Re: change format of date fields during LOAD DATA INFILE?

2006-10-25 Thread Paul DuBois
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 field

Re: change format of date fields during LOAD DATA INFILE?

2006-10-16 Thread Ferindo Middleton
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

RE: change format of date fields during LOAD DATA INFILE?

2006-10-16 Thread Jerry Schwartz
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 inhale.

Re: change format of date fields during LOAD DATA INFILE?

2006-10-15 Thread mos
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 fields