how to input data

patrickyoung · March 29th, 2009, 12:38 PM

We’ve recently launched a website that has a database search function. Users can search our database to find company details etc. Short of having to input each and every companies details in by hand, is there any other way to populate a database with content? Obviously a database is more useful the more data it has. But to input the names and contact details of thousands of companies could take quite a while. Is there a faster way of doing this? Perhaps some software that we can use? Help!

SoftwareMatters · July 28th, 2009, 11:50 AM

Do you have the data already or are you having to find it on the web?

If you have a list already e.g. in .txt or .xls then this would need a simple procedure to add to your database.

What type of database is it?