Is this a true export? Because I've never had garbage lines in my files. Dave On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:33:14AM -0600, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 10:58 -0500 3/4/02, Richard Bolen wrote: > >I'm exporting data from Oracle and importing it into MySQL. The > >problem is Oracle puts garbage lines at the end of it's output files. > > As you've noted, the problem is Oracle. > > If you're using Unix, you could use tail to see how many of these lines > there are and wc to count the total number of lines in the file. With > that information, you can construct the proper value of n and use head -n > to get only the initial part of the file that contains the non-garbage lines. > > Or you could reverse the order of the lines in the file (expensive?) and > then use IGNORE n LINES in your LOAD DATA statement to ignore the first n > lines. > > Better if you can get Oracle just to suppress these lines in the first > place. Perhaps someone else will have a suggestion how to do that. > > > Lines like "300 rows selected" and "input truncated to 9 chars" as > >well as empty lines. When MySQL loads these files, I'm getting rows > >inserted for the empty lines at the end of these files. > > > >Can I get MySQL to ignore empty lines at the end of these files? or > >if anyone has Oracle experience can I get it to suppress the output > >of these line? > > > >Thanks, > >Rich > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Rich Bolen > >Senior Software Developer > >GretagMacbeth Advanced Technologies Center > >79 T. W. Alexander Drive - Bldg. 4401 - Suite 250 > >PO Box 14026 > >Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-4026 USA > >Phone: 919-549-7575 x239, Fax: 919-549-0421 > > > >http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/ > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
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