Entering Data in a Table

I have to install a Mailing List on my Host server, and am considering one or two that use a Sql database.

One of them is split into various tables containing different information, the one that stores the e-mail addresses having only 3 fields - ID, Name, E-mail address.

My problem is that I have to populate this table with over 2000 customer/prospect e-mail addresses which are currently held in an Excel Spreadsheet on my local machine.

Does anyone know of a script which can be used to populate an existing Sql table 9on a server)with data from an Excel or CSV file (on a local machine).

I found one script that supposedly does this, but I get errors and there are no Install or Configure notes with the script, and the author has not responded to my e-mails asking for guidelines.

An alternative would be a script that uses a file stored on the server, 'cos I could always upload it before running the script.

Any help would be appreciated.

It really depends on what database system you are using. Most provide a way to import from CSV....

Exactly, what rdbms are you using?