David McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Thanks so much, that did the trick.
>I really appreciate the mercy on a poor newbie.
David,
You're quite welcome. Now if I could find an employer willing
to pay me for utilizing the 23 years of knowledge I used to provide
such a solution :)
: load data help
>My question is, how can I take a log file that has 25 columns of data and
>tell mysql to only load column 1, column 3, and column 7 from the raw log
>file?
I'm not sure mysql can do this. I'd be more inclined to use cut
on a Linux system in the following fa
>My question is, how can I take a log file that has 25 columns of data and
>tell mysql to only load column 1, column 3, and column 7 from the raw log
>file?
I'm not sure mysql can do this. I'd be more inclined to use cut
on a Linux system in the following fashion:
cut -d ' ' -f 1,3,
>Thanks for the reply. I was a little confussed on the exact defintion of
>a "line", I thought it meant a whole row of data.
>The space seperated fields worked great, but still gave me the error:
>"ERROR 1054: Unknown column 'col1' in 'field list'
>I could not find anywhere on how to define the "f
I fugured out that I needed to put (name of col1, name of col2) instead of (col1,
col2).
Duhh Sorry
My question is, how can I take a log file that has 25 columns of data and tell mysql
to only load column 1, column 3, and column 7 from the raw log file?
Sorry for being so dense.
Thank
Thanks for the reply. I was a little confussed on the exact defintion of a "line", I
thought it meant a whole row of data.
The space seperated fields worked great, but still gave me the error:
"ERROR 1054: Unknown column 'col1' in 'field list'
I could not find anywhere on how to define the "field
David McBride writes:
>I need to load data from a log file. The file is a space seperated
>file. I can already ignore the first 7 lines (that are commnet lines),
>but what I can not seem to do is:
>1. get load data to use the space seperated format.
>2. only load certain columns.
>
>I tried: my
