RE: trying to upload an excel file into table

2004-07-12 Thread Victor Pendleton
You can use a programming language to read the first line of the files and create a DDL statement for you. But MySQL will not do this natively. I am not certain but I think you may be able to use Visual Basic and the excel DOM to perform the entire process. Or you can just export the data into a

Re: trying to upload an excel file into table

2004-07-12 Thread SGreen
David, This sounds vaguely like a normalization issue as well. If your data consists of one or more identifying columns and the rest the columns exist data as explanatory data then you should probably think about scripting an import routine. Do you see repetitive blocks of data in the (probably)