Re: Concatenating tables

2004-06-15 Thread Tim Johnson
* Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040615 12:59]: > At 03:14 PM 6/15/04, Tim Johnson wrote: > >We are importing data from 3 CSV files. <..> >the 3 tables into 1. > > > >Taken as a sum, we should have about 330 columns > >and 5000+ rows. Hi Frank: > > Are you saying: > each CSV contains about 110

Re: Concatenating tables

2004-06-15 Thread Tim Johnson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040615 12:11]: > > Well, Tim, since you can't fix the data on the way out of the database (the > original application), you will have to fix it on the way in. My best > advice is to create 3 new tables in MySQL that look just like your 3 raw > data files.

Re: Concatenating tables

2004-06-15 Thread Frank Bax
At 03:14 PM 6/15/04, Tim Johnson wrote: We are importing data from 3 CSV files. Documentation regarding the originating database is for the most part, not available to us. Translating directly from CSV to .sql files, we can see that the three files are really the first, second and third parts of on

Re: Concatenating tables

2004-06-15 Thread SGreen
Well, Tim, since you can't fix the data on the way out of the database (the original application), you will have to fix it on the way in. My best advice is to create 3 new tables in MySQL that look just like your 3 raw data files. Use a LOAD DATA INFILE command to populate each of your 3 "raw" t