Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

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Frank M. KromannBeginning PHP and MySQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6044-8_35

35. Importing and Exporting Data

Frank M. Kromann¹ 

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Aliso Viejo, CA, USA

 

Back in the Stone Age, cavemen never really had any issues with data incompatibility—stones and one’s own memory were the only storage media. Copying data involved pulling out the old chisel and getting busy on a new slab of granite. Now, of course, the situation is much different. Hundreds of data storage strategies exist, the most commonplace of which includes spreadsheets and various types of relational databases. Working in a complex, even convoluted fashion, you often need to convert data from one storage type to another, say between a spreadsheet and a database, ...