[ic] DBF to MySQL

Mike Heins interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Tue Jan 8 10:59:00 2002


Quoting Tom Carroll (egor@carrollweb.net):
> Anyone know of a handy script or something that will import a DBF file into
> an existing MySQL database?

Use the DBI::Xbase module to make it into an Interchange table, then
use [export ...] and [import ..]. 8-)

> 
> Is this something interchange can do internally to update databases?
> 

Not directly, though it wouldn't be difficult to add that capability
to [import-fields ....].

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