When you use MySQL to query a database, you have the ability to view results from that query on your screen or send them to a text file. If you insert tab characters into the output data stream, you ...

Howdy fellows!<BR><BR>I have an .XLS file containing a bunch of names, some of which have non-standard characters in them (accents over the "o", stuff like that). I would very much like to get this ...

Use the Excel file as an ODBC data source (connection string info here), and your MySQL database as the destination (using their ODBC connector). What OS is your process running on?