Automate transfer of csv file to MySQL

Question

I have a csv file that I will be regularly updating through a batch script that calls cygwin+ bash script. I would like to automate the upload of the csv file into a

Answer 1

You can execute a MySQL script from the command line by doing something like:

mysql -uUsername -pPassword database_name < infile.sql

You could invoke that from the command line and in the infile.sql you could have code like:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'filename.csv' TO table_name 
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','