Question

I’ve got several CSV files I want to import into a table. They all contain different numbers of columns, so some data will be absent during each import. I need a tool that will let me map which CSV column goes into which MySQL column. Doesn’t look like MySQL workbench can do this. What else can I use?

Answer 1

MySQL has the LOAD DATA INFILE syntax:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.txt' INTO TABLE tbl_name
 FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'
 LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
 IGNORE 1 LINES;

See the documentation about custom data handling.