Import a CSV file to MySQL via phpMyAdmin

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According to the request the task was to import a CSV file to MySQL DB. 

So for that first, I went to the the main phpMyAdmin page. 

Next, I clicked on the database instance that I am interested. Then, I click on the table that I want to import my data and click on Import button. 

On the import form, I click Browse button to choose the CSV file on my local hard drive. Since my CSV file uses “|” to separate each fields and “\n” to separate each records, I chose the following options:

Choose CSV using LOAD DATA

Fields terminated by : ,
Fields enclosed by : [remove default value and leave it blank]
Fields escaped by : [remove default value and leave it blank]

Leave everything else to default value.

Finally, I clicked the Go button. This resulted the following SQL query. 

Note, I renamed values that are specific to my environment. So this is just for your reference only.

Below is the query that you will get :

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'input_file' INTO TABLE `tablename` FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED