From: Pintér Tibor
Date: July 24 2008 12:25pm
Subject: Re: How do I get the  file names from a certain directory in SQL?
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> I accept that.. but my requirement is , I have some no of Excel files..I 
> just need to check the modified time of the files ,if it is modified 
> currently then I need to open those files and convert the excel data to 
> database.. otherwise i didnt change anything in my database..
> 
> how can i going to achieve that?

most likely with a programming language like php, perl, c, whatever
(preferably with the one you tickle your sql)

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