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

By: fp

fp — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:19:21 +0000

In my installation (MySQL 5.1 on Ubuntu 11.04), only mysql root user has privileges to write the output file (absolute path). But… why?
Maybe this is useful for others.

By: prabha

prabha — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:26:08 +0000

thanks buddy.

By: hima

hima — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:12:08 +0000

I got the solution for \n in windows..
If you have generated the text file on a Windows system, you might have to use LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\r\n’ to read the file properly, because Windows programs typically use two characters as a line terminator. Some programs, such as WordPad, might use \r as a line terminator when writing files. To read such files, use LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\r’.

ex:
instead of lines terminated by ‘\n’
use lines terminated by ‘\r\n’
it works on my system..

reference:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/load-data.html

By: hima

hima — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:45:06 +0000

thank you for the clear explination,
and i have one problem
i am currently using mysql 5.5
and \n is not working????
plz suggest me

By: Elim Qiu

Elim Qiu — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:35:00 +0000

I have select privilege to a remote mysql server, the
[into outfile] clause is interpreted to write query results into remote server rather than my local machine. Any ideas? Thanks

By: Unixrat

Unixrat — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:59:00 +0000

Thanks a lot !!! even though I have long years in the IT world, I am not a programer and in SQL I am a rookie too ..
Concise EXAMPLES helps a lot
Oscar D’Antona

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:31:00 +0000

how can we want to export data into text format with fix size ?

By: cool b

cool b — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:59:00 +0000

nice article, everytime i use to forget the syntax this i have bookmarked

By: Gannoswarthi

Gannoswarthi — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:17:00 +0000

I am having another problem with CSV files.If in select query any field is empty then in csv it’s displayed as N.

By: At

At — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:13:00 +0000

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