MySQL Workbench query results export

[Carey Cane]

Hi,

I use MySQL Workbench to generate reports for a business. The data in the some of their VARCHAR fields is pretty rough with lots of characters - think pasted from YouTube descriptions. This means that when I export to CSV using the native export function and then open up the file in Excel or Numbers, I need to do cleanup to deal with data skipping rows. What I want to do is constrain the free-text fields so they don't get split into multiple columns, causing me to have to shift cells left to clean them up.


I have spent a lot of time trying different functions (CONCAT, TRIM, CONVERT) to get a clean export that doesn't require me to do cleanup. I haven't come up with anything that works yet. There is probably a simple solution to this, but I haven't found it yet!

I am on a Mac. I do not have the ability to write to an OUTFILE due to my access privileges.