Import data from a CSV file without creating a table first in MySQL I want to import CSV data into mysql database.

Additionally, I dont want to create a table first and then import. That means, if my csv file name is test.csv, and its contents are like 

customer_ID,name
10000000,name1
10000001,name2


I should be execute 

mysql&gt; use database {database_name}
mysql&gt; {some_command} test.csv


And I should be able to create a table with name test and it having headers customer_ID and name and it should be populated according to contents of test.csv. Specifically some_command is the magic bullet I am looking for.

Any idea how this can be done in MySQL. While I searched I did not find a way to import CSV data without creating a table first.
There is no way to do this with MySQL own tools. If you look closer it makes sense that you have to create your table first, you have to specify datatypes for the fields of your csv file, possible indexes and so on. MySQL can´t predict which datatype you want to use, so here is some manual work to do.

On the other hand you can use external scripts to archive what you want, a quick and dirty example would be:

#!/bin/bash
# create table for import
head -1 test.csv | awk '{split($0,f,","); printf "create table test (%s INT, %s VARCHAR(50));",f[1],f[2]}' | mysql -u USER -pPASS SCHEMA
# import csv
mysql -uUSER -pPASS SCHEMA -e "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'test.csv' INTO TABLE testcsv FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' IGNORE 1 LINES"


Above "script" lefts plenty of room for optimization, it should only give you a basic idea how to archive what you need with common Linux tools.