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

I need to do this too from time to time (import large non-standardized CSVs where each row creates a dozen or so related DB objects) so I wrote a python script where I can specify what goes where and how it's all related. The script then simply generates INSERT statements.

Here it is: csv2db

Disclaimer: I'm basically a noob when it comes to databases, so there might be better ways to accomplish this.