title: Dealing with SPSS labels when exporting to a database
body: <p>Working on a project to export SPSS survey data files to a MySQL database. While the actual import via ODBC is fine, I'm running into a dilemma of how to deal with the labels in the data. For example, my SPSS files for each question have a number as the data that corresponds to a descriptive label for that variable. </p>
  
  <p>I want to be able to save both values, the number choice and the answer options into a database - is there a way to link just the two, or am I going to need to make some much more complicated database tables and relationships to hold everything.</p>