What is the easiest way to import an excel sheet into mysql

Question

I have an Excel sheet with some cols and i want to import those into the mysql table. The Problem is that there are more colums in the mysql table than in the sheet (which

Answer 1

mysqlimport cmdline-tool has support for importing csv-files, and IIRC supports mapping of different columns in csv into different columns in your table.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/mysqlimport

I realize that it's just a cmd-line wrapper to the LOAD DATA INFILE sql statement, which can be used instead.

If you need to reaorganize the data, you could just import the csv flat into an equivalent table, and from there, do insert ... select from