On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a file that look like this :
>
> firstname|lastname|email@domain.com
> firstname2|lastname2|email2@domain.com
>
> and a table foo like :
>
> firstname varchar(30),
> lastname varchar(30),
> email varchar(50)
>
> and I would like to do a :
>
> copy tablename from '/home/ed/import.dat';
>
> But then, everything goes in the first field... what does i'm doing
> wrong?!?!
You are nearly there, use:-
copy tablename from '/home/ed/import.dat' using delimiters '|';
see sql-copy.htm in online doco.
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