Quoting Charles Farinella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm trying to import thousands of dated records from a comma delimited
> file into a MySQL table. All of these records have the date as mm/dd/yy.
> MySQL according to the documentation will only accept as a DATE datatype,
> dates with the year listed first. After importing the data, all dates
> read 'March 1, 2000'.
> I am aware of the following choices:
> 1: Change the DATE datatype to VARCHAR.
> 2: Write some kind of script to rearrange the date format in my
> .csv file.
> The first seems the easy way, the second I am not capable of. If anyone
> has any other suggestions I would be happy to hear them.
If you can give me the exact format, I can write up a quick perl script to
import them directly, or at least change the date values into something more
importable for you..
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Thomas Charron
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