Questions on how to import into, extract data from, or exchange data between databases in CSV format (plain text using commas to separate values). Rows are typically denoted by newline characters.
CSV is a file format involving a plain text file with information separated by delimiters with the purpose of storing data in a table-structured format. CSV (Comma Separated Values) files most commonly use a comma delimiter, but other characters can be used such as semicolons, tabs, pipe symbols (|), etc.
The MIME type for CSV files is text/csv.
Information is often stored in CSV format to make it easy to transfer tables of data between applications. Each row of a table is represented as a list of plain text (human-readable) values with a delimiter character between each discrete piece of data. Values may be enclosed in quotes, which is required if they contain the delimiter as a value. The first row of data often contains headers of table's columns, which describe the meaning of the data in each column.
