re: How to insert .xls files into database

> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Adrian Klaver
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> I guess the solution depends on what is a 'large amount of data'. The
> most time consuming part is going to be converting the single data
> elements at the top of each sheet into multiple elements. I would
> create columns for the data in the sheet. At the same time I would
> order the columns to match the database schema. Then it would a matter
> of cut and paste to fill the columns with the data. The event id's
> could be renumbered using Excel's series generator to create a non
> repeating set of id's. If the amount of data was very large it might
> pay to create some macros to do the work. Once the data was filled in
> you would have a couple of choices. One, as mentioned by Ron would be
> to use OpenOffice v2 to dump the data into the database. The other
> would be to save the data as CSV and use the psql \copy command to
> move the data into the table.
> On Friday 07 July 2006 09:40 am, Parang Saraf wrote:

Evrything You described is familiar to me, except the OpenOffice v2 dump - could You explain this more in details pls? I tried to do it many times, without success.

Thank You

Tomas

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