Everyone seems to starts off with a few greps and perl expressions and you sorta kinda get something that works for your particular dataset but you have no idea if it's imported the data correctly or not. I'm seriously surprised nobody's built a solid library that can convert between the two.
Here a list of ALL the differences in SQL syntax that I know about between the two file formats: The lines starting with:
are not used in MySQL
CREATE TABLE/INSERT INTO "table_name"
and MySQL uses CREATE TABLE/INSERT INTO table_name
INSERT INTO
clausesINSERT INTO
clauses't'
and 'f'
for booleans, MySQL uses 1
and 0
(a simple regex for this can fail when you have a string like: 'I do, you don't' inside your INSERT INTO
)AUTOINCREMENT
, MySQL uses AUTO_INCREMENT
Here is a very basic hacked up perl script which works for my dataset and checks for many more of these conditions that other perl scripts I found on the web. Nu guarantees that it will work for your data but feel free to modify and post back here.
#! /usr/bin/perl
while ($line = <>){
if (($line !~ /BEGIN TRANSACTION/) && ($line !~ /COMMIT/) && ($line !~ /sqlite_sequence/) && ($line !~ /CREATE UNIQUE INDEX/)){
if ($line =~ /CREATE TABLE \"([a-z_]*)\"(.*)/i){
$name = $1;
$sub = $2;
$sub =~ s/\"//g;
$line = "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS $name;\nCREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $name$sub\n";
}
elsif ($line =~ /INSERT INTO \"([a-z_]*)\"(.*)/i){
$line = "INSERT INTO $1$2\n";
$line =~ s/\"/\\\"/g;
$line =~ s/\"/\'/g;
}else{
$line =~ s/\'\'/\\\'/g;
}
$line =~ s/([^\\'])\'t\'(.)/$1THIS_IS_TRUE$2/g;
$line =~ s/THIS_IS_TRUE/1/g;
$line =~ s/([^\\'])\'f\'(.)/$1THIS_IS_FALSE$2/g;
$line =~ s/THIS_IS_FALSE/0/g;
$line =~ s/AUTOINCREMENT/AUTO_INCREMENT/g;
print $line;
}
}