Re: Multiple table insert using a CSV list as the datasource

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 14:21:10 -0700,
Chris Palmer <chris(at)nodewarrior(dot)org> wrote:
> On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 02:10 , Norman Khine wrote:
>
> >Is there such an SQL statement where you say:
> >
> >Take table csv and put column 1, 2, 3 into table products where column 1
> >should map to products.column1 etc etc ...
> >or take table csv and put column1 and column 4 into table price
>
> There might be a way to do all that in SQL, but I would do it with a
> short Perl script using the DBI module. It's fairly straightforward, and
> the DBI module's documentation is enough to get you going.

If you are talking about after the data has been put into a temporary
table, I don't think this would be a good idea. Doing the copy with
one insert statement is going to be faster.