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MySQL 8 Cookbook

By : Karthik Appigatla
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MySQL 8 Cookbook

By: Karthik Appigatla

Overview of this book

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the World today. The recently released MySQL 8 version promises to be better and more efficient than ever before. This book contains everything you need to know to be the go-to person in your organization when it comes to MySQL. Starting with a quick installation and configuration of your MySQL instance, the book quickly jumps into the querying aspects of MySQL. It shows you the newest improvements in MySQL 8 and gives you hands-on experience in managing high-transaction and real-time datasets. If you've already worked with MySQL before and are looking to migrate your application to MySQL 8, this book will also show you how to do that. The book also contains recipes on efficient MySQL administration, with tips on effective user management, data recovery, security, database monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and more. With quick solutions to common and not-so-common problems you might encounter while working with MySQL 8, the book contains practical tips and tricks to give you the edge over others in designing, developing, and administering your database effectively.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Loading data into a table


The way you can dump a table data into a file, you can do vice-versa, that is, load the data from the file into a table. This is widely used for loading bulk data and is a super fast way to load data into tables. You can specify the column delimiters to load the data into respective columns. You should have the FILE privilege and the INSERT privilege on the table.

How to do it...

Earlier, you have saved first_name and last_name to a file. You can use the same file to load the data into another table. Before loading, you should create the table. If the table already exists, you can directly load. The columns of the table should match the fields of the file.

Create a table to hold the data:

mysql> CREATE TABLE employee_names (
       `first_name` varchar(14) NOT NULL,
       `last_name` varchar(16) NOT NULL
       ) ENGINE=InnoDB;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.07 sec)

Make sure that the file is present:

shell> sudo ls -lhtr /var/lib/mysql/employees/result.csv
-rw-rw...