In this post, I am sharing a demonstration of BULK INSERT for inserting data from flat file into the table of SQL Server.

As an ELT developer or database developer, this is a ubiquitous requirement to import external file data into the table of SQL Server.

Please check below demonstration and try it your self.

Create a sample table:

CREATE TABLE dbo.tbl_Employees
(
	empid int
	,empname varchar(10)
	,empgender varchar(6)
	,empsalary int
)
GO

Add sample data in .csv file and save it:

Use BULK INSERT for inserting data into the table:

BULK INSERT dbo.tbl_Employees
FROM 'D:\empdata.csv'
WITH
(
	FIRSTROW = 2,
	FIELDTERMINATOR = ';',  --delimiter
	ROWTERMINATOR = '\n',   --For next row
	TABLOCK,
	CODEPAGE = 'ACP'
);

SELECT *FROM dbo.tbl_Employees

empid       empname    empgender empsalary
----------- ---------- --------- -----------
1           anvesh     male      150000
2           roy        male      120000
3           jenny      female    60000
4           nupur      female    90000

In this post, I am sharing a demonstration on how to export or import CSV data using MySQL INFILE and OUTFILE.

The CSV files are most famous for the basic data migration activities.
Database developer does not need to write or create any particular database link between two servers.
They can easily import data from CSV and export that CSV data into another server and also CSV file does not have any data length limitation like XLS file.
User can store millions of records into CSV file.

This technique is preferred only for temporary purposes, and if it continues the process, the user has to write some automatic process like database server replication.

Import or Export a CSV File using PostgreSQL COPY Command

MySQL provides a different way to manage, data import and export in the CSV format.

You can also perform this exercise using MySQL workbench Import/Export wizard.

Very soon, I will prepare and share a video help for this workbench related solution.

Let me demonstrate it:

First, I created a table and import data from CSV file.
I already created a CSV file with sample data. Make sure that, your table column and CSV column would be same.
You can create this CSV file using a comma delimited save as option of Microsoft excel.

Create a sample table:

CREATE TABLE TestCSV 
(
    Rno INTEGER
    ,Name VARCHAR(50)
);

Now COPY data from the CSV file into this table:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'E:/dbrnd.com/TestCSV.csv' 
INTO TABLE TestCSV 
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' 
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
IGNORE 1 ROWS;

You should ignore the first row because of CSV headers.

Check your sample table:

SELECT *from TestCSV

You can also import particular column from CSV file to MySQL Table:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'E:/dbrnd.com/TestCSV.csv'  INTO TABLE TestCSV
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'  
IGNORE 1 ROWS
(@col1,@col2) set name=@col2;

As you can see in the above script, I used query variable and @col1 stores all Rno data, and this is working as a dummy import for column Rno.
I set values for Name column by assigning @col2, so this query only import second column data, and the first column would be NULL.

Now, script for export MySQL table data into CSV File:

SELECT 
    IFNULL(Rno,'N/A')
    ,Name
FROM TestCSV
INTO OUTFILE 'E:/dbrnd.com/TestCSV2.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';

After execution of the above query, please check your newly created CSV File.
Note: This query will create a new CSV file at the specified path.

In this post, I am sharing a demonstration on how to export or import CSV data using the PostgreSQL COPY command.

The CSV files are most famous for the necessary data migration activities. Database developer does not need to write or create any particular database link between two servers.

They can easily import data in CSV and export that CSV into another server and also CSV file does not have any data length limitation like any other XLS file.

User can store millions of records into CSV file.

This technique is preferred only for temporary purposes, and if it continues the process, the user has to write some automated process like database server replication.

PostgreSQL provides the COPY command to import or export CSV data into the PostgreSQL table.

Let me demonstrate this:

First, I create one table and import data from CSV file. I have already created a CSV file with sample data. Make sure that, your table column and CSV column would be same.

You can create this CSV file using a comma delimited save as option of Microsoft excel.

CREATE TABLE tbl_testcsv
(
  rno integer,
  name character varying
);

Now COPY the data from CSV file into the table:

COPY tbl_testcsv FROM 'E:\dbrnd.com\Postwork\testcsv.csv'
WITH DELIMITER ','
CSV HEADER;

After executing of COPY command, you can check the result:

SELECT *FROM tbl_testcsv;

Add some more records in Table and then we export the data into CSV file:

INSERT INTO tbl_testcsv
VALUES 
(9,'YRQ'),(10,'QWE')
,(11,'MNB'),(12,'FGH');

Now, export this data using the COPY command:

COPY tbl_testcsv TO 'E:\dbrnd.com\Postwork\testcsv.csv'
WITH DELIMITER ','
CSV HEADER;
--Query returned successfully: 12 rows affected,

Now, check your CSV file. You can find newly inserted data:

You can also define a particular column or write a full select statement in the COPY command:
Below is a sample script.

COPY tbl_testcsv(rno)
TO 'E:\dbrnd.com\Postwork\testcsv.csv'
WITH DELIMITER ','
CSV HEADER;

COPY (SELECT rno,name FROM tbl_testcsv WHERE rno=8)
TO 'E:\dbrnd.com\Postwork\testcsv.csv'
WITH DELIMITER ','
CSV HEADER;

This is a full detailed example of Postgres COPY command, please test this sample and let me know for further assistance.