Re: Newbie question: importing cvs settings - followup

2009-09-30 Thread Patrice Olivier-Wilson
Thanks again for assistance. FYI, I did track this thread down http://ask.metafilter.com/57007/Missing-commas-in-CSV-file (exerpt: Maybe there is a space or something in the 14th column of the first 15 rows. posted by. on February 14, 2007 It's a bug in Excel (not something you did wrong.)

Re: Newbie question: importing cvs settings

2009-09-29 Thread Patrice Olivier-Wilson
Jerry Schwartz wrote: [JS] This is just a shot in the dark, but Excel can be rather surprising when it puts out a CSV file. Depending upon the data, and exactly how you've specified the export, it can put double-quotes in unexpected places. If you leave out the 17th line of data what happ

RE: Newbie question: importing cvs settings

2009-09-29 Thread Jerry Schwartz
>-Original Message- >From: Patrice Olivier-Wilson [mailto:b...@biz-comm.com] >Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 10:19 AM >Cc: 'mysql' >Subject: Re: Newbie question: importing cvs settings > >Back again... I have 192 records to import, and tried my extra lin

RE: Newbie question: importing cvs settings

2009-09-28 Thread Gavin Towey
6, 2009 11:02 AM To: 'mysql' Subject: Re: Newbie question: importing cvs settings Yep, typo ...:-( I did some screen shots of 2 tests. A workaround solution is to make a final entry in the csv file that I don't really need. Then everything up to that point gets imported ok using

RE: Newbie question: importing cvs settings

2009-09-27 Thread John
base Administrator (CMDBA) Certified MySQL 5 Developer (CMDEV) IBM Cognos BI Developer Telephone +44 (0)7812 451238 Email j...@butterflysystems.co.uk -Original Message- From: Patrice Olivier-Wilson [mailto:b...@biz-comm.com] Sent: 27 September 2009 15:19 Cc: 'mysql' Subject: Re: N

Re: Newbie question: importing cvs settings

2009-09-27 Thread Patrice Olivier-Wilson
Back again... I have 192 records to import, and tried my extra line at the end hoping for a work around, but nope, it failed at line 17 again. Invalid field count in CSV input on line 17. Anyone have an idea why this might be happening? Patrice Olivier-Wilson wrote: Yep, typo ...:-( I did

Re: Newbie question: importing cvs settings

2009-09-26 Thread Patrice Olivier-Wilson
Yep, typo ...:-( I did some screen shots of 2 tests. A workaround solution is to make a final entry in the csv file that I don't really need. Then everything up to that point gets imported ok using CSV method. The LOAD DATA method did not enter anything. My earlier assumption about line 17 w

RE: Newbie question: importing cvs settings

2009-09-26 Thread John
I assume you mean csv not cvs! What is the error you get when the import fails? What version of MySQL are you using? Can you post the output of SHOW CREATE TABLE for the table you are trying to load the file in to and a sample of the csv which is failing to load? Do you get the same error if you