Best practices for importing large CSV files

Question

My company gets a set of CSV files full of bank account info each month that I need to import into a database. Some of these files can be pretty big. For example, one is abo

Answer 1

FWIW the following steps caused a huge speedup of my LOAD DATA INFILE:

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
SET UNIQUE_CHECKS = 0;
SET SESSION tx_isolation='READ-UNCOMMITTED';
SET sql_log_bin = 0;
#LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE....
SET UNIQUE_CHECKS = 1;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;
SET SESSION tx_isolation='READ-REPEATABLE';

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