CSV files are used to import large amounts of data into various programs. Furthermore, most databases are able to export data -- such as stock inventories and client information -- as CSV files that ...

For the business person on the go, there are times when you are away from your computer and still need to access your contacts from Microsoft's Outlook. It's possible to export all of your contacts ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to import data into the enterprise-grade Apache Solr so it can be easily indexed and searched. Recently I walked you through the process of deploying the enterprise-grade ...

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether. We don’t open foreign files with Microsoft Excel—or do we? When importing a .txt or ...

Storing data in a structured way is important when that data will be read by a computer. One of the easiest ways to put data into an easy-to-read format is with a comma-separated value (CSV) file. A ...

Instead of tedious hands-on repairs, Excel lets you quickly clean, reshape, and combine CSV files through repeatable Power Query steps.

Excel's Import Wizard does a good job of importing CSV files, but I've never loved using it. Every CSV import requires clicking through multiple dialog boxes, mapping columns, and dealing with a ...

Each of these CSV files has four columns: FirstName,LastName,Title,HireDate. At the end of each month, management wants a report of who was hired that month. To find this information, you must read ...