IMPORTING DATA TO YOUR ON LINE DATABASE - Aug 4th, 2010

A large amount of data (an organization membership database) needed to be imported into a CMSB database from an Excel spreadsheet . Navicat http://mysql.navicat.com/ did the job flawlessly. The program will accept data from most other formats as well. At this writing they charge US $179 for either the Windows, Mac or Linux version (all are available with a 30 day fully functional free trial). We don’t get anything from Navicat if you buy the program, except the good feeling that you’ve been able to accomplish a task more easily because of a recipe in the CMSB Cookbook.

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