How to insert selected columns from a CSV file to a MySQL database using LOAD DATA INFILE

Question

I have a CSV file which contains 10 columns. I want to select only some columns from that file and load them into a MySQL database using the LOAD DATA INFILE co

Answer 1

if you have number of columns in your database table more than number of columns in your csv you can proceed like this:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'pathOfFile.csv'
INTO TABLE youTable 
CHARACTER SET latin1 FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';' #you can use ',' if you have comma separated
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' 
ESCAPED BY '\\' 
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
(yourcolumn,yourcolumn2,yourcolumn3,yourcolumn4,...);