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CSV Is Not a Strategy: Moving Structured Data Into a Working Business System
CSV is excellent for exchange, but a working business system must add identity, relationships, validation, permissions, history, workflow, and recovery.
Importing Data Into MySQL with Navicat
A safer, modern workflow for importing SQL dumps and delimited data into MySQL while protecting the destination database.
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