Question

I have an excel file which gets updated every 10 seconds through an automated process. I need excel data to be updated in MY-SQL database which is located on a remote server.

How do I do that?

I have thought of following option:
1) Every 11 seconds, an Excel macro will run and will “Save as” excel as CSV file. (not sure whether this can be done by macro…just thinking)
2) This CSV file we will FTP to remote server using Windows Service.
3) On remote server, we will parse the csv file and Update MYSQL database.

Is this approach fine? Or do you have a better approach which requires less time to update the database?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I found following links to be more useful:

http://www.heritage-tech.net/908/inserting-data-into-mysql-from-excel-using-vba/

http://vbaexcel.eu/vba-macro-code/update-mysql-database-php

I hope this helps someone having similar problem as mine.