MySQL database "literature", table "auth"
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field names
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fields available in table "auth"	description
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user_id	the user's unique ID number (which corresponds to the user_id number of the user's record entry within the "users" table)
email	the user's email address at work (required!) -> needed for logging into the database (must be unique among all users!)
password	the user's password (required!) -> needed for logging into the database



column types
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user_id	MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
email	VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL
password	VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL



table creation code
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CREATE TABLE auth (user_id MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, email VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL);


rules for data import
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- fields are separated by tabs, records are separated by returns (if not specified otherwise within the LOAD DATA statement)
- order of fields must resemble the above field order!
- DATE format must be YYYY-MM-DD
- TIME format must be HH:MM:SS
- carriage returns *within* fields (ASCII character 11) must be replaced with a "UNIX return" (ASCII character 10) -> Search for:  (\x0B)  Replace with: \\n
- empty fields are indicated by \N -> Search for: (?<=\t|^)(?=\t|$)   Replace with: \\N
- character encoding: higher ASCII chars must be encoded as ISO-8859-1
- file encoding must be UNIX


load data code
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LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "/PATH/TO/FILE/auth.txt" INTO TABLE auth;

or, alternatively, use something like the following from your shell:

mysqlimport --local -u root -p YOUR_DB_NAME "/PATH/TO/FILE/auth.txt"

