Hi.. I create a data.csv file using excel file and convert to CSV as following [root@box root]# more data.csv departmentID,name,job 1,IT,IT-infra 2,HR,Human Resource 3,Finance,Financing >>then I create a table 'department' with the following use testdb; create table department ( departmentID int not null auto_increment primary key, name varchar(30), job varchar(30) ) type=InnoDB; ##################################################### but when i tried to load the CSV file into the table department, the name and job column still shown as NULL? Why?? Any soiution? mysql>load data local infile '/root/data.csv' into table department; mysql> select * from department; +--------------+------+------+ | departmentID | name | job | +--------------+------+------+ | 1 | NULL | NULL | | 2 | NULL | NULL | | 3 | NULL | NULL | +--------------+------+------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/