I’ve found that when working on different projects, I tend to snap up a number of great-to-know things that I can re-use over and over again. One of these skills that I re-use in almost every project isthe ability to copy and paste data from Excel into a table in SQL Server. ...
SQL-DMO (Distributed Management Objects), or SMO (SQL Server Management Objects) to configure an Excel data source as a SQL Server linked server. (SMO are only available for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.) In all of these cases, you must always set the following four properties: ...
To start the process of importing data from an Excel file to a SQL Server database using the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard needs to be launched. There are several ways to do that, and this can be seen on theHow to import/export data to S...
Database - The name of the SQL database to connect to Microsoft Excel. Step 5 Click on the "Finish" button to load data from SQL Server Database to Microsoft Excel file. Refresh/Update an Excel Connection to a SQL database To refresh the Excel Connection follow the below-given ste...
The System.DataTable is created with two columns, which acts as the data store to temporarily place the Excel data.A connection is created to a SQL Server and a bulk copy object is instantiated to export the data into SQL Server.This is a simple example, but you can see the flexibility...
The below example shows how to import Excel file to SQL database in C# or VB.NET. The Excel will be imported to a DataSet and later, the records can be inserted into the database using SQL syntax. C#.NET VB.NET // Create an instance of the class that imports Excel files ExcelDocume...
SQL Spreadsis a lightweight Data Management solution for SQL Server that uses Excel as the front-end for managing the data in SQL Server. You can use it to connect to SQL Server and load tables into Excel to view and edit data before saving the changes back to the database. Other featu...
And TIMESTAMPS too. In the excel file, you’re probably going to have some date/time fields you want to move into DATE or TIMESTAMP columns. SQL Developer is treating those value as strings – and YOU need to tell SQL Developer the DATE or TIMESTAMP format to use to be able to conv...
The Transact-SQLOPENROWSETcan be used to export SQL Server data to an Excel file via SSMS. In a query editor type and execute the following code: INSERTINTOOPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0','Excel 12.0; Database=C:\Users\Zivko\Desktop\SQL Data.xlsx;','SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]') ...
Step 1:Create the instances ofExcelEngineandIApplication. It is like opening an Excel application. Step 2:Create a new workbook instance with one worksheet. Step 3:Create a connection string to establish a connection with an SQL Server database and a query string to retrieve data from an SQL...