Transferring a flat file database to a MySQL database
- by Jon
I have a flat file database (yeah gross I know - the worst part is that it's 1.4GB), and I'm in the process of moving it to a MySQL database. The problem is that I'm not sure how to go about doing this - and I've checked through every related question on here but none relate to what I want to do, nor how my database is currently setup.
My current flat file database is setup to where a normal MySQL row is its own file, and a MySQL table would be the directory. So for example if you have a user named Jon, there would be a file for the user in a directory named /members/. Within that file would be various information for the user including the users id, rank etc - all separated by tabs, all on separate lines (userid\t4).
So here's an example user file:
userid 4
notes staff notes: bla bla staff2 notes: bla bla bla
username Example
So how can I convert the above into their own rows and fields in MySQL? And if possible, could I do thousands of these files at once?
Thanks.
