Loading CSV files into MySQL Workbench

Question

I have a lot of excel/ CSV files that I need to load into my db in MySQL Workbench (I'm on Mac OS X). I've searched around for a good walk-through or tutorial, but I haven't seen anything that clearly explains how to load CSVs into MySQL Workbench....can anyone help?

Answer 1

are you trying to load csv files into a MySQL table? You can do that easily with the LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE command.

Example:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/data.csv' INTO TABLE my_table FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','

You should be able to enter that command from any interface to MySQL. I'm assuming workbench has a way for you to execute sql queries.

Answer 2

Does it have to be Workbench?

Can you use other MySQL bins?

Here's an example: Create database

Create table

load data local infile '/path/whatever.csv' into table dbName.tableName fields terminated by ',' enclosed by '"' lines terminated by '\n';