Re: excel to postgres

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote:

> Sure, VB works, as would perl with DBD::ODBC module.  I've been using that
> technique for porting a database from access to postgres, and it should
> work equally well with excel-based ODBC connections.  Disadvantage to the
> original poster is that it does require a Windows machine to read the
> Excel file.

Probably if users are saving to an excel file to be put into access and
then shipped of to a postgres instance then there is a windows machine
around. So write a function to save to the database instance, and then
alias it to a menu item 'Save to Database' or something like that.

[snip]
> > This would have to be doable in VB, wouldn't it? Doesn't it have some sort
> > of ODBC functionality? I'm no expert here (never used the language) but
> > I'd have thought it'd have to be in there...

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