[ic] DBF to MySQL

interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Tue Jan 8 11:20:01 2002


On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:58:47AM -0500, Mike Heins wrote:
> 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-)


There used to be a dbf2mysql script either in the mysql package or
easy to find at www.tcx.se.  google it.

> 
> > 
> > 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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