Re: Fwd: PostgreSQL questions - copy / paste new data and updating records

Link fail:

http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=screenshots

Neal Brown
Spiceworks Inc.

On 9/26/11 3:43 PM, "Neal Brown" <neal(at)spiceworks(dot)com> wrote:

>A good GUI for accessing records this way would be phpPgAdmin:
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>On 9/26/11 3:03 PM, "Alex Marinov TR" <alex(at)tennisround(dot)com> wrote:
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>>On Sep 26, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Jon Erdman <jon(at)progressivepractice(dot)com>
>>wrote:
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>>> Another possible option might be the PG ODBC driver. IIRC excel can use
>>> and ODBC connector to a database, but I've never actually done it.
>>> Merlin's suggestion is probably the easiest.
>>>
>>> As far as "looking up records", are you asking how to query a table in
>>> postgres?
>>>
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>>We have about 20,000 records of tennis facilities. Sometimes people call
>>in with updates - new phone, new address, more courts, etc. To my
>>surprise I couldn't figure out a way to look up Heather Farm Park, Walnut
>>Creek, CA when I opened the table of records in pgAdmin. So I don't know
>>how to find that listing to change its phone.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Alex
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>>>
>>> On 09/26/2011 08:32 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Alex Marinov <alex(at)tennisround(dot)com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> My name is Alex and I'm part of a small team working on
>>>>> http://www.tennisround.com/ - a tennis directory and scheduling
>>>>>platform.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for help with a couple of things - 1) importing data from
>>>>>Excel
>>>>> into Postgresql on an ad-hoc basis - copy / paste style or through
>>>>>the
>>>>> PgAdmin UI and 2) looking up specific records (CTRL+F style or search
>>>>>by
>>>>> keyword).
>>>>
>>>> The best way to import data from excel is going to be programatically.
>>>> What I typically do is save the excel sheet as a csv delimited text
>>>> file and import it to a staging table with postgres's built in 'copy'
>>>> (which has a csv switch). The copy command can be invoked from
>>>> pgadmin or through psql via a script. By staging table I mean a
>>>> specially designated table that contains all text fields for the
>>>> import data. From there, you can move the data to proper tables with
>>>> queries.
>>>>
>>>> merlin
>>>>
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