MySQL to Excel

If, for various reasons, you decide that you are more comfortable working with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets than with MySQL databases, resorting to a capable converter is what you need to do.

MySQL to Excel claims to be the suitable choice in such a scenario, what with its ability to handle your data in an intuitive manner, giving you full control over the conversion program.

Installing the application on your PC is something anyone could effortlessly handle, with the user interface it welcomes with being just as easy to navigate. Resembling a wizard, the GUI allows you to effortlessly access the configuration options, and the first step you need to take is to connect to your MySQL server.

Once you have specified the access mode, which can be either local or remote, and you have provided your username and password, you are led to the second screen so that you can indicate the source and destination names, with the possibility of splitting data into multiple spreadsheets.

Converting individual tables is a breeze, with the option to filter data you intend to convert by turning to SELECT-queries.

As for the supported Excel versions, it is worth mentioning that anything between 5.0 and 2016 should be covered, with the fourth screen being proof of that. This is also where you need to go in order to indicate whether you want to convert BLOB to text and dates to strings, as well as to wrap text into multiple lines in a cell.

Regardless of the way you decide to configure the conversion process, users should be aware that they can save all these settings to a profile they can resort to in order to use the application in quick launch mode.

Aside from that, many users would be glad to find out that support for command line tasks is provided as well so that you can automate the conversion.

On an ending note, MySQL to Excel is a user-friendly program whose purpose is to migrate the contents of your MySQL database to Microsoft Excel. Your MySQL tables are turned into worksheets, fields become cells, and records appear as rows, all with little user effort on your part, what with the application boasting a wizard-like GUI.