Migrating MySQL to a table with different structure - sql

My company's currently moving our databases around, shifting one set of tables out from the old MySQL instance into the new. We've done some development prior to this migration, and some tables' structure has been altered from the original (eg. columns were dropped).
So currently I've dumped the data from the old database and am now attempting to reinsert them into the new table. Of course, the import borks when it tries to insert rows with more fields than the table has.
What's the best way (preferably scriptable, because I foresee myself having to do this a few more times) to import only the fields I need into the new table?

Update the following to suit:
SELECT 'INSERT INTO NEW_TABLE ... ('+ to.column +');'
FROM OLD_TABLE ot
You need an INSERT statement for the table on the new database, with column list. Then populate the value portion accordingly based on the values in the old table. Run in the old environment, and you'll have your inserts with data for the new environment - just copy'n'paste into a script.
Mind though that datatypes have to be handled accordingly - dates (incl. time), and strings will have to be handled because you're dealing in text.

First of all, create new database with old structure, or temp tables in current database. Then run script with insert statements for each row, but in values must be only those fields that are in new structure.
insert into newTable select row1,row2 from tempTable

Use the fastest way, load data infile :
-- Dump datas
SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'mybigtable.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
FROM mybigtable
-- Load datas
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'mybigtable.csv'
INTO TABLE mynewbigtable
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
(#col1,#col2,#col3,#col4) set name=#col4,id=#col2;
Ref :
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/insert-speed.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/load-data.html

If you're using MySQL 5.1, a powerful, although maybe in this case overkill, solution is to do an xml mysqldump and use an XSLT to transform it. Unfortunately re-importing that xml file isn't supported in 5.0, you'll need 5.1, 5.4, or 6.0

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Migrating data from one table of one database to other table of other database

I am trying to migrate data from table A of database DB1 to table B of database DB2 using java and Oracle.
I am using java 1.8 and my source database has Oracle 11g and destination database has Oracle 12c.
I made structure (scema, tables )of destination database in source database. And migrating as by making use of *insert into dest select * from source* query in java . but as the number of records in source table in millions so it's consuming time.. and later on this migrated data i want to export into my actual destination so that too will going to take time.
As per my little knowledge.. i think I can't use prepared statement with 2 connection. Because my table consists of 400 to 500 columns , so binding that many columns with prepared statement is not a good idea. Also my structure of source and destination tables are different. I made the field mapping in properties file where I mapped the old field to new field for insert into select * from tbl query. Like my source table has column as col0001 and the corresponding column in destination is ref_no. So this too will not allow me to use prepared statement. But by making use of statement in java i can migrate data in single dB only.
I tried with dblink also. But for clob datatype i am not able to migrate data.
Kindly provide the solution if anyone did something like this previously.
For a one-off copy, you can do a direct mode insert:
insert /*+ APPEND */ into local_table select * from table#database_link;
Here are some other related links.

Hive: create table and write it locally at the same time

Is it possible in hive to create a table and have it saved locally at the same time?
When I get data for my analyses, I usually create temporary tables to track eventual
mistakes in the queries/scripts. Some of these are just temporary tables, while others contain the data that I actually need for my analyses.
What I do usually is using hive -e "select * from db.table" > filename.tsv to get the data locally; however when the tables are big this can take quite some time.
I was wondering if there is some way in my script to create the table and save it locally at the same time. Probably this is not possible, but I thought it is worth asking.
Honestly doing it the way you are is the best way out of the two possible ways but it is worth noting you can preform a similar task in an .hql file for automation.
Using syntax like this:
INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY '/home/user/temp' select * from table;
You can run a query and store it somewhere in the local directory (as long as there is enough space and correct privileges)
A disadvantage to this is that with a pipe you get the data stored nicely as '|' delimitation and new line separated, but this method will store the values in the hive default '^b' I think.
A work around is to do something like this:
INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY '/home/user/temp'
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
select books from table;
But this is only in Hive 0.11 or higher

sql server Bulk insert csv with data having comma

below is the sample line of csv
012,12/11/2013,"<555523051548>KRISHNA KUMAR ASHOKU,AR",<10-12-2013>,555523051548,12/11/2013,"13,012.55",
you can see KRISHNA KUMAR ASHOKU,AR as single field but it is treating KRISHNA KUMAR ASHOKU and AR as two different fields because of comma, though they are enclosed with " but still no luck
I tried
BULK
INSERT tbl
FROM 'd:\1.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n',
FIRSTROW=2
)
GO
is there any solution for it?
The answer is: you can't do that. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188365.aspx.
"Importing Data from a CSV file
Comma-separated value (CSV) files are not supported by SQL Server bulk-import operations. However, in some cases, a CSV file can be used as the data file for a bulk import of data into SQL Server. For information about the requirements for importing data from a CSV data file, see Prepare Data for Bulk Export or Import (SQL Server)."
The general solution is that you must convert your CSV file into one that can be be successfully imported. You can do that in many ways, such as by creating the file with a different delimiter (such as TAB) or by importing your table using a tool that understands CSV files (such as Excel or many scripting languages) and exporting it with a unique delimiter (such as TAB), from which you can then BULK INSERT.
They added support for this SQL Server 2017 (14.x) CTP 1.1. You need to use the FORMAT = 'CSV' Input File Option for the BULK INSERT command.
To be clear, here is what the csv looks like that was giving me problems, the first line is easy to parse, the second line contains the curve ball since there is a comma inside the quoted field:
jenkins-2019-09-25_cve-2019-10401,CVE-2019-10401,4,Jenkins Advisory 2019-09-25: CVE-2019-10401:
jenkins-2019-09-25_cve-2019-10403_cve-2019-10404,"CVE-2019-10404,CVE-2019-10403",4,Jenkins Advisory 2019-09-25: CVE-2019-10403: CVE-2019-10404:
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BULK INSERT temp
FROM 'c:\test.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '0x0a',
FIRSTROW= 2
);
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BULK INSERT temp
FROM 'c:\test.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '0x0a',
FORMAT = 'CSV',
FIRSTROW= 2
);
Unfortunately , SQL Server Import methods( BCP && BULK INSERT) do not understand quoting " "
Source : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191485%28v=sql.100%29.aspx
I have encountered this problem recently and had to switch to tab-delimited format. If you do that and use the SQL Server Management Studio to do the import (Right-click on database, then select Tasks, then Import) tab-delimited works just fine. The bulk insert option with tab-delimited should also work.
I must admit to being very surprised when finding out that Microsoft SQL Server had this comma-delimited issue. The CSV file format is a very old one, so finding out that this was an issue with a modern database was very disappointing.
MS have now addressed this issue and you can use FIELDQUOTE in your with clause to add quoted string support:
FIELDQUOTE = '"',
anywhere in your with clause should do the trick, if you have SQL Server 2017 or above.
Well, Bulk Insert is very fast but not very flexible. Can you load the data into a staging table and then push everything into a production table? Once in SQL Server, you will have a lot more control in how you move data from one table to another. So, basically.
1) Load data into staging
2) Clean/Convert by copying to a second staging table defined using the desired datatypes. Good data copied over, bad data left behind
3) Copy data from the "clean" table to the "live" table

Insert large amount of data efficiently with SQL

Hi I often have to insert a lot of data into a table. For example, I would have data from excel or text file in the form of
1,a
3,bsdf
4,sdkfj
5,something
129,else
then I often construct 6 insert statements in this example and run the SQL script. I found this was slow when I have to send thousands of small packages to server, it also causes extra overhead to the network.
What's your best way of doing this?
Update: I'm using ORACLE 10g.
Use Oracle external tables.
See also e.g.
OraFaq about external tables
What Tom thinks about external tables
René Nyffenegger's notes about external tables
A simple example that should get you started
You need a file located in a server directory (get familiar with directory objects):
SQL> select directory_path from all_directories where directory_name = 'JTEST';
DIRECTORY_PATH
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
c:\data\jtest
SQL> !cat ~/.gvfs/jtest\ on\ 192.168.xxx.xxx/exttable-1.csv
1,a
3,bsdf
4,sdkfj
5,something
129,else
Create an external table:
create table so13t (
id number(4),
data varchar2(20)
)
organization external (
type oracle_loader
default directory jtest /* jtest is an existing directory object */
access parameters (
records delimited by newline
fields terminated by ','
missing field values are null
)
location ('exttable-1.csv') /* the file located in jtest directory */
)
reject limit unlimited;
Now you can use all the powers of SQL to access the data:
SQL> select * from so13t order by data;
ID DATA
---------- ------------------------------------------------------------
1 a
3 bsdf
129 else
4 sdkfj
5 something
Im not sure if this works in Oracle but in SQL Server you can use BULK INSERT sql statement to upload data from a txt or a csv file.
BULK
INSERT [TableName]
FROM 'c:\FileName.txt'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
GO
Just make sure that the table columns correctly matches whats in the txt file. With a more complicated solution you may want to use a format file see the following:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178129.aspx
There are alot of ways to speed this up.
1) Do it in a single transaction. This will speed things up by avoiding connection opening / closing.
2) Load directly as a CSV file. If you load data as a CSV file, the "SQL" statements aren't required at all. in MySQL the "LOAD DATA INFILE" operation accomplishes this very intuitively and simply.
3) You can also simply dump the whole file as text into a table called "raw". And then let the database parse the data on its own using triggers. This is a hack, but it will simplify your application code and reduce network usage.

How to format mytext file?

I have to load set of questions to MYSQL database table.But the table format is like below
QNO Questions Option a Option b Option c Option d Rightanswer... but my textfile which i need to load in database using LOADINFILE command is in different format. How can i match my textfile format to my table format?
You can re-map the columns to import in LOAD DATA INFILE.
Check the manual entry
Example:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/importfile.csv'
INTO TABLE test_table
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
(field1, field2, field3);
I like using a graphical front-end like HeidiSQL to point-and-click the desired fields, and copy the generated SQL from there.
This depends upon your table format, but if there is any complex preprocessing then it's probably a good idea to do it outside of mysql. It's probably a lot easier.