Database - Importing a CSV file to a SQLite Database

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Importing a CSV file to a SQLite Database
Topic: Database Posted:2006-11-28
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SQLite has a build in import command for importing records from text files. We used a tab for a field separator:

$ sqlite3 database.db
SQLite version 3.1.3
Enter ".help" for instructions
sqlite> .separator "\t"

Now that we have set our field separator, we can import:

sqlite> .import ex.txt tablename
sqlite>

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