What strategy to migrate data from a spreadsheet to an RDBMS?
This is linked to my other question when to move from a spreadsheet to RDBMS Having decided to move to an RDBMS from an excel book, here is what I propose to do. The existing data is loosely structured across two sheets in a work-book. The first sheet contains main record. The second sheet allows additional data. My target DBMS is mysql, but I'm open to suggestions. Define RDBMS schema Define, say, web-services to interface with the database so the same can be used for both, UI and migration. Define a migration script to Read each group of affiliated rows from the spreadsheet Apply validation