[ic] Loading of SQL table failing

[Barry Treahy, Jr.]

Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:

> Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
>
>>>>> I'm having roubles converting from dbm to MySQL.  I have managed 
>>>>> to bring up a smaller table without any issue, but the products 
>>>>> table will not load.  I had added the additional fields, and 
>>>>> double checked them against my original products.txt, and it is 
>>>>> perfect.  Where I may be running into problems is the lack of 
>>>>> documentation on all of the fields used in the .mysql file.  
>>>>> Anyway, I'm stuck...
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the debugging enabled, if you need to see all of the 
>>>>> details...  BTW, this is 4.8.6...
>>>>>
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>
>>>>> - - - [14/September/2002:21:15:50 -0400] - - table 'products' 
>>>>> failed: products import failed: You have an error in your SQL 
>>>>> syntax near ' '', '', '', 'X', 'X', 'X', 'X', '', '098.pdf', 
>>>>> 'T3')' at line 1
>>>>>
>>>> MySQL is definitely gaging on the import data step here. Perhaps 
>>>> you a trying to import empty data into a field which is defined as 
>>>> NOT NULL, or maybe there is an errant carriage return somewhere in 
>>>> the file, breaking a single row into two pieces. 
>>>
>>>
>> Ok, I believe I've isolated what appears to be the problem but it 
>> makes no senese.  The import is choking on a field named 'phase' 
>> which is not a MySQL reserved word nor it is documented as an IC 
>> reserved word.  Why is this happening?   I can do the obvious, 
>> changing the name, but I don't want to do a guessing game on what 
>> others undocumented reserved words exist...
>
>
> As what seems to be a rather typical experience for me, I shoot of my 
> mouth too early when I'm tired...  After changing the name from phase 
> to phaze, the first record loaded but it failed on the second...

I took the Database products NUMERIC fieldxxx off of everything but 
price and the database is loading...I read pages of paper today on MySQL 
and fail to see why a blank numeric field would cause the load to 
fail...  Any ideas?

Barry

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