how to 'load data infile' on amazon RDS?

Question

not sure if this is a question better suited for serverfault but I\'ve been messing with amazon RDS lately and was having trouble getting \'file\' privileges to my web host

Answer 1

Importing bulk data into Amazon MySQL RDS is possible two ways. You could choose anyone of below as per your convenience.

1. Using Import utility.

   mysqlimport --local --compress  -u  -p -h   --fields-terminated-by=',' TEST_TABLE.csv
   --Make sure, here the utility will be inserting the data into TEST_TABLE only.
   

2. Sending a bulk insert SQL by piping into into mysql command.

   mysql -u  -p -h   < TEST_TABLE_INSERT.SQL
   --Here file TEST_TABLE_INSERT.SQL will have bulk import sql statement like below
   --insert into TEST_TABLE values('1','test1','2017-09-08'),('2','test2','2017-09-08'),('3','test3','2017-09-08'),('3','test3','2017-09-08');