Perfect. It all worked now.
Thank you all for your input.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org> wrote:
On 2009-10-29 22:56, Roman Sokolyuk wrote:
> Actually,
> this almost worked:
>
> *sql>COPY 100 RECORDS INTO my_table FROM 'C:\MyFile.csv' USING
> DELIMITERS ',','\n';*
>
> Except I got the following error:
>
> *!SQLException:sql:value '2002-01-19 01:23:00' while parsing '2002-01-19
> 01:23:00,397,1527' from line 0 field 8 not inserted, expecting type date
> !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table*
>
> I thought I specified the date format exactly as it should feed into
> Monet.... any clue what I am doing wrong?

The problem is, you're attempting to insert a timestamp into a date
field.  A date is just that, the date (e.g. 2002-01-19), whereas a
timestamp includes both a date and a time (in the format you used).

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org
> <mailto:sjoerd@acm.org>> wrote:
>
>     You may need to double the \ characters in your path or use / instead.
>
>     On 2009-10-29 21:04, Roman Sokolyuk wrote:
>      > thanks. Will try now
>      >
>      > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Guillaume Theoret
>     <smokinn@gmail.com <mailto:smokinn@gmail.com>
>      > <mailto:smokinn@gmail.com <mailto:smokinn@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     I had trouble with the delimiters as well. I ended up finding a
>      >     message on the mailing list a while back that had the right
>     syntax.
>      >     Here's my command that works:
>      >
>      >     COPY 1000000 RECORDS INTO test.aggregated_detail_data_2009 FROM
>      > '/home/monetdb/aggregated_detail_data_2009_1.csv' using delimiters
>      > ',','\n';
>      >
>      >     On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Roman Sokolyuk
>      > <romsok.tech@gmail.com <mailto:romsok.tech@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:romsok.tech@gmail.com <mailto:romsok.tech@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      > > I tried running the command following your example and I think I
>      >     am still
>      > > doing something wrong:
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > sql>COPY 110301 RECORDS INTO my_table FROM ('C:\MyFile.csv')
>      >     DELIMITERS ',',
>      > > '\n', '''';
>      > > !Cannot pass number of records in Binary COPY INTO in: "copy
>      >     110301 records
>      > > into my_table from ('C:\MyFile.csv')"
>      > > !syntax error, unexpected DELIMITERS in: "delimiters"
>      > >
>      > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Roman Sokolyuk
>      > <romsok.tech@gmail.com <mailto:romsok.tech@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:romsok.tech@gmail.com <mailto:romsok.tech@gmail.com>>>
>      > > wrote:
>      > >>
>      > >> Thanks!!!
>      > >>
>      > >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Stefan de Konink
>      > <stefan@konink.de <mailto:stefan@konink.de>
>     <mailto:stefan@konink.de <mailto:stefan@konink.de>>>
>      > >> wrote:
>      > >>>
>      > >>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Roman Sokolyuk wrote:
>      > >>>
>      > >>> > Could someone please point out to me what is wrong with the
>      >     way I am
>      > >>> > using
>      > >>> > the COPY utility?
>      > >>>
>      > >>> I can give you a working example:
>      > >>>
>      > >>> http://mirror.openstreetmap.nl/rivm/stations.sql
>      > >>>
>      > >>>
>      > >>> Stefan
>      > >>>
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