This publication or tutorial is intended to assist you on how to populate your virtuemart shipping rate and carrier by updating your database. The benefit of using this method is that you can save time and precious man-hours in contrast of manual update through your JOOMLA  Virtuemart back-end. The method use cPanel access to your phpMyadmin and replacing existing virtuemart information inside your database. In order to use this method, you should at least:

1. Have direct access to you cPanel/Helm or other web hosting control panel which may allowed you to edit your own database;
2. Have the required SQL files that contain the information to update the database;
3. Backup all your servers' content including your database;
4. Know what this tutorial is all about and what you are doing.