I have converted millions(as it feels) excel-documents to mysql for clients, when creating new solutions for them. And I’ve missed a great tool to do it in as few steps as possible, without to much fuzz. As fun as axe-sharpening is, I created one, suitable to my own needs, but might be useful for someone else as well.

It only supports excel 97(as far as i know), and generates output in iso-8859-1.

Try it out at http://eric.persson.tm/xls2mysql/