View the Android App database contents

So you created your Android App with SQLite database, and you are interested to view the database offline. You can do it with the adb command.

1) in command line, issue "adb shell" command, and then you will go to android prompt:
root@android:/ #

2) cd data/data, then ls, and you will see a lot of the App package:
com.android.bluetooth
com.android.browser
com.android.calculator2
com.android.calendar
com.android.certinstaller
com.android.contacts
com.android.defcontainer
....

3) cd  to your App package, say for example "com.victor.example"

4) cd databases, and ls to find out the databases name

5) run the command "sqlite3 mydb.s3db"
root@android:/data/data/com.victor.example/databases # sqlite3 mydb.s3db
sqlite3 mydb.s3db
SQLite version 3.7.11 2012-03-20 11:35:50
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"

6) check the table name
sqlite> .tables
.tables
android_metadata  employees
sqlite> select * from employees;
select * from employees;
1|mitt|01234567|01234567|20
2|mitt|01234567|01234567|20
3|mitt|01234567|01234567|20
4|mitt|01234567|01234567|20
5|mitt|01234567|01234567|20
sqlite>

7) That's it. You successfully view the App database content using the adb shell command.

Export Excel data to MySQL database

We will show you how to export Excel data to MySQL db.

The steps are:

1) saved the excel data to csv format, such as below
BK001,Introduction to science,976,85.0
BK002,Human Anatomy,985,200.0
BK003,Concepts in Health,765,100.5

2) create a db table that matches the csv format
mysql> create table book_info
    -> (book_id varchar(20), book_name varchar(40), isbn_no int(11), book_price, int(10));

3) run the mysql command
mysql> load data infile 'c:\\Book1.csv' into table book_info fields terminated by ',' lines terminated by '\n';
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.07 sec)
Records: 3  Deleted: 0  Skipped: 0  Warnings: 0

After that, the db contains the Excel data, To verify, issue the command:

mysql> select * from book_info;
+---------+-------------------------+---------+------------+
| book_id | book_name               | isbn_no | book_price |
+---------+-------------------------+---------+------------+
| BK001   | Introduction to science |     976 |         85 |
| BK002   | Human Anatomy           |     985 |        200 |
| BK003   | Concepts in Health      |     765 |        101 |
+---------+-------------------------+---------+------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)