LOAD DATA

The LOAD DATA statement batch loads data into a TiDB table.

Synopsis

LoadDataStmt ::=
    'LOAD' 'DATA' LocalOpt 'INFILE' stringLit DuplicateOpt 'INTO' 'TABLE' TableName CharsetOpt Fields Lines IgnoreLines ColumnNameOrUserVarListOptWithBrackets LoadDataSetSpecOpt

Parameters

LocalOpt

You can specify that the imported data file is located on the client or on the server by configuring the LocalOpt parameter. Currently, TiDB only supports data import from the client. Therefore, when importing data, set the value of LocalOpt to Local.

Fields and Lines

You can specify how to process the data format by configuring the Fields and Lines parameters.

• FIELDS TERMINATED BY: Specifies the separating character of each data.
• FIELDS ENCLOSED BY: Specifies the enclosing character of each data.
• LINES TERMINATED BY: Specifies the line terminator, if you want to end a line with a certain character.

Take the following data format as an example:

"bob","20","street 1"\r\n
"alice","33","street 1"\r\n

If you want to extract bob, 20, and street 1, specify the separating character as ',', and the enclosing character as '\"':

FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'

If you do not specify the parameters above, the imported data is processed in the following way by default:

FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' ENCLOSED BY ''
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'

IGNORE number LINES

You can ignore the first number lines of a file by configuring the IGNORE number LINES parameter. For example, if you configure IGNORE 1 LINES, the first line of a file is ignored.

Examples

CREATE TABLE trips (
    trip_id bigint NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
    duration integer not null,
    start_date datetime,
    end_date datetime,
    start_station_number integer,
    start_station varchar(255),
    end_station_number integer,
    end_station varchar(255),
    bike_number varchar(255),
    member_type varchar(255)
    );

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.14 sec)

The following example imports data using LOAD DATA. Comma is specified as the separating character. The double quotation marks that enclose the data is ignored. The first line of the file is ignored.

If you see the error message ERROR 1148 (42000): the used command is not allowed with this TiDB version, refer to ERROR 1148 (42000): the used command is not allowed with this TiDB version.

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/mnt/evo970/data-sets/bikeshare-data/2017Q4-capitalbikeshare-tripdata.csv' INTO TABLE trips FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' IGNORE 1 LINES (duration, start_date, end_date, start_station_number, start_station, end_station_number, end_station, bike_number, member_type);

Query OK, 815264 rows affected (39.63 sec)
Records: 815264  Deleted: 0  Skipped: 0  Warnings: 0

LOAD DATA also supports using hexadecimal ASCII character expressions or binary ASCII character expressions as the parameters for FIELDS ENCLOSED BY and FIELDS TERMINATED BY. See the following example:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/mnt/evo970/data-sets/bikeshare-data/2017Q4-capitalbikeshare-tripdata.csv' INTO TABLE trips FIELDS TERMINATED BY x'2c' ENCLOSED BY b'100010' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' IGNORE 1 LINES (duration, start_date, end_date, start_station_number, start_station, end_station_number, end_station, bike_number, member_type);

In the above example, x'2c' is the hexadecimal representation of the , character and b'100010' is the binary representation of the " character.

MySQL compatibility

This statement is understood to be fully compatible with MySQL, except for character set options which are parsed but ignored. If you find any compatibility difference, you can report it via an issue on GitHub.

See also

• INSERT
• Import Example Database
• TiDB Lightning