Comments on: Importing CSV files to SQLite

By: Ameto

Ameto — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:18:06 +0000

Right now I’ve already got the method

It’s just drop file in the same place that sqlite in !!!!!

By: Ameto

Ameto — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:30:58 +0000

Can I ask some question about sqlite3

I ‘ve already insert the comand like this

sqlite> create table fonepa(A,B,C);
sqlite> .seperater ” ”
sqlite> .import “Jan.csv” test

and it ‘s said that cannot open Jan.csv

So what should I drop my file

I ‘ve drop my file at C:\Jan.csv

and I’ve done the command

sqlite> create table fonepa(A,B,C);
sqlite> .seperater ” ”
sqlite> .import “C:\Jan.csv” test
cannot open Jan.csv

again so what should I do

By: Guggu

Guggu — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:48:11 +0000

Stripping quotation marks out doesn’t really help with data that has commas in it.

1, “2nd Floor, 3rd Block”, NY

Stripping quote out would replace NY with 3rd Block which wouldn’t really help.

@Furbo: Thanks for the pointer. TkSQLite works like a charm!

By: Furbo

Furbo — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:12:31 +0000

The easiest way to do this is with the tksqlite application available for download at: http://reddog.s35.xrea.com/wiki/TkSQLite.html I'm surprised it has not received more attention as it is (in my opinion) the best free tool for working with sqlite.

By: bart

bart — Sat, 06 May 2006 21:52:19 +0000

Things can change quickly. The home page for SQLite browser, http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/, claims that version 1.2, released 2 months after your post, is compatible with SQLite 3.

By: Jakob

Jakob — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:40:44 +0000

Sorry, but step 1 (Make sure that the source file is stripped of quotation marks.) already makes the rest of this website irrelevant (to me).

While your procedure may be valuable to some people, I often work with databases containing free text, including commas and quotationmarks.

I guess I’ll have to search on….

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:05:26 +0000

You can also do this from the sqlite command line tool (sqlite3 in my case). I ran the following commands:

sqlite> .mode csv
sqlite> .import ./test.csv test

I created a really simple table to test with.

sqlite> .schema test
CREATE TABLE test (name varchar(255) not null, blah varchar(255) not null);

And my CSV file:

andrew,nklnsdf
blah,kls
joey,aknlkn
jim,asdf

After the import:

sqlite> select * from test;
andrew|nklnsdf
blah|kls
joey|aknlkn
jim|asdf