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Issue created Jan 31, 2018 by Administrator@rootContributor

agate-sql: csvsql add option to use data's maximum varchar length

Created by: StudentForever

Hi

Not sure if I am not passing the right flags, I noticed that the column sizes in the create table query default to max e.g. varchar (max) . Is there an option so that column sizes are inferred based on the actual data.


 cat test.csv
tag,tag2,Date,col1,col2,col3,col4,col5
DFAN8086,sss,12/24/2012,0.9454054,0.391277,0.696738598,0.963471,0.422531
FDG491BT1088,wew,12/24/2012,0.922601887,0.3125817,0.991514,0.740261,0.3096907
GEW00328745,tere,12/24/2012,0.341763918,0.587643,0.834997,0.611671,0.3686074
GWW02993182,qewqeqw,12/24/2012,0.078535992,0.497771,0.394849,0.4730659,0.4074645


csvsql -i mssql test.csv
CREATE TABLE test (
        tag VARCHAR(max) NOT NULL,
        tag2 VARCHAR(max) NOT NULL,
        [Date] DATE NOT NULL,
        col1 DECIMAL(38, 9) NOT NULL,
        col2 DECIMAL(38, 7) NOT NULL,
        col3 DECIMAL(38, 9) NOT NULL,
        col4 DECIMAL(38, 7) NOT NULL,
        col5 DECIMAL(38, 7) NOT NULL
);
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