Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job.

MySQL Workbench is a desktop GUI product from MySQL itself. It does much more than importing and exporting with features like server health monitoring, SQL data modeling, and more.

If your data was initially saved in a spreadsheet, you can use a wizard to quickly import it into an OpenOffice.org database.