AnalyticDB for MySQL:Use LOAD DATA to import data to Data Warehouse Edition

Syntax

LOAD DATA LOCAL 
    INFILE 'file_name' 
    [REPLACE | IGNORE] 
    INTO TABLE table_name 
    [{FIELDS | COLUMNS}
        [TERMINATED BY 'string'] 
        [[OPTIONALLY] ENCLOSED BY 'char'] 
    ]
    [LINES
        [TERMINATED BY 'string'] 
    ]
    [IGNORE number {LINES | ROWS}] 
    [(column_name_or_user_var
    [, column_name_or_user_var] ...)]    

Parameters

Usage notes

• You must enable the local-infile feature for a client.

  For example, you must add the following configuration to the my.cnf file to enable the local-infile feature for a MySQL client:

  cat ~/.my.cnf
  [mysqld]
  local-infile
  [mysql]
  local-infile                    

  For more information about the my.cnf file, see MySQL official documentation.

• Data import cannot ensure the atomicity of operations.

  • In IGNORE mode, the rows of data that failed to be imported are ignored.

  • In REPLACE mode, a subsequent INSERT operation is terminated if a row of data fails to be imported. As a result, specific rows of data may not be imported.

• You can execute the SHOW WARNINGS statement to query the error messages of failed rows.

Example

In this example, the data of an on-premises file named out.bak is imported to an AnalyticDB for MySQL table named test. The out.bak file contains 5,000 rows of data. The column delimiter is \t, and the row delimiter is \n. The eighth row of data is invalid, as shown in the following data entries:

1 bb
2 bb
3 bb
4 bb
5 bb
6 bb
7 bb
bb   8
9 bb
...          

1. Connect to the AnalyticDB for MySQL cluster that you want to manage. Execute the CREATE DATABASE and CREATE TABLE statements to create a table named test in the database named adb_demo to store the data that you want to import from the on-premises file.

   CREATE TABLE test (
   a int NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', 
   b varchar NOT NULL, 
   PRIMARY KEY (a) 
   ) DISTRIBUTED by HASH(a);                

2. Execute the LOAD DATA statement on a MySQL client to import data from the on-premises file named out.bak to the AnalyticDB for MySQL table named test.

   • Execute the LOAD DATA statement in IGNORE mode. In this mode, specific rows may fail to be imported. Sample statement:

     LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '~/out.bak' IGNORE INTO TABLE test FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' ;

     Execute the following statement to query the import result:

     SELECT COUNT(1) FROM test;

     +----------+
     | count(1) |
     +----------+
     |     4999 |
     +----------+
     1 row in set (0.14 sec)

   • Execute the LOAD DATA statement in REPLACE mode. In this mode, a subsequent import operation is immediately terminated if a row fails to be imported. Sample statement:

     LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '~/out.bak' REPLACE INTO TABLE test FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' ;

     Sample result:

     ERROR 1064 (42000): [13000, 2019061210070703000511314203303000266] syntax error :syntax error => IDENTIFIER is not value type pos:34 row: 0 and ceil:0

   • Execute the LOAD DATA statement to skip the first 10 rows of data when you import the data. Sample statement:

     LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '~/out.bak' REPLACE INTO TABLE test FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' IGNORE 10 LINES;

     Sample result:

     Query OK, 4990 rows affected (0.37 sec)