data to .dat files (something similar to new csv), I decided to use it.

The problem is that Sybase uses commas as column separator and commas in strings are ignored because are enclosed in ”, but not in MySQL.

Is there a way to solve the problem? Here’s my query:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'C:\\UNLOAD\\166.dat'
INTO TABLE linea_col
COLUMNS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n';

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

If they are enclosed by single quotes try this:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'C:\\UNLOAD\\166.dat'
INTO TABLE linea_col
COLUMNS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '\''
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n';

If that doesn’t work then you should do ENCLOSED BY '''' but I’m 99.99% certain the first is correct.