You can use

COPY 1000000 OFFSET 2 RECORDS into mytable from 'C:\data.csv' delimiters ',', '\n';

Note that its an offset into the file with records numbers starting at 1.

The documentation at http://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/Manuals/SQLreference/CopyInto hints at it, but is incomplete.
The documentation at the monetdb xquery site looks correct.  http://monetdb-xquery.org/SQL/Documentation/Data-Manipulation.html
I'll post a bug report.

-david

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:22 PM, bigu <chordata12@gmail.com> wrote:

Today installed monetdb for first time and wanted to play with some of the
features but stuck with loading the file. Excuse me if this looks too basic.

There is a 3GB csv file (1M rows and 400 columns). I am trying load in
monetdb on my windows 7 machine. I first created a table mostly data is
numeric exect for few that are metadata strings. How do i load this file
without removing the header. The error says column_name not of type integer
since the column_name is the actual header string but the values are
integers. I can remove the header manually before loading but if i plan to
scale then it is not a good option.

Is there a way to say load "n" records from file starting at 'x' to 'y'? or
ignore first line.

COPY 1000000 RECORDS into mytable from 'C:\data.csv' delimiters ',', '\n';


Thanks.
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