Re: Brainstorming' time! (export to excel via java)

2004-08-26 Thread Shawn
As for programming skills, I'm pretty familiar with Java so I feel sure I could write a suitable utility with that. In fact, unless I had a really urgent need, I would prefer to write my own stuff just because I like writing code If you wanted to go the java route I suggest checking out http://jdb

Re: Brainstorming' time!

2004-08-21 Thread mos
At 11:02 AM 8/20/2004, you wrote: Ok. I'm looking into alternatives. I'm trying to figure out an alternative to mysql exporting into xls file. Is there any another way you can export into file and make it readable? What format do you use? I'm open to ideas from experienced database programmers :) I

Re: Brainstorming' time!

2004-08-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Scott Hamm wrote: Ok. I'm looking into alternatives. I'm trying to figure out an alternative to mysql exporting into xls file. Gosh, what's wrong with CSV files? Surely Access can export a classic CSV file format with fields separated by commas and enclosed by ""? Then you can just use LOAD DA

Re: Brainstorming' time!

2004-08-20 Thread Dirk Bremer \(NISC\)
gt; Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 13:55 Subject: Re: Brainstorming' time! > 100 quatloos to Chris for the simplest answer. Do that. > > I'll add that you could also use mysqldump: > > mysqldump -T /tmp test users > > This would create /tmp/users.sql, containing the CREA

Re: Brainstorming' time!

2004-08-20 Thread Eamon Daly
TED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 1:24 PM Subject: RE: Brainstorming' time! > Ok unless I missed something here, wouldn't you just use the "SELECT ... > INTO OUTFILE" Syntax found here > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/my

Re: Brainstorming' time!

2004-08-20 Thread James Weisensee
You could export the file as xml with either '--xml' or '-X': mysql --xml -u username -p db_name > dbfile.xml http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql.html HTH, James > - Original Message - > From: "Scott Hamm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Mysql ' (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent:

Re: Brainstorming' time!

2004-08-20 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Freddie Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Rhino'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Scott Hamm'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "''Mysql ' (E-mail)'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 2:28 PM Subject: AW: Brainstorming' time! Rhino | Get the free DBTools DBMana

RE: Brainstorming' time!

2004-08-20 Thread christopher . l . hood
ly and delete the message. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 11:30 AM To: Scott Hamm; 'Mysql ' (E-mail) Subject: Re: Brainstorming' time! - Original Message - From: "Scott Hamm" <[EMAIL

Re: Brainstorming' time!

2004-08-20 Thread Eamon Daly
Use Perl: http://search.cpan.org/~jmcnamara/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.04/lib/Spreadsheet/WriteExcel.pm use strict; use warnings; use DBI; use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel; my ($user, $pass, $db, $table) = ('foo', 'bar', 'test', 'users'); my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=$db", $user, $pass);

Re: Brainstorming' time!

2004-08-20 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Scott Hamm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mysql ' (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: Brainstorming' time! > Ok. I'm looking into alternatives. I'm trying to figure out an alternative > to mysql exporting into xls file. I