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Csv tables - equivalent of external tables in oracle

Are they enabled?

show engines;

Create a CSV table

create table csv_test (id int, value varchar(20)) engine = csv;
insert into csv_test VALUES (1, 'Record 1'), (2, 'Record 2'), (3, 'Record 3');
select * from csv_test;

What it looks like in unix

$ cat csv_test.CSV
"1","record 1"
"2","record 2"
"3","record 3"

References

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