Loading data from and to CSV or other TAB DELIMITED or similar file format is essential in day to day operation. With MySQL it is easy to load data into table using files and exporting data into CSV files is quite easy. No need to use any external tool it can be done right there from the query tool/command prompt, no specific GUI tool required.
Let's see how?
Exporting data as CSV file directly using simple MySQL Query
Simply add INTO OUTFILE [FILE_PATH] in your query and you are done. Here is a simple example:
SELECT * FROM [TABLE] INTO OUTFILE 'X:/[FILE]'
Above statement uses default options for file export of result set of a query, but it is simple to override them. By default file will be TAB DELIMITED file. We can always override as showed in example below:
SELECT * FROM [TABLE] INTO OUTFILE 'X:/[FILE]' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
OR
SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'X:/[FILE]' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM [TABLE]
The beauty is it don't really matter where you place FROM TABLE clause, any of the style would work from above example. Don't forget that we can use all our complex join or where conditions which we really use with SELECT. Read the rest of this entry »
