I am using the following query to create a CSV file
SELECT email INTO OUTFILE "mydata.csv"
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY "\n"
FROM users;
But i am unable to find the mydata.csv file anywhere when i am searching through filezilla.
Any idea where this file is getting stored?
The query runs successfully without any errors! Any Help?
I found my INTO OUTFILE files, created with the following command
at the following location
This is probably the default location, as I've never changed anything.
I suspect you are looking for the file on your client machine.
SELECT .. INTO OUTFILE
writes the file on the server machine.Just for Example:
I have run below query in MySQL Workbench & I found my file in
You can use below example to set your file path:
You find the file in
C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.5.24\data
, but the name will beUsersNamecarro.txt
if you gave followingselect * from carro where id_cor<4 INTO OUTFILE 'C:\Users\Name\carro.txt';
So just write
.....OUTFILE 'C:\carro.txt'
to get file calledcarro.txt
indata
folderIn case anyone on OS X has this problem,
mysql
installed with homebrew has default output located at/usr/local/var/mysql/database-name/
MySQL may be writing the file into its own data directory, like
/var/lib/mysql/<databasename>
for example. To specify the path, use a full path.However, it must be a directory that is writable by the user account the MySQL server daemon is running under. For that reason, I'll often use
/tmp
:Specify the path you want to write to as in:
And note that MySQL will write the file on the MySQL server, not on your client machine. Therefore remote connections will create output files on the remote server. See also SELECT INTO OUTFILE local ? for more details and workarounds.
Systemd & Linux
A note about writing to
/tmp
on a Linux system runningsystemd
:Some years after originally posting this, I found myself unable to locate a file written to
/tmp
viaon a MariaDB 5.5 server running Fedora Linux with
systemd
. Instead of writing the file directly to/tmp/outfile.csv
as specified, that directory and file were created beneath a systemd directory in/tmp
:While the file
outfile.csv
itself and thetmp/
subdirectory were both created world-writable, the systemd service directory itself has 700 permissions and is root-owned, requiringsudo
access to retrieve the file within it.Rather than specifying the absolute path in MariaDB as
/tmp/outfile.csv
and specifying it relatively asoutfile.csv
, the file was written as expected into MariaDB's data directory for the currently selected database.