Usually MS Excel provides many options to import data from other sources like XML or using data source. Now, the data from excel file has to be exported to a form which MySQL could read and insert into existing relational tables. You can think about .sql file. Usually, MySQL tables can be imported by SQL script (.sql) files. SQL script file contains the DDL and DML queries. But in our case, we need to load the rows of excel file into a table.
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