title: What's the best way to routinely import DBase (dbf) files into MySQL tables?
body: <p>The DBF files are updated every few hours. We need to import new records into MySQL and skip duplicates. I don't have any experience with DBF files but as far as I can tell a handful of the one's we're working with don't have unique IDs. </p>
  
  <p>I plan to use Python if there are no ready-made utilities that do this. </p>