Convert NDJSON to MySQL
Upload a .json or .ndjson file and get back a MySQL SQL script you can load straight into your database. Types are preserved rather than flattened to text. Free, no registration, up to 10MB.
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How your data is typed in MySQL
Generated from the converter's own MySQL type mapping — this is what it actually emits, not an example.
| Your data | MySQL type |
|---|---|
| Whole number | BIGINT |
| Decimal (money) | DECIMAL(10,2) |
| Floating point | DOUBLE |
| True / false | TINYINT(1) |
| Date | DATE |
| Date and time | DATETIME |
| Short text | VARCHAR(255) |
| Long text | LONGTEXT |
| Binary data | LONGBLOB |
Working from an .ndjson file
Newline-delimited JSON is one complete object per line with no enclosing array, which is exactly what makes it appendable: a log or an export can keep growing without anything having to rewrite the end of the file.
- →Each line is parsed on its own and blank lines are ignored, but a single malformed or truncated line fails the whole file - the usual outcome of copying a log that was still being written.
- →Lines need not share their keys. The columns are what the records collectively use, and a record that omits one gets NULL in that column.
- →A file that is one line long and wraps its array, {"rows": [...]}, is unwrapped into those rows rather than read as a single record.
Loading the dump into MySQL
The download is a plain SQL script, so nothing in it depends on how you connect: the same file goes in through the command-line client, through a GUI import dialog or through phpMyAdmin. What is worth reading first is the handful of statements it runs before it creates anything.
- →Before the first CREATE TABLE the script issues SET NAMES utf8mb4, so the session decodes the file as UTF-8 whatever the client's own default character set is. The file itself carries no marker saying so.
- →The line after it turns FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS off. That is there for the schema you are loading into, not for the script: it lets rows arrive in whatever order the tables came out of the source without a constraint that already exists rejecting them.
- →A true/false column is declared TINYINT(1) and its values are written as 1 and 0. MySQL's own BOOLEAN keyword expands to exactly that, so a client that does not special-case the width shows you a number rather than a boolean.
Reading NDJSON
- →JSON types are trusted: 1 and "1" stay different things.
- →Numbers with a decimal point are read as exact decimals rather than floats.
- →Both an array of objects and newline-delimited JSON work, and a wrapped array like {"data": [...]} is unwrapped automatically.
- →Nested objects are kept as JSON rather than flattened into invented column names.
Writing MySQL
- →Tables are created as InnoDB with utf8mb4, so emoji and CJK text survive the load.
- →Backslashes are escaped, because MySQL treats them as escape characters by default.
- →Text columns of unknown length become TEXT rather than a guessed VARCHAR that could truncate your data.
- →Inserts are batched, and identifiers are capped at MySQL’s 64-character limit.
What you get
A ZIP containing dump.sql, plus a README with the exact command to load it. If anything about your data needed a judgement call, a _warnings.txt explains it.
Load this dump into MySQL or MariaDB: mysql -u USER -p DATABASE < dump.sql Create the database first if it does not exist: mysql -u USER -p -e "CREATE DATABASE DATABASE CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;"
Questions
- Is converting NDJSON to MySQL free?
- Yes. Files up to 10MB convert free with no account. There is a limit of five conversions per day per IP address.
- Will my NDJSON data keep its types in MySQL?
- Yes — that is the point. Whole numbers, decimals, dates and booleans are mapped to real MySQL types rather than everything becoming text. The mapping table above shows exactly what you get.
- Do you store my file?
- No. The file is written to a temporary directory, converted, and the directory is deleted as soon as your download has been sent.