Comments on: Save MySQL query results into a text or CSV file

By: regbailey

regbailey — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:20:59 +0000

Hi,

Also discovered that including the 'optionally' keyword, eg:

... optionally enclosed by '"' ...

that MySQL will decide which fields (eg. text, char etc) need enclosing in double quotes and which fields (eg. int, float etc) do not in order to comply with strict CSV format. Depending on your table make-up & size, this too is a great time saver. Mant thanks again for pointing me (and many others) in the right direction.

Reg.

By: regbailey

regbailey — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:21:20 +0000

Thank you very much indeed. Your article has just saved me a tremdous amount of time, trouble & effort. An excellent example of the web being used as it should be.

Many thanks again.

Reg Bailey.

By: augusto

augusto — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:13:21 +0000

how a very few lines may save lots of time…..
thanks a lot!

By: palcb

palcb — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:53:10 +0000

"Thanks for this, a MySQL noob like myself always forgets the exact syntax!

Bookmarked."

it was those people who memorized syntax or function than understanding what a language can do or cant do was noob.

By: danishm

danishm — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:26:27 +0000

For oracle ,you can use toad

By: Sven

Sven — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:53:08 +0000

I got the same problem when I connect to a remote database server. The file is created on the remote server.

Anyone know how to get this file created on the local host?

By: shiv`

shiv` — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:01:40 +0000

can u tell me how can i get the column names along wtiht the result set

By: Udit Chaudhary

Udit Chaudhary — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:30:15 +0000

This happens only if you have executed the query twice and redirecting it to same location with same name otherwise rest is fine.

By: jai

jai — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:52:40 +0000

I dont know y the new line operator is not at all working in my MySql…
am using version 5.0…

could some one plz help me out…………….

By: Heini

Heini — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:06:27 +0000

Just like this:

SELECT order_id,product_name,qty
FROM orders
INTO OUTFILE 'c:/tmp/orders.csv'

Just type in the drive you want.