From d95f65e60c9820171df974a5ee36405985059259 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Seldess Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 13:27:32 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] note that example works only with numbers --- use-the-built-in-sql-client.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/use-the-built-in-sql-client.md b/use-the-built-in-sql-client.md index 68385de29a2..9d1127918c9 100644 --- a/use-the-built-in-sql-client.md +++ b/use-the-built-in-sql-client.md @@ -172,7 +172,9 @@ INSERT 2 ### Run external commands from the SQL shell -In this example, we use `\!` to look at the rows in a csv file before creating a table and then using `\|` to insert those rows into the table. +In this example, we use `\!` to look at the rows in a CSV file before creating a table and then using `\|` to insert those rows into the table. + +{{site.data.alerts.callout_info}}This example works only if the values in the CSV file are numbers. For values in other formats, use an online CSV-to-SQL converter or make your own import program.{{site.data.alerts.end}} ~~~ sql > \! cat test.csv