>From my experience, if you want to import data into a date field, you have to make
>sure that the date format in your csv file conforms to a date format required by
>MySQL. This part is covered in MySQL documentation. So, your 20.12.1999 date
>should become 2001-12-20 and so on.
P.S. Don't forget to specify "TERMINATED BY ','" while using LOAD DATA INFILE. I use
this feature VERY often and never had any trouble.. :-)
Bernhard Doebler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a CSV-file exported from another database.
>
> It contains fields with dates and dates and times. A somplefied CSV-file version
>looks like so.
>
> 20.12.1999;21.12.1999 03:35:27
>
> When I import it with LOAD DATA INFILE... and use fieldtypes "date" and "datetime"
>it sadly does not work. It imports as many records as lines are given in the file to
>import but each date is zero (NULL). Is there a possibility to import it that
>"simple" way rather to import it as text in one table and export it using date
>conversion-functions in another table?
>
> Best Regards
> Bernhard Dobler
>
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