There's been quite a bit of discussion on this, but back to the original post
for a slightly different slant ...

If you don't want the blank rows, why not simply eliminate them after importing
the table? You'll be able to do this with a single SQL statement. This leaves
full control at your end.

(I'm assuming that the blank lines don't actually impede the importing  of the
table - just show as records with null values in all fields.)