At 21:39 -0400 10/14/06, Ferindo Middleton wrote:
Is there a way to change the format of date fields MySQL is expecting when
LOADing data from a file? I have no problem with the format MySQL saves the
date but most spreadsheet programs I use don't make it easy to export text
files with date
I just tested it with Excel, as it will save the date as seen if you save
the worksheet to a text file. I do this quite a bit, actually, to put
spreadsheet data into MySQL. Often I use Excel macros to construct entire
UPDATE or INSERT statements, and save those into a text file for MySQL to
I was using OpenOffice... And I couldn't get it to keep the format
-mm-dd I saw on screen in that format when I went to save it as a text
file I was able to I suppose this should be reported to their developers
as an enhancement.
There's no way to get MySQL to accept dates in a different
At 08:39 PM 10/14/2006, Ferindo Middleton wrote:
Is there a way to change the format of date fields MySQL is expecting when
LOADing data from a file? I have no problem with the format MySQL saves the
date but most spreadsheet programs I use don't make it easy to export text
files with date
