Simon Willison’s Weblog

14th July 2021

TIL Importing CSV data into SQLite with .import — I usually use my `sqlite-utils insert blah.db tablename file.csv --csv` command to import CSV data into SQLite, but for large CSV files (like a 750MB one) this can take quite a long time - over half an hour in this case.

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Posted 14th July 2021 at 5:01 am

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