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To be clear, you would do this instead of manually adding numeric values to your CSV file, as I did in the previous example.

Use the SELECT INTO command to import the data from your temporary table into your actual table.Import the CSV data into that SQLite table.The amount of columns inside the file must match the amount of columns in the table tablename, and the contents of the columns must be convertible to the column types of the table. The data is appended to whatever data is in the table already. Create a new database table without a primary key FROM imports data into DuckDB from an external CSV file into an existing table.This is definitely a hack, but it seems to work. For instance, in my previous example, if I already had twenty people in my salespeople database table, and I wanted to import two more, the CSV file I want to import should begin with number 21, like this: There is no way to skip that column with a SQLite import command, so the CSV file you import should have primary key values that match your existing table data. I don’t know if the following approach is correct or not, but if you have a SQLite database table declared with an autoincrement PRIMARY KEY field, like this: Importing CSV data into a SQLite table with a primary key By this I mean that there were blank spaces before words like “John” and “Jane.” When I first ran these commands the CSV file had blank spaces, and the blanks ended up in my columns, which I did not want, so I manually removed them. There are no blank spaces in the CSV file.The fields in my text file are separated by commas, so I specify the SQLite separator command.

There are a few important things to note about this example: I can import the CSV data into my SQLite table with these two commands: If I now have a CSV data file named people.txt that looks like this: A SQLite CSV import exampleĪs a first example, assume that I have a SQLite database table defined like this:Īnd there is existing data in the table that looks like this: If you’re not using an autoincrement (primary key) field in your database table, importing CSV file data into a SQLite database is straightforward, though you may have to do some work to clean up your data first. SQLite CSV FAQ: How do I import a CSV file into a SQLite database table?