Hi All,
I am wondering if anyone can point me to a utility that will let me dump the result of a MySQL query to a file I can open in MS Excel or (preferably) OpenOffice.org Calc.
phpMyAdmin lets you do this if you want to dump a "SELECT * FROM <table>", but if I want to fine tune it I cannot (unless I am missing something)
MySQL CC lets me save the result of a query to a test file "right click->save results", but this format does not quite conform to either Excel or Calc's text format. I could fix it by hand, but before I would do that, I think I would write a PHP script that would generate the right output.
But before I spend any time working on doing that, I am wondering if anyone knows of a way to do this already?
I am running MySQL 4.0.12-standard on Mandrake 9.2 on the server, and my workstation is an XP Pro box. I use MySQL CC 0.9.1-beta and phpMyAdmin 2.5.0, but am completely willing to upgrade more recent versions of either of these tools, or try a new one.
If you're willing to use Perl, you can use the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple and Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::FromDB modules. An example that shows how to dump a MySQL table in Excel format is in the MySQL Cookbook recipes distribution:
http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-cookbook/
Get the distribution, unpack it, and look in the transfer directory for the mysql_to_excel.pl script. The from_excel.pl and to_excel.pl scripts in the directory convert between Excel and tab-delimited data. For example, if you dump an arbitrary query result, you can convert it to a spreadsheet with to_excel.pl.
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