Data files from EXCEL for MySQL

Question

Hello to everybody, I was trying to output Excel's data to a text file to use them in MySQL, nevertheless i was not able to find an easy solutio because at the end of each row I have to add manually a "TAB" ! Otherwise there are always errors in the MySQL table, is there any special data format to export these data from Excel 2003 ?

Thanx for your help

Alex

Answer 1

You can load from CSV (comma separated value) format. See here. Are you saving your Excel data as tab separated? If so, save as comma separated and follow instructions in the link.

EDIT:

You probably need to include the

LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'  

statement. See this blog.