On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 12:05 +0200, Ian Whitfield wrote: > Hi All > > I have been trying to import a CSV file from Calc into MySQL to run > with > Base for over a week now and can not believe this is so difficult to > do > so I'm hoping some other Base users might have cracked this one!! > > My OpSys is PClinuxOS - 32-bit and MySQL is ver 5.1.73. Everything is > running on localhost. > > My CSV file is in Calc and has 2600 rows and 78 cols. I save it as a > CSV > file which is 717.8Kb in size. Field Names are in row 1. > > I have tried many times with phpMyAdmin with no luck and today I > installed MySQL Workbench - also no luck. > > In all cases I get the error ... > > MySQL said: Documentation > #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that > corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use > near 'varchar(10), `NULL` varchar(10), `NULL` varchar(10), `NULL` > varchar(21), `NULL` ' at line 1 > > MyAdmin seems to stop after only 38 fields and the error does not > show > the field names in the error. Also it is not MY SQL syntax it is > MyAdmin's syntax!! > > Workbench says - ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in > your > SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server > version for the right syntax to use near > 'RecordID,Status,StatusGraphic,Title,PrefFirstName,FirstName,LastName > ,Maiden/Form' > at line 1 > Operation failed with exitcode 1. > > Can anyone help me out please. I'm NOT a Database expert just a user > and > must get this DB up and running again ASAP!! > > Many, many thanks > > IanW > Pretoria RSA >
I did something similar recently. You might succeed if you change the CSV options: line separator LF, enclose strings in ", field separator ; If I remember rightly, it did not cope well with field separator , Cheers Harvey -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
