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The document provides instructions for saving an Excel file as a CSV and importing it into a MySQL database named 'boatdb'. It details the steps to create a database, define a table schema for boats, and load data from the CSV file into the MySQL table. Additionally, it mentions the option to connect the MySQL database to Chartio for data visualization.

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ExcelTOmysql

The document provides instructions for saving an Excel file as a CSV and importing it into a MySQL database named 'boatdb'. It details the steps to create a database, define a table schema for boats, and load data from the CSV file into the MySQL table. Additionally, it mentions the option to connect the MySQL database to Chartio for data visualization.

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Open your Excel file and click Save As. Choose to save it as a .

CSV (Comma
Separated) file. If you are running Excel on a Mac, you will need to save the file
as a Windows Comma Separated (.csv) or CSV (Windows) to maintain the correct
formatting.

Log into your MySQL shell and create a database. For this example the database will
be named boatdb.
Note that the --local-infile option is needed by some versions of
MySQL for the data loading we’ll do in the following steps.
--> $ mysql -u root -p --local-infile
--> mysql> create database boatdb;
--> mysql> use boatdb;
Next we’ll define the schema for our boat table using the CREATE TABLE command.
For more details, see the MySQL documentation.
CREATE TABLE boats (
d INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(40),
type VARCHAR(10),
owner_id INT NOT NULL,
date_made DATE,
rental_price FLOAT
);
Run show tables to verify that your table was created.
mysql> show tables;
+------------------+
| Tables_in_boatdb |
+------------------+
| boats |
+------------------+
Now that there is a database and a table setup, the data can be imported with the
LOAD DATA command.
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "/path/to/boats.csv" INTO TABLE boatdb.boats
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES
(id, name, type, owner_id, @datevar, rental_price)
set date_made = STR_TO_DATE(@datevar,'%m/%d/%Y');
If you are a Chartio user, you can now connect the MySQL database to Chartio and
chart away.

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